Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas père to distinguish him from his illustr...
Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated by critics. There has been, for some time now, a spec...
The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments of his literary corpus, seem today to be experiencing so...
The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. By François-Timoléon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Héntier, and Charles Perrault. Trans. Steven Rendait Intro. Joan DeJean. New York: Modem Language Association of America, 2004. xvii + 66pp. The publication in 2004 of the French text Histoire de...
Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. By FRANCOIS-TIMOLEON DE CHOISY, MARIE-JEANNE L'HERITIER, and CHARLES PERRAULT. Ed. by JOAN DEJEAN. (MLA Texts and Translations) New York: The Modern Language Association ofAmerica. 2004. xxviii+64 pp. $6.95. ISBN 0-87352-931-6. The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville....
