Dissertations

Ahmed, Ehsan. “A Crisis of Lyric Identity: French Humanist Responses (1533–1552).” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1987.

Armand, Anne. “Le texte du conflit dans le théâtre de Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., Université de Paris X-Nanterre, 1984.

Ben Salem, Mahdia. “Louise Labé, Marguerite de Navarre and Madame de Lafayette: Three Recaptured Feminine Voices and Feminine Spaces.” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, 1995.

Benson Schrambach, Bendi. “Storytelling Transformations: Narrative, Rhetoric and Community within Marguerite de Navarre’s L’Heptaméronand Charles Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris.”Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2005.

Black, Elizabeth. “The Ethics of Space, Secrecy, and Solitude: Domestic Space in French and Sixteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011.

Bouzrara, Nancy Kay Erickson. “Representation/Re-Presentation: Narrative Voice in Marguerite de Navarre’s L’Heptaméron.”Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1992.

Bradley, Kathleen M. “A Transgenerational, Cryptonymy, and Sociometric Analysis of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron.” Ph.D. Diss., University of Arizona, 2007.

Burch, Laura Jeanene. “Faithful Fictions: Translating Friendship in Works by Marguerite de Navarre, Madeleine de Scudéry, and Françoise de Graffigny.” Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 2007.

Cabantous, Marius. “Marguerite d’Angoulême et les débuts de la Réforme: Étude historique.” Diss., Faculté de Théologie Protestante de Montauban, 1989.

Corrie, Cathleen. “Antithesis and Oxymoron in the Works of Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 2002.

Emck, Katy. “‘A Wanton Woman and a Wise’: Women Writing about Desire in Renaissance Europe, 1540–1620.” Ph.D. diss., University of Alberta, 1996.

Escher, Margaret. “Configurations of Trickery in Boccaccio’sDecameron, Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, Masuccio’s Il Novellino and Shakespeare’s Othello.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 2007.

Ferguson, Gary. “The Religion of Marguerite de Navarre: A Study Based on a Reading of Her Poetry in the Context of the Traditions of Devotional Writing of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance.” Ph.D. diss., Durham University, 1990.

Gates, Laura Doyle. “‘Soubz umbrage de passetemps’: The Functioning of Women’s Storytelling in the Evangiles des Quenouilles, the Comptes Amoureuxof Jeanne Flore and the Heptaméronof Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 1995.

Gibbs-Love, Joli. “Confession and Absolution in the Tales of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999.

Groves, Helen Eugenia Klinke. “Sex, Lies, and the ‘Framed’ Narrative: Deception in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998.

Harper, Margaret. “Renaissance Cures: Short Narrative Prose and Medicine from Les cent nouvelles nouvelles to Montaigne.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998.

Iakounina, Irina. “The Dilemma of the Individual in Spiritual Poetry of the French Renaissance: The Example of Marguerite de Navarre and Clément Marot.” Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 2009.

Karlsson, Britt-Marie Ingrid. “Sagesse divine et folie humaine: Etude sur les structures antithétiques dans l’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549).” Ph.D. diss., University of Gothenburg, 1999.

Ketner, Elizabeth. “Memory, Monarchy and Identity on the ‘Scepter’d Isle’: Constructing Identity through Historical Fiction in Renaissance England and France.” Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 2009.

Klaus, Carrie F. “Neither Male Nor Female in Christ? The Construction of Gendered Identities in Women’s Writing of the French Reformation (1521–1561).” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

Krawczyk, Dariusz. “Dialectique de la parole: Étude de la poésie et du théâtre de Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., Université Paris-X Nanterre, 2007.

Ladyga, Jacob. “Radical Immanence: Blasons, Bodies, and the Birth of Modern Subjectivities in Marguerite de Navarre’s Late Verse.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 2020.

Lapointe, Melissa. “Du culte de la Vierge à l’imitation du Christ. Études sur les enjeux rhétoriques des exemplamarial et christique dans les œuvres versifiées de Guillaume Cretin (1460–1525) et Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549).” Ph.D. diss., Université du Québec, Chicoutimi, 2011.

La Vergne, Donald Dale. “Patterns of Mysticism in the Narrative Devotional Poetry of Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1993.

Low, Merry Elizabeth. “Women Writing Through Reform in France and Italy: Marguerite de Navarre and the Female Spiritual Community.” Ph.D. diss., The Florida State University, 2018.

Loysen, Kathleen. “‘Hearing Voices’: Representations of Storytelling and Conversation in Collections of 15th–16th Century French Nouvelles.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 2002.

Lucuix, Hélène. “Prise de parole et Querelle des Femmes dans l’œuvre de M. de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., McGill University, 2003.

Luhn, Melanie Jane. “Between Real and Ideal: Problems of Community in Early Sixteenth Century France.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 2002.

Maxwell, Mary Ann Addy. “‘Speak That I May See You’: Concealment and Unconcealment in the Colloquiaof Erasmus, Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, and Sidney’s New Arcadia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 1993.

Morrissey, Jennifer Anne. “Marguerite de Navarre and the Notion of Selfhood.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 2000.

Pruitt, Pamela Ann Parsons. “The Biblical Allusions in the Theatre of Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1984.

Ray, Ingrid Nilima. “Narrating Desire/Desiring Narrative in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron.” Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1999.

Rezvani, Leanna Bridge. “Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron and Madame de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves: Polyphony, Spirituality, and Didacticism in Response to the Querelle des Femmes.” Ph.D. diss., Boston College, 2005.

Russell, Nicolas. “Trouble with Mnemosyne: Memory and Forgetting in the Works of Marguerite de Navarre, Pierre de Ronsard, and Michel de Montaigne.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 2003.

Thompson, Emily E. “Mercury and the Humanists: Lying in the Nouvelles recréations et joyeux devis and the Heptaméron.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1996.

Thysell, Carol. “The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron as a Literary/Theological Response to John Calvin’s Treatise Against the Spiritual Libertines.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1995.

Treanor, Lucia. “Wings: A Comparative Study of Franciscan Characteristics in Boccaccio’s Decameron, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron.” Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 2000.

Trzebiatowski-Eliot, Peggy Daniele. “Madame de Lafayette and Marguerite de Navarre: A Particular Attachment.” Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 2001.

Valentine, Sheri Wolfe. “Between Love and Death: Prismatic Images in Les Prisons of Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 1996.

Vance, Jacob. “From the Sacred to the Secret: Shifting Ideals of Contemplative Life in Renaissance France (Lefèvre d’Étaples, Guillaume Briçonnet, Desiderius Erasmus, Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2005.

Vanderpool, Sinda. “Marguerite de Navarre’s Evolving Poetic Personae.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 2005.

Vernqvist, Johanna. “The Androgyne and the Phoenix. Marguerite de Navarre and Gaspara Stampa: Gendering Early Modern Debates on Love.” Ph.D. diss., Linköping University, 2018.

Virtue, Nancy E. “Representations of Rape in the Renaissance Novella.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1993.

Wasielewski, Kristin Marie. “Savoir-rire à la Française: Female Use of Humor and Witticisms in Marguerite de Navarre’s L’Heptaméron.” Ph.D. Diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.

Weber, Elizabeth Dolly Arvai. “The Power of Speech: Models of Female Martyrdom in Medieval and Early Modern French Literature.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994.

Weems, Erica. “Charity and Interpretation in the Heptaméron and the Tiers Livre.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 2013.

Wilmotte-Bourrely, Marie-Odile. “Le dialogue dans l’Heptaméronde Marguerite de Navarre.” Ph.D. diss., University of Ottawa, 1995.

Wilson, Corinne. “Voyages to the Discovery of the Self in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron (1559): From an Itinerary of Reconnaissance to a Spiritual Space.” Ph.D. diss., Washington University, 2004.