Francis, Richard A., review of Odile A. Kory, Subjectivity and Sensitivity in the Novels of the Abbé Prévost, in Modern Language Review, 70.3 (1975), p. 634, doi:10.2307/3725558

Francis, Richard A., ‘The Abbé Prévost's "Histoire de Marguerite d'Anjou": Novel or History?’, in Modern Language Review, 71.1 (1976), pp. 31–41, doi:10.2307/3724377

Francis, Richard A., review of J.-P. Sermain, Rhétorique et roman au dix-huitième siècle: L'Exemple de Prévost et de Marivaux (1728-1742), in Modern Language Review, 82.2 (1987), p. 477, doi:10.2307/3728479

Francis, Richard A., review of P. E. J. Robinson, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: 'Paul et Virginie', in Modern Language Review, 83.2 (1988), pp. 455–56, doi:10.2307/3731733

Francis, Richard A., review of Naomi Segal, The Unintended Reader: Feminism and 'Manon Lescaut', in Modern Language Review, 83.3 (1988), pp. 729–30, doi:10.2307/3731349

Francis, Richard A., review of Aurelio Principato, Il Raggio nella cripta: Ricerche su Prévost romanziere, in Modern Language Review, 85.4 (1990), p. 960, doi:10.2307/3732704

Francis, Richard A., review of James P. Gilroy, Prévost's Mentors: The Master-Pupil Relationship in the Major Novels of the Abbé Prévost, in Modern Language Review, 86.4 (1991), p. 1025, doi:10.2307/3732609

Francis, Richard A., review of Shelly Charles, Récit et réflexion: poétique de l'hétérogène dans 'Le Pour et contre' de Prévost, in Modern Language Review, 89.3 (1994), pp. 774–75, doi:10.2307/3735196

Francis, Richard A., review of Jean Sgard, Vingt études sur Prévost d'Exiles, in Modern Language Review, 92.2 (1997), pp. 470–71, doi:10.2307/3734869

Francis, Richard A., review of Pierre Hartmann, Le Contrat et la séduction: Essai sur la subjectivité amoureuse dans le roman des Lumières, in Modern Language Review, 94.3 (1999), pp. 826–27, doi:10.2307/3737044

Francis, Richard A., review of Catherine Cusset, Les Romanciers du plaisir, in Modern Language Review, 95.3 (2000), pp. 836–37, doi:10.2307/3735545

Francis, Richard A., review of Patrick Byrne, Prévost: 'Manon Lescaut', in Modern Language Review, 95.3 (2000), p. 838, doi:10.2307/3735547

Francis, Richard A., review of Jenny Mander, Circles of Learning: Narratology and the Eighteenth-Century French Novel, in Modern Language Review, 96.1 (2001), pp. 190–91, doi:10.2307/3735763

Francis, Richard A., review of Jacques Berchtold, Les Prisons du roman (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle): Lectures plurielles et intertextuelles de 'Guzman d'Alfarache' à 'Jacques le fataliste', in Modern Language Review, 97.4 (2002), pp. 968–69, doi:10.2307/3738661

Francis, Richard A., review of J. E. Fowler, Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative, in Modern Language Review, 97.4 (2002), p. 972, doi:10.2307/3738665

Francis, Richard A., review of Lars O. Erickson, Metafact: Essayistic Science in Eighteenth-Century France, in Modern Language Review, 101.3 (2006), p. 851, doi:10.2307/20466950

Francis, Richard A., review of Jean Goldzink, Beaumarchais dans l'ordre de ses raisons, in Modern Language Review, 105.4 (2010), pp. 1158–59, doi:10.2307/25801516