(2015) Volume XVI, 1

Table of Contents

Alison Calhoun.  Corneille’s Andromède and Opera: Practice Before Theory ..........................1

Nathalie Freidel.  La ruse du nom, machination rhétorique dans Amphitryon de Molière ...... 18

Ralph Albanese.  Ruses et stratégies discursives dans L’Ecole des Maris  ..................................35

Christophe Schuwey.  Le Mercure galant : un recueil interactif ...................................................48

Herbert Morris.   The Absent and Present Serpent in Nicolas Poussin’s Spring ...........................63

Henry Cohen.  Racine’s Esther: In Praise of Historiographers and Historians ............................77

Sylvie Romanowski.  Teaching the Seventeenth Century at the Graduate Level .........................93

BOOK REVIEWS

Braider, Christopher. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4426-4348-2. Pp. 340.   Reviewed by Ellen McClure..........................................................................109

Randall, Catharine. The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality.  Notre Dame, IN:  University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.  ISBN 978-0-268-04035-2. Pp. 178. 
Reviewed by Jean Leclerc.................................................111

Winn, Colette H., ed. Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2011. ISBN 978-1-60329-089-0. Pp. viii & 440.  Reviewed by Kathleen Llewellyn.........................................................................113