Routledge Studies in French and Francophone Literature is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly monographs and edited collections, focusing on literatures from the French speaking world. Books in the series are characterized by dynamic interventions and innovative approaches to established subjects and ground-breaking criticism on emerging topics in literary studies.
By Diana Koloini
October 08, 2024
The book offers a new approach to the work of the great classical author. Molière’s is obviously a patriarchal world in which women are most often treated as objects of patriarchal autocracy, which expects their submission. Yet in a number of his plays, women display ample resourcefulness in ...
By Andrew Billing
December 07, 2023
Our tendency to read French Enlightenment political writing from a narrow disciplinary perspective has obscured the hybrid character of political philosophy, rhetoric, and natural science in the period. As Michèle Duchet and others have shown, French Enlightenment thinkers developed a philosophical...