Liverpool Online Series: Critical Editions of French Texts (LOS)
The Liverpool Online Series was founded in 1999 in what was then the Department of French (now part of the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film) at the University of Liverpool. It was a pioneer of Open Access publishing, its remit being to make freely available unedited or otherwise unobtainable material, or material which for scholarly reasons required an up-to-date edition. With the welcome wider development of OA publishing since 2015, the series is now closed to new proposals.
Between 1999 and 2014, LOS published nineteen volumes. These cover a range of areas throughout the field of French and Francophone studies. They are single texts or anthologies, are of short to medium length, and contain critical introduction, notes and bibliography as appropriate. The series accommodates editions in the original or in translation, or with parallel translation into English. It aims primarily at the scholar and specialist, but the format makes it accessible to the interested general reader or student.
All volumes remain available freely from this site. They are published as PDF documents, requiring the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Texts may be viewed on screen, downloaded for personal study, or printed by the end-user. A small number of paper copies are also available of volumes 1 to 11, 13, 14, 16, 18 and 19. Please contact Pollie Bromilow (bromilow@liverpool.ac.uk) to obtain copies.
Titles
- Honoré de Balzac, Le Nègre (edited and introduced by Michelle Cheyne and Andrew Watts, 2014)
- Le Lai du Conseil (edited and introduced by Brînduşa Elena Grigoriu, Catharina Peersman, and Jeff Rider, 2013)
- Philippe Henriot, The Last Act of Vichy: Radio Broadcasts, January-June 1944 (edited and introduced by Kay Chadwick, 2011)
- Henri de Valenciennes, Aristote (edited, translated and introduced by Leslie Brook and Glyn Burgess, 2011)
- Jules Verne, Une ville flottante (édité par Timothy Unwin, 2011)
- L'Antidote (édité par Denis Reynaud, 2008)
- Alexis Piron, Le Fâcheux Veuvage (edited and introduced by Derek Connon, 2008)
- La Calprenède: La Mort de Mitridate (edited and introduced by Guy Snaith, 2007)
- Doon and Tyolet: Two Old French Narrative Lays (edited, translated and introduced by Leslie Brook and Glyn Burgess, 2005)
- Jules Lefèvre-Deumier, Un poète romantique contre la peine de mort: Quatre poèmes (édité par Loïc Guyon, 2005)
- Melion and Biclarel: Two Old French Werwolf Lays (edited, translated and introduced by Amanda Hopkins, 2005)
- Jehan Renart, Le Lai de l'Ombre (translation and introduction by Adrian P. Tudor, text edited by Alan Hindley and Brian J. Levy, 2004)
- Quinault, L'Amant indiscret (edited and introduced by W.S. Brooks, 2003)
- Narcisus et Dané (edited, translated and introduced by Penny Eley, 2002)
- Gustave Flaubert, Mémoires d'un fou/Memoirs of a Madman (parallel translation and critical edition by Timothy Unwin, 2001)
- Piramus et Tisbé (edited and introduced by Penny Eley, 2001)
- Jacques Autreau, Le Chevalier Bayard (performance and published versions, edited and introduced by Richard Waller, 2000)
- Nineteenth-Century Women Seeking Expression: Translations from the French (edited and introduced by Rosemary Lloyd, 2000)
- Three Old French Narrative Lays: Trot, Lecheor, Nabaret (edited, translated and introduced by Leslie Brook and Glyn Burgess, 1999)
Viewing the texts
The texts are available as pdf (portable document format) files, requiring the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader. The format combines maximum security with maximum flexibility of usage.
Texts may either be viewed on screen, downloaded for personal study, or printed as camera-ready copy by the end-user. At the same time they cannot be interfered with or otherwise recycled by unauthorised users.
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Contact us
If you wish to contact the series editor with an enquiry or a comment, please email ckc@liverpool.ac.uk.