Studies in Romance Philology and Literature

Discusses the early attitude of the English towards French poetry through an examination of English literary criticism from the Restoration and the age of Dryden to the height of Pope's activity and the second wave of foreign influence on English poetical creeds.

Presents a study of the life and personality of Michelet and of the fundamental ideas upon which he based his social homilies in his Ideas of Social Reform.

Presents the complete edition of Toulouse in the Renaissance originally published in three volumes during the early 1900's.

Examines the works of Dona Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor and their relative literary importance. Provides a brief biography of the author, a general framework of her short stories El Jardin Enganoso and El Castigo de la Miseria, and a chapter on feminism in her work.

A study of three novels written about fictitious journeys to little known countries in the early part of the seventeenth century. Specifically examines the philosophical and utopian content of the novels, political satire and translations, and the sources of realism inspired by actual historical voyages. Includes novels La Terre Australe Connue by Gabriel Foignt, L'Histoire des Sevarambes by Denis Vairasse D'Alais, and Les Aventures de Telemaque by Fenelon.

Makes observations on the French language at periods of sudden growth in the vocabulary. Also looks at what people do when they find themselves compelled to talk about a think which yesterday did not exist.

Presents an account of the life and times of an almost forgotten figure in French literature, Pierre Le Tourneur, who produced the first complete translations of the works of Young, Ossian, and Shakespeare.

Presents a compilation of Old French dialects and examines the significance and difficulties of each dialect along with a phonology and morphology.

Discusses the influence of Spanish drama on the works of Pierre Corneille. Specifically discusses Clitandre, L'Illusion, Le Cid, Le Menteur, La Suite Du Menteur, Heraclius, and Don Sanche D'Aragon, as well as his early plays.

Studies the poetry and life-work of Frederic Mistral, the leader of the modern Provencal renaissance whose work was written, not in French, but in Provencal.