The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com) is seeking qualified writers to enhance its coverage of seventeenth-century French literature. The list below is not comprehensive or final, and new proposals of writers/ works/context essays that are not currently listed in our database are also welcome. However, we will prioritize articles on writers and works frequently studied in university courses, and those that are highly topical and well-known.
Volume 1.5.2.03, French Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century
Prose fiction editor, Dr. Kathrina LaPorta (NYU), kal397@nyu.edu
Theatre editor, Dr. Polly T. Mangerson (DePaul University), polly.mangerson@depaul.edu
PEOPLE
Bayle, Pierre
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
D’Urfé, Honoré
Fénelon, François
Furetière, Antoine
La Bruyère, Jean
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Mazarin, Jules
Rotrou, Jean
Scarron, Paul
Sorel, Charles
Vivonne, Catherine de (marquise de Rambouillet)
WORKS
Boileau - L’Art poétique
Corneille, Pierre - L’Illusion comique, Rodogune
Descartes, René - Discours de la Méthode, Les Passions de l’âme, Méditations philosophiques
La Fontaine - Les Fables
La Rochefoucauld - Maximes
Madame de Lafayette - La Princesse de Clèves, La Princesse de Montpensier
Madeleine de Scudéry - Clélie, histoire romaine, Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus
Molière - L’Avare, L’École des maris
Racine, Jean - Athalie, Esther, La Thébaïde, Les Plaideurs, Mithridate
Rotrou - Le véritable St. Genest
Scarron - Aénide, ou Virgile travesti
Sorel - L’Histoire comique de Francion
CONTEXT
Louis XIII creates the Académie française
First edition in France of the Dictionnaire de L'Académie
Orientalism in 17th-century France
Please email Kathrina LaPorta and Polly Mangerson by April 30, 2019 to express interest in publishing an entry on one or more of the attached topics. Individual deadlines for article submissions will be arranged with the editors.