French Studies is published on behalf of the Society for French Studies. The journal publishes articles and reviews spanning all areas of the subject, including language and linguistics (historical and contemporary), all periods and aspects of literature in France and the French-speaking world, thought and the history of ideas, cultural studies, film, and critical theory.
The journal's review section is unmatched in its breadth and its quality, providing prompt coverage of work published in French, English, German and Italian.
Volume 58, Number 4, October 2004:
Hugh Roberts: Too Paradoxical for Paradoxes: The Role of the Cynics in Two Mid-Sixteenth-Century French Texts, Charles Estienne's Paradoxes and Philibert de Vienne's Le Philosophe de Court
Marieke Dubbelboer: Un univers mécanique: la machine chez Alfred Jarry
Marie-Chantal Killeen: Pour une lecture girardienne des Bonnes de Genet
Akane Kawakami: Nathalie Sarraute's Accent: The Poetry of Tropismes
Nick Hanlon: Death, Subjectivity, Temporality in Baudrillard and Heidegger
John O'Brien: Are We Reading what Montaigne Wrote?
Michael Holland: Maurice Blanchot
REVIEWS:
Emma Campbell :Review: Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities Found and Lost
Rebecca Dixon: Review: Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture
Jane Gilbert :Review: The Curse of Eve, The Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender and Medieval Literature
Keith Busby: Review: Chrétien de Troyes: An Analytic Bibliography. Supplement 1
A. E. Cobby :Review: Chevalerie et grivoiserie: fabliaux de chevalerie
Alan Hindley: Review: oeuvres polémiques rédigées sous le règne de Louis XII
Katherine M. MacDonald :Review: L'Étude de la Renaissance: nunc et cras Actes du colloque de la Féderation internationale des Sociétés et Instituts d'Étude de la Renaissance (FISIER)
John Parkin: Review: Études rabelaisiennes
Margaret M. McGowan :Review: Le Dernier Montaigne
Mary B. McKinley :Review: Le Visage changeant de Montaigne The Changing Face of Montaigne
Dennis Wood: Review: Causeries sur Montaigne
Nicholas Hammond :Review: Entretien avec Sacy sur la philosophie
Edward James: Review: The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
Ronald W. Tobin :Review: The Molière Encyclopedia
Noël Peacock: Review: Molière l'inventeur: c't avec du vieux qu'on fait du neuf'
Noël Peacock :Review: Time and Ways of Knowing under Louis XIV: Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette
D. J. Culpin :Review: La Bruyère, I: Brèves questions d'herméneutique. II: Rhétorique du discontinu
Ursula Haskins: Review: Montesquieu historien de Rome: un tournant pour la réflexion sur le statut de l'histoire au XVIIIe siècle
J. E. Fowler: Review: Diderot's Endgames
David Adams :Review: Figures de l'éclectisme dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle
Laurence Brockliss: Review: The Making of Revolutionary Paris
Christopher Thompson :Review: Dictionnaire de Stendhal
Michael Tilby: Review: Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre
David H. Walker :Review: For the People by the People? Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris': A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature
Sara James :Review: Mysterymania: The Reception of Eugène Sue in Britain 1838-1860 . Review: Borrowed Words: Translation, Imitation and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Novel in Spain
Stephen Goddard: Review: Madame Bovary': Representations of the Masculine
Roger Pearson: Review: oeuvres complètes, 2
Peter Dayan: Review: Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence
Anne Holmes: Review: Romances sans paroles
Anne Holmes: Review: Marges du premier Verlaine
Henry Phillips: Review: L'Actrice et ses doubles: figures et représentations de la femme de spectacle à la fin du XIXe siècle
Charles Forsdick :Review: Neither a Borrower: Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry
Phil Powrie :Review: Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics
Ursula Tidd: Review: Liberty, Equality, Maternity in Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux
Margaret Atack: Review: Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony
Jane Hiddleston :Review: Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question
Ian James: Review: Badiou: A Subject to Truth
Peter Hawkins: Review: Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno: Culture, Identity and Society
Douglas Morrey: Review: Leos Carax
Rodney Sampson: Review: The Sounds of Contemporary French: Articulation and Diversity
Roger Hawkins: Review: French Prepositions: Forms and Usage
Sophie Marnette: Review: La Préposition et son régime: étude des cas atypiques