Diana Knight
Diana Marilyn Knight  (born November 1949) 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 (FBA) in 2013. Selected works
 Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion (1985, 2009)
 Feminism (1986) (ed)
 Women and Representation (1995) (eds, with Judith Still)
 Barthes and Utopia: Space Travel Writing (1997)
 Roland Barthes (1997) (ed) 
 Critical Essays on Roland Barthes (2000) (ed)
 Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in 'La Comédie humaine' (2007)

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Living people
Fellows of the British Academy
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Scholars of French literature
1949 births