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
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