Volume 2 or the second work deals with the same subject namely the history of French literature from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries and is divided into eight chapters. As a whole it includes the following points: the Historical Intellectual and Literary Framework; the Romantic Generation which is divided into six points (the Romantic Movement Romantic Poetry the Modern Novel the Romantic Age Literary Criticism); Realism and Symbolism the study of which has been carried out in five sub-points (Realist Poetry the Modern Novel Theatre the History of Realist Criticism the Symbolist Movement); the Twentieth Century which is divided into five chapters and the Appendix which includes Generalities The Novel and Poetry in the Prewar Period Poetry of the Interwar Period Surrealism (The Surrealist/Dadaist Movement The Novel of the Interwar Period Theatre Literary Criticism and the Essay); Present Time (The Contemporary Novel Contemporary Poetry Contemporary Theatre Contemporary Critics and Essayists); Appendix (Genres Essentially and Incidentally Literary).