Routledge Studies in French and Francophone Literature
About the Book Series
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.
Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing: Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Andrew Billing
May 26, 2025
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...
Women in Molière’s Comedies: How Little Do You Know a Woman’s Heart!
1st Edition
By Diana Koloini
October 08, 2024
This 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 ...