For Further Reading
The vast majority of writings on Dumas are in French. Some have been translated into English, but many have not. Some of these untranslated studies are included below, particularly if they bear directly on The Three Musketeers. The two-hundredth anniversary of Dumas’s birth in 2002 has prompted many new editions of his works, new and revised biographies in French (not included here), and new critical assessments. Some of the latter have not yet appeared in print.
BIOGRAPHIES AND GENERAL STUDIES
Bell, A. Craig. Alexandre Dumas: A Biography and Study. London: Cassell, 1950.
Bell, David F. Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Cooper, Barbara T. “Alexandre Dumas père.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 119, Nineteenth-century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800—1860, edited by Catherine Savage Brosman. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1992.
Foote-Greenwell, Victoria. “The Life and Resurrection of Alexandre Dumas.” Smithsonian Magazine (July 1996).
Hemmings, F. W. J. The King of Romance: A Portrait of Alexandre Dumas. London: H. Hamilton, 1979.
Jan, Isabelle. Alexandre Dumas romancier. Paris: Editions Ouvrieres, 1973.
Maurois, André. The Titans: A Three-Generation Biography of the Dumas. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. New York: Harper, 1957.
Ross, Michael. Alexandre Dumas. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1981.
Schopp, Claude. Alexandre Dumas: Genius of Life. Translated by A. J. Koch. New York and Toronto: Franklin Watts, 1988.
Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas père. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976.
Youjun, Peng. La Nation chez Alexandre Dumas. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003.
PERIODICALS
L’Arc 71 (1978). Special issue titled Alexandre Dumas.
Cahiers Alexandre Dumas. Edited by Claude Schopp, published by Société des Amis d’Alexandre Dumas. Annual periodical devoted to Dumas and his works, 1983—present.
Europe 48:490-491 (February-March 1970). Special issue titled Alexandre Dumas Père.
In addition, several special issues on Dumas appeared in the French press in 2002 to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of the author’s birth.
WEB SITES
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Munro, Douglas. Alexandre Dumas père: A Bibliography of Works Translated into English to 1910. New York and London: Garland, 1978.
. Alexandre Dumas père: A Secondary Bibliography of French and English Sources to 1983. New York and London: Garland, 1985.
Reed, Frank Wilde. A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père. London: J. A. Neuhuys, 1933.
STUDIES ON THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Avni, Ora. “The Semiotics of Transactions: Mauss, Lacan, and The Three Musketeers.” MLN 100:4 (September 1985), pp. 728-757.
Bassan, Fernande. “Le Cycle des Trois mousquetaires—du roman au théâtre.” Studia Neophilologica 57 (1985), pp. 243-249.
Bassan, Fernande, and Claude Schopp, eds. “Les Trois mousquetaires, ” “Le Comte de Monte-Cristo”: Cent cinquante ans après. Marly-le-Roi, France: Editions Champflour, 1995.
Bem, Jeanne. “D‘Artagnan et après. Lecture symbolique et historique de la ‘trilogie’ de Dumas.” Littérature 22 (May 1976), pp. 13-29.
Compere, Daniel. D ‘Artagnan & Cie: “Les Trois mousquetaires” d’Alexandre Dumas, un roman à suivre. Paris: Encrage, 2002.
Coward, David, ed. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Eisenzweig, Uri. “La Place de la fiction: L‘Etat, la famille, l’idée du roman dans Les Trois mousquetaires.” Poétique 21:81 (1990), pp. 77-88.
Schopp, Claude, ed. Les Trois mousquetaires/Vingt Ans après, by Alexandre Dumas. Bouquins Edition. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1991.
Sudley, Lord, ed. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas. London: Penguin Books, 1982.
Tranouez, Pierre. “Cave Filium! Etude du cycle des Mousquetaires.” Poétique 18:71 (September 1987), pp. 321-331.
Tranouez, Pierre. “L’Air des bijoux dans Les Trois mousequetaires.” LEcole des Lettres, 13-14 (June 1989), pp. 49-57.
Wood, Allen G. “Of Kings, Queens and Musketeers.” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 24:46 (1997), pp. 163-171.
