Diana Knight


Diana Marilyn Knight is a British scholar of French literature, who specialises in 19th-century French literature, Honoré de Balzac, and Roland Barthes. is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Nottingham.
She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013.

Selected works

Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion Feminism Women and Representation Barthes and Utopia: Space Travel Writing Roland Barthes Critical Essays on Roland Barthes