• Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont : women's epistolary and pedagogical fiction in the eighteenth-century 

    Pine, Victoria, 1979- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780) dedicated her life to writing and teaching young women. In all, she wrote 70 volumes of prose including several articles in magazines she founded and edited, novels, fairy ...
  • The ogre as lycomorph 

    Koehnemann, Aaron, 1980- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    This dissertation introduces, defines and applies to French literary analysis a term of my own invention: lycomorphism. This is a literary phenomenon by which an essentially human figure is characterized as wolfish via the ...