FRENCH 17

BRAUN, GUIDO. "L’art de la paix au XVIIe siècle. L’état de la recherche et les éditions de sources récentes sur les congrès internationaux." DDS 254 (2012), 29-41.

Examines the renewal of studies of the history of international relations from a cultural perspective. Highlights German efforts to publish sources related to the Peace of Westphalia, particularly the Acta Pacis Westphalicae and new electronic editions of treaties published by the Institut für Europäische Geschichte.

COSKI, CHRISTOPHER. From Barbarism to Universality: Language and Identity in Early Modern France. South Carolina, 2011.

Review: C.E. Campbell in "CHOICE" (Apr. 2012). "Coski (French, Ohio Univ.) traces the development of French as an important language throughout Europe. He presents six works, dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries, that in some manner treat the role and importance of French." Of interest to dix-septièmistes will be his treatment of: Discours de la méthode by Descartes (1637) and Remarques sur la langue française of Vaugelas (1647).

KELLER-RAHBÉ, EDWIGE. Les arrières-boutiques de la littérature: auteurs et imprimeurs-libraires aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Toulouse: PU du Mirail, 2010.

Review: E.E. Thompson in FR 85.5 (2012), 952-953. A valuable introduction contributes to the general lack of studies on seventeenth-century printers. The collection of essays will interest dix-septièmistes working on Jean-Pierre Camus, Parnasse satyrique, the burlesque, and the historical novella. The collection is thoroughly scholarly with an excellent detailed bibliography.

KIRCHNER, THOMAS. "La recherche germanophone sur l’art français du XVIIe siècle." DSS 254 (2012), 43-50.

Praises the role of the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art in facilitating the "internationalization" of art history, particularly exchanges between German and French researchers. Offers an overview of current research supported by the center.

MARZYS, ZYGMUNT. Remarques sur la langue françoise. Genève: Droz, 2009.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 163 (2011), 162. Praiseworthy critical edition of V. due to its excellent quality allows the reader the possibility to compare the text of the first edition of 1647 with manuscript 3105 of the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal. R. notes a particularly interesting variance concerning the famous formula of "bon usage" and praises the edition for its remarkable bibliography and index, the latter including proper nouns, themes, words and linguistic forms.

SCOTT, PAUL. Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies. 71 (2009). London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2011.

SOULARD, DELPHINE. "L’œuvre des premiers traducteurs français de John Locke: Jean Le Clerc, Pierre Coste et David Mazel." DSS 253 (2011), 739-62.

Examines how three French translators adapted the rhetoric, style, and content of Locke’s philosophical writings for a French audience.

STERNKE, RENÉ. "Les classicismes comme systèmes culturels de référence." DSS 254 (2012), 117-29.

This article charts how German critics and scholars have understood the concept of classicism from the 18th century to the present and explores the possibility of a "Berliner Klassik" or Berlin-centered Classicism in the late 18th- to early 19th century.

ZAISER, RAINER. "Autour de quelques méthodes de la recherche dix-septiémiste en Allemagne : le style de Spitzer, la mimésis d’Auerbach et l’anthropologie négative de Stierle." DSS 254 (2012), 7-27.

Noting that 17th-century literary studies continue to fall under the rubric of Romance philology in the German academy, the author examines the influence of Spitzer, Auerbach and Stierle on recent scholarship, suggesting that Auerbach’s and Stierle’s legacies have been the strongest.

ACERRA, MARTINE. "La création de l’arsenal de Rochefort." DSS 253 (2011), 671-76.

Offers a "bilan" of recent research on the Rochefort naval yard. Argues that Rochefort served as a "brouillon" and model for future naval development.

ALBANESE, RALPH. "Réflexions sur le mythe culturel du ’Grand Siècle." CdDS 13.2 (2011), 184-200.

The author seeks to show "que le classicisme français était lié avant tout à une construction à la fois culturelle et institutionnelle" and raises the question "pourquoi la culture classique a pris une dimension mythique au sein du patrimoine national" (184). Albanese argues that the seventeenth century has become a "cultural myth" for the French imaginaire The Third Republic, in particular, idealized and venerated the Grand Siècle while turning it into a "classicisme républicain."

ANON. L’estampe au Grand Siècle. Études offertes à Maxime Préaud. Paris: école Nationale des Chartes, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2010.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 164 (2011), 401. Richly illustrated volume in color as well as in black and white, with indices. Includes thirty-seven articles on diverse aspects of 17th c. illustration. Important not only for Art History but also for numerous other cultural domains.

ARNASON, LUKE. "L’humour dans les tragédies en musique de Jean-Baptiste Lully." CdDS 13.2 (2011), 130-159.

While Lully’s operas don’t seem openly humoristic and the strict division of genre did not allow for comical episodes in tragedy, there are ludic elements in Lully’s work that merit a detailed study. Arnason’s analysis focuses on the principal action (not the divertissements). Aspects studied are the Italian influence, the ambiguous humor of the "disputes entre amoureux," and the demonic as a ludic element. The author closes on an explanation of the function of the comical elements and on the progressive decline of the comical in French opera during the century.

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Le corps souffrant au XVIIe siècle (à travers le Journal Des Sçavans)." CdDS 13.2 (2011), 1-30.

This article studies "l’envers du grand siècle": not the splendor or joy of the century, but the great number of illnesses from which the population suffered throughout the 17th-century, from the plague to cancerous tumors, and the treatments prescribed by the medical doctors of its time. Assaf bases his study on the Journal des Sçavans from its beginnings in 1665 to the death of Louis XIV in 1715. A particular emphasis is placed on individual cases of illness, as well as on Louis XIV’s own suffering.

BAJOU, VALERIE. Versailles. Château de Versailles: Harry N. Abrams, 2012.

Review: A. Riding in NYTSBR (June 1, 2012). Presented by a curator of Versailles, this hefty volume is praised for stunning photographs and pleasant historical anecdotes that weave together to provide an interesting history of the palace and its gardens through the centuries.

BASTIEN, PASCAL. Une histoire de la peine de mort: bourreaux et supplices 1500-1800. Paris: Seuil, 2011.

Review: E. Ousselin in FR85.4 (2012), 767-768. In this comparative study of practices in London and Paris, the author approaches the death penalty not as an example of barbarism, but as a tool of communication between power and the people. Chapters treat the position of the executioner/bourreau as well the "environnement sonore"-the reading of sentences, the condemned’s final words, popular songs, and horrified screams that made up the spectacle of public executions.

BAYARD, MARC. Feinte baroque. Iconographie et esthétique de la variété au XVIIe siècle, Collection d’histoire de l’art, Académie de France à Rome-Ville Médicis. Paris: Somogy éditions d’art, 2010.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 164 (2011), 401. Focus of analysis is Mahelot’s Mémoires, staged by the Hôtel de Bourgogne. Important especially for theatrical representation of the 1630s and 40s, the debates on regularity and irregularity and the Querelle du Cid.

BONAR, DAPHNE L. "Debt and Taxes: Village Relations and Economic Obligations in Seventeenth-Century Auvergne." FHS 35.4 (Fall 2012), 661-689.

The author examines tax collection practices at the village level through the lens of microcredit-a system of local, undocumented, informal credit that, in a semimonetized economy like the Auvergne, inevitably included a wide range of exchanges of goods and obligations.

BÉGUIN, KATIA. Financer la Guerre au XVIIe siècle. La dette publique et les rentiers de l’absolutisme. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2012.

Review: P. Hamon in QL 1067 (2012), 20401. Katia Béguin étudie les rouages de ce marché [de rentes] en France, à partir de sources intelligemment choisies au sein d’une documentation surabondante. Sans négliger les transformations institutionnelles, elle donne cependant la priorité au jeu des acteurs, et en particulier aux acheteurs des rentes. Elle fournit, ce faisant, une histoire sociale de leur circulation qui est profondément novatrice.

BLANCHARD, JOHN-VINCENT. Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the rise of France. Walker & Company, 2011.

Review: J.W. McCormack in CHOICE (Apr. 2012). Blanchard’s new biography of Richelieu emphasizes the cardinal’s ’sense of opportunity, amazing decisiveness, and courage’ in order to counterbalance the classic picture of a nefarious, Machiavellian political genius. […] The author draws on both the best recent scholarship and an array of vivid memoirs, partisan pamphlets, and personal letters, including a number of manuscripts.

BONARDI, MARIE-ODILE. Les Vertus dans la France baroque. Représentations iconographiques et littéraires. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Review: V. Fortunati in S Fr 165 (2011), 635. Important for its contribution to the criticism of art, ideas and mentalities; for the abundance of material taken into account; and for the clarity of its convincing argumentation. B.’s rich study demonstrates the diversity of 17th c. expression of "les vertus," as she examines Descartes, d’Urfé, de Sales, La Rochefoucauld and others. Rich bibliography and iconographic appendix.

BOUTEILLE-MEISTER, CHRISTINE and KRISTIN AUKRUST. Corps sanglants, souffrants et macabres XVIe-XVIIe siècles. Paris: PU Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2010.

Review: C.-L. Morand Metivier in FR 85.4 (2012) 746-747. Acts of the conference "Corps sanglants" held in 2008 at the University of Oslo. Ce receuil, de par la grande diversité des sujets traits, ainsi que par l’abondante bibliographie qui l’accompagne, apparaît comme une lecture incontournable pour quiconque s’intéresse à une etude pluridisciplinaire de cette question.

Review: S. Turner in MLN 127.4 (2012), 945-46. Interdisciplinary volume of conference proceedings focused on "the depiction of the suffering body in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe" within various contexts "whether religious (the Wars of Religion), medical (the new anatomical discoveries) or political (the use of propaganda)....

Review: M. Bernard in DSS 255 (2012), 371-2. Acta of a conference that took place in Oslo in 2008, the volume contains 22 articles on the representation of the suffering body in art, literature and spectacle in France, England, Holland, Spain, Italy, and Canada. The volume is unified in its reflection on authors’ and artists’ attempts to infuse suffering with meaning and to see universal significance in individual pain. Reviewer sees the volume as marking the beginning of a productive vein of research and particularly praises the book’s program of illustrations.

BRAZEAU, BRIAN. Writing a New France, 1604-1632: Empire and Early Modern French Identity. Ashgate: 2009.

Review: Ibbett, Katherine in CdDS 13.2 (2011), 209-213. Brazeau raises the question how metropolitan French concerns about identity and history were played out across the Atlantic, and asks "how French debates with which many readers will be familiar might be imagined differently in the context of new world realities." The first chapter addresses the question whether Canada was an appropriate territory for viniculture. Chapter two turns to French evaluations and translations of indigenous languages, and chapter three focuses on Marc Lescarbot’s Histoire de la Nouvelle-France. The book concludes with the relation between missionaries and merchants in New France.

BRENNAN, THOMAS E. Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, 1500-1800: v.1: General introduction, France; v.2: Holy Roman Empire I; v.3: Holy Roman Empire II; v.4: America. Pickering & Chatto, 2011.

Review: D.M. Fahey in CHOICE (Dec. 2011). This collection of tavern documents makes otherwise-inaccessible primary sources available in multivolume format and will be invaluable for students and teachers. The set includes a volume of about 450 pages that contains translations from the French; two volumes, totaling about 900 pages, with translations from the German; and a volume of about 600 pages with English-language documents. […] General editor Brennan introduces the entire collection and his volume devoted to France. He adds introductions to sections (e.g., public sociability) and to sub-sections (e.g., gaming). There also are editorial notes. […] Brennan relied mostly on archival sources, especially Parisian police records.

CABRERA, ADRIANA. "Les Voyageurs français et le fleuve Amazone." Tr Lit 24 (2011), 173-184.

Accompanied by a wonderful reproduction of a 1717 map of Samuel Fritz of the "fleuve Maragnon" (otherwise known as the Amazon), C.’s study examines French accounts of explorations to the Amazon, contrasting their perspectives with those of the Spanish and the Portuguese. After considerable attention to early 15th and 16th c. accounts, aspects of discovery and tentatives of colonisation are investigated by C., emphasizing navigation, commerce and the desire to found a French colony by annexing the Amazon. The support of Richelieu, Louis XIII and others is referenced as is the important mid-century tableau provided Blaise François de Pagan in his 1655 Relation historique et géographique de la grande rivière des Amazones dans l’Amérique: "l’unique et merveilleux détroit enflé de tant de grandes rivières, des plaines les plus fertiles de l’univers" (chap. 13, 36)

CANOVA-GREEN, MARIE-CLAUDE. Ballets pour Louis XIII. Danse et politique à la cour de France (1610-1643). Toulouse: Société de Littératures Classiques, 2010.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 165 (2011), 634. Judged highly useful, C.-G.’s edition documents the presence of a genre greatly appreciated in the Baroque era, the constant literary contact between Italy and France, and political ramifications. After a short but diverse introduction, eighteen ballets are presented. Reviewer notes that among the authors are to be found illustrious poets such as Tristan, Boisrobert and Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin. She does however regret the absence of any mention of the famous critic Jean Rousset.

CANOVA-GREEN, MARIE-CLAUDE. "D’une culture l’autre: Charles Perrault et le Labyrinthe de Versailles." SCFS 34.2 (2012), 143-157.

Dès les années 1660, les jardins de Versailles ajoutèrent aux joies de la promenade celles de la découverte d’un monde où l’art rivalisait avec la nature pour la plus grande gloire du monarque. Si fontaines et jets d’eau témoignaient de prouesses techniques jusqu’alors inégalées, si Orangerie et Ménagerie offraient aux curieux le spectacle d’espèces animales et végétales rares, le Labyrinthe, lui, proposait un parcours culturel menant le visiteur à une plus grande connaissance de soi et du monde. Mais aux leçons éprouvées de la sagesse ésopique, qu’incarnaient les animaux de plomb peint décorant les fontaines et les rondeaux de Benserade qui les accompagnaient, s’ajoutaient aussi, pour qui savait les déchiffrer, les tout derniers conseils en matière de galanterie. Conçu très certainement par Charles Perrault, le Labyrinthe était enfin une autre manière de dire la supériorité des Modernes sur les Anciens que proclamaient le château et les jardins dans leur ensemble.

CORIMER, JAQUES. "Les Amériques de Robert Challe." Tr Lit 24 (2011), 55-64.

Exploration of C.’s journals and unfinished memoirs demonstrates significant differences of treatment in his two experiences, his long stays in Acadia versus his stay of a month in the Antilles. Underscoring the "lien affectif très fort avec ce Canada dans lequel il [Challe] vécut ses premières années de jeune adulte" (57), Cormier evokes Challe’s seduction by the project of a new France which would be an ideal society embodying values that France had lost and a harmony that followed the model of Télémaque (58-59). Economic, political and metaphysical reflections, the latter in the words attributed to an Iroquois chief, contrast with Challe’s focus on the natural beauty of the Antillean women, "bien faites . . . d’un sang plus pur que nos Françaises" (cited by Cormier 64).

DAGEN, JEAN and BARROVECCHIO, ANNE-SOPHIE. Le Rire ou le Modèle? Le Dilemme du moraliste. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 165 (2011), 698-699. Vast (nearly 700 pages) and praiseworthy collection investigates exemplarity and the laughter of French moralists from the 15th to the 18th c. and includes philosophers and literary authors as well (Pascal, Descartes, Bayle, Corneille, and Molière, for example). Highly interdisciplinary, the volume is comprised of essays on both literary and artistic portraits, theatre, the novel, history and even jurisprudence. A genuine treasure trove for the 17th c. scholar who will delight in numerous essays such as Laurent Thirouin’s "éclats de rire pascaliens" (363-390) and Dominique Bertrand’s "L’imaginaire du rire dans ’Les Caractères’ de La Bruyère" (489-520). The volume closes with a triptych including Louis Van Delft’s essay on "rires philosophiques" and Jean Dagen’s "Que philosopher c’est apprendre à rire.

DANDREY, PATRICK. Quand Versailles était conté: La cour de Louis XIV. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009.

Review: O. Ranum in PFSCL 77 (2012), 550-56. Unlike recent studies by Christian Jouhaud or Olivier Chaline which have aimed "to breathe new life" into our images of the 17th c by bringing new sources and historical perspectives to light, Dandrey’s book turns back to traditional literary and moralistic sources to reproduce a well-worn critique of court life. The reviewer is disappointed by the "cliché-ridden" interpretations.

DAVIES, J.D.. "Les arsenaux royaux anglais au XVIIe siècle." in DSS 253 (2011), 677-89.

History of shipyards in Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham et Portsmouth with detailed information on the vessels and forces they housed.

DEJEAN, JOAN. The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual-and the Modern Home Began. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.

Review: M.S. Kaplan in FR 85.2 (2011), 79. DeJean explores how the French discovered casual living […] creating the "Age of Comfort" during the period from 1670 to 1765 […] The author shows how the innovations created during the Age of Comfort had a profound impact on such seemingly unrelated domains of early modern life as apparel, body language, literature, and the relations between the sexes." Because of its "accessible language," this book will appeal to a broad audience; it will also be "an invaluable addition" to scholars’ libraries.

DEKKER, RUDOLF. "Note sur les arsenaux hollandais au XVIIe siècle." DSS 253 (2011), 691-3.

Brief article focusing on the naval yard in Amsterdam and calling for more research on Dutch naval forces in the 17th century.

DEKONINCK, RALPH, AGNES GUIDERON-BRUSLE, and NATHALIE KREMER. Aux limites de l’imitation: l’ut pictura poesis à l’épreuve de la matière (XVIe-XVIIe siècles). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.

Review: S. Genieys-Kirk in FS 66.4 (2012), 46-547. Cet ouvrage collectif propose une fascinante étude de l’émergence progressive d’un concept longtemps dénigré: celui de la ’matière’ ou de la matérialité inhérente à toute oeuvre. Aux seizième et dix-septième siècles, la matière constituant ’un impensé de la thèorie de l’art’ (p. 7 ) est quasi absente sous la plume des théoriciens. La matière en tant que paradigme digne d’inclusion dans le langage théorique est incompatible avec une vision de l’art qui ne saurait déroger aux principes sacrés de la mimesis dont l’ultime fonction est de donner à voir le beau sous sa forme la plus parachevée, éliminant toute trace de l’acte créateur, mû par le modus vivendum horatien de l’ut pictura poesis.

DOREL, FRÉDÉRIC. "L’histoire de l’Amérique au coeur des passions françaises: le cas du Paraguay." Tr Lit 24 (2011), 105-116.

Wide-ranging, D.’s essay traces "le cas du Paraguay" from the early modern "christianisation et européanisation du monde," to the "sécularisation" and finally to the "décolonisation" of our day. 17th c. specialists will be interested in D.’s references to Antoine Arnauld’s denunciation of the Jesuits whose own letters, finds D., contain not only precious inventories of climate, fauna and flora, but also of "le pittoresque" and invite "l’interrogation" (108). Finally the very question of the truth of history is undertaken by D. who concludes: "il n’y a pas de vérité unique sur le passé, dans la relation complexe entre le réel et le discours, [et] l’écriture étant une ’pratique historique’, les histoires sont toutes des romans vrais" (115).

DURON, JEAN. André Campra (1660-1744), Un musicien provençal à Paris. Wavre: Mardaga, 2010. AND

DURON, JEAN. Le Carnaval de Venise d’André Campra et Jean-François Regnard. Wavre: Mardaga, 2010.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 164 (2011), 405. This review considers together the two volumes which focus on Campra. The first is composed of a series of essays on his activities and importance, while the second includes comments by diverse authors, and the libretto of the text. Of particular interest for the history of spectacle, music and literature. Richly illustrated.

GAUTHIER, LAURE. Preface by Dominique Bourel. L’Opéra à Hambourg (1648-1728), Naissance d’un genre, essor d’une ville. Paris: PUPS, 2010.

Review: M.-T. Mourey in PFSCL76 (2012) 263-6. This revised version of a doctoral dissertation augments recent research on the origins of German opera by focusing on the atypical case of the bourgeois, urban opera in Hamburg. The reviewer is left unconvinced by the book’s thesis that the "operatic project" of Lutheran courts failed and submitted to the influence of the Hamburgian model, noting that the author’s definition of the genre of opera is too narrow. The reviewer also notes some small factual errors. Overall, however, the reviewer is impressed by Gauthier’s book which offers a welcome, richly contextualized study of an underexplored aspect of German musical culture.

FRIEDLAND, PAUL. Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France. Oxford: 2012.

Review: Lorenzini, P. in CHOICE (Feb. 2013). Friedland begins his study with Roman law and works his way through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to France in the modern age, all the while noting that his study describes the evolution of penal theory and practice in Western society as a whole. The book thus ranges over a very broad expanse of time and covers a wide variety of interrelated topics. […] the author assesses major anthropological and historical interpretations of punishment in both practice and theory […] summarizes legal history over the period studied while addressing the importance of ritual and spectacle in the administration of justice.

GERBER, MATTHEW. Bastards: Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France. Oxford UP: 2012.

Review: D. Baxter in CHOICE (July 2012). Gerber provides a complex, compelling account of legal and social change surrounding illegitimacy in early modern France. Solidly based upon an examination of French legal cases and law books, the book depicts the shift from stigmatization of bastardy in the 16th and 17th centuries toward slow destigmatization in the 18th century. In the process, Gerber describes the ongoing relationship between law and broader social, cultural, and political movements, beginning with the predisposition of elite families to protect property rights, the steady expansion of state power, the complexity and diversity of French law, initial attempts toward a national legal code, and evolving views of the role of the state and public interest.

Goyet, Francis. Les Audaces de la prudence. Littérature et politique au XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: éditions Classiques Garnier, 2009.

Review: M. Airoldi in S Fr 165 (2011), 633. Cet ouvrage collectif propose une fascinante étude de l’émergence progressive d’un concept longtemps dénigré: celui de la ’matière’ ou de la matérialité inhérente à toute oeuvre. Aux seizième et dix-septième siècles, la matière constituant ’un impensé de la thèorie de l’art’ (p. 7 ) est quasi absente sous la plume des théoriciens. La matière en tant que paradigme digne d’inclusion dans le langage théorique est incompatible avec une vision de l’art qui ne saurait déroger aux principes sacrés de la mimesis dont l’ultime fonction est de donner à voir le beau sous sa forme la plus parachevée, éliminant toute trace de l’acte créateur, mû par le modus vivendum horatien de l’ut pictura poesis.

HAMMOND, NICHOLAS. Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610 -1715). Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.

Review: P. Shoemaker in FS 66.4 (2012), 54-555. In the Introduction to this slim monograph, Nicholas Hammond remarks that previous treatments of gossip and gender have generally focused on the negative depiction of women. Drawing from seventeenth-century French material, Hammond takes a different tack: his thesis is that gossip, with its characteristic combination of innuendo, complicity, and anonymity, provides a discursive ’borderland’, a space where marginal identities and sexual practices can be accommodated. After a first chapter that provides a useful overview of the various seventeenth-century French terms that correspond to the English ’gossip’ […] Hammond devotes the central chapters of his study to the relationship of gossip and same-sex desire. […] Hammond closely examines the ways in which gossip about the sexual proclivities of these figures circulated by word of mouth and in print. Relying primarily on the Chansonnier Maurepas a fascinating collection of mostly anonymous songs, he argues that gossip did not necessarily lead to scandal. Within sexual subcultures, gossip could also function as a ’shared language’ by which acolytes could recognize each other. Outside of such groups, too, rumours about ’sodomites’ were not always accompanied by moral censure, suggesting a tacit acceptance of same-sex desire.

HARRIGAN, MICHAEL"Mobility and Language in the Early Modern Antilles." SCFS 34.2 (2012), 115-132.

"This article analyses a corpus of texts, principally of ecclesiastical authorship, which depict early- to mid-seventeenth-century attempts to colonize the Antilles and coastal South America. Focus is placed on French representations of Amerindian populations and of plantation and indigenous economies at a time of great political and military upheaval in the Caribbean. An initial analysis of depictions of European colonial initiatives explores their significant impact on Caribbean societies and suggests how the resultant conflicts influenced representations of Amerindian peoples. This is followed by analysis of the contrasting depictions of European and indigenous economic systems. European populations are depicted as mobile, laborious, and surplus-producing whereas indigenous populations are mainly characterized by economic stasis and the subsistence economy. A further analysis of depictions of Amerindian languages suggests how these might reflect the perception by French observers of absence at the heart of indigenous societies. Rather than indicating an innate deficiency in the faculty of language, this may be interpreted as mirroring a perceived incompleteness in the religious, economic or textual domains."

HOCQUET, JEAN-CLAUDE. "L’Arsenal de Vénise. Créations, modernisations, survie d’une grande structure industrielle." DSS 253 (2011), 627-38.

Informative history of the Venetian naval yard from 1104 to the present.

JAMES, ALAN. "Les arsenaux de marine en France avant Colbert." DSS 253 (2011), 657-69.

Considers Richelieu’s naval policies not so much "comme une tentative ambitieuse pour aménager une infrastructure navale moderne" but rather as the "poursuite efficace et acharnée d’une volonté politique née au siècle précédent" and as a reaction to contemporary political challenges.

KOSTROUN, DANIELLA. Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Review: N. Arenberg in DFS 95 (Summer 2011), 103. This book "traces the historical roots of the socio-political debate surrounding Jansenism" with, as its focus, the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs. The author shows how the nuns "asserted their equal rights as women who were capable of reason, including the right to follow their female consciences," thereby offering a new perspective on a "forgotten group of remarkable women."

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. La Théorie des mondes possibles. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2011.

Review: F. Forcolin in S Fr 164 (2011), 479. Without diachronic restrictions, this fruit of a 2005-2006 seminar at the Université de Paris-Diderot presents a first study in French on the subject applied to all literature and visual arts. Organized in three sections, the first deals with genres of fictions, the second with historical perspectives examining "façons de faire des mondes," and the third with effects of reading or "les mondes du texte." 17th c. scholars will appreciate diverse theoretical and stylistic perspectives (see, in particular, Christine Noille-Clauzade’s "Considérations logiques sur de nouveaux styles de fictionalité: les mondes de la fiction au XVIIe siècle" (171-188), as well as a rich bibliography and the closing essay of Thomas Pavel, "Univers de fiction: un parcours personnel" (307-314).

LE MAO, CAROLINE. "Gérer un arsenal au temps de guerre: réflexions sur le rôle des intendants de marine lors de la guerre de la Ligue d’Augsbourg (1688-1697)." DSS 253 (2011), 695-708.

Examines the task of the shipyard director in wartime versus during times of peace. Focuses on the role of the "intendants de marine" especially at Rochefort and Dunkerque.

LOMBARD-JOURDAN, ANNE. Les Halles de Paris et leur quartier dans l’espace urbain (1337-1969). Paris: École Nationale des Chartes, 2009.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 163 (2011), 231-232. This volume collects L.-J.’s earlier ground-breaking studies and enlarges them, demonstrating both "les permaneneces et les ruptures qui ont marqué cet espace parisien au cours des huit siècles . . . de son histoire." Reviewer signals the rich section of annexes which includes archival documents as well as topographic and iconographic contributions.

LOSFELD, CHRISTOPHE. Politesse, morale et construction sociale. Pour une histoire des traités de comportement. Paris: Champion, 2011.

Review: S. Gallegos Gabilondo in S Fr 165 (2011), 640. Praiseworthy for its competence and clarity, L.’s work analyzes manuals which elaborated the Italian tradition of Castiglione. Social distinction and a certain normalization converge as L. takes account of a secularization of the concept. Political resonances are considered along with social relationships.

MARIÑEZ, SOPHIE. "Straighten Those Curls! Style, Gender, and Morality in Early Modern Treatises of Architecture." PFSCL 76 (2012), 3-33.

Early modern architectural texts - Jean Martin’s French translation of Vitruvius’s De Architectura, Philibert Delorme’s 16th-c architectural treatises, Roland Fréart Sieur de Chambray’s Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la moderne - discuss the beauty of edifices through comparison to human (both male and female) bodies and their functions. Through these gendered and sexualized references, the authors assign moral values to architectural forms. Claude Perrault’s 1672 translation and edition of Vitruvius’s work largely eliminates the gender from its language, "propos[ing] architecture as an object of mathematical measurement rather than a representation of the human body."

MEERE, MICHAEL. "Social Drama, Cultural Pragmatics, and Louis XIII’s Performativity: La Victoire du Phébus (1617)." 85.4 (2012), 672-683.

Employing theatrical semiotics and cultural pragmatics, the author examines the anonymous "performance text" La Victoire du Phébus that appeared in Rouen following the assassination of Concini and the arrest of Leonora Galligay in order to show how it strengthened royal legitimacy and affirmed the king’s image as "Louis le Juste.

MELLET, PAUL-ALEXIS. Les Traités monarchomaques. Confusion des temps, résistance armée et monarchie parfaite (1560 -1600). Geneva: Droz, 2007.

Review: S.E.B Nichols in FS 66.4 (2012), 48. "Paul-Alexis Mellet adopts a different approach to the monarchomach brand, taking us away from its associations with anarchy and assassination. He first narrows down the application of the term to solely French Huguenot texts, and within those parameters finds a corpus of ten. The focus of his study is on Françis Hotman, Théodore de Bèze, and Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, and Mellet opens up the field to include works that typically have not received much scholarly attention. He identifies the following features that they have in common: the right to armed resistance, the rejection of tyranny, the existence of a double covenant, the sovereignty of the people, and, finally, conditional obedience of the people to monarchical rule. One of the most significant moves Mellet makes with regard to French scholarship is his argument that the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572 ) should not be read as the primary intellectual context of these works. He argues that the texts in his corpus should be read with a much longer view of the state of France in mind, their aim being a profound transformation of the French monarchy rather than a polemical response to the massacre. Mellet’s reinterpretation of ’monarchomach’ offers an important adjustment to our reading of ’resistance theory’ in this period."

MÉROT, FLORENT. "La Fronde et ses lendemains autour de Paris : Conséquences environnementales, économiques et sociales en vallée de Montmorency au XVIIe siècle." FHS 36.2 (Spring 2013), 175-204.

"En 1649 puis en 1652, la vallée de Montmorency est prise dans les tourments de la Fronde et devient le cœur des opérations militaires du jeune Louis XIV et de son cousin, le Grand Condé. Les conséquences sont terribles pour la population puisque l’environnement est entièrement déstructuré. Cependant, la paysannerie, aidée par les élites urbaines, parvient à reconstruire son lieu de vie dès les années suivantes."

MEYZIE, VINCENT. "Les compagnies d’officiers ’moyens’ entre déplorations collectives et mobilisations corporatives au début du XVIIIe siècle." FHS 35.3 (Summer 2012), 477-507.

Par l’étude à l’échelle du royaume de la création d’une nouvelle charge dans les élections durant la seconde moitié du règne de Louis XIV, l’article démontre le poids de la politique vénale intensive dans des compagnies de second rang négligées par l’historiographie et propose une lecture affinée du modèle de l’économie politique de l’office de David Bien.

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE. "La Nouvelle-France dans les écrits de Cartier et de Champlain: de la dénégation au ’descouvrement’." Tr Lit 24 (2011), 25-38.

Penetrating analysis of key passages of Cartier and Champlain’s "relations" or "récits" reveal not only their aspirations and visions, but also their fixations such as Cartier’s "morphologie insulaire [qui] répond à une volonté d’isoler l’eldorado saguenéen du reste du pays, [et qui] fait de tout le Canada une construction en archipel" (26-27). If similarities in both "découvreurs" may be found, for example in their perspective of North America as "un lieu d’approvisionnement et de relâche" (28), their differences are also remarkable. While "une euphorie palpable" and the use of hyperbole characterize Cartier’s observations, Champlain’s vision is so pragmatic and prosaic that the critic Michel Bideaux has called Des Sauvages an "antirelation de voyage" (29). As P. explores these impressionistic visions, she brings to the fore "le rêve de transmuer le Canada en une autre France" (32) and a shared optimism of "une cohabitation harmonieuse avec les indigènes" (36). Revealing deliberate fabrications and theatricality in the narrations which introduce "le topos du bon sauvage jovial et amical" (35), P. concludes that "l’histoire des premières expéditions en Nouvelle-France en est une de duperie et de mystification" (37).

PONCET, OLIVIER and STOREZ-BRANCOURT, ISABELLE. Une histoire de la mémoire judiciaire de l’antiquité à nos jours. Paris: L’École Nationale des Chartes, 2009.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 163 (2011), 232-233. The fruit of a 2008 international conference organized by the Institut de l’Histoire du Droit and the École Nationale des Chartes, the volume is highly interdisciplinary and wide-ranging. Focus includes three elements of memory: the process, the content, and the conservation. The over 400 pages of essays are organized into the following sections: "Enregistrement: écrire et décrire"; "Conservation: hommes et institutions"; and "Exploitation et mémoires concurrentes."

POSTERT, KRISTEN. Tragédie historique ou Histoire en Tragédie? Les sujets d’histoire moderne dans la tragédie française (1550-1715). Tübingen: Narr, 2010.

Review: Perry Gethner in CdDs 13.2 (2011), 206-209. Postert wants to show that the "subgenre" of historical tragedy was neither unacceptable at the time nor rare, but demonstrates its importance, its aesthetic aspects, the polemics surrounding the genre, and the practical difficulties of writing historical tragedy. Instead of approaching the usual question of fidelity to historical sources, Postert tries to determine how each of the playwrights concerned viewed history in general, his/her reasons for manipulating the factual material, and why certain subject matters were chosen. While the book deserves our attention, its main flaw is lack of careful proofreading.

PROBES, CHRISTINE MCCALL. "In Search of ’l’amy’ and ’l’amitié’: Early Seventeenth-Century Editions of Emblems from the Glasgow University Website." SCFS 34.1 (2012), 2-16.

"How might French emblems of the Grand Siècle contribute to our understanding of the concept of amitié? In memory of Amy Wygant and in recognition of her distinguished career at the University of Glasgow, the present study focuses on friends and friendship in French emblems featured in the rich collection found on the Glasgow University Emblem Website. Just as early modern emblems moved between media, so this article will move between studies of emblems and reflections on our dear friend Amy."

QUELLIER, FLORENT. "Le discours sur la richesse des terroirs au XVIIe siècle et les prémices de la gastronomie française." DSS 254 (2012), 141-54.

Article exposes the emergent discourse on terroir in 17th-c. food culture, focusing particularly on its role in gift exchange practices. In addition to examining the language of terroir in literary discussion of food (Saint Amant, Furetière, Boileau) and in texts on gardening and agriculture, the article considers the importance of geographical provenance and quality in food gift exchange. Its role in the development of a gastronomic culture explicitly marked as French permits the author to treat terroir as "déclinaison et illustration du thème politico-économique de la richesse des terroirs du royaume."

RUBEL, ALEXANDRE. "Une question d’honneur: La Fronde entre éthique de la noblesse et littérature." DSS 254 (2012), 83-108.

Si l’on observe d’un peu plus près le comportement de la noblesse lors de la Fronde … l’on rencontre encore plus d’indices d’interférences littéraires dans la rationalité politique : évasions aventureuses, actions militaires audacieuses mais insensées, aventures amoureuses, frondes motivées par l’amour, duels et affaires d’honneur." Includes a section on noble women’s participation.

SAHLINS, PETER. The Royal Menageries of Louis XIV and the Civilizing Process Revisited. FHS 35.2 (Spring 2012), 237-267.

The author examines the shift in animal spectatorship from the violence of wild animal combat at the Vincennes menagerie to the peaceful display of graceful birds in the first pavilion constructed in the Versailles park beginning in 1662. The author argues that the menagerie is best understood both as a royal claim of absolute authority and as a model of the aristocratic experience of civilité.

SANZ, AMÉLIA. "Présences in absentia: les Amériques du XVIIe siècle." Tr Lit 24 (Spring 2011), 39-54.

S. offers a rich parcours of "un univers de représentation élargi par des découvertes qui ont mis en circulation d’autres entités épistémologiques, imaginables et, pour autant, lisibles" (39), allowing us to discover in a variety of texts the diversity of 17th c. "Amériques." Accepting the challenge to "abandonner les prémisses et les démarches qui privilégient la sédentarisation des cultures fixes et locales au profit d’une anthropologie du déplacement et de la circulation" (45), S. examines diverse, alternative modalities of authors "pour dire le monde," finding a global vision in works of Pyrard de Laval’s 1611 Discours du voyage de François aux Indes orientales and of Pierre Bergeron’s 1648 Voyages fameux du sieur Vincent Leblanc, the "roman total" of Gomberville’s 1629 L’Exil de Polexandre et d’Ericlée, and the "nouvelle" with its "solution galante" attributed to Anne de La Roche-Guilhem in L’Amitié singulière of 1710 (46, 47, 51-52). Numerous other 17thc. authors, canonical or not, are mentioned as S. challenges us to read and reread "tant de mémoires . . . qui revalorisent le petit, le quotidien, l’insignifiant, les traits anecdotiques et fugitifs en quête de ces présences des Amériques [du 17e siècle]" (53).

SCHNEIDER, HERBERT and SYLVIA BIER. "Travaux allemands sur le XVIIe siècle français en musicologie." DSS 254 (2012), 51-8.

A summary of over a dozen recent works on ballet, opera, and tragédie en musique; the composers Jean Regnault, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and March-André Charpentier; music and gender studies; musical exchanges between French and German courts; religious music; and other topics.

SCOTT, PAUL. Le Gouvernement présent, ou éloge de son Eminence, satyre ou la Miliade. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2010.

Review: P. Shoemaker in MLR 107.2 (2012), 618-620: Welcome critical edition of the Miliade, which "weaves together political dissent, parody, gossip, and chanson populaire, and touches on a broad variety of subjects" associated with Richelieu. S. argues for attribution of the poem to Jacques Favereau. "More generally, Scott’s astute analysis of the political and literary signi?cance of the poem will be of broad interest to scholars who work on the political and cultural history of early modern France."

SOLL, JACOB. The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Review: Ellen McClure in CdDS 13.2 (2011), 201-203. McClure praises Soll’s well- researched and engagingly written book in which he argues that Colbert innovated not only "in the methods that he used to organize information, but in the very information that he chose to gather" (201). Colbert intended to create knowledge through his loyal intendants who were sent to the countryside. Soll not only points out Colbert’s many successes but is careful to note the minister’s failures, as well, in particular in relation to the French colonies. McClure merely finds fault with Soll’s use of "absolutism," a term fallen out of use in recent scholarship due to its anachronism.

SPANGLER, JONATHAN. "Material Culture at the Guise ’Court’: Tapestries, a Bed and a Devotional Dollhouse as Expressions of Dynastic Pride and Piety in Seventeenth-Century Paris." SCFS 34.2 (2012), 158-175.

The deepening study of courts and courtly societies in the early modern world has provided political, social, and cultural historians with new insights into how (and why) such societies functioned, but have too often focused exclusively on the singularity of a monarch, or at best, his immediate family. This essay explores similar themes of the functionalities of patronage, dynasticism and piety in the context of the high court aristocracy, represented here by the House of Guise, and in particular by its women, caretakers of family image. Using inventories from two periods in the seventeenth century, and, more specifically, key pieces of material culture representative of familial pride and piety, it demonstrates how court families shifted their behaviour in a climate of increased centralization and royal domination. In line with current revisionism of notions of ’absolutism’, this study also reinforces the more nuanced vision of a courtly society driven by crown/noble co-operation and competition rather than control.

TAILLEMITE, ETIENNE. "Histoire comparée des arsenaux de marine dans l’Europe du XVIIe siècle." DSS 253 (2011), 619-26.

An introduction to a conference on the European naval arsenals. Gives an overview of the development of the French navy from 1624 to 1696.

THÉPAUT-CABASSET, C. L’Esprit des modes au Grand Siècle. Paris: Éditions de CTHS, 2010.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 164 (2011), 404-405. Illustrating the state of "l’esprit des modes" through a rich documentation examining testimony from Le Mercure Galant (1672-1710), the study is organized in sections as follows: "Les Modes du Mercure Galant," "Articles des modes nouvelles," and "Plaintes des Palatines contre la Mode." Numerous illustrations from the Mercure Galant, such as the "Palatine" or fur collar, annotations, a rich glossary and indices.

TRUE, MICAH. "’Une Hiérusalem Bénite de Dieu’: Utopia and Travel in the Jesuit Relations from New France." PFSCL 76 (2012), 175-89.

The article argues that the Jesuit Relations incorporate aspects of the literary genre of utopia into their chronicle of the missions, allowing them to depict New France as an "embryonic ideal Christian colony" (189).

VAILLANCOURT, DANIEL. Les urbanités parisiennes au XVIIe siècle: Le livre du trottoir. Quebec: Presses de l’ Université de Laval, 2009.

Review: G. Oiry in PFSCL 77 (2012), 558-61.The book proposes a reflection on the concept of urbanity through a comparative study of the materiality of Paris and the texts and discourses about it, from the end of the Wars of Religion and reign of Henri IV to the late 17th c. The reviewer positively assesses the study overall but also wishes the author had included more literary and philosophical perspectives in his corpus and that the text had been more carefully edited.

ZIEGLER, HENDRIK. Der Sonnenkönig und seine Feinde. Die Bildpropaganda Ludwigs XIV, in der Kritik. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2010.

Review: J. Schillinger in DSS 254 (2012), 187-190. Art historian Ziegler’s book examines art works produced for Louis XIV as "propaganda," designed not only to project the king’s grandeur and majesty but also to display a "programme politique précis" to a foreign audience. The book examines three case studies: solar imagery, the monument erected at the Place des Victoires, and Le Brun’s cycle of paintings for the Galerie des Glaces. Ziegler focuses on the European reactions to each of these art works through statesmen’s writings, pamphlets, and the construction of rival monuments by foreign princes. The reviewer praises this "bel ouvrage, abondamment et judicieusement illustré," noting that it succeeds in demonstrating the complexity of propaganda and the mediating function of art.

ZYSBERG, ANDRE. "L’Arsenal, cité des galères à Marseille au siècle de Louis XIV." DSS 253 (2011), 639-56.

From 1665 to its bankruptcy and decline in the early 18th century, Marseille was "le seul port de commerce où une base navale est implantée au cœur d’un espace portuaire déjà considéré comme une grande place de négoce." The article discusses naval and economic activity around the shipyard during this period.

AMSTUTZ, DELPHINE. "Comment penser l’amitié royale à l’âge baroque?" SCFS 34.1 (2012), 26-37.

"Parmi les amitiés inégales, décriées par toute une tradition aristotélicienne, l’amitié royale occupe nécessairement une place singulière. A l’âge baroque, le roi cesse d’être conçu comme primus inter pares. Il s’impose comme un véritable souverain: une différence de nature et non plus seulement de degré le distingue de son entourage. Qui peut dès lors légitimement prétendre au titre d’ "ami du roi" ? L’actualité politique des XVIe et XVIIe siècles en Europe, marquée par la domination des ministres-favoris, renouvelle l’intérêt porté à cette quaestio disputata. Des auteurs comme Bacon, Guez de Balzac puis les Scudéry tentent de dépasser l’aporie aristotélicienne et cherchent à concevoir la légitimité nouvelle acquise par l’amitié dite " inégale " dans la société du XVIIe siècle."

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Le corps souffrant au XVIIe siècle (à travers le Journal Des Sçavans)." CdDS 13.2 (2011), 1-30.

This article studies "l’envers du grand siècle": not the splendor or joy of the century, but the great number of illnesses from which the population suffered throughout the 17th-century, from the plague to cancerous tumors, and the treatments prescribed by the medical doctors of its time. Assaf bases his study on the Journal des Sçavans from its beginnings in 1665 to the death of Louis XIV in 1715. A particular emphasis is placed on individual cases of illness, as well as on Louis XIV’s own suffering.

BARATAY, ÉRIC. "Claude Perrault (1613-1688), observateur révolutionnaire des animaux." DSS 255 (2012), 309-20.

Article proposes that Claude Perrault should be considered an important founder of modern zoology. Overview his work with the royal menageries at Vincennes and Versailles and discusses the emphasis Perrault placed on first-hand observation of live animals to learn about different species. This empiricism broke with the tradition of relying on received knowledge, travel accounts, or direct observation of bones and other animal parts, making Perrault a predecessor of Linneas and other 18th-c biologists.

BENOIST, PIERRE. "Varia. Prélats et clergé de cour en France au XVIIe siècle." DSS 253 (2011), 713-24.

Examines the "clergé de cour" "comme un champ d’investigation pertinent et central pour étudier les deux versants du service religieux (dans ses dimensions théologiques, spirituelles et liturgiques) et du service politique (dans ses aspects décisionnels, gouvernementaux et administratifs), comme pour tenter d’en saisir sur la longue durée les fonctions, les interrelations ou les disjonctions."

BOCHET, MARC. L’âne, le Job des animaux. De l’âne biblique à l’âne littéraire. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 164 (2011), 475. B. focuses on the positive characterizations of the donkey from Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday through artistic and literary history. Organized in sections as follows: "Souffrance," "Sagesse," "Courage," and "Beauté," the volume includes analyses of the donkey chez La Fontaine. Iconographical and bibliographical apparatus.

BOUTEILLE-MEISTER, CHRISTINE and KRISTIN AUKRUST. Corps sanglants, souffrants et macabres XVIe-XVIIe siècles. Paris: PU Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2010.

Review: C.-L. Morand Metivier in FR 85.4 (2012) 746-747. Acts of the conference "Corps sanglants" held in 2008 at the University of Oslo. Ce receuil, de par la grande diversité des sujets traits, ainsi que par l’abondante bibliographie qui l’accompagne, apparaît comme une lecture incontournable pour quiconque s’intéresse à une etude pluridisciplinaire de cette question.

Review: S. Turner in MLN 127.4 (2012), 945-46. Interdisciplinary volume of conference proceedings focused on "the depiction of the suffering body in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe" within various contexts "whether religious (the Wars of Religion), medical (the new anatomical discoveries) or political (the use of propaganda)....

Review: M. Bernard in DSS 255 (2012), 371-2. Acta of a conference that took place in Oslo in 2008, the volume contains 22 articles on the representation of the suffering body in art, literature and spectacle in France, England, Holland, Spain, Italy, and Canada. The volume is unified in its reflection on authors’ and artists’ attempts to infuse suffering with meaning and to see universal significance in individual pain. Reviewer sees the volume as marking the beginning of a productive vein of research and particularly praises the book’s program of illustrations.

BRAIDER, CHRISTOPHER. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Review: E. Ousselin in FS 66.4 (2012), 53-554. "While the first chapter of The Matter of Mind provides a detailed analysis of Descartes’s Méditations sur la philosophie première (first published in Latin in 1641), the other five chapters are devoted to Boileau, Pascal, Molière, Corneille, and the painter Nicolas Poussin. In the process, Christopher Braider’s stated objective of decentring Descartes’s dualist separation of mind and body as the underpinning concept of modern rationality evolves into broader commentaries on seventeenth-century literature and painting. […] Instead of Descartes’s systematic formulation of abstract reason, Braider posits Montaigne’s experience-based scepticism as having permeated early modern thought. In this respect, the author of Discours de la méthode (1637) seems less than central to what Braider nevertheless calls in his subtitle the ’Age of Descartes’. […] Whether he [Braider] succeeded in toppling the idol of Cartesian dualism will be for each reader to judge. All of them will most likely be impressed with the intellectual range and critical acumen displayed by Braider throughout this highly stimulating study."

BRUSCHI, ANDREA. "Litterae et arma: l’aspiration à l’encyclopédisme des premières académies nobiliaires françaises (1598-1612)." SCFS 34.2 (2012), 133-142.

"Inspirés de l’idéal humaniste de l’encyclopédisme et fondés sur le binôme ’armes et lettres’, les programmes d’études élaborés dans les premiers projets d’académies pour gentilshommes (fin du XVIe-début du XVIIe siècle) associent à la pratique d’activités physiques l’érudition et l’éducation dans des disciplines théoriques. De telles propositions sont éloignées des exigences d’une noblesse désireuse de trouver dans l’académie non pas un parcours pédagogique complet, mais un lieu de sociabilité et d’apprentissage des exercices chevaleresques. Les tentatives de création d’écoles nobiliaires à vocation encyclopédique sont donc destinées à rester lettre morte ou tout au plus à donner lieu, comme dans le cas des académies de Jacques Bourgoing et de David Rivault de Flurance, à des institutions éphémères. L’importance de ces expériences réside dans l’aspiration à un véritable renouvellement du second état par le biais de l’éducation, dans le but de faire de la noblesse un groupe compétent et en mesure d’agir pour le bien du royaume."

CARRAUD, VINCENT. L’invention du moi. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2010.

Review: Y. Onishi in DSS 253 (2011) 798-800. Examines Descartes and Pascal in light of, and as precursors to, Heidegger’s concept of the irreducible, existential self. Reviewer praises "la richesse et le détail des arguments mobilisés" and states that although the premise of the book might at first appear teleological, in fact it succeeds in shedding "une nouvelle lumière sur la constitution du Dasein à partir du concept qu’inventent Descartes et Pascal."

GERBER, MATTHEW. Bastards: Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France. Oxford UP: 2012.

Review: D. Baxter in CHOICE (July 2012). "Gerber provides a complex, compelling account of legal and social change surrounding illegitimacy in early modern France. Solidly based upon an examination of French legal cases and law books, the book depicts the shift from stigmatization of bastardy in the 16th and 17th centuries toward slow destigmatization in the 18th century. In the process, Gerber describes the ongoing relationship between law and broader social, cultural, and political movements, beginning with the predisposition of elite families to protect property rights, the steady expansion of state power, the complexity and diversity of French law, initial attempts toward a national legal code, and evolving views of the role of the state and public interest."

GROS, JEAN-MICHEL. Les Dissidences de la philosophie à l’âge classique. Paris: Champion, 2009.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr (2011) 697-698. Judged a convincing parcours with special emphasis on Pierre Bayle throughout but most particularly in the introduction (7-46) and in the second section, "Bayle ou le règne de la critique," where analyses of key concepts and questions are undertaken such as tolerance, excommunication, "l’art d’écrire" and the political function of religion. Wide-ranging and stimulating intersections are examined between Bayle and/or dissident philosophy and other thinkers such as Leibniz, La Mothe Le Vayer and Cyrano.

HÄFNER, RALPH. "Pierre Poiret et la ’science des saints’ : le problème de l’évidence de la contemplation mystique face à la Querelle du pur amour." DSS 254 (2012), 131-40.

Article examines theologian Pierre Poiret’s reception and translation of mystical literature by adherents of the Philadelphian Society, especially Jane Leade and Jacob Boehme.

HASKETT, KLESEY and HOLLY FAITH NELSON. French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual (1400-2000). Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

Review: W. Edwards in CHOICE (Apr. 2013). "Taken together, the essays in this volume […] trace the waning social influence in France of Christianity and the institutional church (though not necessarily of God), even as they highlight the frequency with which individual Francophone women turn to the spiritual as a means of personal expression and literary resistance. […] Trading religious orthodoxy for spiritual fulfillment, Marguerite de Navarre, Madame de Lafayette, George Sand, Simone Weil, and Marguerite Duras (and other less canonical writers) are presented here as pioneers forging unconventional paths toward God."

ICARD, SIMON. Port-Royal et Saint Bernard de Clairvaux (1608-1709). Saint-Cyran, Jansénius, Arnauld, Pascal, Nicole, Angélique de Saint-Jean. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2010.

Review: S. Hermann de Franceschi in DSS 255 (2012), 376-8. The revised version of Icard’s dissertation, the book explores the links between the Jansenist movement and the Bernardine tradition. The book’s first part examines the influence of Saint Bernard on 17th-c. spirituality focusing particularly on the translation and reception of his writings. Part two explores the iconography and imagery of Saint Bernard in this period, especially his depiction in silent prayer. Part three demonstrates how Port-Royal appropriated this vision of Saint Bernard, while the final part analyzes the theological links between Augustinianism and monasticism. Reviewer is impressed by the book’s interdisciplinarity and erudition, calling it a "contribution capital" to Jansenist studies.

JAMES, TONY. Le songe et la raison: essai sur Descartes. Paris: Hermann, 2010.

Review: S. Bold in FR 86.5 (2013), 1034-1035. "Although this book must be classified as a study on Descartes, it is in fact more a case study of dream interpretation as applied, in this case, to a classical thinker. Moreover, despite the author’s erudition, this brief study is not a systematic study but the rather personal ’essai’ that its subtitle announces […] The threads, notions, and terms of this study do come together in the final chapter and conclusion to present some new perspectives on Descartes and his dreams."

KELLER-LAPP, HEIDI. "Who Is the Real Sovereign of the Ursulines of Pondicherry." French Colonial History 13.1 (2012), 111-40.

Examines a relatively unknown failed Ursuline mission in India. Highlights issues of sovereignty, the role of women in the Church, disputes among religious orders, and the intertwined functions and conflicts of business, church and state. Although this mission was established in 1738, its roots lie in the 17th century.

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. La Théorie des mondes possibles. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2011.

Review: F. Forcolin in S Fr 164 (2011), 479. Without diachronic restrictions, this fruit of a 2005-2006 seminar at the Université de Paris-Diderot presents a first study in French on the subject applied to all literature and visual arts. Organized in three sections, the first deals with genres of fictions, the second with historical perspectives examining "façons de faire des mondes," and the third with effects of reading or "les mondes du texte." 17th c. scholars will appreciate diverse theoretical and stylistic perspectives (see, in particular, Christine Noille-Clauzade’s "Considérations logiques sur de nouveaux styles de fictionalité: les mondes de la fiction au XVIIe siècle" (171-188), as well as a rich bibliography and the closing essay of Thomas Pavel, "Univers de fiction: un parcours personnel" (307-314).

MATHERON, ALEXANDRE. Études sur Spinoza et les philosophes de l’âge classique. Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2011.

Review: Y. Citton in DSS 254 (2012), 190-192. This carefully prepared collection of previously published essays by "LE grand exégète de la pensée spinoziste" examines the political, ethical, ontological, and epistemological dimensions of Spinoza’s writings. Matheron treats Spinoza’s corpus as a coherent whole and assumes that the philosopher "a toujours raison," which the reviewer finds to be a hermeneutically productive approach. The reviewer enthusiastically praises the volume for its rigor and its "caractère exhaustif."

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.

Review: R. Parish in FS 67.1 (2013), 96-97. Michael Moriarty moves to the question of virtues, pagan and Christian. Although the title makes a clear reference to the much-quoted epigraph of La Rochefoucauld, the Maximes are the principal subject only of the last three chapters, to which the preceding material affords an extensive scholarly contextualization, dealing both with the differences between pagan and Christian understandings of virtue and with intra-Christian disagreements, and foregrounding the ways in which ’thinking about pagans also prompted Christians to raise questions about their own moral lives’ (7). The first chapters are devoted to Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, and Plutarch, in so far as they impinge on later French thought (and that teleology prevails throughout). Moving to the patristic realm, Moriarty explores in particular Augustine’s examination of ’human virtue not subordinated to God’ (73), stressing the end of an action as the defining criterion for its moral evaluation. The enquiry then moves forwards to the Reformation and Counter- (or, better, Catholic) Reformation, when such questions as the salvation of pagans again took centre stage among Protestants in claims made by Calvin, inter alia, that true virtue was impossible to non-believers. […] In this way, La Rochefoucauld’s nuanced and complex account of human behaviour is renewed by Moriarty’s exposition of the transcendent values that it both assimilates and throws into question, as the reader confronts this wilfully and artfully provocative text in which, somme toute, ’moral agency is largely an illusion’ (357).

PARISH, RICHARD. Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: ’Christianity is Strange’. Oxford: OUP, 2011.

Review: N. Hammond in MLR 108.1 (2013), 302-303: "Taking as his starting-point Pascal’s statement ’Le christianisme est étrange’, Richard Parish examines the compatibility and incompatibility of thought contained in the work of a number of seventeenth-century French Catholic writers, showing the various ways in which ’Christianity is unfamiliar, strange, and counter-intuitive’ (p. 5). In addition to Pascal himself, well-known ?gures such as Bossuet, St François de Sales, Fénelon, Pierre Corneille, and Madame Guyon loom large, but other less familiar names, such as Jean Rotrou, St Margaret-Mary Alacoque, Antoinette Bourignon, Jeanne des Anges, and Jean-Joseph Surin, make regular appearances over the course of the book. While Parish does not aim to cover all writers on religion of the age (Malebranche, Bérulle, and Nicole are perhaps the most notable absentees, and Protestant thinkers do not form part of his remit), the range of his analysis is remarkably diverse."

PEROVIC, SANJA. Sacred and Secular Agency in Early Modern France: Fragments of Religion. Continuum International Publishers Group, 2012.

Review: J.W. McCormack in CHOICE (Feb. 2013), 302-303: "This volume analyzes several literary, political, and philosophical ’fragments of religion,’ signaling both the persistence of religious categories in French culture and the poverty of theories of secularization that posit a clear caesura between premodern and modern thought […] The three case studies from the 16th and 17th centuries relate well to each other, addressing gender in ways the remaining essays do not. Most of the essays are appropriate for scholars already possessing a good deal of background."

ROBIN, JEAN LUC. "Y a-t-il des robots au XVIIe siècle? Descartes et l’invention de l’automatisme." CdDS 13.2 (2011), 110-129.

Turns to the problematic relationship between man/machine and the questions already raised by Descartes about the nature of machines, as well as his attempt to show the difference between man and machine. Robin explains the mechanistic principles behind Descartes’s philosophy of matter.

RUGGERI, MARC. "Didon à Port-Royal." DSS 253 (2011), 763-89.

Through analysis of the translation and reception of the Aeneid by Jansenist thinkers, the article shows that par "une version aussi fidèle que pédagogique, la traduction par Pierre Nicole et Le Maistre de Sacy du Livre IV de l’énéide programme une lecture anatomique de la passion et offre à qui souhaite exercer son jugement l’inventaire de tous les " lieux " investis par la concupiscence.

TRÉMOLIÉRES, FRANÇOIS. Fénélon et le sublime: littérature, anthropologie, spiritualité. Paris: Champion, 2009.

Review: R. Racevkis in FR 85.2 (2011), 67-368. At the beginning of this substantial and original study of the sublime in Fénélon, Trémolières recognizes the difficulty of his subject […] The approach throughout this carefully argued and meticulously documented book remains asymptotic, as Trémolières traces the complex contours of Fénélon’s thought without drawing any simple or synthetic conclusions […] As the book’s title indicates, the focus is simultaneously on spirituality, literature and (to a lesser degree) anthropology, while philosophical and theological issues are relegated to a vast apparatus of footnotes that outweighs the main body of the text.

Review: V. Kapp in PFSCL 76 (2012) 282-86. This study argues for a "Fénelon moraliste" by using the author’s concept of the sublime to draw out a coherent literary, moral, and theological program in his works. The reviewer finds the approach to Fénelon’s texts narrow and overly reductive, particularly lamenting the author’s choice not to engage with Fénelon scholars who do not share his views.

WOSHINSKY, BARBARA. Imagining Women’s Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800: The Cloister Disclosed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: H. Bostic in FR 85.6 (2012), 176-1177. "One of the delights of Woshinsky’s book is its treatment of little-known texts together with canonical works. Alongside the pleasure of discovering relatively unknown texts, this book offers the opportunity to encounter fresh reading of familiar ones. The author skillfully uses the motif of the convent to draw together disparate works. The analysis includes texts by many women writers who are finally making inroads toward the canon (into its parloir if not its cloître)." Authors treated include Mlle de Montpensier, Margaret Cavendish, Mme de Lafayette, Hortense and Marie Mancini, Mme de Villedieu, Marivaux, Chateaubriand, and Claire de Duras. A chapter examines the male appropriation of the persona of the nun in Les lettres portugaises and Diderot’s La religieuse. Woshinsky offers "a window on the past while reminding us of the enduring importance of history, its repression and representations."

WRIGHT, ANTHONY D. The Divisions of French Catholicism, 1629-1645: ’The Parting of the Ways.’. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011.

Review: M.H. Kashuba in FR 85.6 (2012), 1187-1188. "The author […] has traced the roots of division among French Catholics to well before the posthumous publication of Jansenius’s Augustinus in 1641. The book contains two sections, the historical and religious context before 1629, and the actual fragmentation between 1629 and 1645 […] Wright has used archival sources abundantly […] one cannot but admire the meticulous research and profound scholarship of this compact volume."

ANACLETO, MARTA TEXEIRA. Infiltrations d’images: de la réécriture de la fiction pastorale ibérique en France (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.

Review: K. Wine in FR 85.6 (2012), 1156-1157. Anacleto examines the series of rewritings and translations of Montemayor’s Diana. She treats translation theory as well as the adaptations that replace Spanish love discourse with a French interest in l’honnête homme as well as other examples of the suppression of the foreign as the Spanish pastoral is absorbed into French. "it is difficult to read. Prone to abstract theoretical formulations, Anacleto does not always supply the needed illustrative example.

Angeli, Giovanna. Tradizione e contestazione I- La Letteratura di trasgressione nell’Ancien Régime/ La Littérature de transgression dans l’Ancien Régime. Firenze: Alinea, 2009.

Review: F. Forcolin in S Fr 163 (2011), 230-231. These acts of a 2008 conference held in Florence bring together the first of four volumes which will be dedicated to a project on canonical and non-canonical French literature from the Classical Era to our day. Criteria are examined as are contested cases such as the Cid. Includes an index of names.

Anguissola, Alberto Beretta. Ombres de l’utopie: essais sur les voyages imaginaires du XVIe au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2011.

Review: E. Ouesslin in FS 67.1 (2013), 93-94. "Dans un livre consacré au filon apparemment inexhaustible qu’est l’utopie, le premier chapitre, ’Les Cités de l’ombre’, surprend en établissant une ’intime fraternité´ entre imagination utopique et instinct de mort’ (p. 18 ), en associant d’emblée, selon une optique freudienne, la quête utopique à une sorte de processus de régression de la création littéraire, en butte au principe de réalité´. […] A travers les huit chapitres de cet ouvrage, l’auteur explore de façon fort personnelle ou idiosyncratique un corpus littéraire de taille impressionnante, examinant par exemple les racines bibliques du genre utopique, les façons dont les figures parentales y sont représentées, les langues parlées dans divers pays utopiques, et la prédominance de la couleur rouge dans de nombreux textes."

ARZOUMANOV, ANNA. "Parler XVIIe siècle: étude d’une fiction linguistique dans deux romans d’Anne-Marie Desplat-Duc." PFSCL 77 (2012), 321-32.

Article examines the imitation of archaic language in Colombes du Roi-Soleil and L’Enfance du Soleil. Instances of "paleologism" fall into two categories: purely stylistic (including archaic words and syntax) or necessitated by the representation of the earlier period’s civilization. The author concludes that archaic language, although "incoherently" used in the novels, is part of the pleasure of the text for its targeted readers.

BARBAFIERI, CARINE. Atrée et Céladon. La Galanterie dans le théâtre tragique de la France classique (1634-1702). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, coll. "Interférences", 2006.

Review: L. Michel in DSS 253 (2011), 791-2. The book examines the inscription of galanterie in dramatic theory and in tragic theater from the 1630s to the end of the century. Contrary to previous studies which dated the origins of the "tragédie galante" to the 1660s, Barbafieri demonstrates that the "tentation galante" was omnipresent in French tragedy from the beginning of the Classical age and analyzes the evolution of a "pathétique tendre" across the century. Reviewer praises the book’s detailed literary analysis as well as the originality of its argument.

BAYARD, MARC. Feinte baroque. Iconographie et esthétique de la variété au XVIIe siècle, Collection d’histoire de l’art, Académie de France à Rome-Ville Médicis. Paris: Somogy éditions d’art, 2010.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 164 (2011), 401. Focus of analysis is Mahelot’s Mémoires, staged by the Hôtel de Bourgogne. Important especially for theatrical representation of the 1630s and 40s, the debates on regularity and irregularity and the Querelle du Cid.

BOCHET, MARC. L’âne, le Job des animaux. De l’âne biblique à l’âne littéraire. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 164 (2011), 475. B. focuses on the positive characterizations of the donkey from Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday through artistic and literary history. Organized in sections as follows: "Souffrance," "Sagesse," "Courage," and "Beauté," the volume includes analyses of the donkey chez La Fontaine. Iconographical and bibliographical apparatus.

BOMBART, MATHILDE. Guez de Balzac et la querelle des Lettres. Ecriture, polémique et critique dans la France du premier XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré-Champion, 2007.

Review: N. Schapira in DSS 253 (2011), 793-5. This book, revision of the author’s doctoral thesis, examines the publication of Balzac’s 1624 Lettres and the ensuing quarrel as an "event": "La querelle des Lettres joue le rôle d’un creuset expérimental de la littérature comme ensemble d’institutions, de valeurs : comme champ de forces dont cette étude donne à voir la naissance comme au ralenti, par l’attention donnée à l’évolution et au rythme de la polémique." Reviewer praises this methodological approach as well as the book’s multifaceted analyses of the texts of the quarrel and its exploration of the "dynamique de la polémique."

BONARDI, MARIE-ODILE. Les Vertus dans la France baroque. Représentations iconographiques et littéraires. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Review: V. Fortunati in S Fr 165 (2011), 635. Important for its contribution to the criticism of art, ideas and mentalities; for the abundance of material taken into account; and for the clarity of its convincing argumentation. B.’s rich study demonstrates the diversity of 17th c. expression of "les vertus," as she examines Descartes, d’Urfé, de Sales, La Rochefoucauld and others. Rich bibliography and iconographic appendix.

BOTTIGHEIMER, RUTH B. Fairy Tales Framed: Early Forewords, Afterwords, and Critical Words. SUNY Press, 2012.

Review: S. Bernardo in CHOICE (Dec. 2012). "An an anthology of writings by Italian and French fairy tale authors from the 16th through the 18th centuries. The selections include prefaces, letters, forewords, and miscellaneous commentaries. Modern editions of these authors’ fairy tales do not include these ’para-texts.’ The absence of para-textual elements in contemporary printings of these stories has led to the generally accepted belief that all fairy tales are part of the corpus of folklore. The pieces in this anthology help show this assumption about the relationship between folklore and fairy tales is, in many cases, incorrect. The selections include pieces by such writers as Giovan Francesco Straparola, Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, and Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, in addition to less familiar writers. In addition to the original texts, Bottigheimer and a team of scholars provide informative introductory material that contextualizes the writers and their writing."

BOUTEILLE-MEISTER, CHRISTINE and KRISTIN AUKRUST. Corps sanglants, souffrants et macabres XVIe-XVIIe siècles. Paris: PU Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2010.

Review: C.-L. Morand Metivier in FR 85.4 (2012) 746-747. Acts of the conference "Corps sanglants" held in 2008 at the University of Oslo. "Ce receuil, de par la grande diversité des sujets traits, ainsi que par l’abondante bibliographie qui l’accompagne, apparaît comme une lecture incontournable pour quiconque s’intéresse à une etude pluridisciplinaire de cette question."

Review: S. Turner in MLN 127.4 (2012), 945-46. Interdisciplinary volume of conference proceedings focused on "the depiction of the suffering body in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe" within various contexts "whether religious (the Wars of Religion), medical (the new anatomical discoveries) or political (the use of propaganda)...."

Review: M. Bernard in DSS 255 (2012), 371-2. Acta of a conference that took place in Oslo in 2008, the volume contains 22 articles on the representation of the suffering body in art, literature and spectacle in France, England, Holland, Spain, Italy, and Canada. The volume is unified in its reflection on authors’ and artists’ attempts to infuse suffering with meaning and to see universal significance in individual pain. Reviewer sees the volume as marking the beginning of a productive vein of research and particularly praises the book’s program of illustrations.

BRUSCHI, ANDREA. "Litterae et arma: l’aspiration à l’encyclopédisme des premières académies nobiliaires françaises (1598-1612)." SCFS 34.2 (2012), 133-142.

"Inspirés de l’idéal humaniste de l’encyclopédisme et fondés sur le binôme ’armes et lettres’, les programmes d’études élaborés dans les premiers projets d’académies pour gentilshommes (fin du XVIe-début du XVIIe siècle) associent à la pratique d’activités physiques l’érudition et l’éducation dans des disciplines théoriques. De telles propositions sont éloignées des exigences d’une noblesse désireuse de trouver dans l’académie non pas un parcours pédagogique complet, mais un lieu de sociabilité et d’apprentissage des exercices chevaleresques. Les tentatives de création d’écoles nobiliaires à vocation encyclopédique sont donc destinées à rester lettre morte ou tout au plus à donner lieu, comme dans le cas des académies de Jacques Bourgoing et de David Rivault de Flurance, à des institutions éphémères. L’importance de ces expériences réside dans l’aspiration à un véritable renouvellement du second état par le biais de l’éducation, dans le but de faire de la noblesse un groupe compétent et en mesure d’agir pour le bien du royaume."

CAËTANO, MARIE-LAURENTINE. "La Palantine, une princesse hors du commun dans la littérature pour la jeunesse." PFSCL 77 (2012) 433-47.

In six recent young adult novels, Elisabeth-Charlotte de Bavière is presented as a sympathetic figure, on due to her position as a relative outsider at court, her strong personality, her tolerance, and her education.

CANOVA-GREEN, MARIE-CLAUDE. Ballets pour Louis XIII. Danse et politique à la cour de France (1610-1643). Toulouse: Société de Littératures Classiques, 2010.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 165 (2011), 634. Judged highly useful, C.-G.’s edition documents the presence of a genre greatly appreciated in the Baroque era, the constant literary contact between Italy and France, and political ramifications. After a short but diverse introduction, eighteen ballets are presented. Reviewer notes that among the authors are to be found illustrious poets such as Tristan, Boisrobert and Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin. She does however regret the absence of any mention of the famous critic Jean Rousset.

GAMBELLI, DELIA. Vane Carte. Scritti su Molière e il teatro francese del Seicento. Roma: Bulzoni, 2010.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr163 (2011), 162. Vane Carte brings together essays on Molière and the 17thc. theatre by D. Gambelli, her scholarly reviews and acts of conventions. Highly useful and diverse reference.

DAGEN, JEAN and BARROVECCHIO, ANNE-SOPHIE. Le Rire ou le Modèle? Le Dilemme du moraliste. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 165 (2011), 698-699. Vast (nearly 700 pages) and praiseworthy collection investigates exemplarity and the laughter of French moralists from the 15th to the 18th c. and includes philosophers and literary authors as well (Pascal, Descartes, Bayle, Corneille, and Molière, for example). Highly interdisciplinary, the volume is comprised of essays on both literary and artistic portraits, theatre, the novel, history and even jurisprudence. A genuine treasure trove for the 17th c. scholar who will delight in numerous essays such as Laurent Thirouin’s "éclats de rire pascaliens" (363-390) and Dominique Bertrand’s "L’imaginaire du rire dans ’Les Caractères’ de La Bruyère" (489-520). The volume closes with a triptych including Louis Van Delft’s essay on "rires philosophiques" and Jean Dagen’s "Que philosopher c’est apprendre à rire.

DANDREY, PATRICK. Quand Versailles était conté: La cour de Louis XIV. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009.

Review: O. Ranum in PFSCL 77 (2012), 550-56. Unlike recent studies by Christian Jouhaud or Olivier Chaline which have aimed "to breathe new life" into our images of the 17th c by bringing new sources and historical perspectives to light, Dandrey’s book turns back to traditional literary and moralistic sources to reproduce a well-worn critique of court life. The reviewer is disappointed by the "cliché-ridden" interpretations.

DEKONINCK, RALPH, AGNES GUIDERON-BRUSLE, and NATHALIE KREMER. Aux limites de l’imitation: l’ut pictura poesis à l’épreuve de la matière (XVIe-XVIIe siècles). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.

Review: S. Genieys-Kirk in FS 66.4 (2012), 46-547. "Cet ouvrage collectif propose une fascinante étude de l’émergence progressive d’un concept longtemps dénigré: celui de la ’matière’ ou de la matérialité inhérente à toute oeuvre. Aux seizième et dix-septième siècles, la matière constituant ’un impensé de la thèorie de l’art’ (p. 7 ) est quasi absente sous la plume des théoriciens. La matière en tant que paradigme digne d’inclusion dans le langage théorique est incompatible avec une vision de l’art qui ne saurait déroger aux principes sacrés de la mimesis dont l’ultime fonction est de donner à voir le beau sous sa forme la plus parachevée, éliminant toute trace de l’acte créateur, mû par le modus vivendum horatien de l’ut pictura poesis."

DONAWERTH, JANE. Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600-1900. Southern Illinois, 2012.

Review: T.B. Dykeman in CHOICE (July 2012). "This book’s central argument is that women constructed theories of rhetoric based on conversation rather than on public speaking. Donawerth gathers evidence from women’s writings over three centuries. She contends that in treatises, dialogues, conduct and elocution handbooks, and publications on women’s education and preaching, women argued that rhetorical power is gained and developed through conversation. Whether discourse is devised to cultivate the feminine, defend rights, or perform in the parlor or on the public stage, it originates in conversation. Donawerth cites writings by Madeleine de Scudéry, Bathsua Makin, Mary Astell, Margaret Fell, Hannah More, Lydia Sigourney, Ellen Stewart, Hallie Quinn Brown, Frances Willard, and many others. Emphasizing the positive in a history of women rhetoricians restricted in education and constrained from public space, Donawerth changes the discussion from women as practitioners of rhetoric to women as theorists of rhetoric."

DUGGAN, ANNE E. "The Revolutionary Undoing of the Maiden Warrior in Riyoko Ikeda’s Rose of Versailles and Jacques Demy’s Lady Oscar." Marvels & Tales 27.1 (2013) 34-51.

Studies maiden warrior tales in French and Chinese folk and literary traditions. Divides tales in two groups: those which challenge the dominant order and those which uphold it. References tales by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Marie-Jeanne l’Héritier, and Henriette Julie de Murat.

DUPRAT, ANNE. Vraisemblances: Poétiques et théorie de la fiction, du Cinquecento à Jean Chapelain (1500-1670). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2009.

Review: C. Gossip in PFSCL 76 (2012) 261-2. The book offers a thorough examination of early modern theories of fiction in relation to rhetoric, as imitation of nature, and as a source of readerly pleasure. Duprat analyzes the reception of Aristotle’s poetics by Cinquecento authors such as Tasso in comparison with Scaliger, Heinsius, and Chapelain. Reviewer calls the book an "indispensable instrument de travail" for scholars of theories and origins of fiction.

Review: H.-T. Campagne in FR 85.6 (2012), 166-1167. Of interest to dix-septièmistes will be "les derniers chapitres […] consacrés aux poéticiens français du dix-septième siècle et en particulier à Jean Chapelain, dont l’oeuvre, par l’attention qu’elle porte à la vraisemblance et à l’ensemble des formes de la representation, s’inscrit dans le sillage de la réflexion entamée par les théoriciens italiens […] du Cinquecento."

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 164 (2011), 400. Attentive first to diverse meanings and uses of "fable" as revealed in Furetière’s dictionary, D. then analyzes fiction in poetry, "Les lumières d’Italie" (15th and 16th c.), before concentrating on "Poétiques de la vraisemblance (1560-1660)". A rich bibliography and useful index of names accompanies this welcome study.

FAZIO, MARA and PIERRE, FRANTZ. La Fabrique du théâtre. Avant la mise en scène (1650-1880). Paris: Desjonquères, 2010.

Review: M.G. Porcelli in S Fr 165 (2011) 639-640. This volume brings together thirty-four studies focusing on the concept of "mise en scène," the birth of the expression, and an illuminating case on Racine’s Athalie. The collection is organized in sections as follows: "La mise en scène avant la mise en scène: traces," "Les auteurs et la mise en scène," "L’intervention des acteurs et directeurs de troupe," "Les décorateurs et les scénographes," and "Opéra, musique et danse." 17th c. specialists will particularly appreciate Ch. Mazouer’s essay "Corneille et l’espace" (107-116) and Jeanne-Marie Hostiou’s "La fabrique des spectacles au miroir des comédies des comédiens. études d’une réécriture de ’L’impromptu de Versailles’ de Molière" (82-94), among others.

FERRIER, BERTRAND. "Quatre filles et une couronne: le XVIIe siècle, un révélateur de l’identité du roman contemporain pour la jeunesse." PFSCL 77 (2012) 361-72.

Author analyzes the first volume of A.-M. Desplat-Duc’s Colombes du Roi-Soleil, which he characterizes as historical "chick lit" (367) demonstrating how its vision of the 17th c is highly mediated by its positioning in the literary marketplace.

FINN, THOMAS "Women of the Raison d’Etat." CdDS 13.2 (2011), 31-55.

The focus is placed on those female protagonists in seventeenth-century theater who do not adhere easily to the ideology of sacrificing their personal interests to those of the State. These heroines underline the dubious or tenuous connections between personal sacrifices for the raison d’etat. The author turns to four plays: Jean Rotrou’s L’innocente infidélité, Jean Racine’s Bérénice, Catherine Bernard’s Laodamie reine d’épire and Marie-Catherine Desjardin’s Nitétis. He seeks to span the entire era and offers examples of tragedy and tragic-comedy.

FREYHEIT, MATTHIEU "Aventuriers de la mer: histoire parallèle d’un Siècle d’or." PFSCL 77 (2012) 531-43.

The article surveys several young adult novels (by Daniel Vaxelaire, Alain Surget, A.-M. Desplat-Duc, Yves Heurté) that depict piracy in the second half of the 17th c. The major themes of these works include the relationship of the individual to larger historical forces, the possibility of self-reinvention through travel, and the social position of the outsider. They mix history and legend and valorize the rebel in a way that appeals to a young/teen-aged audience.

GAILLARD, A. and J.-P. SERMAIN. Féeries. études sur le conte merveilleux XVIIe - XIXe siècle, Grenoble: ELLUG, 2010.

Review: V. De Santis in S Fr 165 (2011) 637-638. This issue of the annual review published by the research group LIRE (Littérature, idéologie, représentations) focuses on the genres of the conte and the fable. The essays are also available on line at http://feeries.revues.org/ and include diverse perspectives such as comparative analyses with medieval and modern contes, La Fontaine’s "évolution" which is seen as a "révolution herméneutique" (P. Dandrey), and his unity of inspiration counterbalanced by an essential generic difference (F. Corradi), among others.

GANIM, RUSSELL and THOMAS CARR, JR. Origines. Actes du 39e Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 10-12 mai 2007. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2009.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 163 (2011), 161-162. This refereed volume contains 28 of the 70 communications presented at the 2007 NASSCFL conference and is divided into six sections the titles of which demonstrate the diversity of the volume. Sections include articles on Descartes, farce, Molière, the Gazettes and the Mercure Galant, women’s writings, the importance of erudition, libraries, and varia (the latter including essays on Corneille, Boileau, d’Urfé, Camus and Théophile).

GIRAULT-FRUET, ARLETTE. Les voyageurs d’îles: sur la route des Indes aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris: Garnier, 2010.

Review: E. Welch in FR 86.1 (2012), 80-181. In this catalogue of commonplaces used in 17th- and 18th-century travel writing we find an "essentially structuralist analysis" of some one hundred texts written by over seventy-five European authors shows how the works depended on the repetition of conventional elements to demonstrate their veracity. The final section examines the theme of the fallen island paradise that has been corrupted by European presence. "An admirably thorough exposé of a relatively uncharted body of literature."

HASKETT, KLESEY and HOLLY FAITH NELSON. French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual (1400-2000). Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

Review: W. Edwards in CHOICE (Apr. 2013). "Taken together, the essays in this volume […] trace the waning social influence in France of Christianity and the institutional church (though not necessarily of God), even as they highlight the frequency with which individual Francophone women turn to the spiritual as a means of personal expression and literary resistance. […] Trading religious orthodoxy for spiritual fulfillment, Marguerite de Navarre, Madame de Lafayette, George Sand, Simone Weil, and Marguerite Duras (and other less canonical writers) are presented here as pioneers forging unconventional paths toward God."

HEINER, HEIDI ANN. The Frog Prince and Other Frog Tales from Around the World; Rapunzel and Other Maiden in the Tower Tales from Around the World; Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales from Around the World.

Review: H. Pilinovsky in Marvels & Tales 27.1 (2013), 127-129. Pilinovsky reviews three self-published casebooks, each on a particular tale type, by Heidi Ann Heiner, creator of the SurLaLune Fairy Tale Website. While circumventing traditional media and academic publishing, Heiner brings her careful, thorough research to a wide audience in both electronic and print form

HENIN, E. Les Querelles dramatiques à l’âge classique (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles). Louvain and Paris: Walpole-Peeters, 2010.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 165 (2010), 635. These acts of a 2006 conference organized at Reims by the Centre de Recherche sur la Transmission des Modèles Littéraires et Esthétiques is a work of synthesis on the question. The 17th c. sections are organized as follows: "Le modèle des autres polémiques: de l’Italie à la France de Richelieu," "émergence d’un public et stratégies d’auteurs: Racine et Molière," and a section which examines the relationship between querelle and theatrical form. The remainder of the volume treats 18th c. querelles. Index of names.

HILLMAN, RICHARD. French Origins of English Tragedy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.

Review: N. Hammond in FS 66.4 (2012), 552-553. "Richard Hillman has produced a succinct but wide-ranging book exploring the correlation between ’diverse French discourses and particular aspects of English tragedy’ (p. 12). He does not aim for a comprehensive overview, nor does he attempt to prove various English playwrights’ familiarity with the French source material, but he settles instead on a variety of examples." Works and authors examined include Pierre Matthieu’s La Guisiade (as a source for Shakespeare’s Richard II), Garnier, Du Bartas, Du Rosier, and Fleury (and their relation to Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy , Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus , Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, and Jonson’s Sejanus.

HODGSON, RICHARD G. Libertinism and Literature in Seventeenth-Century France. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, The University of British Columbia, 28-20 septembre 2006. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2009.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 163 (2011), 162-164. These sixteen essays demonstrate the rich quality of the 2006 conference as they are devoted to primary authors (Molière, La Fontaine, La Mothe le Vayer and Cyrano), to the relation between libertinage and literary genres and to intersections of libertinage, literature and society. This lengthy review highlights each of the sixteen essays, allowing the reader to appreciate the diverse yet coherent contribution of the volume.

HOLTZ, GREGOIRE. L’Ombre de l’auteur: Pierre Bergeron et l’écriture du voyage à la fin de la Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 2011.

Review: A. Blair in FS 67.1 (2013), 92. "This richly contextualized study of the career and work of Pierre Bergeron (d. 1637 ) focuses on the genres and methods of composition of narratives of travel, especially to the East Indies, in the late Renaissance. […] Bergeron wrote some occasional poetry and travelled himself, leaving manuscript accounts that were printed long after his death. He put his name on two works, on the colonization of the Canaries (1629 ) and on recent travellers to Tartary (1634 ), in which he called for increased French colonial expansion, but his vision gained little traction at the time. Instead, Bergeron was most successful as a ghostwriter, who would turn a written or oral travel report into a publishable narrative that would appeal to the tastes of the gens du monde. […] On Grégoire Holtz’s account, Bergeron is interesting not because he was exceptional but precisely because he was not. From the Middle Ages until the end of the eighteenth century (when Romantic writers sought inspiration from travel), ghostwriting was common in the production of travel narratives. Beyond its main theses this superlative work of scholarship offers many thought-provoking sidebars - for example, on genres of history writing (and how Spain favoured universal histories), on different forms of writing for hire, or on the significance of ’&c.’."

IBBETT, KATHERINE. The Style of the State in French Theater, 1630-1660. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.

Review: J.D. Lyons in MP 110.1 (August 2012), E42-E45. Ibbett’s book is "an extremely original and thoughtful book about political and dramaturgic theory and practice in France during the crucial midpoint of the seventeenth-century." This study "weaves together gender theory, biopolitics, governmentality, colonial history, neoclassical poetics, the theory of the reason of state, history of religion, and iconography. All is exquisitely documented..." The reviewer especially appreciates Ibbett’s final chapter in which she "brilliantly stages an attack on the persistent malady of studies in seventeenth-century French theater, the almost universal insistence on teaching and studying the plays only within a framework of "rules."

Review: E. McClure in MP 110.3 (February 2013), E182-E185: "Ibbett’s book is less an exhaustive reassessment of French theater from 1630 to 1660 than a provocative summons to new lines of questioning that are less overdetermined by the ideological pressures of French cultural politics that date back to the sixteenth century and continue to influence criticism today. Her call for scholarly subtlety and quietness in many ways mirrors the activity of the mourning spectators that take center stage in the period’s martyr plays; as she announces in the opening pages, ’I hope not to put off my reader at this early stage if I say that this is a book interested not in dazzle but in something more humdrum: in how the practical concerns of government are taken up by the practice of the stage.’"

Review: J. Peters in FR 85.3 (February 2011), 55-556. "Ibbett […] turns to different ends the practice of reading the seventeenth-century theater. She alters the perspective on the familiar character-based readings of Corneille’s tragedies and crucially reframes the neoclassical stage as a tactically sophisticated engagement with, rather than transparent reflection of, political theory. The Style of State is a subtle reconsideration of a theater tradition that has, over time, become increasingly difficult to see directly."

JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER D. Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2010.

Review: A. Sheeran in MLN 126.5 (August 2011), 1130-1133. Five-part work represents "an important contribution to the study of the Baroque as a literary phenomenon." Focus of chapters 12-15 is on the hyperbolic rhetoric of Descartes and Pascal: "Johnson argues that Descartes’ hyperbolic doubt is ’both heuristic and structural’ (366), and that his willingness to abandon hyperbolic thinking once his basic principles are established signals that his use of it is at least somewhat disingenuous, and therefore distinct from the ludic, telescopic suspensions of disbelief in authors like Shakespeare and Góngora." J. argues that "Pascal uses hyperbole to ’astonish us into rethinking conventional truths’ (419) and to move readers toward ’transcendence’ (441). The extensive analysis of Pascal’s contemporaries and interpreters illuminates the cultural context and shows how widely opinions on hyperbole continued to differ."

JONES, CHRISTINE A. "Thoughts on "Heroinism" in French Fairy Tales." Marvels & Tales 27.1 (2013) 15-33.

Coins the term "hero-in-ism" to discuss tales by d’Aulnoy, where she focuses on "active women," and Perrault, whose heroines have "linguistic competence." Posits that the primary difference between the two types is not gender, but "pageantry."

KAPP, VOLKER "Baroque et classicisme dans la philologie romane de langue allemande." DSS 254 (2012) 109-116.

German scholarship tends to classify 17th-century French literature as Baroque rather than Classical, studying in in relation to Spanish and Italian literature of the same period. This article comments on the influence of this aspect of German scholarship on French scholarship in the 2000s.

KELLER-RAHBÉ, EDWIGE. Les arrières-boutiques de la littérature: auteurs et imprimeurs-libraires aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Toulouse: PU du Mirail, 2010.

Review: E.E. Thompson in FR 85.5 (2012), 952-953. A valuable introduction contributes to the general lack of studies on seventeenth-century printers. The collection of essays will interest dix-septièmistes working on Jean-Pierre Camus, Parnasse satyrique, the burlesque, and the historical novella. The collection is thoroughly scholarly with an excellent detailed bibliography.

KELLER-RAHBÉ, EDWIGE and MARIE PÉROUSE-BATTELO "Représentations du XVIIe siècle dans la littérature pour la jeunesse contemporaine: Patrimoine, symbolique, imaginaire." PFSCL 77 (2012) 307-319.

This introduction to a special issue of PFSCL, the acta of a conference on representations of the 17th-c in children’s literature held in Lyon in 2011, proposes some hypotheses to explain the recent outpouring of these texts: pedagogical reasons, the "romanesque" character of the 17th c., the allure of Versailles, and the radical difference between that historical period and the present.

KOLL, RENATE "La poésie des Précieuses. Un genre nouveau?" DSS 254 (2012) 73-82.

Explores "comment la notion poésie précieuse, jusqu’alors utilisée et acceptée d’une manière générale, peut être différenciée et précisée en vue de la contribution lyrique des femmes poètes par le concept d’une poésie des Précieuses."

KORNEEVA, TATIANA "Rival Sisters and Vengeance Motifs in the contes de fées of d’Aulnoy, L’Héritier and Perrault." MLN 127.4 (2012) 732-753.

Article explores "the elements of subversion in order to demonstrate the process of the redefinition of femininity in the female-penned fairy tales and the extent to which the characters described by Mme d’Aulnoy and Mlle Lhérititer exhibit a psychology comparable with that of late seventeenth-century novels and dramatic texts." Through close reading of Mme dAulnoy’s Finette Cendron, K. examines "the motif of the rival sisters and of the theme of vengeance in the tale’s moralité in comparison with Perrault’s Cendrillon and Le Petit Poucet and with Lhéritier’s L’Adroite Princesse ou Les Aventures de Finette."

KRAUSE, VIRGINIA "Toward a Poetics of Adventure: Amadis de Gaule." Lyons, John D. and Kathleen Wine, Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2009.

Asks whether or not the notion of aventure can serve as a link between medieval romance and Amadis de Gaule; analyzes how in the end humanist and market concerns demystify chivalric romance.

KRUMENACKER, YVES "La mémoire du protestantisme dans les romans de littérature pour la jeunesse." PFSCL 77 (2012), 469-81.

The author located seven recent young adult novels (by A.-M. Desplat Duc, Annie Pietri, Dominique Joly, Fred and Siegrid Kupferman, and éliane Itti ) that depict the experience of Protestants (and Jews) in the 17th c. The novels depict their Protestant protagonists as victims of persecution (although Krumenacker sees this as anachronistic) accentuate the austerity of their lifestyle, and sometimes illustrate religious sectarianism through romances between Catholic and Protestant characters.

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. La Théorie des mondes possibles. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2011.

Review: F. Forcolin in S Fr 164 (2011), 479. Without diachronic restrictions, this fruit of a 2005-2006 seminar at the Université de Paris-Diderot presents a first study in French on the subject applied to all literature and visual arts. Organized in three sections, the first deals with genres of fictions, the second with historical perspectives examining "façons de faire des mondes," and the third with effects of reading or "les mondes du texte." 17th c. scholars will appreciate diverse theoretical and stylistic perspectives (see, in particular, Christine Noille-Clauzade’s "Considérations logiques sur de nouveaux styles de fictionalité: les mondes de la fiction au XVIIe siècle" (171-188), as well as a rich bibliography and the closing essay of Thomas Pavel, "Univers de fiction: un parcours personnel" (307-314).

LECLERC, JEAN. L’Antiquité travestie: anthologie de poésie baroque (1644-1658). Quebec: Presses de l’ Université de Laval, 2010.

Review: C. Nédélec in PFSCL 77(2012), 556-7. A welcome and well-prepared edition of a selection of burlesque poems by Sarasin, Brébeuf, Colletet, and anonymous authors. A rich glossary, helpful introduction, and organization of the texts allows the reader to appreciate the style and substance of the poems, their status as (often parodic) adaptations or translations of Classical works, and therefore their "désacralisation" of Antiquity. Reviewer’s only complaint is that Dassoucy is not included in the anthology.

LINTNER, DOROTHÉE "L’héroïsme comique: l’influence des histoires comiques du XVIIe siècle sur la littérature de jeunesse contemporaine." PFSCL 77 (2012), 333-46.

Young adult novels by Florence Thinard, Annie Pietri, and Anne-Sophie Sylvestre are compared to comic works by Scarron, Sorel, Furetière, and others to show parallels between their approaches to characterizing the comic hero.

LOCHERT, VALÉRIE. L’écriture du spectacle. Les didascalies dans le théâtre européen aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Genva: Droz, 2009.

Review: P. Gethner in Fr F 36.2-3 (2011), 269-273. Theatrical traditions of four European countries are examined in L.’s "remarkable study" which G. judges "by far the most complete treatment of the subject to date and [which] should prove definitive for a long time to come" (269). Finding that didascalies are provided for readers as well as for actors and tracing their rise from notations in medieval liturgical books, L. underscores particularities such as a predominance of didascalies relating to speech in France. L.’s study is rich and the definition of her subject expansive, including paratexts. A comprehensive and well organized bibliography adds to the value of L.’s study as a reference tool (273).

LOSADO, GOYA, JOSÉ MANUEL. Métamorphoses du roman français. Avatars d’un genre dévorateur. Leuven: Éditions Peeters, 2010.

Review: O. Bonserio in S Fr 163 (2011), 233. Responding to the question "Pourquoi et sous quelles formes le roman (en général, en tant que genre et ici français) se transforme-t-il?" (307), the volume is wide-ranging, with essays examining the novel from the Middle Ages through Postmodernity. 17th c. scholars will particularly appreciate the essay of Delphine Denis focusing on "scrupules sur le style" (77-87) and the one of Frank Grenier on "le roman converti" (63-76).

LOSFELD, CHRISTOPHE. Politesse, morale et construction sociale. Pour une histoire des traités de comportement. Paris: Champion, 2011.

Review: S. Gallegos Gabilondo in S Fr 165 (2011), 640. Praiseworthy for its competence and clarity, L.’s work analyzes manuals which elaborated the Italian tradition of Castiglione. Social distinction and a certain normalization converge as L. takes account of a secularization of the concept. Political resonances are considered along with social relationships.

LYONS, JOHN D. "The Poetry of Friendship." SCFS 34.1 (2012), 17-25.

"Using the chapter ’De l’amitié’ from Montaigne’s Essais as a guide to the qualities of friendship, this article compares, on one hand, the qualities of seventeenth-century poems of direct address in which the poet assumes a position of friendship with respect to the person addressed to the qualities, on the other hand, of poems claiming love as the basis of the relationship between speaker and explicit reader. Though a category ’poetry of friendship’ is not so widely accepted as ’love poems’, this brief note suggests that such a type of poem does exist and that it is dominated by themes of consolation and admonition."

MAROT, PATRICK. Les Textes liminaires. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires de Mirail, 2010.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 163 (2011), 229-230. Wide-ranging and highly diverse due in part to the very nature of liminary texts, the volume includes M.’s introduction which presents an historical overview, examines various functions (authorial, pragmatic, didactic, hermeneutic and monumental) and rules of the genre described narratologically. 17th c. scholars will particularly appreciate the first section of the volume, "De l’Antiquité à la fin de la période classique."

MEERE, MICHAEL. "Social Drama, Cultural Pragmatics, and Louis XIII’s Performativity: La Victoire du Phébus (1617)." 85.4 (2012), 672-683.

Employing theatrical semiotics and cultural pragmatics, the author examines the anonymous "performance text" La Victoire du Phébus that appeared in Rouen following the assassination of Concini and the arrest of Leonora Galligay in order to show how it strengthened royal legitimacy and affirmed the king’s image as "Louis le Juste.

MERCIER-FAIVRE, ANNE-MARIE "Les deux visages de la sorcière: l’affaire des poisons (1679-1681) dans le roman historique pour la jeunesse." PFSCL 77 (2012), 415-31.

Author proposes that historical crime and horror novels across several genres - those depicting the Affair of the Poisons but also those set in Salem - offer an alternative portrait of the witch quite different from that found in fairy tales. Although not generally positive, these images of witchy figures stress their independence, political savvy, and knowledge of medicinal arts.

MERLIN-KAJMAN, HÉLÈNE "La fiction ’classique’: le plaisir du dépaysement et de l’interrogation morale (La Désobéisance de Pyrame)." PFSCL 77 (2012), 505-19.

Merlin-Kajman discusses her own young adult novel, La Désobéissance de Pyrame, commissioned for Belin’s Charivari series. She recounts her process planning and writing the novel as well as her conversations with an editor of young adult literature to reflect on issues of pedagogy, "civility," and literature both in the 17th c and today.

MONGENOT, CHRISTINE "Jeunes filles du XVIIe siècle pour jeunes lectrices d’aujourd’hui, ou la fabrique du féminin en littérature de jeunesse." PFSCL 77 (2012), 385-413.

Article surveys an ample selection of young adult novels aimed at girls to show how the depiction of female characters, emotions, romantic heroes, and sex in the 17th-c context reinforces a vision of femininity familiar from older sentimental novels and even Harlequin romance.

NÉDÉLEC, CLAUDINE. "Le XVIIe siècle dans De Cape et de Crocs." PFSCL 77 (2012), 347-59.

The comic book series De Cape et de Crocs not only represents a 17th-c Mediterranean setting but reflects a period aesthetic "à la fois baroque et burlesque/grotesque, ou plutôt héroï-comique." The article examines the comic’s approach to history, including its use of anachronism, as well as its style and humor.

NORMAN, LARRY F. The Shock of the Ancient: Literature & History in Early Modern France. Chicago & London: U Chicago Press, 2011.

Review: H. Bilis in PFSCL 76 (2012), 266-70. Norman’s ambitious yet nuanced study "charts nothing less than the process through which literature gained autonomy from the constraints of rational-scientific method." Organized thematically rather than chronologically, Norman’s careful reassessment of the texts of the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns reveals how the two "sides" of the debate in fact overlapped on many key issues, most especially the distance of the ancients from their own culture. The parties differed both in how they periodized Antiquity and in how they articulated the significance of this "chiasmic remoteness" of the past. The reviewer would have appreciated an expanded commentary on the Crown’s approach to the quarrel. Her overall assessment is admiring: "Beyond its convincing and erudite character, the study is beautifully written and a pleasure to read.

Review: C.M. Reno in CHOICE (Jan. 2012). "This exploration of the ’quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns’ and its aftermath takes into its purview the long span of history from Homer to the early-19th century. Norman […] aims to tease out the complexities and ambiguities of the arguments advanced by both camps, highlighting the paradoxes involved. In so doing, he turns many received notions of literary history upside down. He shows how the moderns’ attachment to propriety and to "unitarian systems"--be they aesthetic, political, religious, or epistemological-are ultimately conservative, and how the ancients’ preference for literary realism, their appreciation of the cultural differences between old and new, and their emotional approach to literature paved the way for modern cosmopolitanism and the new field of aesthetics. This dialectical analysis, which demands the reader’s full attention, pauses over a variety of related topics, for example, early-modern historiography, 17th-century sociability, Louis XIV’s choice of propaganda models, the birth of mythology, the rise of empiricism, Molière’s comic figures, Racine’s Pyrrhus, and Virginia Woolf’s ’On Not Knowing Greek’; earlier studies of the quarrel are woven in throughout."

Review: R. Howells in MLR 107.3 (2012), 936-937: Three-part study is "an ambitious but carefully constructed reading of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, gradually centring on the seminal idea of the Sublime." The first part "argues that French classical thinking was not comfortably ’universalist’ but embraced the concept of cultural di?erence over time (and place). Historical change was a?rmed in the Querelle not only by the Moderns (who proclaimed the pre-excellence of the age of Louis XIV) but more notably by their opponents (who defend the writing of ancient Greece and Rome)." The second part "considers how each side addresses the contradiction between the world of Homer and their own time." The third part, entitled "The Ine?able E?ect," deals with aesthetics and "draws on Boileau’s Longinian Traité du sublime (published in the same year as his Art poétique), and its resonances in the underrated works by Longepierre in praise of antiquity (1687, in the ?rst Querelle) and by Boivin on Homer (1715, in the second)."

PARISH, RICHARD. Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: ’Christianity is Strange’. Oxford: OUP, 2011.

Review: N. Hammond in MLR 108.1 (2013), 302-303: "Taking as his starting-point Pascal’s statement ’Le christianisme est étrange’, Richard Parish examines the compatibility and incompatibility of thought contained in the work of a number of seventeenth-century French Catholic writers, showing the various ways in which ’Christianity is unfamiliar, strange, and counter-intuitive’ (p. 5). In addition to Pascal himself, well-known ?gures such as Bossuet, St François de Sales, Fénelon, Pierre Corneille, and Madame Guyon loom large, but other less familiar names, such as Jean Rotrou, St Margaret-Mary Alacoque, Antoinette Bourignon, Jeanne des Anges, and Jean-Joseph Surin, make regular appearances over the course of the book. While Parish does not aim to cover all writers on religion of the age (Malebranche, Bérulle, and Nicole are perhaps the most notable absentees, and Protestant thinkers do not form part of his remit), the range of his analysis is remarkably diverse."

PICCO, DOMINIQUE. "L’éducation des enfants du Grand Siècle au prisme de la littérature de jeunesse contemporaine." PFSCL 77 (2012), 483-503.

Article examines the representation of boys’ and girls’ educations in children’s and young adult literature set in the 17th c. Through a census of a broad selection of novels (22 in all, listed in an appendix) the article demonstrates that this corpus shows education to be a marker of social prestige and a means of enforcing gender roles.

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE. "La Nouvelle-France dans les écrits de Cartier et de Champlain: de la dénégation au ’descouvrement’." Tr Lit 24 (2011), 25-38.

Penetrating analysis of key passages of Cartier and Champlain’s "relations" or "récits" reveal not only their aspirations and visions, but also their fixations such as Cartier’s "morphologie insulaire [qui] répond à une volonté d’isoler l’eldorado saguenéen du reste du pays, [et qui] fait de tout le Canada une construction en archipel" (26-27). If similarities in both "découvreurs" may be found, for example in their perspective of North America as "un lieu d’approvisionnement et de relâche" (28), their differences are also remarkable. While "une euphorie palpable" and the use of hyperbole characterize Cartier’s observations, Champlain’s vision is so pragmatic and prosaic that the critic Michel Bideaux has called Des Sauvages an "antirelation de voyage" (29). As P. explores these impressionistic visions, she brings to the fore "le rêve de transmuer le Canada en une autre France" (32) and a shared optimism of "une cohabitation harmonieuse avec les indigènes" (36). Revealing deliberate fabrications and theatricality in the narrations which introduce "le topos du bon sauvage jovial et amical" (35), P. concludes that "l’histoire des premières expéditions en Nouvelle-France en est une de duperie et de mystification" (37).

POSTERT, KRISTEN. Tragédie historique ou Histoire en Tragédie? Les sujets d’histoire moderne dans la tragédie française (1550-1715). Tübingen: Narr, 2010.

Review: Perry Gethner IN CdDs 13.2 (2011), 206-209. Postert wants to show that the "subgenre" of historical tragedy was neither unacceptable at the time nor rare, but demonstrates its importance, its aesthetic aspects, the polemics surrounding the genre, and the practical difficulties of writing historical tragedy. Instead of approaching the usual question of fidelity to historical sources, Postert tries to determine how each of the playwrights concerned viewed history in general, his/her reasons for manipulating the factual material, and why certain subject matters were chosen. While the book deserves our attention, its main flaw is lack of careful proofreading.

QUELLIER, FLORENT. "Le discours sur la richesse des terroirs au XVIIe siècle et les prémices de la gastronomie française." DSS 254 (2012), 141-54.

Article exposes the emergent discourse on terroir in 17th-c. food culture, focusing particularly on its role in gift exchange practices. In addition to examining the language of terroir in literary discussion of food (Saint Amant, Furetière, Boileau) and in texts on gardening and agriculture, the article considers the importance of geographical provenance and quality in food gift exchange. Its role in the development of a gastronomic culture explicitly marked as French permits the author to treat terroir as "déclinaison et illustration du thème politico-économique de la richesse des terroirs du royaume."

RAYNARD, SOPHIE The Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers. SUNY Press, 2012.

Review: E.R. Baer in CHOICE (May 2013). "Raynard provides concise biographies of well-known fairy tale writers--Francesco Straparola, Giambattista Basile, Charles Perrault, Madame d’Aulnoy, Madame Leprince de Beaumont, the Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen--and of several French and German women whose names are less familiar. The sketches are generally four to five pages long and are followed by complete bibliographies of the author’s publications and a welcome bibliography of secondary materials on that author."

ROBERTS, HUGH, ANNE BIRBERICK and ROBERT J. GANIM. EMF, Studies in Modern France, Vol. 14. Obscenity. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2010.

Review: F. Fassina in S Fr 165 (2011) 633. Focusing on the Renaissance and the 17th c., the essays of this volume examine the title’s concept from the literary point of view, analyzing relationships of French examples with Latin, Italian and English ones. Other related concepts are treated such as sensuality, scatology, violence and the medical.

ROUTISSEAU, MARIE-HÉLÈNE. "Oublie-nous, les paradoxes de la mémoire à l’épreuve de la littérature." PFSCL 77 (2012), 521-30.

The author reflects on her young adult novel Oublie-nous, written for Belin’s Charivari series in relation to the creation of "un savoir intergénérationnel nourrissant la mémoire collective" (530).

ROYÉ, JOCELYN. "D’or et de dentelles: les représentations du XVIIe siècle sur les couvertures de romans." PFSCL 77 (2012), 373-83.

. A study of about 60 young adult novels reveals a high degree of homogeneity in the way the 17th c is represented in cover art. The illustrations’ content relies on décor and costume to establish the period setting while the techniques emphasize a sense of mystery and high drama.

RUGGERI, MARC. "Didon à Port-Royal." DSS 253 (2011), 763-89.

Through analysis of the translation and reception of the Aeneid by Jansenist thinkers, the article shows that par "une version aussi fidèle que pédagogique, la traduction par Pierre Nicole et Le Maistre de Sacy du Livre IV de l’énéide programme une lecture anatomique de la passion et offre à qui souhaite exercer son jugement l’inventaire de tous les " lieux " investis par la concupiscence."

SCHAKER, JENNIFER. "Fairy Gold: The Economics and Erotics of Fairy-Tale Pantomime." Marvels & Tales 26.2 (2012), 151-77.

Focuses on "British fairy-tale pantomime, specifically, panto productions inspired by the literary tales of prerevolutionary France." Though focused on 19th-century England, contains substantial references to d’Aulnoy and Perrault. Shows how pantomime is "a significant means of transmitting and adapting the genre of the fairy tale."

SCOTT, PAUL. Le Gouvernement présent, ou éloge de son Eminence, satyre ou la Miliade. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2010.

Review: P. Shoemaker in MLR 107.2 (2012), 618-620. Welcome critical edition of the Miliade, which "weaves together political dissent, parody, gossip, and chanson populaire, and touches on a broad variety of subjects" associated with Richelieu. S. argues for attribution of the poem to Jacques Favereau. "More generally, Scott’s astute analysis of the political and literary signi?cance of the poem will be of broad interest to scholars who work on the political and cultural history of early modern France."

SEIFERT, LEWIS C. and DOMNA C. STANTON and trans. Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010.

Review: A. Duggan in PFSCL 76 (2012), 270-2. This anthology of tales by Catherine Bernard, Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier de Villandon, d’Aulnoy, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force, and Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de Murat also includes critical texts by L’Héritier and Pierre de Villiers. Many of the tales are made available to Anglophone readers for the first time. The editors’ introduction not only situates the conteuses in their own literary and historical context but also shows how they set the stage for more recent work in the fairy tale genre by authors such as A.S. Byatt and Angela Carter. Reviewer finds that this edition will be of use not only to an Anglophone audience but also to specialists of French fairy tales.

Review: B.V. Le Marchand in Marvels & Tales 26.2 (2012), 266-69: Collection of 8 fairy tales by Catherine Bernard (1), Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier (1), Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (2), Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force (2), and Henriette-Julie de Murat (2); most not previously translated into English. Features black-and-white illustrations, extensive introductory essay on the genesis of the ’contes de fées,’ appendix with English titles of some 60 tales, extensive notes, and closing section called ’Critical Texts on the Contes de Fées’ that features 2 texts from the 1690s. Le Marchand: "a useful overview of the literary fairy-tale vogue in the seventeenth century as well as a basic reference for scholars."

SHAPIRO, NORMAN and trans. French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Review: D.L. Baker in Fr F 36.1 (2011), 131-136. Wide-ranging selection and translation of over 600 poems by fifty-six French-speaking women poets from the Middle Ages to the present. S.’s volume includes a preface, biographies, literary appreciations, notes and source guides, a forward by the American poet Rosanna Warren, a selected bibliography and three critical introductions. B. praises S.’s "approach to translation itself, which privileges a ’fidelity’ to communicating not only message, but tone, and to incorporating the rhythms, rhyme schemes, and poetic devices of the original works. His sustained capacity, from medieval to contemporary verse, to reproduce the integral voice of each poet is nothing short of remarkable" (131-132). 17th c. women poets included are Madeleine de Scudéry, Henriette de Coligny de la Suze, and Marie-Catherine Desjardins de Villedieu. B. characterizes the anthology as a "double gift" to readers: "[S.] has brought many of these poets out of obscurity; and he has himself labored -indefatigably-to reveal and celebrate their luster" (136).

SOULARD, DELPHINE. "L’œuvre des premiers traducteurs français de John Locke: Jean Le Clerc, Pierre Coste et David Mazel." DSS 253 (2011), 739-62.

Examines how three French translators adapted the rhetoric, style, and content of Locke’s philosophical writings for a French audience.

SOUTHWOOD, JANE and BERNARD BOURQUE. French Seventeenth-Century Literature. Influences and Transformations. Essays in honor of Christopher Gossip. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009.

Review: C. Mainardi in S Fr 163 (2011), 165-166. The thirteen essays of this volume in honor of Professor Gossip focus on areas of his research: the revival of themes of Antiquity in 17th c. French literature, the adaptations of subjects and the influence of certain writers of the 17th c. on the following period. M. helpfully gives highlights of each essay.

STEDMAN, ALLISON. Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity. Rowman & Littlefield/Bucknell University Press, 2013.

Review: C.B. Kerr in CHOICE (Jun. 2013). "In this compelling, well-documented study of experimental texts written from the beginning of the 17th century to the end of the reign of Louis XIV, Stedman argues for re-periodization of the rococo and reaffirmation of its fundamental values of nonconformity and tolerance. She posits that the relationship of the rococo with the classical-baroque is dialectic rather than sequential and that its origins lie not in the plastic arts and Versailles but rather in hybrid literary productions from social constructs as diverse as salons, convents, prisons, and print shops. This fascinating approach sheds light on authors such as Montaigne, Corneille, de Visé, d’Aulnoy, Lhéritier, Murat, and Durand, whose eagerness to experiment opened new frontiers, encouraged readers to take pleasure in generically heterogeneous literary creations, and ultimately led to the most important intellectual and political currents of the Enlightenment. By focusing on innovative publishing strategies and texts celebrating individual creativity rather than absolutist values, the author reinvigorates the field of early modern studies. Her perceptive analysis of the rococo as a 17th-century phenomenon that celebrated freedom in an era of growing authoritarianism invites scholars today to adopt the same independent spirit in their approach to other areas of history and literature."

STERNKE, RENÉ. "Les classicismes comme systèmes culturels de référence." DSS 254 (2012), 117-29.

This article charts how German critics and scholars have understood the concept of classicism from the 18th century to the present and explores the possibility of a "Berliner Klassik" or Berlin-centered Classicism in the late 18th- to early 19th century.

TEULADE, ANNE. Reflets du Siècle d’Or espagnol. Modèles en marge. Nantes: Université de Nantes, 2010.

Review: D. Dalle Valle in S Fr 163 (2010), 162. This comparatist volume includes essays on the reception of the picaresque novel in France, adaptations of Caldéron, Cervantes, and on hybridity itself.

THOURET, CLOTILDE. Seul en scène: Le monologue dans le théâtre européen de la première modernité (1580-1640). Geneva: Droz, 2010.

Review: M. Cuénin-Lieber in PFSCL 76 (2012), 279-82. This study of French, English, and Spanish drama considers the poetics and staging of the monologue, as well as its implications for the representation of psychological interiority in the baroque period. Reviewer praises the comparative approach as well as the "densité" of the scholarship.

Review: N. Hammond in FS 66.4 (2012), 547. "Clotilde Thouret sets herself the ambitious task in Seul en scène of charting the poetic, historical, and philosophical foundations and developments of the monologue in early modern theatre from France, Spain, and England. Drawing on work on the early modern self by such critics as Terence Cave and Charles Taylor, Thouret is convincing in her suggestion that the monologue reveals a new kind of interiority on the threshold of modernity […] overall this volume represents a magnificent achievement and surely will remain as the benchmark study on monologues for many years to come."

WALLIS, ANDREW. Traits d’union: L’anti-roman et ses espaces. Tübingen: Narr, 2011.

Review: N. Freidel in CdDS 13.2 (2011), 211-213. While tackling three major authors of the century, Sorel, Scarron, and Furetière (but also giving attention to Tristan l’Hermite and other lesser known texts), the author seeks to classify their novels as anti-romanesque. The author defines anti-romanesque as a hybrid genre, e.g., an in-between space that opened the door for the modern novel. The attention paid to detail and the particular attention given to metaphor are great assets of this study while the passage on madness in le Berger extravagant is not totally convincing. Yet Wallis liberates himself from traditional perceptions and his book opens the door for a new debate on these novels which is stimulating.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 165 (2011), 634. Focusing on the period from 1620 to 1666 (date of the publication of Furetière’s Roman bourgeois), W.’s study devotes special attention to Sorel’s Berger extravagant. W.’s organization includes sections on "L’espace anti-romanesque," "Fou et héros, héros fous: sur le personnage," and "Parasites." Although the reviewer contests here and there terminologies, she appreciates certain originalities as well as the heterogeneous and knowledgeable bibliography furnished on the subject.

WELCH, ELLEN R. A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern Fiction. Newark, DE: UP of Delaware, 2011.

Review: S. Toczyski in FR 86.2 (2012), 399-400. "Welch develops a ’poetics of foreignness’ used by authors of the long seventeenth century to recreate the pleasurable experience of Otherness through consumer goods, that is, objects of foreign origin and those domestically manufactured. Welch’s reader-centered approach leads her to examine both forme and fond, locating engagement with foreignness in structure (through innovative aesthetic choices) and content (novels set in foreign and/or invented lands as well as domestic scenesviewed through foreign eyes.)" This study focuses on heroic romance, city guides and Parisian novels, fictive memoirs, and tales of extraordinary voyages. "Welch’s study […] is convincing in its assertion of a well-developed ’taste for the foreign’ in seventeenth-century France even as it challenges us to recall that ’knowledge about the Other is always, to some degree, a fiction.’"

WOSHINSKY, BARBARA. Imagining Women’s Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800: The Cloister Disclosed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: H. Bostic in FR 85.6 (2012), 176-1177. "One of the delights of Woshinsky’s book is its treatment of little-known texts together with canonical works. Alongside the pleasure of discovering relatively unknown texts, this book offers the opportunity to encounter fresh reading of familiar ones. The author skillfully uses the motif of the convent to draw together disparate works. The analysis includes texts by many women writers who are finally making inroads toward the canon (into its parloir if not its cloître)." Authors treated include Mlle de Montpensier, Margaret Cavendish, Mme de Lafayette, Hortense and Marie Mancini, Mme de Villedieu, Marivaux, Chateaubriand, and Claire de Duras. A chapter examines the male appropriation of the persona of the nun in Les lettres portugaises and Diderot’s La religieuse. Woshinsky offers "a window on the past while reminding us of the enduring importance of history, its repression and representations."

Abiven, Karine

" Eurêka ! Anecdotes emblématiques au temps de la science expérimentale. " F. Aït-Touati et A. Duprat (dir.), Histoires et Savoirs. L’anecdote scientifique du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, Oxford/Berne/Berlin, Peter Lang, coll. " Nature, Science et Arts ", 2011 (ISBN: 978-3-0343-0599-0).

" L’Anecdote ou la fabrique du petit fait vrai. Un genre miniature de Tallemant de Réaux à Voltaire (1650-1756). " Thèse de doctorat. Paris-Sorbonne, 2012.

" Le critique mis en œuvre : question de l’autorité dans les Ana ", communication faite le 26 octobre 2010 dans le cycle de conférences organisé par P. Dandrey, D. Denis et D. Reguig, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne : Formes et enjeux de la critique au XVIIe siècle. A paraître dans Littératures classiques.

" Parler en ’rond’ : circulation des discours dans les cercles mondains au XVIIe siècle. " A. Jaubert, J.-M. Lopez-Muñoz, S. Marnette, L. Rosier, et C. Stolz (dir.), Citations II. Citer pour quoi faire ? Pragmatique de la citation [Actes du colloque international du Groupe Ci-dit, 11-13 juin 2009, Université de Nice], Louvain, Academia-Bruylant, coll. " Au cœur des textes ", n° 24, 2011, p. 177-188. également publié en ligne, http://revel.unice.fr/symposia/cidit/index.html?id=178

" Nos mots et les leurs ", en collaboration avec L. Charles et L. Depretto, Séminaire " Anachronies : textes anciens et théories modernes ", à l’école Normale Supérieure, Ulm-Paris, 25 nov. 2011 ; "http://www.fabula.org/atelier.php"

Écritures de l’actualité, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles. Abiven, Karine et Laure Depretto (dir.), Littératures classiques, n° 78, été 2012.

Albanese, Ralph

" Le dynamisme spatio-temporel dans Athalie. " R. Tobin et al., éds., Changing Perspectives : Studies on Racine in Honor of John Campbell, Charlottesville, VA., Rookwood Press, 2012.

" Misogynie et déshumanisation à travers le bestiaire moliéresque. " French Review, 86.3 (2012).

" Réflexions sur le mythe culturel du ’Grand Siècle’. " Cahiers du dix-septième 13.2 (2011) : 184-200.

Assaf, Francis

Critical edition : Houdar de La Motte. Les Originaux ou l’Italien (1693). Biblio 17. ISBN : 978-3-8233-6717-8

" Le corps souffrant. " Cahiers du dix-septième 13.2 (2011) : 1-30.

" Lesage et le clergé ", in (Re)lectures de Lesage (Christelle Bahier-Porte, éd.), Presses de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2012

" Singeries baroques ". Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XL, 78 (forthcoming 2013).

*Works in progress : " L’Orphelin infortuné, ou le portrait du bon frère : rester propre au milieu de la saleté " " La guerre selon Cyrano : du macrocosme au microcosme. "

Beasley, Faith

Editor of Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. New York : Modern Language Association, 2011.

Bjornstad, Hall

Editor of " The Marginalization of the Mémoires of Louis XIV. " The European Legacy (forthcoming).

" "Fail Better": Pascal and the Good Uses of Failure. " Seventeenth-Century French Studies 33.2 (2011), 72-79.

" Boileau et Racine ont-ils composé les inscriptions de la galerie des Glaces à Versailles? " XVIIème siècle 63.1 (2011), 149-156.

*Work in progress: Study on royal exemplarity, on royal glory, and on Pascal and failure.

Blocker, Deborah

" Ordres et recompositions dans le Recueil de lettres nouvelles de Nicolas Faret (1627) ou de la négligence comme tactique. " Politique de l’épistolaire au XVIIe siècle: autour du Recueil Faret. Ed. Mathilde Bombart et Eric Mechoulan. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2011, 79-96.

Bolduc, Benoît

Concordia Discors. Choix de communications présentées lors du 41ème colloque annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Ed. avec Henriette Goldwyn. 2 vols. Tübingen : Günter Narr, 2011.

" Un corps équivoque: le berger dansant dans le ballet de cour, la comédie-ballet et la tragédie en musique. " Corps dansant, corps glorieux. Musique et danse en Europe au temps d’Henri IV et Louis XIII. Ed. M.-B. Dufourcet et A. Surgers. Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2011, 193-215.

Braider, Christopher

The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Carr Jr., Thomas

*Work in progress : Biographies of Marie-André Duplessis and Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet, and an edition of their correspondence.

Course, Didier

*Work in progress : Rédaction d’un article intitulé " Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam: Painful Delights in Jesuit Writings " pour un volume collectif (dont il est l’éditeur et le coordinateur) sur les concepts de peine et de souffrance dans l’Europe chrétienne du Moyen Age aux débuts de la période moderne.

Duggan, Anne

" Ideology. " Marvelous Transformations : An Anthology of Tales and New Critical Perspectives. Ed. Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Shacker. Peterborough, ON : Broadview Press, 2012, 518-522

" Epicurean Cannibalism, or France Gone Savage. " French Studies (forthcoming).

" L’adultère dans l’histoire tragique. " Le mariage dans la littérature narrative avant 1800, Actes de la SATOR. Collection La République des Lettres, Peeters (forthcoming).

" The Revolutionary Undoing of the Maiden Warrior in Riyoko Ikeda’s The Rose of Versailles and Jacques Demy’s Lady Oscar. " Marvels and Tales 27.1 (2013).

*Work in progress : Queer Enchantments : Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (Advance contract with Wayne State University Press).

Finn, Thomas

" Women of the raison d’Etat. " Cahiers du dix-septième 13.2 (2011) : 31-55.

Gaines, James

" The Five-Factor Model in Fact and Fiction " by Robert R. McCrae, James F. Gaines, and Marie A. Wellington, in Handbook of Psychology, ed. Irving B. Weiner. Second Edition. New York: Wiley, 2012. Volume V: Personality and Social Psychology, 246-88.

Ganim, Russell

" The Destruction and Re-Creation of Obscenity in Seventeenth-Century Pornographic Prints. " Obscénités renaissantes. Ed. Hugh Roberts, Guillaume Peureux and Lise Wajeman. Genève : Droz, 2011, 423-438.

Gethner, Perry

Ed. and trans. with Allison Stedman. A Trip to the Country, by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2011.

" Douceur et galanterie dans les tragédies lyriques de Quinault. " La Douceur en littérature de l’Antiquité au XVIIè siècle. Ed. Hélène Baby and Josiane Rieu. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 323-32.

*Work in progress : Critical editions of Rotrou’s L’Heureux naufrage and Dom Lope de Cardone, Thomas Corneille’s Laodice and La Mort d’Annibal, and Murat’s Voyage de campagne.

- Volume II of an anthology of French women playwrights in English translation (1650-1700).

- Volume III of an anthology of French women playwrights for which professor Gethner is going to edit works by Sainctonge and Durand.

Goldsmith, Elizabeth

The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna and her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin. New York: Public Affairs, 2012.

" Letters and the Epistolary Novel. " Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.

" Seventeenth-Century Women Writers. " The Cambridge History of French Literature. Ed. William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Wilson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

*Work in progress : Translation of Catherine Bédacier Durand’s novel La Comtesse de Mortane.

Goldwyn, Henriette

Concordia Discors. Choix de communications présentées lors du 41ème colloque annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Ed. with Benoît Bolduc, 2 vols. Tübingen : Günter Narr, 2011.

" Mme Du Noyer’s Mémoires : The Politics of Religion in Ancien Régime. " Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Women Writers, Ed. Faith Beasley, Modern Language Association, 2011, 222-230.

" Teaching Versailles. " Teaching the Early Modern Period. Eds. Derval Conroy and Danielle Clarke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 184-190.

Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien Régime, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Ed. with Aurore évain and Perry Gethner, Vol 3. La Cité des dames. Saint-étienne : Presses de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2011.

*Work in progress : Ed. with Aurore évain and Perry Gethner, Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien Régime, XVIIIe siècle. Vol 4.

Grégoire, Vincent

" Le Meunier, la domestique et la religieuse : entre magie, possession et ’obsession démoniaque’ en Nouvelle France au 17ème siècle. " Cahiers du dix-septième 13.1 (2010) : 69-91 [Vol. 13, n. 2 of the Cahiers which came out in January 2012].

" La représentation du Tartuffe n’aura pas lieu, ou pour une nouvelle ’Affaire Tartuffe’ à Québec en 1694. " published in Lieux de Culture dans la France au XVIIème siècle. William Brooks, Christine McCall Probes et Rainer Zaiser (éds.). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2012.

" L’Iroquois est un loup pour l’homme, ou la difficulté de ’convertir les loups en agneaux’ dans les écrits des missionnaires de Nouvelle-France au dix-septième siècle. " A paraître dans Quebec Studies.

Grélé, Denis

Entre l’argent et l’honneur : Réflexions sur la mauvaise foi de Madame de la Guette (1613-1676). Forthcoming in L’Erudit Franco-espagnol (peer-reviewed online journal).

Harrigan, Michael

" Méchant Chretien ne sera jamais bon Turc. " Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture. Ed. A Kay and G. Adams. Oxford, NY : Peter Lang, 2012, 9-28.

" Mobility and Language in the Early Modern Antilles. " Seventeenth-Century French Studies 34.2 (2012), 115-32.

*Work in progress: Extensive study on the historiography of the early modern period, focusing on the function and reception of short narratives.

Jensen, Katharine A.

Uneasy Possessions: The Mother-Daughter Dilemma in French Women’s Writings, 1671-1928. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011.

Kennedy, Theresa

" Daring female playwrights and their ’filles rebelles’ in 17th century France. " Forthcoming in Rebelles, vilaines et criminelles chez les écrivaines d’expression française ou la déviance au féminin. Ed. Colette Trout et al. Faux Titre, Atlanta/Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi.

Koppisch, Michael

" Desire and Conversion in François de Sale’s Traité de l’amour de Dieu. " Contagion 19 (2012), 23-37.

Kuizenga, Donna

" Villedieu and Manley: Teaching Early Modern Pseudo-Autobiographies. " Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York : Modern Language Association, 2011, 250-257.

Leibacher, Lise

" Imaginaire anatomique, débordements tribadiques et excisions: le Discours sur les hermaphrodites (1614) de Jean Riolan fils. " Forthcoming in L’Hermaphrodite, de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Ed. Marianne Closson. Paris : Garnier, 2013.

*Work in progress: " Littératures du leurre et ’Mœurs galantes aux colonies.’ Le Zombi du Grand Pérou (1697) entre Blessebois, Nodier et Montifaud. "

- " Le Portrait de l’Equivoque (Michelet), Maintenon et les enjeux de la différence (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) ".

- Book monograph on P.C. Blessebois.

Longino, Michèle

*Work in progress: Travel, or the Benefits of Discontent: Marseilles - Constantinople (1650-1700).

Lyons, John D.

" From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century Literature. " French Studies 65. 2 (2011), 188-199.

" Tragedy: Early to Mid Seventeenth Century. " The Cambridge History of French Literature. Ed. W. Burgwinkle, et al. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 253-261.

" The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature". Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Book review: Terence Cave, " Retrospectives ." French Studies, 65.1 (January 2011), 93-94.

Mathieu, Francis

" Early Modern Women Writers in a History of Ideas Survey Course. " Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.

L’Art d’esthétiser le précepte. L’Exemplarité rhétorique dans le roman d’Ancien Régime. Tubingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2012.

Natoli, Charles

" Reflections on Paradox and Religion in the Evangel of Lucretius. " Lucretius : His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance, ed. by Timothy J. Madigan and David B. Suits (Rochester : RIT Press, 2011).

" The Best Man is Only a Man : Reflections on Some Enchantments and Disenchantments of the Grail. " American Theological Inquiry, 4.1 (January 2011).

Norman, Buford

" L’Audace de corriger Quinault : les révisions de Devismes du livret de 1684. " Amadis de Gaule. De Johann Christian Bach, Philippe Quinault et Saint-Alphonse. Ed. Jean Duron. Wavre, Mardaga, 2011, 83-100.

" Les sons des coulisses: Esther et Athalie. " La Scène et la coulisse dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle en France. Ed. G. Forestier and L. Michel. Paris, PUPS, 2011.

" L’originalité du livret d’Atys de Quinault. " Journée d’étude sur les parodies d’Atys, Paris, Opéra-Comique, Mai 2011.

*Work in progress : -Website devoted to the works and life of Philippe Quinault: www.quinault.info. -Database on Racine and Music.

Page, Nicholas

" Diderot démystifié: Les Lectures de La Religieuse. " Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France 111.4 (2011) : 851-68.

" The Complexities of the Classical Lexicon. " Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.

Paine, Skye

*Work in progress: Réflexion sur le thème de la centralisation. Réflexion aussi, en matière pédagogique, sur la façon de contextualiser le 17ème siècle.

Prest, Julia

*Work in progress : Dangerous Illusions and Unwelcome Truths: Tartuffe in an Age of Absolutism.

Probes, Christine

" Controversy and Consolation: The Animal in the Royal Court, Madame and her Spaniels." Seventeenth Century French Studies 33.1 (2011), 16-23.

" Boileau et Bossuet: le poète-satiriste et le pasteur d’âmes: leurs rôles et leurs armes dans la controverse sur l’amour de Dieu. " Concordia Discors. Choix de communications présentées lors du 41e colloque annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Ed. Henriette Goldwyn and Benoît Bolduc. Tübingen : Günter Narr, 2011.

With Martine Le Glaunec Landis, " The Taste of Violence : Senses, Signs, Biblical and Theological Allusion in the Service of the Dramatization of History, Pierre Matthieu’s Guisiade " for 2012/2013 volume edited by Margit Grieb.

Contributing Editor. Bibliography of French Seventeenth Century Studies. Vol. 58, 2011 (Bennington, VT : Bennington College).

Co-editor (with Bill Brooks and Rainer Zaiser). Lieux de Culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle, Collection : Medieval and Early Modern French Studies, Bern : Peter Lang, 2012.

" ’Le Roi me disait quelquefois : ’D’où vient donc, Madame, que vous aimez tant Fontainebleu’ ’ : Les lieux de la cour comme lieux de culture, les réflexions de Madame Palatine sur Fontainebleu, Marly, Saint-Cloud et Versailles. " Lieux de Culture, Berne, Peter Lang, 2012.

" In search of ’l’amy’ and ’l’amitié’ : Early Seventeenth-Century Editions of Emblems from the Glasgow University Collection, " in honor of Amy Wygant, in the British Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 2012.

" Hands and Clouds : Key Theophanies and Anthropomorphisms in Georgette de Montenay’s Emblemes ou devises chrestiennes. " Accepted by Alison Adams for volume I; was subsequently invited to co-edit, for 2013 (forthcoming).

*Work in progress: Co-editor (with Sabine Moedersheim), Emblems and Propaganda, Glasgow : Glasgow Emblem Studies, (2013). - " Hope Kindled by a Cinema in the Service of the People ? Women and the Marginalized in the Recent Francophone African Films. " Submitted for publication to the University of South Florida World/ University of South Florida Center for India Studies organizers of volume of selected proceedings from the Conference on Eastern and Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainability and Conflict Resolution. - " Au Cours de la route : un voyage incognito de Sophie de Hanovre à la cour de France." (Article) - " La Vie selon les emblématistes : les sens et les significations. " (Article) - " La Sainte-Baume et la Madeleine chez les poètes du cénacle aixois d’Henri d’Angoulême : vers une rhétorique du paysage et de ’heureuse pécheresse’. " (Proposal)

Racevskis, Roland

" Abundance and Waste in Scarron’s Le Roman comique: Early Modern Environments and Terrocentric Identity. " French Review 86.2 (forthcoming, December 2012).

" The Place of the Nonhuman in Madame de Sévigné’s Letters: Toward a Transnational Early Modern Ecocriticism. " Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (forthcoming).

Raynard-Leroy, Sophie

The Teller’s Tale. Ed. Raynard. Chap. 2 " Perrault and the Conteuses Précieuses--Seventeenth-Century France. " SUNY Press, 2012, 39-93.

Fairy Tales Framed. Raynard (co-Ed). Chapter 3: " Fairy Tales and Fairyland fictions in France: Establishing the Canon. " SUNY Press, 2012, 99-228.

Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Broadview Press. 2012. Eds. Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Shacker. Part II: Contemporary Critical Approaches. Reception. Raynard: " Sexuality and the Women Fairy Tale Writers of the 1690s ".

Requemora-Gros, Sophie

Voguer vers la modernité : Le voyage à travers les genres au XVII siècle. Paris : Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, collection dirigée par François Moureau " Imago mundi ", 2012, 880 p.

Voyage et Théâtre, Loïc P. Guyon et Sylvie Requemora-Gros (dir.), Paris, PUPS, coll. " Imago mundi ", 2011, 475 p.

Image et Voyage, Loïc Guyon et Sylvie Requemora-Gros (dir.), Aix-en-Provence, PUP, coll. " Textuelles ", 2012, 319 p.

" Théâtre du séjour ou théâtre du parcours : réflexions sur la naissance du ’théâtre de voyage’ en France. " Voyage et Théâtre, Loïc P. Guyon et Sylvie Requemora-Gros (dir.), Paris, PUPS, coll. " Imago mundi ", 2011, 131-147.

" Au royaume des Amazones: embarquements romanesques pour le pays de Féminie ", Géographie imaginariae: dresser le cadastre des mondes inconnus dans la fiction narrative de l’Ancien Régime. Marie-Christine Pioffet et Isabelle Lachance (dir.), Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2011, 79-94.

" Viatica concors ou viatica discors? Du Cafre du Sud au Cafre du Nord. " Concordia Discors, Benoit Bolduc et Henriette Goldwyn (dir.), choix de communications présentées lors du 41e Colloque de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Tubingen, Narr Verlag, Biblio 17, 194 (2011), 157-165.

En collaboration avec Loïc P. Guyon: " Voyage et théâtre de l’Antiquité au XIXe siècle. " Voyage et Théâtre, Loïc P. Guyon et Sylvie Requemora-Gros (dir.), Paris, PUPS, coll. " Imago mundi ", 2011, 9-37.

" La circulation des genres dans l’écriture viatique: la ’littérature’ des voyages ou le nomadisme générique, le cas de Marc Lescarbot. " La Circulation des récits en Europe et en Nouvelle-France (1492-1615), Véronique Duche (dir.), Oeuvres et critiques (Narr Verlag) 36.1 (2011) : 67-74.

" Les îles dans la littérature maritime française du XVIIe siècle. " Mare Nostrum. Les Corses et la mer, Musée de la Corse, Albiana, 2011, 202-210.

" La Fontaine ou le voyage ’aux rives prochaines’." Lectures de La Fontaine. Le recueil de 1668, Christine Noille (dir.), Rennes, PUR, coll. " Didact Français ", 2011, 259-269.

Dictionnaire des lieux et pays mythiques, Pierre Ronzeaud (dir.) ; rédactrice des entrées: " Pays des Amazones " (49-52), " Eldorado " (431-434) et " Sérail " (1091-1096). Paris : Bouquin, 2011.

Dictionnaire analytique des toponymes imaginaires dans la littérature narrative de langue française (1605-1711), Marie-Christine Pioffet, Marie-Lise Laquerre et Daniel Maher (dir.), Quebec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2011. Entrées : " Camp des Amazones " (58-61), " Royaume des Amazones" (65-71 et 75-80) et " Palais des Secrets " (434-443).

Jean-François Regnard: éthique et esthétique d’un gai légataire (forthcoming).

Transgressions, Aix, PUP, coll. " Textuelles " (forthcoming).

Mélanges en l’honneur de Pierre Ronzeaud, Aix, PUP, coll. " Textuelles " (forthcoming).

Actes du 43e Colloque Annuel de la North-American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (NASSCFL), " Voyages, échanges, rencontres au XVIIe siècle ", 5-8 juin 2013, Marseille et Aix-en-Provence, revue Littératures classiques/ Biblio 17 (forthcoming 2014).

Edition critique de Jean-François Regnard, La Provençale, Voyages de Flandres, Hollande, Suède, Danemark, Laponie, Pologne et Allemagne. Voyages de Normandie et de Chaumont suivi de La Relation de l’esclavage des sieurs de Fercourt et Regnard pris sur mer par les corsaires d’Alger (1678-1679), Paris: Garnier (forthcoming).

Edition critique de Jean-François Regnard, Le Légataire universel, dans Le Théâtre de Regnard, Charles Mazouer et Sabine Chaouche (dir.), Paris: Garnier (forthcoming).

" Des voyages aux pièces de théâtre de Jean-François Regnard: une esthétique de la bigarrure. " Jean-François Regnard, colloque du Tricentenaire, Dominique Quero et Charles Mazouer (dir.), Paris (forthcoming).

" De l’usage de la pointe dans la comédie de la fin du siècle: J.-F. Regnard, ou le jeu des pointes. " Mélanges en l’honneur de François Moureau, G. Ferreyrolles (dir.), Paris, PUPS (forthcoming).

" Le genre ’metoyen’ en question: le cas de l’épisode algérien de Regnard. " Actes du colloque international de l’ADIREL et du CRLV : Le Voyage dans tous ses états ; 16-17 mars 2012, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris, PUPS (forthcoming).

" Comment peut-on être Lapon? Singularités Nordiques. J.-F. Regnard en Europe du Nord, entre anomalie et ironie. " Colloque international, 27-29 mars 2012, Durham Castle, Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle (CIR 17), La France et l’Europe du Nord au XVIIe siècle: de l’Irlande à la Russie, Tubingen, Narr Verlag, Biblio 17 (forthcoming).

" Sophie de Hanovre, princesse incognito à la cour ’arche de Noé.’ " Voyageurs européens à la cour de France au temps des Bourbons (1594-1789) - regards croisés, Journée d’étude du 13 février 2012 organisée par Caroline zum Kolk et François Moureau intégrée au programme de recherche intitulé : " Les Etrangers à la cour de France au temps des Bourbons (1594-1789). Intégration, apports, suspicions ", dirigé par J. F. Dubost (université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée) en commun avec le CRCV, prélude au colloque des 7-9 février 2013 (forthcoming).

" Généalogie de la figure littéraire du pirate du XVIIè au XIXè siècle. " Piraterie au fil de l’Histoire: un défi pour l’Etat, Michèle Battesti (dir.), Institut de recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire, colloque international de La Rochelle, 9-12 mai 2012 (forthcoming).

Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber et Béatrice Didier ed., Editions des Femmes, responsable des 42 entrées de femmes écrivains français du XVIIème (forthcoming).

Robin, Jean-Luc. " Y a-t-il des robots au XVIIème siècle ? Descartes et l’invention de l’automatisme. " Cahiers du dix-septième 13.2 (2011) : 110-129.

Rubin, David

Changing Perspectives: Studies in Honor of John Campbell, ed. Ronald W. Tobin and Angus J. Kennedy.

Schröder, Volker

" Classique par anticipation : Boileau et le fol espoir de l’immortalité. " Œuvres & Critiques 37.1 (2012), 125-141.

" Verse and Versatility : The Poetry of Antoinette Deshoulières. " Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. Ed. Faith Beasley. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011,242-249.

" Scarron. " Cahiers de l’Association Internationale des Etudes françaises 63 (2011) : 125-133 (introduction to a special section on Paul Scarron).

" Madame Deshoulières, ou la satire au féminin. " XVIIe siècle (forthcoming 2013).

" Réduction de Bérénice. " Nach allen Regeln der Kunst, Festschrift Peter Kuon, Wien : LIT Verlag (forthcoming 2013).

*work in progress : Book on verbal violence in classical litterature (Boileau, Molière, Racine, moralists, conteuses).

Hanna, Daniel. Carmelite Poetry in France and the Low Countries : The Tradition of Teresa of Avila (completed, 2/2012).

Worden, Daniel J. Tales of Imposters : Exposing Belief in Fiction from the Baroque to the Early Enlightenment (in progress).

CIR 17 (CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RENCONTRES SUR LE 17e SIèCLE). President : Buford Norman. Recent publication: Echos du grand siècle (1638-2011), actes du colloque de Georgetown, Littératures classiques 76. Forthcoming : La France et l’Europe du Nord, actes du colloque de Durham. Next colloquium : S’exprimer autrement : poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’époque classique, Toronto, May 8-10, 2014. See further details on website : http://www.cir17.info. Membership dues $30/year, payable to North American Treasurer : Volker Schroder, French & Italian, Princeton U., 303 East Pyne, Princeton, NJ 08544, email : volkers@princeton.edu.

Stedman, Allison

" Jean Racine, Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon, and Charles Perrault: A Revised Triumvirate. " Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.

Intro., Ed. and trans. with Perry Gethner. A Trip to the Country, by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2011.

Rococo Fiction in the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715 : Seditious Frivolity. Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, 2012.

Trans. " ’The Savage’ by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat. " Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and New Critical Perspectives. Ed. Christine Jones and Jennifer Shaker. Ontario: Broadview (forthcoming 2012).

Steinberger, Deborah

" Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles : Conversion Stories in the Mercure Galant ’s Anti-Protestant Propaganda. " Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XL, 78 (forthcoming in 2013).

*work in progress : " Women’s Stories in Donneau de Visé’s Mercure Galant. "

Tobin, Ronald

Changing Perspectives: Essay on Racine in Honor of John Campbell. Eds. Ronald W.Tobin and Angus J. Kennedy. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2012.

" Stage and Off-Stage in Racine’s Early Plays. " Changing Perspectives, 11-20.

" La Scène et le hors-scène: les univers parallèles de L’Andromaque de Racine. " La Scène et la coulisse dans le théâtre du XVIIè Siècle. Dir. Forestier et Miche. Paris: PUPS, 2012, 41-53.

Le Misanthrope revu et corrigé: Le Philinte de Fabre d’Eglantine. " Actes de Pézenas (forthcoming 2012).

" French Studies: Plus de souvenirs que d’avenir? " French Review (forthcoming May 2013).

" Jean Racine, " entrée mise à jour et élargie. Encyclopedia Britannica online (forthcoming 2013).

*works in progress: " Corneille et Molière convives? " - Stage and Off-Stage in Racine’s Tragedies. - Hospitality in French Literature of the Seventeenth-Century.

Trinquet, Charlotte

Le Conte de fée français (1690-1700). Traditions italiennes et origines aristocratiques. Biblio 17 n. 197, 2012.

True, Micah

" Travel Writing, Ethnography, and the Colony-Centric Voyage of the Jesuit Relations from New France." American Review of Canadian Studies (forthcoming 2012).

" ’Une Hierusalem Bénite de Dieu’: Utopia and Travel in the Jesuit Relations from New France. " Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (forthcoming 2012).

*Work in progress: Maistre et Escolier: Mission Ethnography and the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Relations from New France. - " ’Nous Avons Experimenté’: Jacques Cartier and Travel Writing. "

Tucker, Holly

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution. New York: W.W Norton, 2011.

" Books and Bodies: Early Modern Women in Medical Contexts. " Ed. Faith Beasley. Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. New York : Modern Language Association, 2011, 39-47.

Visentin, Hélène

" Mapping Paris, A Cultural Capital " (in collaboration with Amherst College): An interactive, web-based platform of the city of Paris by using a hypermedia environment with the Geographic Information System (GIS).

" The Status of the Printed Accounts of Henri II’s Royal Entries (1547-1552). " In Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe. Eds M.-C. Canova-Green, J. Andrews and M.-F. Wagner : Early European Research, Brepols Publishers, 2012.

Vuillemin, Jean-Claude

" Notes sur l’épistémè foucaldienne, " Cahiers Philosophiques (Forthcoming).

" Jean de Rotrou ", " Abraham Bosse " , " Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin ", " Jean Racine. " In Dictionnaire des philosophes français du XVIIe siècle. Ed. Luc Foisneau. Paris: Classiques Garnier (Forthcoming).

*Work in progress: Epistémè baroque : le mot et la chose.

Welch, Ellen

A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011.

" Performing a New France, Making Colonial History in Marc Lescarbot’s Théâtre de Neptune (1606). " Modern Language Quarterly 72.4 (December 2011).

" Adapting ’The Liberal Lover’: Mediterranean Commerce, Political Economy, and Theatrical Form under Richelieu. " Comparative Drama, Fall 2011.

" Going Behind the Scenes with Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Staging Critical Spectatorship at Louis XIV’s Court. " French Review 85.5 (2012), 26-38

" Of Flatterers and Fleas: Tristan l’Hermite’s Le Parasite and Baroque Theater’s Problem of Truth. " Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 66.1 (2012), 31-40.

*Work in progress: " Spectacles of State: Diplomacy and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France. "

Wilkenstrom, Toby

*Work in progress: Law and cross-cultural contact (conquest, slavery) in theatre; early Modern orientalism in theater and captivity narratives.

Woshinsky, Barbara

" Tropes at Play: Rhetoric and Concupiscence in Pascal’s Pensées. " Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (2012).

Zaiser, Rainer

" Le métarécit dans Le Roman comique de Scarron: l’écriture postmoderne à l’épreuve de l’âge classique. " Cahiers de l’Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises 63 (2011) : 229-242.

" Alexandre le Grand relu à la lumière de Cinna ou la clémence d’Auguste: la question de la magnanimité du souverain chez Racine et Corneille. " Changing Perspectives : Studies on Racine in Honor of John Campbell. Ed. Ronald W. Tobin and Angus Kennedy. Charlottesville : Rookwood Press (Forthcoming 2012).

" La rhétorique de l’harmonie discordante: La théorie de la pointe dans les traités poétiques du XVIIe siècle. " Concordia Discors. Choix de communications présentées lors du 41ème colloque annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Ed. Benoît Bolduc et Henriette Goldwyn. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2011. Vol. 2, 45-53.

" Die Diskursivierung der Ethik der Selbstsorge im Theater der französischen Klassik: Racines Bérénice und Corneilles Tite et Bérénice. " Politik - Ethik - Poetik. Diskurse und Medien frühneuzeitlichen Wissens. Ed. Thorsten Burkard, Markus Hundt, Steffen Martus, Claus-Michael Ort. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011: 43-55.

" Autour de quelques méthodes de la recherche dix-septièmiste en Allemagne: le style de Spitzer, la mimésis d’Auerbach et l’anthropologie négative de Stierle. " XVIIème siècle (forthcoming 2012).

Ed. Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711), diversité et rayonnement de son œuvre. Papers on French Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Biblio 17. Œuvres et Critiques, 37.1 (2012).