Contribute to The Literary Encyclopedia

Dear Colleagues,  The Literary Encyclopedia is currently seeking contributors for the following topics.  If you would be interested in contributing or if you have an advanced graduate student who would be qualified to contribute, please let us know asap!  

All best, Allison Stedman  (on behalf of the 17th-century French Lit editorial desk) 

 

Racine’s Athalie

Pierre Corneille’s Cinna, Suréna

Thomas Corneille + his Timocrate, Ariane

T. Corneille and J. Donneau de Visé, La Devineresse

Molière’s Don Juan, L’Avare, Les Précieuses ridicules

La Bruyère + his Les Caractères

La Fontaine’s Fables

Descartes’ Discours de la methode

Bossuet, Oraisons funèbres

Nicholas Boileau

François de Fénelon + any of his major works

Honoré d’Urfé, L’Astrée

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Nicholas Malebranche

Mme de Villedieu (any works by)

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Paul Scarron (+ any works by)

Charles Sorel (+ any works by)

Blaise Pascal

Cardinal Richelieu

Théodore-Agrippa D’Aubigné

Francois Poulain de la Barre

Deism

Descartes and Analytical geometry

Descartes and rainbows

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin

Nicholas Fouquet

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Pierre de Fermat

 

General topics:

Querelle des femmes in France in the 17th century

Mémoires in French in the 17th century

Préciosité in the 17th century

La Fronde

Quietism

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

17th-century Libertinism

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Allison Stedman, PhD | Associate Professor of French

Director, Minor in Francophone Studies

Book Review Editor, Cahiers du dix-septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal

UNC Charlotte | Department of Languages and Culture Studies

9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223

Phone: 704-687-8752 | Fax: 704-687-3496

astedman@uncc.edu|