l'esprit créateur

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Daniel Brewer and Mária Minich Brewer, Editors

L'Esprit Créateur
Department of French and Italian
University of Minnesota
260 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

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Peer Review Policy

To be considered for publication in L’Esprit Créateur, articles must be original unpublished work written in English or French and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Each issue of L’Esprit Créateur focuses on a specific topic, author or critical issue. Articles should be related to the announced topic of a forthcoming issue.

The guest editor(s) of each issue review all submitted and invited articles; articles submitted to the general editors receive an assessment before being forwarded to the guest editor(s), who review all articles and select a preliminary slate of articles to be assessed by the general editors. Articles may undergo blind review before they are submitted to the general editors for final approval. Authors of accepted articles receive edited versions of their article from guest editors with suggestions for revision; revised articles are sent to the general editors who prepare a copy-edited version of the article, which may contain additional suggestions for revisions. Authors review and correct proofs of their article. Articles are published approximately six to nine months following final acceptance.

Criteria for reviewing articles include: the articles’ relevance to the topic of the special issue; the quality of scholarship; the articles’ engagement with critical debate; and their contribution to creating new critical perspectives in the area of French and Francophone Studies and the critical humanities more broadly.

Founding Editor

John D. Erickson

Editors

Mária Minich Brewer
Daniel Brewer

Associate Editors

Suzanne Rodin Pucci
Anne Tomiche

Editorial Sponsors

Department of French and Italian
College of Liberal Arts
University of Minnesota

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

• Clarivate Analytics
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• De Gruyter Saur
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  • Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
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  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 9/1/2003-
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• Elsevier BV
  • Scopus, 2002-ongoing
• FRANCIS
• Gale
  • Book Review Index Plus
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
• OCLC
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  • Electronic Collections Online, vol.46, no.1, 2006-vol.51, no.3, 2011
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• ProQuest
  • Art, Design & Architecture Collection, 04/01/2017-
  • Arts & Humanities Database, 04/01/2017-
  • Arts Premium Collection
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • Periodicals Index Online
  • ProQuest Central, 04/01/2017-

Abstracting & Indexing Sources

• Children's Book Review Index   (Active)  (Print)
• Bibliographic Index   (Ceased)  (Print)
• MLA Abstracts of Articles in Scholarly Journals   (Ceased)  (Print)

Source: Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory.

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0.2 (Five-Year Impact Factor)
0.00018 (Eigenfactor™ Score)

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Published quarterly

Readers include: Readers with an interest in literature, theory, and cultural critique in French and Francophone literature and culture

Print circulation: 69

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