The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France
Melissa Percival
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 472 January 1999

The Art Criticism of Francis Ponge
Shirley A. Jordan
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 361 January 1994

Beyond Écriture féminine: Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard
Cathy Helen Wardle
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 6914 January 2007

  • ‘This study offers a lucid and compelling interpretation of Hyvrard that moves criticism of her work in a productive new direction. It will be of undoubted interest to researchers working on Hyvrard’s writing and equally to those working in contemporary French (women’s) writing and philosophy.’ — Kathryn Robson, Modern Language Review 103, 2008, 554 (full text online)

Diderot and Lessing as Exemplars of a Post-Spinozist Mentality
Louise Crowther
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 786 September 2010

Edition Critique du Sermon 'Qui Manducat Me' de Robert Ciboule (1403-58)
Nicole Marzac
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 41 January 1971

Jean Brisebarre: 'Li Restor du Paon'
Enid Donkin
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 151 January 1980

Kundera and the Ambiguity of Authorship
Christine Angela Knoop
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 7925 March 2011

Les Enseignements de Théodore Paléologue
Christine Knowles
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 191 January 1983

Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine
Alison Martin
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 531 January 2000

Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women's Writing from Guadeloupe
Sam Haigh
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 481 January 2000

  • ‘This scholarly work is a valuable resource for students, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as for the broader academic community, for it offers various points of entry for the reader, including those interested in Caribbean literatures, francophone literatures, postcolonial theory and criticism, feminist theories, popular culture, and the politics of identity, among other related fields.’ — Suzanne Crosta, International Journal of Francophone Studies 8, 2005, 105-08

Max Jacob and the Poetics of Play
Anna J. Davies
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 8025 June 2010

Narrative Structure and Philosophical Debates in Tristram Shandy and Jacques le fataliste
Margaux Whiskin
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 951 January 2014

  • ‘Whiskin proves a perceptive and engaging commentator who will aid readers in their journeys through a literary world of orderly disorder.’ — Simon Davies, French Studies 68, 2014, 546-47

Paradox, Aphorism and Desire in Novalis and Derrida
Clare Kennedy
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 711 August 2008

  • ‘The study makes subtle and illuminating connections between the two writers, avoiding the simplifications of past decades.’ — James Hodkinson, Modern Language Review 105.1, 2010, 206-08 (full text online)

Saint-Amant and the Theory of 'Ut Pictura Poesis'
Christopher D. Rolfe
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 61 January 1972

Sartre's Theory of Literature
Christina Howells
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 141 January 1979

The Second Continuation of the Old French Perceval: A Critical and Lexicographical Study
Corin F. V. Corley
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 241 January 1987

Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean: The Work of Aimé Césaire and René Depestre
Martin Munro
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 521 January 2000

Symbolist Landscapes. The Place of Painting in the Poetry and Criticism of Mallarmé and His Circle
James Kearns
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 271 January 1989

The Theme of Love in the 'Romans d'Antiquité'
Rosemarie Jones
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 51 January 1972

Time in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel
Helen Tattam
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 8931 January 2013

  • ‘Helen Tattam’s Time in the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel deserves to be read not only by those who find insight and inspiration in Marcel’s work, but by all those interested in the question of time as well as the development of modern French philosophy.’ — Geoffrey Karabin, Modern Language Review 109, 2014, 1089-90 (full text online)
  • ‘Tattam's book provides an excellent introduction to Marcel’s thought.’ — Thomas Pavel, French Studies 68, 2014, 121-22

The Twelfth-Century Psalter Commentary in French for Laurette d'Alsace: Volume One: Psalms I-XXXV
Stewart Gregory
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 29/1 of 21 January 1990

The Twelfth-Century Psalter Commentary in French for Laurette d'Alsace: Volume Two: Psalms XXXVI-L
Stewart Gregory
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 29/2 of 21 January 1990

Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language
Wendy Ayres-Bennett
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 231 January 1987

Violette Leduc: Mothers, Lovers, and Language
Alex Hughes
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 371 January 1994

Voltaire's Disciple: Jean François de La Harpe
Christopher Todd
MHRA Texts and Dissertations 71 January 1972