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French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism

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• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)
• Mallarmé Devant Ses Contemporains, 1875-1899 (in French; Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2011), ed. by Peter Sutherland Hambly (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• French Poetry and Modern Industry, 1830-1870: A Study of the Treatment of Industry and Mechanical Power in French Poetry During the Reigns of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v6; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927), by Elliott Mansfield Grant (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 Unhappy Few: A Psychological Study of the Novels of Stendhal (Indiana University Humanities Series #69; Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, c1972), by Gilbert D. Chaitin (page images at HathiTrust)

• This Africa: Novels by West Africans in English and French (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1965), by Judith Gleason (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• 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)

• Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007), by Juliette M. Rogers (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)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Annabel L. Kim (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)
• Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Susan Sniader Lanser (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)