Jennifer Yee is an academic with an international background and a passion for literature. After reading English and French at the University of Sydney, she completed a postgraduate degree and doctorate at the University of Paris VII. She has published widely on French colonial fiction, exoticism, and nineteenth-century fiction more generally, with particular interests in Flaubert, Indochina, colonialism, and gender studies. After teaching in Paris, Toulouse and Newcastle, she came to Oxford where she has been a fellow (or Official Student) of Christ Church, and a member of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, since 2005.

The Colonial Comedy directs its reader towards the shadowy presence of colonial politics at the margins of the French novel, drawing our attention to an array of colonial objects and products, to conspiracies of financial speculation and exploitation, to the vagaries of colonial fortunes won and lost ... The book, indeed, is rich in its evaluation of an array of literary works and critical perspectives, and close readings are poignant and incisive.

Jennifer Yee is an academic with an international background and a passion for literature. After reading English and French at the University of Sydney, she completed a postgraduate degree and doctorate at the University of Paris VII. She has published widely on French colonial fiction, exoticism, and nineteenth-century fiction more generally, with particular interests in Flaubert, Indochina, colonialism, and gender studies. After teaching in Paris, Toulouse and Newcastle, she came to Oxford where she has been a fellow (or Official Student) of Christ Church, and a member of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, since 2005.

The Colonial Comedy directs its reader towards the shadowy presence of colonial politics at the margins of the French novel, drawing our attention to an array of colonial objects and products, to conspiracies of financial speculation and exploitation, to the vagaries of colonial fortunes won and lost ... The book, indeed, is rich in its evaluation of an array of literary works and critical perspectives, and close readings are poignant and incisive.

Jennifer Yee is an academic with an international background and a passion for literature. After reading English and French at the University of Sydney, she completed a postgraduate degree and doctorate at the University of Paris VII. She has published widely on French colonial fiction, exoticism, and nineteenth-century fiction more generally, with particular interests in Flaubert, Indochina, colonialism, and gender studies. After teaching in Paris, Toulouse and Newcastle, she came to Oxford where she has been a fellow (or Official Student) of Christ Church, and a member of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, since 2005.

The Colonial Comedy directs its reader towards the shadowy presence of colonial politics at the margins of the French novel, drawing our attention to an array of colonial objects and products, to conspiracies of financial speculation and exploitation, to the vagaries of colonial fortunes won and lost ... The book, indeed, is rich in its evaluation of an array of literary works and critical perspectives, and close readings are poignant and incisive.