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• See French 17 (1997).

ESCOLA, MARC. Jean de La Bruyère. Paris/Roma: Memini, 1996.

Review: J.-P. Dens in PFSCL 15 (1998), 304: A critical bibliography based on thematic categories and available on CD-ROM that will be updated every five years. A tool that offers an excellent "état présent" and avenues for future research.

GLASGOW EMBLEM STUDIES 2 (1997).

In addition to 5 articles on Tristan (q.v.), contains Daniel Russell, "Thoughts on a newly discovered manuscript of Gomberville's Doctrine des moeurs (1646)," Alison Saunders's "Whose Intellectual Property? The Liber Fortunae of John Cousin, Imbert d'Anzély or Ludovic Lalanne?", Sandro Sider,"Luis Nunes Trincolo's Architectural Emblematic Imagery in l7th century Portugal: Making a Name for a Palatine Princess," Gillian Wright, "The Growth of an Emblem: Some Contexts for Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 767."

GRAFTON, ANTHONY. The Footnote: A Curious History. London: Faber & Faber, 1997.

Review: n.a. in VQR 74.2 (1998), 44–45: "Footnotes, G. observes, guarantee nothing, but they are that 'messy mixture' of art and science known as modern history."

HOWSON, LESLIE. Scientists Since 1660: A Bibliography of Biographies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.

Review: R. J. Havlik in Choice 35.5 (1998), 798: "H. calls this an 'unconventional bibliography,' since its principal goal is to demonstrate 'the way in which publishers and the book trade have treated the lives of scientists, and how that treatment has changed over time.'... The object is to place [each biography] in context with other books on the individual. The author's intent is presented in an extensive introduction, but strangely no overall conclusions are drawn."

INDEX OF PLACES OF PRINTING AND PUBLISHING (OF THE) SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED IN FRANCE AND OF FRENCH BOOKS PRINTED IN OTHER COUNTRIES FROM 1470 TO 1600 NOW IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY. London: The British Library, 1995.

INHABER, HERBERT. Masks from Antiquity to the Modern Era: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997.

Review: R.B.M. Ridinger in Choice 35.6 (1998), 966: "With more than 1,200 entries, this unique volume goes a long way toward providing a starting point [for reference work in the area of masks].... The authors intend 'to bring together most, if not all, of the books and journal articles that primarily discuss masks.' An unusual feature is a listing of museums in 31 countries that hold specialized collections of masks."

ISIS CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY 1997.

l7th Century studies, 91–110.

KATZ, BILL. Cuneiform to Computer: A History of Reference Sources. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.

Review: D. C. Dickinson in Choice 35.11/12 (1998), 82: "According to K. ..., the development of reference sources mirrors intellectual and technological change. To prove his point, K. arranges ten chapters by types of source (e.g., encyclopedias, maps, almanacs, government publications), and follows the changes in format and purpose undergone by each over the centuries.... The book ends with a useful chronology of important dates in the history of reference sources. K. does not intend to supply a complete analysis or chronology of the best reference sources, but to relate certain landmark titles to the society in which they emerged."

KINNAMON, NOEL J. "Recent Studies in the English Renaissance." ELR 27 (1997), 281–326.

Numerous entries go beyond focus as indicated by title, therefore 17th c. French specialists will benefit from references to location and significance of manuscripts. K. interprets "recent" broadly—thus important criticism of the 1920's and 1930's is included, as well as "more recent" studies (Catalogues and Indices, General Studies, Codicology, Paleography, Autographs, Transcription, Composition and Revision, Attribution, Provenance, Manuscript Transmission, Textual Significance, Manuscript and Print, State of Criticism).

KLAPP, OTTO. Bibliographie der französischen Litteraturwissenschaft. Vol. 34 (1996). Ed. by Astrid Klapp-Lehrmann. Frankfurt: V. Klostermann, 1997.

17th c. section, pp. 296–369. Includes reviews; no commentaries.

LACHIVER, MARCEL. Dictionnaire du monde rural. Les mots du passé. Paris: Fayard, 1997.

Review: J. Chesneaux in QL 728 (1997), 24–25: "D'aaner à zythe, l'ensemble des 38–200 mots ... que M.L. a réunis en cinquante ans de travail acharné.... Cet historien de l'ancienne France rurale nous offre ainsi ce superbe corpus pour la compilation duquel il s'est aidé de maints dictionnaires et glossaires déjà disponibles, et aussi de maintes thèses universitaires...."

LEMOINE, ANNE-MARIE. "Dissertations in Progress," FR 71 (1997), 336–54.

17th c. sections, pp. 341, 350–351, with cross-references to other periods.

LOSADA, JOSE MANUEL, ed.. Bibliography of the Myth of Don Juan in Literary History. Lewiston: E. Mellen, 1997.

Review: B. E. Brandt in Choice 35.7 (1998), 1164–1165: Unlike A. Singer before him, "L. and his colleagues include only works that use the name Don Juan in one form or another... and that substantially incorporate the entire myth, including an inquiry into transcendence, the presence of a group of women, a banquet or feast, and the threat of a deadline. Unlike Singer, L. includes translations and major editions. In addition, critical studies... comprise 1,708 of L.'s 2,884 entries. The entries are divided by language into English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, with an appendix on the Slavonic languages. The index cross-references all the criticism pertaining to major authors."

MARINO, ADRIAN. The Biography of 'The Idea of Literature': From Antiquity to the Baroque. Trans.V. Stancieu &Ch. Carlton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Review: K. Wheeler in JES 27.3 (1997), 367–368: An investigation "overwhelmingly concerned with 'etonyms' and 'unit ideas'...." Some of the main terminological nodes are litteræ, litteratura, grammata, poesis, and, later, belles lettres.... Discussions about the book, the development of libraries, the beginnings of bibliography and criticism, and the early appearance of debate about the relation of ancient to modern literature ... flesh out the philological and etymological skeleton with fascinating nuggets of information. The process of the 'aestheticizing' of the idea of literature is traced as a gradually increasing dichotomy between the words poetry and literature.... Moreoever, so called modern ideas of inter textuality, deliberate plagiarism, anti literature, indeterminacy, and literature about literature are shown to have flourished from these earliest times... into the baroque and neo classical periods."

MATAGNE, CHARLES. Répertoire des ouvrages du XVIIe siècle de la Bibliothèque C.D.R.R. (1651–1700). Namur: Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Religieuses, 1992.

Review: M.-T. Isaac in RBPH 74 (1996), 989–90: Ce répertoire, "résultat d'un travail minutieux considérable, est d'une consultation facile et qui comble sans aucun doute possible une lacune dans notre connaissance de la production imprimée du XVIIe siècle."

• See French 17 (1993, 91).

METZ, ROBERT. Histoire de la censure dans l'édition. Paris: PUF, 1997.

Review: BCLF 595 (avril 1998), 749: L'auteur "brosse ici un panorama de cinq siècles consacré à l'histoire de la censure dans l'édition à travers sept chapitres chronologiques. . . . Un livre passionnant, illustré de nombreux exemples (certains connus et d'autres moins) où se mêlent analyses historiques, sociologiques et économiques. A signaler également son intéressante bibliographie."

MONTANDON, ALAIN, ed. Dictionnaire raisonné de la politesse et du savoir-vivre du moyen âge jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1995.

Review: D.N. Losse in RenQ 50 (1997), 292–94: Highly useful and stimulating reference work is the fruit of an impressive network of scholars coordinated by the Université Blaise Pascal. Essays include aspects both historic and semantic. A must for "students and scholars of cultural studies, social history and literature."

MULON, MARIANNE. Noms de lieux d'Ile de France: introduction à la toponymie. Paris: Bonneton, 1997.

Review: Paul Favre in RLR 102 (1998), 227–29: High praise for scholarship and methodology for this addition to a series on all the regions of France (Languedoc by Paul Favre and Bourgogne by G. Taverdet have appeared). Part I is a "Formation des noms." Part II is a thematic inventory.

NEVEU, VALERIE. "La bibliothèque de Richard Simon." BB (1998), 62–125.

Listing of 136 books owned by the Bib1iothèque de Rouen with author index. Gives an account of the fortunes of the library and full bibliographic description of individual volumes.

NICOLAS PECCEU, MARTHA. "Censorship, Toleration, and Protestant Poetics: The Case of Agrippa d'Aubigné's Histoire universelle." FLS 25 (1998), 41–52.

Convincingly argues that D'Aubigné's experience of censorship (the arrêt of 1620 suppressing the Histoire) caused him to create a poetics based on a Protestant relation to language and literary tradition. Discursive strategies of narration illustrate opposition to the confinement of Protestantism.

PAUPHILET, ALBERT et al., eds. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: le XVIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 1996.

Review: Peter France in TLS 4883 (1 Nov. 1996), 13: Revision of 1955 ed. overseen by Patrick Dandrey with "greatly expanded bibilography" (rather patchy for non- French entries), some updated new entries (e.g. La Rochefoucauld, Sévigné, Guez de Balzac, Tristan), a few new ones on "rediscoveries" (e.g. Hopil, Du Bois-Hus), brief additions reflecting research trends (M. de Scudéry, Sorel, Perrault, Théophile), but in essence "still the old Grente." Reviewer regrets that Racine and Molière entries have been without commentary or new critical perspectives.

PEDERSON, NADINE. "Recent Bibliographical Tools, Critical Editions, Translations, and Essay Collections." RenQ 50 (1997), 350–55.

Includes two reference works which should be of great use to 17 c. scholars: J.F. Maillard, J. Kecskeméti, and M. Portalier's L'Europe des humanistes, a register of humanist editions (14th–17th c.) of ancient authors, with indices and bibliography (Belgium: Brepols and CNRS, 1995) and Jeremy Black's Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare:Renaissance to Revolution, 1492–1792, with bibliography, illustrations and index (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996).

PERNOO-BECACHE, MARIANNE. Bibliographie de la littérature française (XVIe–XXe siècles). Année 1996. Paris, A. Colin, 1997.

17th c. section, pp. 45–68 (bold pagination). Also issued as no. 5 of RHL 97 (1997). 17th c. section, pp. 773–796 (plain pagination). In January 1996 the Culture Ministry created at the B.N. the new fulltime post of Conservateur entirely devoted to guaranteeing continuation of the Bibliography, but with editorial responsibility remaining with the Société (S.H.L.F.). Rancoeur's successor renews praise for his remarkable half century of high quality "bénévolat." Alliance of the two prestigious institutions is expected to pursue "cet écrasant exercice" with expanded means, energies, methods of communication, but same literary values.

PONCET, OLIVIER. "L'ouverture des Archives du Saint Office et l'Index. Echos d'une journeée de Présentation." RHEF 84 (1998), 97–103.

Summary and discussion of the terms under which the documents were announced as open by Cardinal Radzinger in the Accademia dei Litcei, Rome, 22 January 1998.

RANCOEUR, RENE. Bibliographie de la littérature française.

See Pernoo-Bécache above.

ROBERTS, WILLIAM.

1999 Research in Progress/ Dissertations listings are being compiled now. Send info. on 17th c. French, Comparative Literature, and background to W.R., French & Italian, Northwestern U., Evanston, IL: 60208

SAENGER, PAUL. Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Review: D. L. Patey in Choice 35.11/12 (1998), 1848: Begins with "the medieval reinvention of placing spaces between words, key to the emergence of modern silent reading. No longer had readers to sound out texts, previously the nearly universal Western practice. As a result of separation and new cursive scripts, composition ceased to be a matter of dictation to scribes; authors held their own pens; the furniture of reading and writing changed; for the first time, writers asked not to be read too fast...[T]he present magisterial book—the fruit of painstaking examination of manuscript materials spanning the whole of the European Middle ages—retells the story step-by-step."

SORDET, YANN. "Une approche des 'catalogues domestiques' de bibliothèques privées (XVIIe XVIlle siècle), instruments et miroirs de collections particulieres." BB (1997), 92–123.

Useful remarks on the different functions of private catalogues beyond the utilitarian: the presentation and enhancement of the collector, the relationship of the collector to the collection.

TRAVITSKY, BETTY S. and PATRICK CULLEN, eds. The Early Modern Englishwoman A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 1: Printed Writings, 1500–1640. New York: Scholar, 1996.

Review: C. S. Cox in Choice 34.1 (1997), 124: A list of the writings "by, for, and about English women of the early modern era." Includes translations from French and Spanish novellas.

WHITTAKER, VICKI,trans. History of Pedlars in Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.

Review: L.R.N Ashley in BHR 59 (1997), 651–52: Welcome translation of Laurence Fontaine's L'Histoire du colporteur en Europe (Paris: C.N.R.S., 1995), a "pioneering, wide-ranging" work which "offers totally new angles from which to study European society. It is part of the history of many things, from publishing (one of the principal and earliest of their wares were printed materials) to gossip (they carried the news wherever they went)."