(2013) Volume XV, 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Theresa V. Kennedy.  Gender Performance in Seventeenth-century Dramatic Dialogue: From the Salon to the Classroom.....................................................................1

Michael Harrigan. Métissage and Crossing Boundaries in the Seventeenth-Century Travel Narrative to the Indian Ocean Basin...............................................................19

Karen Santos Da Silva.  Pringy’s Les Differens caracteres des femmes:  The Difficult Case of Female Salvation..........................................................................................46

Kathrina Ann LaPorta.   “The Truth about Reasoning”: Veiled Propaganda and the Manipulation of Absolutist Authority in Eustache Le Noble’s  La Pierre de touche politique (1688–1691).......................................................................................................72

Book Reviews

La Motte, Antoine Houdar de. Les Originaux ou L’Italien. Édition établie par Francis B. Assaf.  Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8233-6717-8. Pp. 76 (Perry Gethner).....94

Delehanty, Ann T. Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France: From Poetics to Aesthetics. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 209. $80. (Christopher Braider).....96

McLeod, Jane. Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2011. ISBN 978-0-271-03768-4. Pp. 312. $74.95 (Kathrina LaPorta).....99

Krüger, Annika Charlotte. Lecture sartrienne de Racine: Visions existentielles de l'homme tragique. Tubingen: Narr Verlag, 2011. ISBN:  978-3-8233-6620-1. Pp. 275. 74€ (Nina Ekstein).....101

Racevskis, Roland. Tragic Passages: Jean Racine’s Art of the Threshold. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8387-5684-3. Pp. 221. $47.50. (Ellen R. Welch).....103

Woshinsky, Barbara R. Imagining Women’s Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800. The Cloister Disclosed. Great Britain: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. ISBN 978-0-75466754-4. Pp. 344. $119.95 (Jennifer Perlmutter).....105

Review of Siefert, Lewis C. and Domma C. Stanton (Eds and Transl). Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 9. Toronto: CRRS, 2010. ISBN: 978-07727-2077-1. Pp. 362. $32 (Charlotte Trinquet du Lys).....107