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• French fiction -- 18th century

• 18th-century French literature

• 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)

• 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)

• Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Framing French Culture (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), ed. by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann, and Peter Poiana (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissance (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Bernard Weinberg (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2011), by Bethany Wiggin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)
• 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)

• 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)
• Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Emily S. Apter
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open
• 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)

• Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Lisa Lowe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• 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)

• 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)
• Les Oeuvres Libres (in French; 1921-1964) (partial serial archives)
• Commerce (French literary magazine, 1924-1932) (partial serial archives)
• La Petite Illustration (partial serial archives)
• Les Lettres Françaises (Parisian publication, in French) (partial serial archives)
• Revue des Deux Mondes (in French) (partial 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) (EETS Extra Series #79; 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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