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)