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• French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism

• Landmarks in French Literature (1912), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Rambles in France (from the 1907 Archibald Constable edition, with added illustrations), by Matilda Betham-Edwards (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Nouveaux Prétextes: Réflexions sur Quelques Points de Littérature et de Morale (8th edition, in French; Paris: Mercure de France, 1921), by André Gide (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prétextes: Réflexions sur Quelques Points de Littérature et de Morale (7th edition, in French; Paris: Mercure de France, 1919), by André Gide (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Short History of French Literature (fourth edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• Books and Characters, French and English (c1922), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• Figures of Several Centuries (London: Constable and Co., 1917), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text and page images)
• L'Académie de Castres et la Société de Mlle de Scudéry, 1648-1670 (in French; Castres: Imp. Abeilhou, 1890), by Louis Barbaza
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Women of the French Salons, by Amelia Gere Mason (Gutenberg text)

• Études de Lettres (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Le Divan (in French) (partial serial archives)
• La Nouvelle Revue Française (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Lettres sur Quelques Écrits de ce Temps (in French; 1749-1754), by Elie-Catherine Fréron (full serial archives)

• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

• Love and Language: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by Louise K. Horowitz (PDF at Ohio State)

• In the Grip of Minos: Confessional Discourse in Dante, Corneille, and Racine, by Matthew Senior
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Men and Masks: A Study of Molière (originally published 1963; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lionel Gossman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Molière & the Comedy of Intellect (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962), by Judd David Hubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social Structures in Molière's Theater (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by James F. Gaines (PDF at Ohio State)

• In the Grip of Minos: Confessional Discourse in Dante, Corneille, and Racine, by Matthew Senior
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• The Staging of the "Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages" of MS. Cangé (New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, c1933), by Dorothy Penn (page images at HathiTrust)

• In the Grip of Minos: Confessional Discourse in Dante, Corneille, and Racine, by Matthew Senior
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution (c2002), by Gregory S. Brown (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The Contemporary Drama of France (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1920), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Modern French Drama: Seven Essays (London: Chapman and Hall, 1898), by Augustin Filon, trans. by Janet E. Courtney, contrib. by W. L. Courtney (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Contemporary Drama of France (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1920), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Staging of the "Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages" of MS. Cangé (New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, c1933), by Dorothy Penn (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century) (2 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1917-1919), by George Saintsbury
  • Volume I (From the Beginning to 1800): Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume I (From the Beginning to 1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (From 1800 to 1900): Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume II (From 1800 to 1900): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Idea of Poetry in France, From Houdar de la Motte to Baudelaire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958), by Margaret Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

• La Littérature Nord-Africaine: Fonds, Ressources, Principes, Enquête (in French; Tunis: Bibliothèque Nord-Africaine, 1920), by Arthur Pellegrin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

• Convergences: Rhetoric and Poetic in Seventeenth-Century France: Essays fo Hugh H. Davidson (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), ed. by David Lee Rubin and Mary B. McKinley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Love and Language: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by Louise K. Horowitz (PDF at Ohio State)
• Audience, Words, and Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century French Rhetoric (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1965), by Hugh McCullough Davidson (PDF files at Ohio State)
• French Classicism (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v4; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), by C. H. C. Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mind, Body, Motion, Matter: Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2016), ed. by Mary Helen McMurran and Alison Conway, contrib. by Ruth Mack, Jonathan Brody Kramnick, David Alvarez, Sara Landreth, Sarah Ellenzweig, Kate E. Tunstall, Joanna Stalnaker, and Vivasvan Soni
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays on the French Enlightenment, Presented to George R. Havens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), ed. by Charles G. S. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)

• Pre-Text, Text, Context: Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1980), ed. by Robert L. Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)
• Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Geoffrey Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Book of Masks (based on the 1921 J. W. Luce edition, with Valloton's illustrations added), by Remy de Gourmont, trans. by Jack Lewis, contrib. by Ludwig Lewisohn, illust. by Félix Vallotton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Le IIme Livre des Masques (second edition, in French; 1898), by Remy de Gourmont, illust. by Félix Vallotton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Le Livre des Masques: Portraits Symbolistes (third edition, in French; 1896), by Remy de Gourmont, illust. by Félix Vallotton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nouveaux Essais sur la Littérature Contemporaine (third edition, in French; Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1897), by Ferdinand Brunetière
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Symbolist Movement in Literature (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., c1919), by Arthur Symons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Influence of Baudelaire in France and England (London: Constable and Company, 1913), by Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

• Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Keith Louis Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010), by Catherine Léglu (PDF at PSU)
• Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Laine E. Doggett (PDF at PSU)

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