Essays in French Literature and Culture

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History

The journal was established in 1964 by James R. Lawler. [5] In 1975, the journal's editorship passed on to Denis Boak who, in a commemorative issue celebrating the journal's fiftieth anniversary, argues that Essays in French Literature was a "free-standing intellectual endeavour" providing "an extra outlet for young scholars to publish". [6] He was succeeded by Andrew Hunwick in 1995. Hélène Jaccomard took over in 2007.
A growing interest in cultural studies in the field of French studies led to a widening of the scope of the journal and its renaming in 2008. The new title reflects this wider emphasis on culture.
In the context of the crisis in academic publishing, [7] and as one of only two French Studies academic journals in Australia, Essays in French Literature and Culture has shown a remarkable ability to survive thanks to the quality of the articles it stringently selects, the thorough double-blind evaluation by independent assessors, and its widening readership which is its only financial means of support.
In the first forty years of its existence, the journal published essays spontaneously submitted to the Editors. Since 2007 many issues have been thematic and guest edited by experts in the field.
The journal's standing is acknowledged by the Australian Society of French Studies [8] and Informit database. [9]

Editorial Board

Current issue nr 62 (2025)

L’argent romanesque (20 et 21ème siècles)/ Novelistic Money

Dirigé par E. Prof. Hélène Jaccomard

Klem James and Sophie Patrick, Money, hierarchy and neo-feudalism in the fictional futures of Michel Houellebecq [Argent romanesque, hiérarchie et néo-féodalisme dans les futurs fictionnels de Michel Houellebecq] 5

Charles Rice-Davis, Neoliberalism, Real Estate and Environmental Capital in the Contemporary French Novel [Néolibéralisme, Immobilier et Capital environnemental dans leroman français contemporain] 31

Dominique Ancelet-Netter, Moralisme de l’argent familial et mondain chez Paul Bourget [Morality of familial and highsociety money in Paul Bourget] 55

Valérie K. Orlando, L’illusion de la vertu coloniale : Le capitalisme mondial et la mauvaise foi dans Les Vertus immorales de Kebir Ammi (2009) [ The Illusion of colonial vertu: Global Capitalism andBad Faith in Les Vertus immorales by Kebir Ammi (2009)] 71

Flavien Falantin, Scandaleuse ou bourgeoise ? Françoise Sagan et l’argent [Scandalous or Bourgeoise ? François Sagan and Money] 89

Sinan Anzoumana, L’argent dans l’œuvre de Claude Simon [Money in Claude Simon’s Works] 107

Jennifer Carr, ‘Aucune trace financière’: Exchange and impasse in Alice Diop’s Saint Omer[« Aucune trace financière »: échange etimpasse dans Saint Omer de Alice Diop] 123

Forthcoming Issues

Recent Issues (2008-2024)

- issue nr 45: Foreign? Writing in French (2008)
- issue nr 46 : Sports (2009)
- issue nr 47 and 48: Landscape and Memory (2010 and 2011)
- issue nr 49: The Paratext (2012)
- issue nr 50: Playtime (2013)
- issue nr 51: Représenter la Grande Guerre: les écrivains et les artistes face à l’épreuve (1914-1920) (2014)
- issue nr 52: Diaspora, Afropolitanism and Congolese Literature (2015)
- issue nr 53: Conflict, dialogue and representation (2016)
- issue nr 54: Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds (France 1939–1945) (2017)
- issue nr 55 : Miscellaneous (2018).
- issue nr 56 : “Mines de rien”. L’Antillaise et l’Afropéenne face aux tropologies, entre mythes et réalités au fil du temps (2019)
- issue nr 57 : Identité et Environnement (2020)
- issue nr 58 : The Critical French Medical Humanities (2021)
- issue nr 59 : Retranslation revisited/La Retraduction revisitée (2022)
- issue nr 60 : Matters of Taste/Questions de goûts, Edited by Prof.Véronique Duché, A. R. Chisholm Professor of French at the University of Melbourne.

- issue nr 61: "Pioneering the Field ofFrancophone Caribbean Literature" A la mémoire de Professeure Beverley Ormerod Noakes, Edited by Professor Srilata Ravi, University of Alberta, and A/Professor Bonnie Thomas, The University of Western Australia.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, [10] and EBSCO and ProQuest databases. It is indexed on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

References

  1. ↑ "European Languages and Studies". The University of Western Australia.
  2. ↑ Boak, Denis. "Reminiscences of a past editor" Essays in French Literature and Culture, 2013, ix.
  3. ↑ The journal website.https://essaysinfrenchliteratureandculture.com
  4. ↑ "Directory of Open Access Journals".
  5. ↑ The Australian Academy of the Humanities. Annual report 2013–14, p.35.
  6. ↑ Boak, Denis. "Reminiscences of a past editor" Essays in French Literature and Culture, 2013, vii.
  7. ↑ Joanie Lavoie and Dominique Bérubé, Crisis in academic publishing, June 19, 2012.https://phys.org/news/2012-06-crisis-academic-publishing.html
  8. ↑ ASFS.https://australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2017/10/09/essays-in-french-literature-and-culture-54/
  9. ↑ Informit.http://search.informit.com.au/browseJournalTitle;res=IELHSS;issn=1835-7040
  10. ↑ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
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