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• Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• 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

• Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Joan E. DeJean (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by David Lee Rubin (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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 Margaret 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

• 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)

• De Quelques Coeurs Inquiets: Petits Essais de Psychologie Religieuse (in French; Paris: Societe Litteraire de France, ca. 1919), by François Mauriac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• 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)

• 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 Enemy Within: Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Gilbert D. Chaitin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Kelly (PDF at PSU)
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Word and Figure: The Language of Nineteenth-Century French Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Carol de Dobay Rifelj (PDF at Ohio State)

• Entretiens Politiques et Littéraires (1890-1893) (partial serial archives)

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

• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (PDF at PSU)
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Action: Cahiers Individualistes de Philosophie et d'Art (in French; 1920-1922) (partial serial archives)
• Proverbe (French Dadaist and literary magazine; 1920-1921), ed. by Paul Éluard (full serial archives)
• Nord-Sud: Revue Littéraire (in French; 1917-1918) (full serial archives)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Books and Characters, French and English (c1922), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
• L'Académie de Castres et la Société de Mlle de Scudéry, 1648-1670 (in French; Castres: Imp. Abeilhou, 1890), by Louis Barbaza
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Women of the French Salons, by Amelia Gere Mason (Gutenberg text)

• Lettres sur Quelques Écrits de ce Temps (in French; 1749-1754), by Elie-Catherine Fréron (full serial archives)

• 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)

• A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century), by George Saintsbury
  • Volume I: PDF at Case Western
  • Volume II: PDF at Case Western

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)
• Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by E. Jane Burns (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Engraven Desire: Eros, Image and Text in the French Eighteenth Century (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Philip Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ailleurs (French-language literary journal, 1963-1966) (full serial archives)

• Half-Hours with the Best French Authors: Short Passages From Some of the Most Celebrated Prose Writers, Translated Into English (New York: D. Appleton, 1867), illust. by Emile Bayard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dialogues in French and English (Adapted From a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues in French and Flemish) (London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., 1900), by William Caxton, ed. by Henry Bradley
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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