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AMELGANG, JAMES. The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.

Review: E. Campion in FR 76 (2002), 117–118: Calling attention to little-known works in the genre, Amelgang sharpens our picture of early modern daily life. Well-written and insightful. A section on Marie de l'Incarnation may be of particular interest.

AMOSSY, RUTH, ed. Images de soi dans le discours. La construction de l'ethos.

Review: K. Semsch in Archiv 239 (2002): 146–150: Wide-ranging volume considers the notion of ethos in its relation to rhetoric, argumentation and a number of disciplines. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the helpful bibliography as well as chapter 7 by Alain Viala, "L'éloquence galante, une problématique."

ANTOINE, PHILIPPE and MARIE-CHRISTINE GOMEZ-GERAUD, eds. Roman et récit de voyage. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001.

Review: O. Hambursin in LR 55 (2001): 128–131: Reflections on a wide-ranging corpus from Antiquity to the present are organized into three distinct parts: "Le Monde et les fables," "Romancier et auteur de voyages," and "Raconter l'aventure et décrire l'ailleurs." The twenty-four essays are complemented by an introduction, a synthesis focusing on the indetermination of a line of demarcation between "l'écriture référentielle" and "l'écriture fictionnelle" and the decisive importance of the "imaginaire" (131). Reviewer regrets the absence of a general bibliography but appreciates this "passionnante plongée. . . dans un univers. . . qui semble receler encore bien des mystères et des plaisirs" (131).

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Ecriture ou ré-écriture? Les Apparences trompeuses: comment ne pas s'y tromper?", PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 397–409.

Examines a number of approaches concerning how the anonymous text Les Apparences trompeuses (published in 1715 and attributed to Courtilz de Sandras) can be read in relation to La Princesse de Clèves.

ASSAF, FRANCIS. La Mort du roi: Une thanatographie de Louis XIV. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag/Biblio 17, 1999.

Review: R. Racevskis in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 111–112: Book examines discourses surrounding the death of the king with respect to "the writing of history, to the conception that France constructed for itself of Louis XIV's reign, and to the prevailing definitions of kingship." Includes information on Medieval and Renaissance conceptions of the sovereign's body, as well as seventeenth-century additions to older ideas. The second part of the book points up fundamental resemblances between the writing of history and the oraison funèbre, which the author then goes on to adumbrate. Reviewer singles out for praise the chapter on the popular songs, critical of the king, that circulated after his death: "The author's ability to bring to light this kind of little-known commentary... provides new insights on the Sun King's reign and makes for fascinating reading."

ASSAF, FRANCIS and ANDREW H. WALLIS, eds. Car demeure l'amitié: Mélanges offerts à Claude Abraham. Paris-Seattle-Tübingen: Biblio 17/PFSCL, 1997.

Review: M. L. Brown in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 95–98: A "delightful" collection of articles inspired by Abraham's work. Subjects include the comédie-ballets and Molière more generally; and works of Tristan l'Hermite, Racine, Théophile, La Fontaine and Pascal.

AVERY, GILLIAN. "Written for Children: Two Eighteenth-Century English Fairy Tales." M&T 16 (2002): 1433–155.

Primary interest of this article is study of how Madame d'Aulnoy's tales influenced English writers Horace Walpole and Jane Johnson.

BARRY, CATHERINE LOUISE. Reflections of Versailles: Literature in the Garden of the Sun King. DAI 63/7 (2003), 2558.

Addresses, through the analysis of works by Scudéry, La Fontaine, and Molière, "the interplay between politics, space and literature, showing that even within absolutist spatial practice cracks appeared, undermining the edifice of the Ancien Régime that would eventually collapse one century later."

BAUSTERT, RAYMOND. La consolation érudite. Huit études sur les sources des lettres de consolation de 1600 à 1650. Tübingen: Gunter Narr (Biblio 17, no. 141).

Two parts: Permanence de l'humanisme classique; Evolution vers la pensée chrétienne; 387 p.

BEAULIEU, JEAN-PHILIPPE & DIANE DESROSIERS-BONIN, sous la dir. de. Dans les miroirs de l'écriture: La réflexivité chez les femmes écrivains d'Ancien Régime. Montréal: U de Montréal, 1998.

Review: C. H. Winn in OeC 27.1 (2002), 253–55: ". . .une quinzaine de communications présentées dans le cadre de la troisième rencontre internationale sur les femmes écrivains d'Ancien Régime, tenue à Montréal en mai 1997. Ces contributions ont pour objet commun la problématique de la réflexivité qu'elles abordent sous des perspectives variées comme les représentations textuelles de la femme s'examinant, se regardant en train d'écrire, de se chercher, les formes complexes et multiples que prennent les mouvements réflexifs, la dimension instrumentale de la réfléxivité, sa portée, ses enjeux, etc." Trois articles consacrés à des auteurs du 17e: Marie de Gournay, Madame de Sévigné, et Mlle de Scudéry.

BELANGER, STEPHANIE. L'épée, le sacrifice et la croix: Figures éthiques du héros dans les tragédies françaises, 1560–1650. DAI 64/4 (2003), 1273.

"The aim of this dissertation is to determine why French authors from the period that goes from the Wars of Religion to the Fronde were driven to represent, as if it were a model, some aspects of the justification of war, of sacrifice and of martyrdom."

BERCHTOLD, JACQUES. Les Prisons du roman (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle). Lectures plurielles et intertextuelles de Guzman d'Alfarache à Jacques le Fataliste. Genève: Droz: 2000.

Review: R. A. Francis in MLR 97.4 (2002), 968–69: ". . .the main interest is the effect of prison, or its threat, on the individual, the evolution of narrative topoi relating to prison life, and the light thrown by the prison theme on the evolution of the early novel, a genre characterized by mobility and the quest for freedom, both social and aesthetic." Treatment of the quest for liberty in the French comic novel of the 17th century in the work of Sorel and Cyrano de Bergerac.

Review: L. Hinds in E Cr 42.1 (2002), 137–139: Berchtold's focus is on "human nature as it is depicted in a series of literary characters in prison" (Hinds 137). Berchtold's methodology is an "exegetical constructivism oriented by a thematic perspective" (Berchtold qtd. by Hinds 138). Hinds appreciates the "wide range of intertexts" including key ones from Antiquity as well as from the 17th and 18th c. Part I focuses on the incarcerated and their narratives in ancient authors (Socrates in Plato and Seneca, other illustrious persons in Plutarch, Livy, Suetonius, and so forth). Parts II and III examine models from the Spanish picaresque tradition which were influential in French portrayals of the penal (Cyrano, Sorel, O.S. de Claireville, Dassoucy, and Oudin de Préfontaine). Part IV considers autobiographical and pseudo-autobiographical accounts of imprisonments. The "troubled mind of the detainee" and 18th c. protagonists occupy Part V. This fruitful "encyclopedic" study is judged "an invaluable contribution to analyses of the picaresque in Spain and in France, the 17th c. histoires comiques and memoirs, the elusive genre of pseudo-autobiography and the 18th c. novel" (Hinds 139). Lauded both for its comprehensiveness and its suggestions of future avenues for investigation.

Review: F. Reiser in RF 114 (2002): 543–545: Praiseworthy for its rich and perspicacious analyses, Berchtold's vast study (784 p.) develops in detail the evolution of the motif of incarceration in French and Spanish literature of the 17th and the 18th c. Emphasis is on the material prison, but also includes lexical and metaphorical ones. The theme is found to be as obsessive as it is catalytic for the novel's form. Attention is also given to works which are "à cheval entre référentialité et fictionalité" (545) such as mémoires (Berchtold investigates the work of Bussy Rabutin as an example).

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 89: Focusing on a neglected theme which he finds significantly in evidence, enough so to propose it as a literary sub-genre, Berchtold approaches the corpus comparatively and in a "multi-stratal" manner. Treats the ubiquity of the theme, its peculiarity in pertinent texts, and the definition of place. A complex analysis which reveals constant "intertextual dialogue," refers to antecedents in Antiquity, manifestations in Renaissance Europe and even in the present day. Important consideration of political and institutional mechanisms as they relate to the theme.

BESSIERE, JEAN, ed. Commencements du roman: Conférences du séminaire de Littérature comparée de l'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: T. Bridgeman in MLR 97.4 (2002), 992: "The papers to this collection fall into three groups: historical approaches to generic definitions; analyses of early modern novels (Defoe, Cervantes, in that order); and analyses of later twentieth-century novels. Of interest in the first group are Laurence Plazenet-Hau's lively account of the reinvention of the 'roman grec' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. . ."

Review: D. Nelting in RF 114 (2002): 70–72: Volume of high quality drawn from lectures of a seminar on comparative literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle includes essays on a variety of subjects which will be of particular interest to 17th c. scholars, for example: Laurence Plazenet-Hau's "Révolution ou imposture? De l'imitation à l'invention du roman grec en France aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles", Sophie Rabau's "Il était plusieurs fois le roman ou comment les critiques narrent les commencements du roman", and Amaryll Chanady's "Le commencement du roman et la modernité."

BISELLO, LINDA. Medicina della memoria. Aforistica ed esemplarità nella scrittura barocca. Firenza: Leo S. Olschki, 1998.

Review: A. Gier in Archiv 239 (2002): 231–232: Praiseworthy for consideration of the aphorism as a formal model, not only as a theme, and for the remarkably extensive yet concise treatment. The reader will want to investigate further things only hinted at due to limits of space. Includes history of the reception of Tacitus, reflections on influence of Seneca, Cicero and others, relation between aphoristic speech and mystical speech as well as between aphorism and metaphor.

BOCH, JULIE. Les Dieux désenchantés. La fable dans la pensée française de Huet à Voltaire (1680–1760). Paris: Champion, 2002. (Les Dix-Huitièmes Siècles, 68).

Review: A. Génetiot in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003) 234–236. "J. Boch se place dans [une perspective] de l'histoire des idées et se consacre à la naissance des sciences de l'homme au XVIIe siècle, apportant ainsi sa contribution à l'histoire de l'esprit humain dans la pensée française. [. . .] Le projet. . . consiste alors à décrire la laïcisation progressive de la fable antique entre l'érudition apologétique au crépuscule de l'humanisme tardif représenté par Huet et l'avènement du rationalisme critique de Bayle et Fontenelle propédeutique à celui des Encyclopédistes. [. . .] Cette histoire des idées sur le mythe présentées dans l'ordre chronologique fait donc clairement apparaître le processus qui conduit à la démystification de la fable non sans conséquence sur le christianisme lui-même, avec en arrière-plan le passage de l'humanisme tardif au rationalisme critique des Lumières, conséquence du cartésianisme et du libre examen. Par une description minutieuse des thèses en présence, Julie Boch fait le point des connaissances et démêle un donné foisonnant dans une synthèse profonde et détaillée."

BOURNAZ, ALIA BACCAR, ed. L'Afrique au XVIIe siècle: Mythes et réalités. Actes du VIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, Tunis, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: G. Narr (Biblio 17, no. 149), 2003. c.421 p.

BOUSQUET, PHILIPPE. "Le suicide féminin au XVIIe siècle: un acte héroïque?" La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 183–200.

Examines the ambiguity which surrounds the literary representation of Lucretia and the extent to which suicide in literature can be viewed as a manifestation of female heroism.

BOUVIER, MICHAEL. La Morale classique. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: J.D. Lyons in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 109–10: Book aims at being a compendium of classical moralist thought, much by completely forgotten thinkers, from 1661 to 1688. Author defines the moralist, however, as he who gives voice to the Catholic establishment, and ignores dissident Jansenist or Protestant thought. The result is, reviewer feels, a somewhat unbalanced view of seventeenth-century French culture. "Bouvier's research took patience and will, as does reading the result."

BREDNICH, ROLF WILHELM, et al. Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung. Vol. 9. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998–1999.

Review: A. Gier in Archiv 239 (2002): 154–158: Continuing publication of valuable reference work founded by Kurt Ranke and the Göttingen Academy. Review lists numerous inclusions from the Middle Ages to our day as well as indications on the reception of the Middle Ages in various periods.

CALDICOTT, EDRIC & DERVAL CONROY, eds. Racine, the Power and the Pleasure. Dublin: University College Press, 2001.

Review: M-O. Sweetser in FR 76 (2003), 1004–05: The product of a 1999 conference (Dublin), the work takes as its starting point Jacques Morel's notion that "L'œuvre de Racine est un long dialogue avec Louis XIV." Includes excellent studies on the reception of Racine's work.

CARLIN, CLAIRE, and KATHLEEN WINE, eds. Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003.

CASTELLANI, GISELE-MATHIEU. "Marcel Raymond et Jean Rousset, maîtres-pilotes en baroquie." OeC 27.2 (2002), 153–68.

Ce numéro des Œuvres et Critiques (27.2. 2002) est consacré au travail des critiques associés à L'Ecole de Genève. Parmi les articles du volume, celui de G. Mathieu-Castellani traite en deux volets de "La critique séminale de Marcel Raymond" et "Portrait de Jean Rousset en critique amoureux."

CHAOUCHE, SABINE. L'Art du comédien: déclamation et jeu scénique en France à l'âge classique (1629–1680). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in FS 57.1 (2003). The author reconstitutes, through references to rhetoric and the oratory actio, the most likely form of theatrical declamation in the 1630s, and its subsequent transformation by "réformateurs" Molière and Racine. Though, according to the reviewer, "toute périodisation va. . . être affaire de conjecture. . . [l'ouvrage] est remarquable par son ampleur, sa clarté, la maîtrise de ses sources et le détail de son analyse."

CHARBONNEAU, FREDERIC and REAL OUELLET, eds. Nouvelles françaises du XVIIe siècle. Québec: l'Instant même, 2000.

Review: R. Godenne in LR 55 (2001): 170–171: Guiding principle of Charbonneau and Ouellet was to include only short texts, twenty-three selections of which eleven are from the first half of the century and which seem naturally to follow the guiding principle (the others perhaps less so, since the later years of the century saw the development of the long "nouvelle historicogalante"). Godenne appreciates the critical texts on the nouvelle and the glossary.

CHARBONNEAU, FREDERIC. Les Silences de l'Histoire, Les mémoires français du XVIIe siècle. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2000.

Review: J. Garapon in DSS 220 (2003), 555–556: The reviewer characterizes this work as a brilliant study of a genre that can only benefit from renewed analysis citing memoirs as "une forme littéraire riche de virtualités, conquérante face à une Histoire en manque d'historiens, peu à peu annexionniste à l'égard d'autres genres anciens ou nouveaux (la biographie, la lettre, l'oraison funèbre, le pamphlet, les ana, le roman, etc.)."

CHARNLEY, JOY. "Bayle, Dos Santos et Ludolf: l'image de l'Ethiopie au XVIIe siècle". PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 157–165.

Examines the images of "Ethiopia" in the writings of Bayle, the Dutch Ludolf, and the Portuguese Dos Santos.

CHOLAKIAN, PATRICIA FRANCIS. Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000; London: Associated U P, 2000.

Review: V. Desnain in MLR 97.4 (2002), 964–65: ". . .this book looks at autobiographical narratives by women and the way they are used to resist repressive ideologies of gender. It raises issues concerning the genre and women writers' strategies and innovations, as well as offering direct testimonies of the frustrations experienced by women in seventeenth-century society." Chapters on Marguerite de Valois, Mlle de Montpensier, Jeanne Guyon.

Review: L. Riggs in KRQ 49 (2002), 315–16: Presents female memoir-writers as opposing constrictive versions of gender forced upon them. Introduction sketches out feminist theories of women's textual self-fashioning, with Cholakian presenting men as having privileged access to such techniques through their schooling; "the modern self-fashioning individual. . . being created to a significant degree by reading and writing." Includes chapters on Marguerite de Valois, Montpensier, the Mancini sisters, Jeanne Guyon, and a germane concluding one on the transvestite Abbé de Choisy.

CONNON, DEREK, and GEORGE EVANS, eds. Anthologie de pièces du Théâtre de la foire. Surrey, England: Runnymede Books, 1996.

Review: J. Vos-Camy in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 123–25: Anthology brings together eight plays from Lesage and d'Orneval's Théâtre de la foire (1721–37), plus one more by Piron. The selection aims at giving the reader a sample of the repertory, while it focuses more specifically attention on the conflict between permanent theaters and those of the foire. A glossary, and explanatory notes, make the collection accessible to a broad audience.

CONROY, DERVAL. "Mapping Gender Transgressions? Representations of the Warrior Woman in Seventeenth-Century Tragedy (1642–1660)." La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 243–254.

Argues that the ambivalent representation of Joan of Arc, Zenobia and Semiramis in six tragedies (by d'Aubignac, Benserade? / La Mesnardière?, Magnon, Gilbert and Desfontaines) simultaneously upholds and subverts traditional gender constructions.

CRONK, NICHOLAS. "Reading La Fontaine and Writing Literary History in the Eighteenth Century: The Problem of Voltaire." The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp.287–314.

CROWLEY, MARTIN, ed. Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers. Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 99: Addresses "impostures against death" as expressed by writers. Reviewer singles out for praise Henry Philips's essay on Molière which 17th c. scholars will find illuminating. Reviewer concludes that "authorial intention is not dead but it is too unfashionable to say so."

DAGEN, JEAN, ed. Entre Epicure et Vauvenargues. Principes et formes de la pensée morale. Paris: Champion, 1999 (Moralia I) and La Morale des moralistes. Paris: Champion, 1999 (Moralia II).

Review: H. Sanders in RF 114 (2002): 392–394: Reviewer finds a lack of interest in foreign research in vol. 1 and the essays of vol. 2 to be somewhat uneven in quality. In the first volume, 17th c. specialists will welcome examinations of Gassendi and the sign, Nicole's moral thought and Fontenelle and the lyric tragedy. In volume two, the reviewer singles out for praise C. Rosso's "Prolégomènes à un portrait du moraliste," J. Mesnard's "L'âge des moralistes et la fin du Cosmos," E. Bury's "Humanisme et anti-humanisme. . ." and M. Delon's "De La Rochefoucauld à Sade."

DANDREY, PATRICK et GEORGES FORESTIER, eds. L'Illusion au XVIIe siècle (Littératures classiques, 44) Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: J.-C. Vuillemin in PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 532–538. "A travers ses 17 contributions réparties en trois catégories perméables: Fiction et illusion, Illusion et réalité au théâtre, Illusion et vérité, le présent numéro propose un réflexion souvent neuve et généralement érudite touchant de multiples facettes de l'illusion." The introduction is by G. Forestier and articles are by E. Hénin, Ch. Biet, C. Guillot, P. Choné, J.-P. van Elslande, N. Courtès, J.-Ph. Grosperrin, G. Revaz, J. Lyons, E. Marpeau, Ch. Couderc, J.-Y. Vialleton, L. Thirouin, F. Hallyn, B. Guion, N. Hammond and F. Briot.

DE COURCELLES, DOMINIQUE, ed. Littérature et exotisme, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Ecole des chartes, Etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des chartes no.1, 1997.

Review: S. Junod in BHR 64.3 (2002), 741–44: "Les quatre interventions que réunit ce fascicule lisent dans le texte littéraire l'inscription du schèma de l'Ici et de l'Ailleurs, du Moi et de l'Autre, par le biais de l'exotisme . . . [qui] met en oeuvre des mécanismes constitutifs du fait littéraire tels que l'imitation, la symbolique, l'herméneutique, la théâtralité." Voir l'article de Michèle Longino, "Politique et théâtre au XVIIe siècle: Les Français en Orient et l'exotisme du Cid."

DENIS, DELPHINE. Le Parnasse galant: institution d'une catégorie littéraire au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: A Viala in FS 57.2 (2003). In this very favorable review, Denis' study of gallantry's blossom in France, after arriving from Italy and Spain, is "exemplaire." This enterprise goes beyond the surface into the details of lesser-known works by Voiture, Sorel, Sarasin, Scudéry, Pellison. If it is regrettable that work's scope leave's out authors such as La Fontaine, the research and bibliographic scholarship it contains are "un outil de travail précieux." Most of all, the work's conclusion constitutes "cinq pages magistrales de synthèse du rôle social et historique de la littérature comme procès de civilité."

DILS, ANN and ANN COOPER-ALBRIGHT, eds. Moving History / Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan UP, 2001.

Review: N. Jackson in TJ 55 (2003), 551–52. Forty-five articles, mostly from past fifteen years. Focus mainly American, but does contain articles on early European court dance.

D'OREYE DE LANTREMANGE, HELENE M. La représentation de la gloire féminine dans la tragédie française de la première moitié du XVIIème siècle: 'Crisante' de Jean Rotrou et 'La Mariane' de François de Tristan L'Hermite. DAI 63/12 (2003), 4330.

Examines "the way in which the (masculine) dramatic text constructs, or allows the spectator to construct, the representation of feminine glory, especially through the phenomenon of double theatrical communication."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI, ed. Les Méditerranées au XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002 (Biblio 17, 137).

Review: C. Rizza in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 252–253: Reviewer praises Dotoli's introduction for its verve and clarity, and for the way in which its evokes the diversity central to the notion of les Méditerranées. "On a affaire, en effet, à la géographie aussi bien qu'à la littérature; il y a une fonction symbolique de la mer en général et de la Méditerranée en particulier qui se rattache à une tradition culturelle, le plus souvent liée aux mythes de la civilisation gréco-latine comme l'a bien montré A. Viala; parfois il s'agit, par contre, du problème concret des rapports politiques et économiques que la France entretient avec l'Orient. Passé et présent, littérature et histoire, réalité et imagination sont donc également concernés." While literary themes dominate, it is articles outside the literary realm which most innovate: "si on sort du domaine littéraire strictement littéraire, on saisit une sorte d'évolution et des perspectives nouvelles s'ouvrent." Attention is brought in this regard to articles by B. Bray, Ph. Desan, and S. Poli. In sum, "Grâce à l'ampleur de l'enquête que l'ensemble des études recueillies dans ce volume offre, à la nouveauté du point de vue choisi et à l'excellent niveau scientifique des communications, on a été amené à identifier et à mettre en valeur plusieurs aspects jusqu'à présent négligés ou mal connus de la civilisation française du XVIIe siècle et à faire ressortir l'image que les intellectuels français se faisaient à l'époque des peuples et des pays du bord de la Méditerranée."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI, VITO CASTIGLIONE MINISCHETTI, PAOLA PLACELLA SOMMELLA et VALERIA POMPEJANO. Les Traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle. Fasano-Paris: Schena-Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001.

Review: C. Nédélec in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 250–251. "Il faut saluer l'entreprise bibliographique engagée par G. Dotoli: ce volume est le premier d'une série consacrée au répertoire des traductions de l'italien en français, du XVIe au XXe siècle. [. . .] L'essentiel (p. 139–384) est constitué par le 《 Répertoire des traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle 》 (par ordre alphabétique des auteurs italiens), qui adopte le fort intelligent principe de ne pas séparer les 《 belles 》 lettres des 《 bonnes 》 lettres. Il est accompagné des annexes indispensables (une 《 Bibliographie de l'italianisme en France au XVIIe siècle 》,. . . un index des auteurs et des traducteurs,. . . une bibliographie des sources bibliographiques. Il faut y ajouter, outre l'introduction d'ensemble de G. Dotoli, trois introductions, de chacun des responsables d'une 《 tranche 》 chronologique, analysant brièvement les principales données de son corpus." Reviewer also highlights how "se font jour ici de nouvelles pistes d'études".

ELMARSAFY, ZIAD. The Histrionic Sensibility: Theatricality and Identity from Corneille to Rousseau. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2001 (Biblio 17), 124.

Review: H. L. Harrison in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 255–257. "This insightful book explores the construction of identity through role-playing in early modern drama and narrative. Authors treated include the two Corneilles, Molière, Marivaux, Crébillon fils and Rousseau. The identities at stake are primarily those of the major characters, but as the inclusion of Rousseau suggests, Elmarsafy also suggests ways in which authors create their own identities through writing. He never loses sight, moreover, of the implications that the histrionic construction of identity has for the society at large." The reviewer praises the inclusion of a chapter on Thomas Corneille, and comments that although some of the "summaries of the plays contain slight inaccuracies. . . this chapter offers some of the most intelligent analysis to date of Thomas Corneille's plays." On the whole "Elmarsafy has given us both an excellent literary study and a genealogy of the modern self. He makes excellent use of prior research without being dominated by any of his predecessors. This is a very fine book, which deserves a place in the library of any scholar of seventeenth-or eighteenth-century France."

EMELINA, JEAN. "Les 《 Classiques 》 sont-ils heureux ou malheureux?" RHLF 102.4 (2002), 633–36.

Responds to an earlier article by Jean Rohou (RHLF 101.6) which had been critical of Emelina's previous attempt to show the "happy" side of classicism. Maintains that Rohou's tragic vision unaccountably discounts works that are not glum.

FAUDENAY, ALAIN. Le Clair et l'obscur à l'âge classique. Geneva: Slatkine, 2001.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 76 (2003), 810–11: Though somewhat imposing and intimidating, the work is also structured for easy consultation. Offers a "synthèse solide et pertinente entre langue, pensée et culture." Avoids presenting authors' and artists' search for clarity as a mark of their classicism, but instead treats classical and baroque tendencies as co-existent with respect to this point. Thoughtfully probes the notion that clarity must emerge from darkness.

FRAISSE, LUC. "La littérature du XVIIe siècle chez les fondateurs de l'histoire littéraire." DSS 218 (2003), 3–26.

Fraisse initiates a lengthy discussion as to the origins and evolution of literary history and criticism, examining a variety of schools of thought as they pertain to the question at the crux of his investigation: "En quoi la littérature française du XVIIe siècle offre-t-elle des ressources originales à une histoire littéraire qui entend constituer ses méthodes au fil de ses découvertes?"

FRANCILLON, ROGER. Jean Rousset ou la passion de la lecture. Genève: Zoé, 2001.

Review: A. Pizzorusso in OeC 27.2 (2002), 300–03: Volume consacré à Jean Rousset, à sa vie et surtout à son travail critique sur la littérature baroque en France.

FRANK, JOSEPH. Haman in Paris. New Republic (September 8 and 15 2003), 25–29.

Frank reflects on the politico-cultural significance of the Comédie Française's recent staging of Racine's Esther, a play which "attacks. . . anti-Semitic accusations" like "no other great classical work in any other European literature" (29). Frank feels that the production could stand as a state response to recent criticism of France's persistent anti-Semitism, yet he also remarks that the nation's penchant for period-situating interpretation may lead many to read Esther's Jewish characters as symbols for persecuted 17th-century Protestants or Jansenists. Contains an admirable synopsis of the play and its pertinent context.

FRANKO, MARK. "Majestic Drag: Monarchical Performativity and the King's Body Theatrical." TDR 178 (Summer, 2003), 71–87.

Uses the 1617 performance of La Déliverance de Renard to argue that the construction of the unified sovereign subject is not always the inevitable result of theatrical performativity. "Dance and music. . . are actually the formally subversive means through which the performance sustains the ambiguity and contradictions of personal sovereignty" (84).

FREY, BRIGITTE. Die Académie Française und ihre Stellung zu anderen Sprachpflegeinstitutionen. Bonn: Romanisticher Verlag, 2000.

Review: E. U. Große in RF 114 (2002): 357–359: Concentrates on the role and function of the French Academy in today's world, comparing it with other institutions of similar mission. Includes a chapter on the inception of the Academy. Reviewer praises Frey's use of primary sources and, for the modern era, eyewitness accounts and interviews.

Review: G. Holtus in ZRP 118 (2002): 756: Praised for its detail and informative quality, Frey's work examines the Académie française in relation to other institutions which foster the mother tongue. 17th c. specialists will appreciate the first chapter which includes reflections on both the Academy's inception and its role in the Grand Siècle.

FUMAROLI, MARC. De Montaigne à La Fontaine. Paris: Gallimard, 2002.

Review: O. Mongin in Esprit (mars–avril 2002), 373: "Dans cette version d'un ouvrage initialement édité chez Herman, Marc Fumaroli regroupe de textes conscrés à des auteurs (Montaigne, Retz, Perrault, La Fontaine), à des genres (la prose d'Etat, les mémoires), au Malade imaginaire et à l'art de la conversation féminine."

GANIM, RUSSELL. "Through the Talking Glass: Translucence and Translation in the Condé Museum's Psyche Gallery." The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp.53–90.

GANNIER, ODILE. La Littérature de voyage. Paris: Ellipses Editions Marketing, 2001.

Review: O. Hambursin in LR 55 (2001): 127–128: Generally praiseworthy "vue d'ensemble" which includes reflections on the construction of an "imaginaire collectif," the texts themselves, the form, and the relation between reader and narrator. The reader of this ambitious but necessarily limited (128 p.) volume "deviendra inévitablement avide de lectures et entreprendra . . . de nouveaux voyages littéraires" (Hambursin 128).

GARCIA-HERNANDEZ, B. Gemelos y sosias. La comedia de doble en Plauto, Shakespeare y Molière. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2001.

Review: J.-Cl. Polet in ECl 70 (2002), 289–290: "Voilà un travail de littérature comparée comme il y en a trop peu," qui tient compte de toutes les circonstances, historiques et autres, de la composition des textes dont il est question. Les dix-septiémistes francophones s'intéresseront surtout au traitement de l'Amphitryon de Molière, dont l'analyse est éclairée par Les Sosies de Rotrou.

GINGER, ANDREW et al. Selected Interdisciplinary Essays on the Representation of the Don Juan Archetype in Myth and Culture. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 114: Found to be a "lively and entertaining" volume, it is the outcome of the 1999 conference "Don Juan: the Rebel Tamed," held at the University of Edinburgh. Reviewer would have appreciated broader coverage on French representations but praises the valuable bibliography and thorough index.

GLIDDEN, PETER JOSEPH. From Haute Couture to Pret-à-porter: The (Un)dressing of Women's Roles in Early Modern French Theater, 1552–1694. DAI 64/4 (2003), 1274.

"This dissertation explores the representations of femininity on the French stage between 1550–1694 as fabrications and insists on their textile nature as exemplified by the suturing of word (text) and costume (textus) to a female body: the actress."

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH C. Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647–1720. Burlington: Ashgate, 2001.

Review: C. Simonin in FS 56.4 (2002). This very laudable work focuses on autobiographical writings of Marie de l'Incarnation, Jeanne des Anges, Jeanne Guyon as well as Marie and Hortense Mancini and Madame de Villedieu. Goldsmith "éclaire le passage de l'écriture privée à l'auctorat paradoxalement revendiqué et nié à la fois." The author "traite en profondeur tous le problèmes posés par par la publication et la réception."

GOODKIN, RICHARD. Birth Marks. The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Review: J. Peters in KRQ 49 (2002), 316–17: Situates the conflict present in French classical drama between inherited privilege and individual merit in the context of an emerging capitalism that challenged the medieval system of primogeniture. Explores the writerly sibling rivalry between Pierre and Thomas Corneille, then shifts to trace the impact it bore upon Racine, who is said to valorize discontinuity, the difference of individual identity, and younger brothers' fitness to rule. Goodkin sees these Racinian characteristics as classical tragedy come to fruition. Review praises his careful, non-categorical analytic technique.

GRAY, FLOYD. Gender, Rhetoric and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2000.

Review: R. Salminen in LR 55 (2001): 143–145: Although the focus of this volume is mainly the 16th c., its five chapters ("Discourses of misogyny," "Irony and the sexual other," "Anonymity and the poetics of regendering," "The women in Montaigne's life," and "Sexual Marginality") will prove highly useful to 17th c. scholars, in particular those who study relationships and transitions between periods. Praised for its superb erudition, breadth, frequent use of extracts from primary sources, and actuality.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 38 (2002): 109: Found "far-reaching and stimulating", this masterful volume on the Renaissance questions assertions and explodes myths as it treats formal rhetoric. Praised for its "judicious use of "historical fact" and "close textual analysis."

GRENIER, FRANK. Les Métamorphoses d'Hermès. Tradition alchimique et esthétique littéraire dans la France de l'âge baroque (1583–1646). Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: I. Zinguer in RF 114 (2002): 76–77: Assesses the nature and value, for the baroque era, of a profusion of writings on alchemy. Of particular usefulness for scholars of Béroalde de Verville and Camus, among others. Exemplary bibliography of primary sources.

GRISE, CATHERINE M., ed. Le Conte en vers gaillard: de Jean de La Fontaine à Guillaume Apollinaire. Ottawa-Toronto-New York: Legas, 2000.

Review: J. Barchilon in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 273–274: "Le mérite principal de cette anthologie, c'est d'avoir réuni des contes en vers difficiles à trouver. . ., l'ensemble avec une introduction intéressante et tout l'appareil critique nécessaire et suffisant. Ce sont des contes en vers à sujets licencieux séletionnés parmi 33 auteurs. [. . .] Comme Catherine Grisé l'explique clairement, les contes en vers d'après La Fontaine ressemblent à ceux du célèbre fabuliste, mais ils sont encore autre chose. C'est pourquoi notre éditeur les distingue en les appelant contes en vers gaillards. . . . [N]on seulement un ouvrage pour érudits et spécialistes, mais principalement une collection de référence pour toutes les bibliothèques universitaires."

GRODEK, ELZBIETA, ed. Ecriture de la ruse. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Review: U. Schulz-Buschhaus in ZRP 118 (2002): 621–626: Welcome volume, the work of SATOR, focuses on "la ruse" as "topoi de régie" and at the level of writing as "topoi thématiques" (621). Studies focus on several periods. 17th c. specialists will appreciate essays by the following: Max Vernet on "Narrer . . . la ruse," Chaira Rolla on "Les romanciers 'rusés' de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle", Nadia Arbach on "L'Amour et la tromperie: la ruse dans l'Astrée", Daniel Maher on "Monsieur ma femme?? Le travestissement au XVIIe siècle" and Donna Kuizenga on "Les Ruses du roman épistolaire . . .". Singled out for special praise is the semantic treatment by Fabienne Baider and Karen Gusto, "'Ruser pour séduire' ou 'ruser pour violer'? La problématique de la dénomination dans Toposator."

GROVE, LAURENCE, Emblematics and Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Descartes, Tristan, La Fontaine and Perrault. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2000 (EMF Critiques).

Review: M. J. Giordano in PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 546–551. "This solid and erudite investigation is a most welcome contribution to literary emblem studies that will be of great interest to literary critics and cultural historians of seventeenth-century France. In the Introduction, the author makes precise his objective that the book is "a reconsideration of our attitude towards major writings of the seventeenth century in the light of information that recently had been unavailable or grossly neglected" (1). Therefore, in terms of historiography, Grove views his research on French literature as a development of relatively recent scholarship that has already provided a firm foundation for emblem studies. These include histories of the emblem, critical editions, and comprehensive biographies of primary and secondary sources by Alison Saunders, Alison Adams, Stephen Rawles, Daniel Russell, and the author himself. Grove's book is a gold mine of emblematic archeology. Chapter II titled "Emblematics in Seventeenth-Century France" is particularly rich in providing an overview of the history of the emblem and device and the multifarious uses to which they were put." The reviewer then discusses each chapter before concluding "Grove's study is original scholarship built on a solid foundation of research, much of it archival, that in many ways breaks ground in the history and historiography of Le Grand Siècle. Grove's erudition is painstaking and punctilious, never arid, since he constantly, almost intuitively, taps the sap of the seventeenth-century high culture in matters big and small. In the larger context, Grove is particularly strong in demonstrating the continuities of Renaissance, Baroque and Classical thought, but above all, he is most instructive in teaching the reader a rare lesson on visual literacy".

Review: A. Saunders in FS 57.2 (2003). Grove seeks to broaden the understanding of the emblem's influence on the period's literature. This is a "thought-provoking evaluation of familiar material. . . viewed from a less familiar perspective." Though the book "is generously illustrated," in the reviewer's words, "the quality of the reproductions is surprisingly poor." In spite of the weaknesses in the bibliography and index, the text retains "intellectual value" and "persuasively urges a re-evaluation of seventeenth-century writing. . . in the context of an all-permeating emblematic mentality."

GROVE, LAURENCE and DANIEL RUSSELL. The French Emblem: Bibliography of Secondary Sources. Geneva: Droz, 2000.

Review: D. Cowling in FS 57.2 (2003). An "immaculately presented and commendably exhaustive bibliography." The reviewer also praises the authors' desire to "provide a helpfully complete picture of the field," even if this leads to some inevitable repetitions. Contains useful narrative of the evolution of the French emblem field. According to the reviewer: "Invaluable" to specialists and "of considerable usefulness to those with a more general interest in the field."

HAFFEMAYER, STEPHANE. L'Information dans la France du XVIIe siècle. La Gazette de Renaudot de 1647 à 1663. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002.

Review: P. Rétat in DSS 220 (2003), 564–565: The reviewer, whose own work on the Gazette is well-known, praises Haffemayer for undertaking such an extensive study of a truly unwieldy source. "La Gazette permet de dessiner les contours et les lignes de force d'une 《 géographie de l'information 》, d'un espace politique où s'émettent et se diffusent les nouvelles, avec ses capitales dont la production est autonome et ses lieux de transfert et d'échange, et de mesurer le temps de transmission de l'information dans cet espace complexe."

HAMMERBECK, DAVID WILLIAM. Orientalism, Islam and the Other in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Theatre. DAI 63/10 (2003), 3424.

Examines works by Tristan L'Hermite, Racine, Voltaire, and Favart, and "determine[s] whether these four plays participate in a trans-historical Orientalism, or if each play has its own strategic location which presents a particular Oriental Other, a location which also often critiques French culture and politics."

HARRIES, ELIZABETH WANNING. Twice Upon a Time. Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.

Review: K. Seago in M&T 16 (2002): 304–307: A work in two parts: the first involves a new approach to the history of the fairy tale with a special focus on the 17th-century French conteuses; the second looks at reframing and transliteration in "contemporary revisionist" fairy tales. Seago: "this is a highly readable work which engages with important questions in feminist literary criticism and fairy-tale research and offers a valuable and well-argued rereading of the history of the fairy tale."

HODGSON, RICHARD G., ed. La Femme au XVIIe siècle: Actes du Colloque de Vancouver, U. of British Columbia, 5–7 October 2000. Tübingen: G. Narr (Biblio 17, no. 138), 430 p.

HOGG, CHLOE ALICE. Novel Histories and Historical Novels in France, 1654–1700. DAI 63/5 (2002), 1852.

Examines how, "[i]n an absolutist regime, Scudéry, Villedieu, Lafayette, D'Aulnoy and La Force wielded the privileges of history and fiction to create a complex play of truth, speculation and imagination, rendering novelistic discourse capable of sustaining a variety of interpretations."

HOWE, ALAN, Le Théâtre professionnel à Paris (1600–1649). Documents du Minutier central des notaires de Paris. Paris: Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, 2002.

Review: G. Spielmann in PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 551–553. "Le qualificatif de 《 professionnel 》 donne la clef de ce précieux ouvrage où Alan Howe, assisté de Madeleine Jurgens, a entrepris d'analyser quelque trois cents actes notariés relatifs à la vie des troupes de théâtre ayant exercé à Paris dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. Face à la prédominance de la recherche philologique chère aux littéraires, ainsi que de l'histoire biographique des auteurs, l'étude de la vie théâtrale dans ses aspects les plus pratiques a longtemps fait figure de parent pauvre, ce qu'accentuait encore le manque de documents. Le dépouillement systématique du fonds du minutier central des notaires de Paris qu'à effectué Howe nous ouvre l'accès à un riche gisement de matière première encore largement inexploité. En fait, c'est de trois livres en un qu'il s'agit ici, puisque ce volume comporte trois parties distinctes, outre les diverses pièces liminaires: une analyse narrative des documents examinés (pp.1–204), divisée en sept chapitres organisés en tranches chronologiques; 453 notules descriptives pour chacun des actes notariés du minutier entièrement ou partiellement relatifs à la vie théâtrale (p. 207–341); à quoi s'ajoutent vingt transcriptions intégrales effectuées par deux archivistes professionnels, Andrée Chauleur et Pierre-Yves Louis (pp.343–405). L'ouvrage est complété par une bibliographie et surtout par un index nominum où chaque personne est identifiée par sa qualité ou sa profession, précision souvent fort instructive. [. . .] Tous ceux et celles qui travaillent sur le théâtre français du XVIIe siècle se doivent d'ajouter à leur bibliothèque cet ouvrage de référence auquel on ne peut guère adresser de critique. Si je peux toutefois me permettre d'exprimer un regret, c'est celui de ne pas pouvoir disposer d'une présentation synthétique des données qui sont présentées chronologiquement dans la première section: il est parfois difficile de suivre d'un chapitre à l'autre révolution de tel individu ou de telle troupe, d'autant plus malaisés à cerner que les patronymes sont fréquemment sujets à variation. [. . .] Il nous faut je crois remercier Alan Howe et ceux qui l'ont aidé dans sa tache d'avoir entrepris ce travail énorme et minutieux dont les historiens du théâtre vont tirer bénéfice pour de longues années à venir."

HUELIN, SCOTT GOWER. Spiritual Reading: Tropology, Discernment, and Early Modern European Literature. DAI 63/7 (2003), 2534.

"[E]xamine[s] the morally formative reading practices displayed in and demanded by" Racine, Shakespeare and Milton; study reflects "exegetically, historically, hermeneutically, and theologically upon the fact that encounters with texts change people's lives."

IPPOLITO, CHRISTOPHER. "Ecrire, régner, (se) faire admirer: dérives exhibitionnistes au Grand Siècle?" CdDS 8.2 (2003), 1–8.

Examines, in Corneille, Descartes, and Saint-Simon, the ambiguity of the word "admiration," caught between "surprise" and "estime," "éblouissement" and "distance réflexive."

JONES, CHARLOTTE REBECCA. L'esprit romanesque: Fiction, Epistemology, and Gender in France and England, 1641–1688. DAI 64/3 (2003), 892.

"This dissertation examines both fictional and theoretical texts in France and England between 1641 and 1688 that express ideas about the function and value of prose fiction. I argue that the epistemological value of fiction was under revision during the period, and that this becomes clear when fiction and its theoretical elaborations are read for their engagement with both historical and natural philosophical discourse. " Includes discussion of Scudéry, Lafayette, and Huet.

JONES, CHRISTINE. "Phèdre meets the transvestite heroine: fantastic variations on classical themes." PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 379–396.

Examines the representation of dowager queens in Racine's Phèdre and d'Aulnoy's tale Belle-Belle, ou le chevalier Fortuné (1698), suggesting that "d'Aulnoy's fin-de-siècle vision of the femme forte. . . frees her from the masculinizing forces of classical ideology."

JONES, CHRISTINE. "The Poetics of Enchantment (1690–1715)." M&T 17 (2003): 55–74.

Continues the work of Gabrielle Verdier and Elizabeth Wanning Harries on woman fairy tale writers and why they deliberately chose this genre. Argues that fairy tales allowed women to produce literature whose primary aesthetic principle was "frivolity," that is, pure entertainment for readers and writers alike, as opposed to an enterprise of "meaning and monument." Jones rereads prefaces and images that scholars have used to demonstrate the woman teller's literarity to argue rather for her 'frivolity,' a word the women themselves used to describe their writing." (abstract) To illustrate her argument, Jones concentrates on the tales of d'Aulnoy, Murat and L'Héritier

JUDOVITZ, DALIA. The Culture of the Body: Geneaolgies of Modernity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Review: J. Harris in FS 57.2 (2003): According to the reviewer, this book's novel approach to figurations of body is both "interesting and revealing," especially in "lucid" chapters on Descartes. Sometimes the author uses too many "generalizing labels" and treats subject unequally—the chapter on Corneille "appears to be a bit of an afterthought." However, "[t]he work as a whole. . .has its moments, particularly the cogent analyses of philosophical texts."

JULLIARD, SUZANNE, ed. Anthologie de la poésie française. Paris: Fallois, n.d.

Review: P. Canavaggio in RDM (février 2003), 191: "Le talent de Suzanne Julliard est de raviver le souffle et les couleurs qui ont animé la poésie. . ." Parmi les poètes du Grand Siècle: Boileau, Corneille, Racine.

KELLER, EDWIGE and THERESE LASSALLE, eds. Histoire et narrativité. L'Europe en représentation dans la littérature du XVIIe diècle. PU de Lyon, 1999.

Review: J.-M. Hannick in LR 55 (2001): 178: Ten essays focus on the place of history in fictional literature of the Grand Siècle. Reflections on Camus, Mlle de Scudéry, Saint-Réal, Dassoucy, La Fayette and Fénelon. Reviewer notes the absence of a conclusion and is unsure about the coherence and value of the volume for historians or students of literature. Individual essays such as that by Dominique Bertrand demonstrate unusual applications of history (in Dassoucy) or, in the case of Thérèse Lassalle's article on La Princesse de Clèves, the absence of certain historical characters.

LECOQ, ANNE-MARIE, ed. La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle, précédé de "Les abeilles et les araignées", essai de Marc Fumaroli et suivi d'une postface sur "Une ancienne querelle" par Jean-Robert Armogathe. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in SFr XLVI, 136 (2002): 228–229: Praiseworthy and vast anthology of texts on the subject (23 French authors of 17th and early 18th c. along with others from England, Germany, and Italy). Fumaroli's preface similarly sketches a broad European perspective while Armogathe's essay extends the phenomenon over time in exceedingly "nourishing" pages. Collinet would have preferred longer extracts, but praises Lecoq for this highly useful reference work, complete with chronology and bibliography.

Review: C. Farcet in Esprit (novembre 2001), 223–24: "Précédé d'un essai de Marc Fumaroli, qui retrace l'histoire de la Querelle sur trois siècles, de l'Italie à la France, cet ouvrage, extrêmement complet, réunit à la fois des textes qui, de 1634 à 1761, ont alimenté la célèbre dispute et de longs commentaires, puisqu'il s'achève aussi par la postface de Jean-Robert Armogathe sur la notion de modernité depuis l'Antiquité."

LE HIR, MARIE-PIERRE and DANA STRAND, eds. French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads, Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 2000.

Review: D. D. Fisher in FrF 27.1 (2002), 158–160: Important and of general interest for the future of French studies, this volume is judged "a valuable resource for students and scholars." Part I focuses on "rethinking the discipline" and Part II on "the negotiation of post-colonial identities" (158).

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 109: Topics are judged "pertinent" and representative of discussions on culture, theory and language teaching. A second section, somewhat uneven, focuses on the postcolonial. Includes individual bibliographies and an index. Found "useful" and "thought-provoking."

LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE. "Speculum de l'autre femme: les avatars d'Iphis et Iante (Ovide) au XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 365–377.

Examines the treatment of the Iphis and Iante fable by N. Renouard, Du Ryer, T. Corneille, Camus and Benserade among others. Argues that 'Miroir dans lequel la société a joué ses fantasmes et ses anxiétés, cette fable est une des allégories par lesquelles l'hétérosexualité s'est affirmée."

LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE. "Voiles de sang et amazones de Satan: la querelle des nudités de gorge". La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 255–267.

Examines the representation of the 'Sein diabolisé" in a wide range of writings which is significant "non seulement parce que le corps féminin y est essentialisé. . . mais aussi parce qu'y sont révélées bien des tensions particulières à une culture où l'Œil est à la fois l'agent double du péché de concupiscence et d'une curiosité scientifique récemment réhabilitée, ainsi que l'auxiliaire obligé d'un régime lui-même enclin au spectaculaire, et qui raffinait des techniques de surveillance pour contrôler, entre autres, la sexualité."

LE MENTHEOUR, RUDY. Baroque et Classicisme. Anthologie. GF Flammarion (Étonnants classiques): Paris, 2003.

Review: E. Pieller in QL 861 (du 16 au 31 septembre 2003), 26: "Vieux débat: le XVIIe siècle français est-il majoritairement 'classique', le 'baroque' est-il essentiellement réservé à l'Espagne, ou plutôt, est-il peu compatible avec 'l'esprit national'?...Quels sont les rapports du 'classicisme' et du centralisme monarchique? Le 'baroque' a-t-il été étouffé, marginalisé, ou sous-estimé? etc. Oui, vieux débat mais assez excitant. Rudy Le Menthéour fait le point avec simplicité, et rigueur. (...) Les caractéristiques des deux registres se brouillent souvent, et, sans vouloir neutraliser les différences, l'anthologie incite à une lecture décapée assez stimulante."

LONGINO, MICHELE. Orientalism in French Classical Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: S. R. Baker in SCN 60 (2002) 236–240: Described by the reviewer as an "indispensable addition" to the study of seventeenth-century drama and French history, Longino undertakes a remarkable examination of seven canonical plays (Médée, Le Cid, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Tite et Bérénice, Bérénice, Bajazet, and Mithridate) within the rich context of cultural exchange between France and the Ottoman Empire. Longino's framework engages Edward Said's "concept of 'Orientalism'" while lending "equal importance" to "the reconstruction of the context of [the] plays, as can be done by reference to contemporary documents of relevance to the scripts and to their audiences' current preoccupations."

Review: D. Hammerbeck in TJ 55 (2003), 565–66. Uses seven plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine to examine French conceptualization of the Ottoman Empire. Plays seen as reflexive readings of individual and collective identity. Bajazet and Mithridate become rehearsals for colonization of the Levant. Longino supports her analyses with historically pertinent texts, such as letters and travelogues, but reviewer regrets that she did not include plays by non-canonical authors. Reviewer praises well-supported and engaging analyses.

Review: J. Iverson in Choice 39 (2002), 1965: Brings forth noteworthy considerations of French-Ottoman relations during the 17th century, exploring the perceived binary between the French and the eastern "other." Longino nuances the French perspective by examining how a variety of socio-economic sectors experienced the Mediterranean basin. The work culminates in an application of these reflections to an (enriched) understanding of Racine, Corneille, and Molière.

Review: K. A. Jensen in E Cr 42.2 (2002), 105–106: Praised for its careful research and elegant writing, Longino's study focuses on "seven canonical plays which have never been studied together before," analyzing them along with 17th c. documents such as letters, histories, memoirs and travel accounts — all illustrating "France's relations with the Ottoman Empire" (Jensen 106). Convincingly demonstrates that the Orientalism of Médée, Le Cid, Tite et Bérénice, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Bérénice, Bajazet and Mithridate "provided the ideological underpinning necessary to justify eventual French hegemony and dominion over its colonial territories" (Longino 7).

Review: H. Phillips in FS 57.4 (2003). "Longino's book," according to the reviewer, "is an example of a developing form of criticism, looking to anthropology and post-colonial readings for its methodological roots." Such a movement away from canonical readings is helpful both in understanding how classical drama may have been seen and understood by contemporary audiences. The reviewer emphasizes that Longino's work contains "fascinating historical detail" and "convincing arguments."

LYONS, JOHN D. and WELCH, CARA. Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Gunter Narr (Biblio 17, no. 149), 2003.

MACE, STEPHANE, L'Eden perdu. La pastorale dans la poésie française de l'âge baroque. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002 (Lumière classique, 35).

Review: J. Conroy in FS 57.4 (2003). According to this very positive review, Macé's work is authoritative and "fills a critical gap" in non-dramatic pastoral poetry. A very complete study, it situates the genre historically, beginning with its origins, then follows a central thesis of the pastoral's potential "to provide a locus for conflicting ideological forces." The author, in the reviewers words, "expertly shows how beyond the prettiness and pretence lies poetry which is often more profound than it wishes."

Review: A. Niderst in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 279–280. "Le travail de Stéphane Macé est d'une netteté et d'une élegance remarquables. [. . .] Il. . . étudie successivement les rapports de la pastorale et du théâtre (《 La prise de parole 》), de la pastorale et de la poésie descriptive (Solitudes, Promenades), enfin de la pastorale et des genres qui peuvent lui être limitrophes — la poésie religieuse et la poésie officielle. Puis il la situe dans 《 la crise de l'âge baroque 》. Il lui semble qu'on peut y discerner une 《 fuite dans l'origine 》, un grand désenchantement, qui permet de parler de 《 l'Arcadie endeuillée 》, enfin un style ambigu dans sa simplicité, qui donne des textes ouverts et apparemment inachevés. Cette étude, méthodiquement menée, est fort agréable à lire." However, reviewer regrets that the notion of 'l'âge baroque' was not more precisely defined, difficult as this may be, and that reference was not made to La Fontaine's Adonis and Fontenelle's Discours sur la nature de l'églogue.

MAINIL, JEAN. Madame d'Aulnoy et le rire des fées: essai sur la subversion féerique et le merveilleux comique sous l'Ancien Régime. Paris: Kimé, 2001.

Review: A. Duggan in M&T 17 (2003): 166–169: Studies the "frame narratives" of Mme d'Aulnoy's tales to show that the message of each tale must be sought in the context of the ironic relationship between the frame narrative and the tale itself. Duggan seeks to clarify or dispute certain points and notes that the work sometimes lacks "smooth development," On the whole, however, Duggan finds the arguments "compelling and important to further research in fairy-tale studies."

MARCHAL, ROGER, ed. Vie des salons et activités littéraires de Marguerite de Valois à Mme de Staël. Actes du colloque international de Nancy (6–8 octobre 1999). Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2001.

Review: Frédéric Briot in RSH 270 (avril–juin 2003), 197–98: Copious volume containing introductory remarks, papers given in six sessions, and conclusions of this conference that explored the culture of early-modern literary milieux. Papers presented according to session themes explore "avec des bonheurs inégaux ces conditions (à prendre en tous les sens) de la Littérature," entitled: 1. "Les Milieux et l'histoire littéraire" 2. "Salons et Lumières" 3. "Les Salons Féminins" 4. "Relations" 5. "Aspects régionaux" and 6. "Genres." Volume concludes with two indexes.

MATHIEU-CASTELLANI, GISELE, ed. Plaisir de l'épopée. Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2000.

Review: P. Verelst in LR 55 (2001): 131–134: Central theme of this volume of collected essays is "l'agrément, ou l'agréable, le bonheur d'écrire ou de lire une épopée" (131). Praised for its "présentation soignée" and its coherence (134), the work is divided into four sections: "Le Rire de l'épopée," "L'imaginaire de l'espace épique" (17th c. scholars will appreciate here the essay on causes of the failure of the epic in the 17th c.), "Les avatars de l'épique et la problématique du genre" (an essay in this section focuses on theoretical discourses of the 16th and 17th c.), and "Du plaisir."

MATHIEU-CASTELLANI, GISELE. La Rhétorique des passions. Paris: PUF, 2000.

Review: S. Macé in DSS 220 (2003), 554–555: The reviewer finds this essay elusive at times and ultimately destined exclusively for specialists in the field, but praises the author's inventive approach as she traces the title subject from antiquity through the Renaissance.

MAZOUER, CHARLES, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17, 2003.

MAZOUER, CHARLES, ed. Recherches de jeunes dix-septiemistes : actes du Ve colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université Michel-de-Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 28–30 janvier 1999. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2000.

Review : J. Clarke in FS 57.1 (2003) : According to the reviewer, this collection of conference proceedings has a wide array of impressive young talent who deal with diverse authors : Racine, Pascal, Saint-Amant, Saint Réal, Scudéry, Quinault, Furetière, Nicolas Piquet and Gomberville. Given this variety of topics, the reviewer finds 《 striking 》 the relative paucity of articles on the theater. All in all, though, the reviewer echos Pierre Ronzeaud's preface by declaring her "admiration for the talent of these young scholars of tomorrow."

Review: J. Rohou in IL 54.4 (2002), 58–60. Complementary review presenting thumbnail sketches of each article in the collection.

MECHOULAN, ERIC, ed. La Vengeance dans la littérature d'Ancien Régime. Montreal: Département d'Etudes françaises. 2000.

Review: B. Papàsogli in S Fr XLVI, 136 (2002): 222: Wide-ranging volume includes panoramic studies such as that of C. Biet in the status of vengeance in the 17th c. as well as particular analyses of vengeance in tragedy and in the nouvelle.

Review: R. Racevskis in SubStance 31 (2002), 311–15: Examines depictions of vengeance and its specifically literary functions. Initial chapter by C. Biet posits the intriguing notion that literature broaches ambiguous complex criminal questions that law cannot. Subsequent chapters include work on Mme de Villedieu, Racine's Medée, Saint-Simon, the genres of the nouvelle and the histoire tragique, and the Enlightenment's attempt to suppress vengeance through reason. Méchoulan concludes with reflections on the status of revenge amid a crumbling aristocratic tradition and an expanding apparatus of state control.

MEDING, TWLYA. "Translation as Appropriation: The Case of María de Zaya's El Prevendio engañado and Paul Scarron's La Précaution inutile." The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp.91–118.

MERLIN-KAJMAN, HELENE. L'absolutisme dans les lettres et la théorie des deux corps. Passion et politique. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: S. Poli in SFr XLVI, 136 (2002): 217: Highly favorable review of Merlin-Kajman's incisive work which is valuable to scholars of literature, history and politics. Poli appreciates the subtlety of its analyses and its wide and diverse horizons. Focus is on political plays of Corneille, Tristan and Rotrou, but reflections on de Retz's mémoires and on Balzac are included. Multi-faceted bibliography.

MINAZZOLI, GILBERT, et al., eds. Dictionnaire des œuvres érotiques. Paris: Robert Laffont, 2001.

Review: BCLF 642 ( 2002), 6: Réédition d'un ouvrage de référence paru en 1971 qui constitue "un outil pour le chercheur désireux d'analyser la récurrence des fantasmes, les plus souvent masculins d'ailleurs" dans les écrits érotiques les plus importants. Voir la notice sur Sorel.

MINOIS, GEORGES. Histoire du rire et de la dérision. Paris: Fayard, 2000.

Review: G. Walther in HZ 274 (2002), 133–134: Judged a highly useful synthesis, rich in facts, of specialized material on laughter and derision. 17th c. students will appreciate and perhaps challenge what the reviewer summarizes as a controlling and restraining of laughter in the time of Louis XIV. If that was the main trend, certainly numerous examples of the unrestrained could be suggested, from the "tours" played in the salons to the riotous "rire" in Dassoucy (see Dominique Bertrand's work on the subject for example). Informative compendium brings the methodology of the "histoire des mentalités" to bear on texts from Homer to Monty Python.

NORMAN, BUFORD, ed. The Mother in French Literature. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Review: M. Groene in RF 114 (2002): 259–262: Praised for its dynamism and fruitfulness, this wide-ranging volume presents contributions from the 27th French Literature Conference held at Columbia, SC in 1999. Planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Beauvoir's Deuxième sexe, the volume is nevertheless neither "idolâtre" nor "iconoclaste." 17th c. scholars will appreciate Domna Stanton's keynote address on maternal metaphor, metonymy and history (Sévigné), Deborah Hahn's lucid treatment of historical background in her essay on the 17th c. comic theatre and Holly Tucker's investigation of d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force for maternal cravings and birthmarks.

NORMAN, LARRY F, ed. The Theatrical Baroque. Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2001.

Review: K. Gounaridou and N. Garvey in SCN 60 (2002) 222–225: This book is a companion to a 2001 exhibition at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art and comprises a collection of "eight essays and numerous color and black and white plates as well as a 'Checklist' of the 31 exhibited artworks by Callot, Quinault, Carlone, and van Dyck, among others." Described by the reviewer as "a visually appealing and instructive book," essays include Larry Norman, "The Theatrical Baroque," Robert S. Huddleston, "Baroque Space and the Art of the Infinite," Josh Ellenbogen, "Representational Theory and the Staging of Social Performance," Brandy Flack and Rebekah Flohr, "Interlude: Sets for Social Performance," Anita Hagerman-Young and Kerry Wilks, "The Theatre of the World: Staging Baroque Hierarchies," Delphine Zurfluh, "Staging the Gaze," Matt Hunter, "Time and the Baroque World," and Véronique Sigu, "The Baroque Pastoral, or The Art of Fragile Harmony."

O'HARA, STEPHANIE. "E. T. A. Hoffmann's sinister grand siècle." PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 351, 411–419.

Examines Hoffmann's depiction of late seventeenth-century Paris in his story which translates as Mlle de Scudéry: A Tale from the Age of Louis XIV, examining particularly his use of two French sources, Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV and Gayot de Pitavel's Causes célèbres.

ORENSTEIN, CATHERINE. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked. Sex, morality and the evolution of a fairy tale. Oxford: Basic Books, 2002.

Review: C. Larrington in TLS 5211 (Feb 14 2003), 28. Offers a close reading of ten versions of Little Red Riding Hood, including Perrault's. Orenstein challenges Bettelheim's theory that fairy tales encode universal psychological truths and maintains that texts are "forever locked in context." Larrington finds that Orenstein has an "unsubtle view of the European past." Organization is muddled and various theorists are oversimplified. The book is "fun to read, but the slickness of its ironies and the lack of historical depth begin to grate."

PAIGE, NICHOLAS D. Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2000.

Review: E. Gilby in FS 57.2 (2003). In this "compelling study," Paige traces the formulation, in the sphere of religious writing, of a rhetoric of human depth. . . It is less autobiography as a genre which is the focal point than the cultural context in which autobiography becomes worth reading." The reviewer praises Paige's critical methodology, which "grants coherence to his work," and the "broad line of inquiry [that] provokes exponentially broad questions about how one person can come to know another." It is to Paige's credit "that the conclusions. . . have further, implicit but highly provocative, ramifications, concerning notably the displacement of Descartes as the exclusive model for seventeenth-century discourses of the self."

Review: N. Hammond in MLR 98.3 (2003), 720: "Starting from the premise that 'autobiography, in its manifestly problematic promise to make identity readable, is part of the contradictions of modernity' (p.10), this book explores the emergence of autobiography as mediation between interior and exterior worlds in various seventeenth-century religious texts."

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. Le "fond du coeur". Figures de l'espace intérieur au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in S Fr XLVI, 136 (2002): 229: Welcome elegant translation by Papàsogli of her own work in Italian of ten years ago. Appendix includes a new essay and two others previously published. Collinet insists upon the pertinence of the work and praises the depth and merit of the essay on "L'idée du monde intérieur."

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. Volti della memoria nel 《 Grand siècle 》 e oltre. Roma: Bulzoni, 2000.

Review: B. Guion in RHLF 102.5, 853–54. A book that proposes to recover the seventeenth century's practice of memory, often forgotten between the ars memoriae of the Renaissance and modern, affective memory. Underlines especially the ethical dimensions of memory, including its link with sociability. Also analyzes the theme in several works—Cinna, La Princesse de Clèves, Les Pensées, Télémaque—and then goes on to look at how Prévost, Rousseau, and Chateaubriand all echo classical commonplaces on memory as much as look forward to romantic ones.

PASQUIER, PIERRE, ed. Le Temps au XVIIe siècle. (Littératures classiques, 43) Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: R. W. Tobin in PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 564–567. Presents articles by Véronique Adam, Michèle Clément, Annick Fiaschi-Dubois, Catherine Kintzler, Pierre Pasquier, Bénédicte Louvat-Molozay, Nathalie Grande, Huguette Courtès, Christian Belin, Bernard Chédozeau, Daniel Parrochia, Hélène Himmelfarb, Valérie Arrault, Anne-Elisabeth Spica, Thierry Verdier, Gilles Siouffi, François-Xavier Cuche.

PETERS, JULIE STONE. Theatre of the Book, 1480–1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Review: R. Hume in MLQ 64 (2003), 126–30: Attempts to account for the relationship between histories of print and of the modern stage. Broad-ranging and unpretentious in style, but lacks both direction and useful conclusions. "Anything but exhaustive. . . heavily dependent on less-than-complete knowledge of secondary scholarship."

POULOUIN, CLAUDINE. Le Temps des origines. L'Eden, le Déluge et "les temps reculés." De Pascal à l'Encyclopédie. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: A. Niderst in RF 114 (2002): 410–412: Reviewer is less than persuaded by Poulouin's choice of corpus (absence of Fénelon and of the pastoral tradition, for example) or analyses. Niderst offers numerous correctives and regrets characterizations such as that of Huet: "trop homme de cour et du monde pour être incrédule" (289).

PREYAT, FABRICE. "Histoire des femmes et sociologie du roman du XVIIe siècle." RBPH 79.2 (2001), 687–95.

Analyse de Stratégies de romancières. De Clélie à la Princesse de Clèves (1654–1678), l'oeuvre de Nathalie Grande (Paris: Champion, 1999). "Placée d'emblée sous les auspices de la sociologie de Pierre Bourdieu ou la sociopoétique d'Alain Viala, l'étude de Nathalie Grande se penche sur le profil de la romancière du XVIIe siècle au sein d'un corpus s'étalant sur une vingtaine d'années marquées par l'intensification des productions romanesques féminines." Grande analyse "'les liens tissés ou détissés (. . .) entre cadre historique, biographie sociale, positions littéraires et textes'."

PRUVOST, VALERIE CELINE AGNES. The Theater of Law: Performing Justice in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Drama. DAI 63/3 (2002), 965.

Showing the interconnections between law and theater in Racine, Corneille, Molière and Beaumarchais, argues that "[t]hough the interpretations of Law can vary, the trial process follows a preset order with a given set of rules and policies that require strict adherence [, and that] the same can be said about theater."

RAGAN, KATHLEEN. Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World. NY: Norton, 2000.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 356: Wide-ranging "resource book" includes narratives, often "as close to the oral literature as possible" (introduction) and analyses by Ragan. Goes beyond the "passive daughters, wicked stepmothers and nagging wives. . . of. . . Perrault" to "reinstate the folk tale heroine as witty, intelligent, resourceful and courageous" (reviewer).

RAYNARD, SOPHIE. La Seconde préciosité: floraison des conteuses de 1690 à 1756. Tübingen: G. Narr, 2002 (Biblio 17, no. 130). 512 p.

RIEGER, ANGELICA and JEAN-FRANCOIS TONARD, eds. La lecture au féminin / Lesende Frauen. La lectrice dans la littérature française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle/ Zur Kulturgeschichte der lesenden Frau in der französischen Literatur von den Anfangen bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1999.

Review: E.-C. Muelsch in RF 114 (2002): 90–92: European perspectives complement, in this wide-ranging volume, current U.S. studies on the topic. Preface by Fritz Nies underscores two motifs of the collection: "female reading and its dangers and the need to control it" and "the interrelation between female reading and writing" (15). 17th c. scholars will appreciate Renate Kroll's examination of texts of the Early Modern. According to Röswitha Böhm, the book in D'Aulnoy's fairy tales is "a depository of female memory and a means of imparting knowledge from one woman to another" (Muelsch 91). The volume is judged in sum, "a significant contribution to the history of female reading in France" (92).

RIGGS, LARRY. "Delusions of Self-Fashioning: Moralisme as Critique of Modernity." KRQ 49 (2002), 21–29.

Argues that "[t]he French moralists' concept of amour-propre goes to the heart of modern individualism and challenges at its origins the myth of the autonomous self-fashioning person. The self is as thoroughly "decentered" by La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Molière, Racine, and others as by any of our contemporary critiques." Theorizes the modern individual as a person who denies the notion of just price, "véritable prix," trafficking him/herself in a marketplace of identities. Explores Don Juan, Harpagon, and Louis XIV as examples.

ROBERT, RAYMONDE. Le conte de fées littéraire en France de la fin du XVIIe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Supplément bibliographique 1980–2000 établi par Nadine Jasmin avec la collaboration de Claire Debru. Paris: Champion, 2002 (Lumière classique, 40).

Review: Ph. Hourcade in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 287–288: Reviewer pleased to see reprint of this text, originally published in 1982, "et en passe de devenir un classique: au point que j'aurais souhaité plutôt la voir entrer en collection de poche, du type Droz ou Albin Michel. Mes quelques réserves émises jadis (RHLF, novembre–décembre 1984) demeurent, sur lesquelles je ne reviendrai pas; mais demeure aussi mon opinion d'ensemble favorable, qui se renforce même à la relecture de ces pages de Raymonde Robert, saisissant sous son seul regard un vaste corpus d'œuvres littéraires si diversifiées, procéda à une étude pragmatique, nuancée et toujours près du texte, où d'autre part elle parvint à faire réfléchir et à faire percevoir des directions de recherches lesquelles, à vrai dire, n'ont pas suscité tout l'intérêt qu'elles méritaient." The Supplément bibliographique is "bien construit, aussi complet qu'il peut l'être." Reviewer also adds the titles of a number of modern editions of different contes.

ROBIN, JEAN-LUC. Expérience et modèle dans les textes littéraires et scientifiques classiques. DAI 63/6 (2002), 2262.

"The textual practices of experimentation and simulation, common to both scientific and literary authors, shed light on the conceptual framework marking early modern divisions of knowledge. [...T]his comparative rereading of major classical texts by Galileo, Descartes, Molière, and Madame de Lafayette reveals the oneness of rational endeavor in the early modern period."

ROHOU, JEAN, Le XVIIe siècle, une révolution de la condition humaine. Paris: Seuil, 2002.

Review: D. Orsini in PFSCL> XXX, 59 (2003), 567–572. "Jean Rohou démontre ici en quoi le XVIIe siècle est une étape décisive dans la transformation de la condition humaine à travers une réflexion anthropologique, qui va de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle. L'auteur ne se limite pas à la France, mais replace son évolution au sein de l'Europe occidentale. La condition humaine recouvre un système de rapports entre le sujet et le monde, les autres, le pouvoir, les valeurs transcendantes et lui-même. Jean Rohou retrace l'histoire de ces rapports, en reconstituant l'instauration d'une société libérale et en envisageant quatre notions qui changent de sens durant cette période: la générosité, l'amour de soi, l'intérêt et le bonheur. Il montre qu'au XVIIe siècle se confrontent deux systèmes de valeurs antinomiques: celui d'une hiérarchie sociale et idéologique, hyperaugustinienne et antihumaniste, qui implique une adéquation des hommes à un ordre antérieur et supérieur, et celui d'une émancipation du moi, marqué par une volonté de domination et motivé par la satisfaction de ses désirs. [. . .] L'ordre chronologique, s'il entraîne quelques redites, fournit un éclairage minutieux sur l'évolution des notions. Les références sont érudites, nombreuses et variées, les démonstrations efficaces, grâce aux analyses synthétiques d'œuvres littéraires et à une démarche linguistique rigoureuse. La bibliographie est très sélective. Une rubrique intitulée 《 Principaux acteurs et témoins 》 syncrétise parfaitement les traditionnels index nominum et rerum. Enfin, avant de livrer une table qui résume son ouvrage, l'auteur a établi un précieux 《 Index thématique 》 de 180 entrées."

ROHOU, JEAN. "La Périodisation: Une reconstruction révélatrice et explicatrice." RHLF 102.5 (2002), 707–32.

While acknowledging the arbitrary nature of literary periodization, author attempts to set forth an account of what makes a number of sub-periodizations of the seventeenth century possible and desirable.

RONZEAUD, PIERRE, ed. L'imagination au XVIIe siècle (Littératures classiques, 45) Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: K. Hoffman in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 288–290: This collection of articles, all in French, "does a fine job of suggesting ways in which one might attempt to seize what Ronzeaud terms the 'fantôme insaisissable' of imagination and lays out some paths across a slippery terrain it admits from the outset it will never be able to cover fully. [. . .] Throughout, the imagery, the language, and the functions of the term 'imagination' overlap, reappear, become problematized and reveal both new ambiguities and new complexities. Some of the pieces take the problem beyond the philosophical and literary focus that dominates the book. [. . .] Some will surely regret that more of the links, ruptures and references from demonology, medicine, history, theater or music do not appear here. To do justice to those realms however, the project would have needed several more volumes, at least. L'Imagination au XVIIe siècle is an excellent beginning."

ROSNER, ANNA J. Le refus du mariage dans la littérature féminine française (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles). DAI 63/12 (2003), 4331.

Analyzes the topos of marriage refusal, concluding that it serves to contest "non seulement le système matrimonial, mais aussi les conventions littéraires inflexibles qui s'imposent à l'héroïne romanesque."

ROSNER, ANNA J. 'Un regard comparatif: le refus du mariage dans le roman du Grand Siècle.' La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 379–390.

Compares the representation of women's refusal to marry in Camus' Dorothée (1622), Rosset's Histoires tragiques (1614), Gournay's Le Proumenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne (1594) and Scudéry's Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus. Rosner argues that the evolution in the refusal to marry as fictionalised by the two women writers constitutes a criticism of the institution of marriage as a bastion of male hegemony.

ROY, ROXANNE. "Une femme en colère : représentation de la colère féminine d'après trois femmes de lettres du XVIIe siècle." La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 211–224.

Analyzes the representation of anger in women in Scudéry (Célinte), Lafayette (La Princesse de Montpensier), and Villedieu (Désordres de l'amour). Roy argues that anger is legitimised within the private sphere, but not when it spills over into the public sphere.

RUBIN, DAVID LEE and ALICE STROOP, eds. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. Vol. 4. Utopia I: 16th and 17th Centuries. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 1998.

Review: H.-G. Funke in RF 114 (2002): 128–131: Welcome examination of utopia includes essays on crucial features of the subject: on the "Culture of Criticism (A. Stroop), "Utopie vs. état de pouvoir. . . " (T. J. Reiss), "The Displaced Center of Feminine Utopia in Honoré d'Urfé's l'Astrée" (T. Meding), "The Play of Utopia and Distopia . . . Descartes and Poussin" (Van Kelly), "Foigny's Joke" (A. Stroop), and "L'Utopie, le souverain et l'individu: le cas des Sévarambes" (Carole F. Martin). Two essays treat texts of the utopian genre while the four others examine utopia in various genres from philosophy to painting. Despite the lack of a conclusion, the individual essays exhibit high standards of research and original thought.

SABOL, JEREMY DAVID. Fables of Knowledge: Descartes and Seventeenth-Century Epistemological Fiction. DAI 63/10 (2003), 3577.

"[I]llustrates the relevance of literary concepts to early modern philosophy and science, and conversely shows the impact of philosophical texts on the evolution of seventeenth-century literary writing." Analyzes works by Descartes, Cyrano, and Gabriel Daniel.

SANDY, GERALD, ed. The Classical Heritage in France. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Review: J. Harrie in Choice 40 (2002), 698: Covers "the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries," considering both literature and the visual arts. Particular treatment of Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, Budé, and Aymot. Stresses the greater influence of Greek culture over Latin.

SERROY, JEAN. Poètes français de l'âge baroque. Anthologie (1571–1677). Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1999.

Review: J.-C. Vuillemin, in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 127–29. Proposes a selection of baroque poetry that includes material overlooked in many anthologies of the genre; volume takes the unusual step of presenting authors in the order of their birth. Editor sees the baroque, defined by ostentation, imagination, and movement, as having its heyday before the triumph of classical rationality, around 1670. Reviewer regrets the sheer bulk of the volume, and the absence of any women writers, but approves of the recent interest in the baroque.

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN A. Plotless History? Historical Representation in Frondeur Memoirs. DAI 63/8 (2003), 2890.

Argues that the memoirs of Madame de Motteville, La Rochefoucauld, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, and the Cardinal de Retz are not, as the authors pretend, purely descriptive and particular, for they all present "a vision of decline, stasis, stagnation, and decay." Furthermore, "[f]ar from being idealizing accounts that valorize their authors, as most critics have concluded, these memoirs in fact accurately reflect the triumph of the centralized monarchy, the eclipse of the aristocracy, the extinction of noble houses, and the death of chivalric values in post-Fronde France."

SILVER, MARIE-FRANCE & MARIE-LAURE GIRON SWIDERSKI, eds. Femmes en toutes lettres: les épistolières du XVIIIe siècle. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000.

Review: L. Mall in FR 76 (2003), 1005–06: Though centered on letter-writers of the 18th-century, contains an introduction on the legacy of Sévigné.

SOSSA, PAOLA. "La Traduction de l'Enfer de Dante Alighieri par Philippe-Auguste Le Hardy (XVII siècle)." SFr XLVI, 136 (2002), 147–164.

Original and full treatment of Le Hardy's translation of Dante Alighieri. The manuscript of 500 pages includes an ink portrait of Dante and 40 pages on his life. Sossa finds the translation "assez confus et farfelu," (148); its execution was most likely suggested by Le Hardy's précepteur Chapelain. Le Hardy is incapable of rendering Dante's breadth of vocabulary and transforms l'Enfer by "l'insertion d'éléments stylistiques du XVIIe siècle" (153). Sossa reminds of Saint-Evremond's warning "à ne traduire les poètes si on ne l'est pas" (164).

SPIELMANN, GUY. Le jeu de l'ordre et du chaos: comédie et pouvoir à la fin de règne. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: D. F. Connon in FS 57.2 (2003). "This study of comedy from the death of Molière to the death of Louis XIV seeks to persuade us to look afresh at this. . . somewhat neglected period." The reviewer lauds Spielmann's assertion of the importance of this period, though he finds that ideas are sometimes "belabored." Nonetheless, he says, the book makes "valuable points about a wide variety of theatrical activity."

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "The Art of Praise from Malherbe to La Fontaine." The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp.119–140.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "Voix féminines dans la littérature classique." Les femmes au Grand Siècle. Le Baroque: musique et littérature. Musique et liturgie. Actes du 33e congrèes annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (Arizona State University, Tempe). Tome II. Eds. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17, 2003.

TERNAUX, JEAN-CLAUDE. Lucain et la littérature de l'âge baroque en France. Citation, imitation et création. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: G. Schrenck in RF 114 (2002): 265–267: Praised for its erudition and "finesse," the volume illuminates the French reception of Lucan during the Baroque era, in particular from 1560–1664. Editions, translations, libraries, scholastic programs and the "rayonnement" in certain academies demonstrate the wide reception or what Ternaux terms "une internationale lucaniste" (66). Of particular interest to sociologists and historians will be the discussions of parallels relating to war. Other qualities appreciated and developed here include the literary, historical and parodic. Lucan's images of the world and neo-stoic aspects announce Corneille in La Mort de Pompée.

Review: F. Tinguely in BHR 65.1 (2003), 191–93: ". . .il s'agit ni plus ni moins de rendre à Lucain ce qui lui appartient en dégageant la vaste influence qu'il a exercée sur la littérature française pendant au moins un siècle (env. 1560–1660), de Du Bellay à Corneille et de Garnier à Brébeuf."

TERRIER, PHILIPPE, LORIS PETRIS & MARIE-JEANNE LIENGME BESSIRE, eds. Les Fruits de la Saison. Mélanges de littérature des XVIe et XVIIe siècles offerts au Professeur André Gendre. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Review: F. Tinguely in BHR 65.1 (2003), 228–29: Un volume d'une quarantaine de contributions dont "chaque auteur semble avoir pris le temps de polir son ouvrage. . ." Voir les articles sur Malherbe et La Fontaine.

TOBIN, RONALD W. "Booking the Cooks: Literature and Gastronomy in Molière." Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics 5.1 (2003): 125–136.

Article similar in content to "Qu'est-ce que la gastrocritique?" (below). Particular attention (in second half of article) paid to Molière's L'Avare.

TOMLINSON, PHILIP, ed. French "Classical" Theatre Today. Teaching, Research, Performance. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001 (Faux Titre, 205).

Review: C. Batson in FR 76.6 (2003), 1238–39: Numerous essays and the fleshing out of an undergraduate course comprise this "pedagogical rethinking of the terms "théâtre classique"" (1239). An opening essay conveys the term's range and notes its deployment in the service of nationalistic cultural domination. The notion of "classical theater" is further destabilized, broadened, and enriched by calls to include baroque opera, less-influential editions, and modern stagings within its functional corpus. Particular praise given to an essay which provides high-tech graphic modelings of classical theater spaces.

Review: P. Gethner in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 290–293: This collection of essays, four in French, the rest in English "is both interesting and provocative. The contributors write clearly, at times conversationally, and are mercifully free from pomposity. They challenge a number of received ideas about what is traditionally termed classical drama and speak with refreshing candor about the rationale and methodology of their own research projects. The essays are grouped into six sections, with the headings In Retrospect, Editing, Visualizing, Studying, Performing, and In Prospect. . . [This] final section deals with web sites and their usefulness for future scholars and students." Reviewer describes collection as "a worthwhile set of essays that helps us focus and clarify our thinking about where research currently stands in this area and what paths we need to pursue in the future."

Review: E. M. Langille in ThR 28 (2003), 213. Tomlinson challenges reductionist tendencies of classicism and says seventeenth-century theatre has not one but many faces. The seventeen essays do not redefine the notion of "classical" French theatre, but do constitute a "valuable, interesting and timely contribution."

TREPANIER, HELENE. "Entre amour-propre et anéantissement: le 《 je 》 des autobiographies mystiques féminines". La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 301–313.

Examines writings by Marie de l'Incarnation, Jeanne des Anges, Louise du Néant, Madame Guyon among others. Suggests that "Dans les écrits mystiques féminins, la lutte interminable contre l'amour-propre, force 《 invisible 》 selon les termes de La Rochefoucauld, pose les termes d'une définition du sujet. [. . .] En effet, être rien. . . construit une identité."

TRIVISANI-MOREAU, ISABELLE, Dans l'empire de Flore: la représentation romanesque de la nature de 1660 à 1680. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2001 (Biblio 17, 126).

Review: C. McCall-Probes in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 294–298. "In this remarkable and erudite study, Trivisani-Moreau makes a welcome contribution to a number of important areas of investigation: nature, description, the senses and solitude, among others. [. . .] Divided into three parts, each with two or more chapters, Dans l'empire de Flore treats successively theory, stereotypes and codes, and, in what might be called the "heart" of the volume, the gardener (over 200 pages are devoted to a detailed examination of "le double jeu du jardin")." This "comprehensive study exploits some 230 works, from the anonymous Divertissement de Forges and La Promenade de Livry to the works of well-known authors such as Lafayette, Préchac, Scudéry and Villedieu. [. . .] Of particular interest is Trivisani-Moreau's attention to the role of the senses and the sensations in the depiction of nature. [. . .] Pertinent observations, fine analyses and lucid style complement precise documentation which not only identifies key passages of works under consideration but elaborates on concepts necessary and enriching to the study". Overall "authoritative and stimulating".

TURNER, JAMES GRANTHAM. Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England, 1534–1685. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

VAN ELSLANDE, JEAN-PIERRE. L'imaginaire pastoral du XVIIe siècle. 1600–1650. Paris: PUF, 1999.

Review: F. Chevalier in RF 114 (2002): 105–106: This "rich and interesting" analysis, having its origin in a 1996 doctoral dissertation, seeks to explain the vogue of the pastorale. Successfully demonstrates the complexity of a phenomenon as it invites its readers to reread these highly successful 17th c. novels.

VOLPILHAC-AUGER et al. La Collection Ad usum Delphini. L'Antiquité au miroir du Grand Siècle. Grenoble: ELLUG, U Stendhal, 2000.

Review: L. N. Cagiano in S Fr XLVI, 136 (2002): 227–228: Focusing on the last 30 years of the 17th c., this work of the Ad usum Delphini team presents a vast fresco of culture of the era as indeed the subtitle indicates. Studies treat specific aspects such as censorship, interpretation, typology and the crucial role of the Latin monument for the monarchy and the education of the prince. Volpilhac-Auger insists that for the 17th c., Antiquity is considered not as a "canon" but as "un vaste fonds où l'on découvre des perles rares . . . [un] champ d'exploration" (90).

VON STACKELBERG, JÜRGEN. Gegendichtungen. Fallstudien zum Phänomen der literarischen Replik. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000.

Review: S. Segler-Meßner in RF 114 (2002): 263–265: Although the emphasis of this praiseworthy volume is the 18th–20th c., it does include erudite reflections on Molière's Ecole des femmes, studied in contrast to Marivaux's L'Ecole des mères, and separately, on Fontenelle's Entretiens. Illuminating treatment and case studies of the "replique."

VON STACKELBERG, JURGEN. Kleine Geschichte der französischen Literatur. Munich: D. H. Beck, 1999.

Review: J. Leeker in Archiv 239 (2002): 226–228: Publication is European-oriented; French literature is that of the Hexagone. Although the reviewer takes exception to space allowed for certain œuvres and finds some of the criteria "sehr subjektiv" (228), he has praise for the sections on the Baroque (balanced if scanty) and the Classical period (detailed and convincing).

VUILLERMOZ, MARC. Le Système des objets dans le théâtre français des années 1625–1650: Corneille, Mairet, Rotrou, Scudéry. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Review: J. Clarke in MLR 98.2 (2003), 458: ". . .an admirable study, in terms both of its scope and of its execution." Vuillermoz "has set out to apply to the theatrical object the kind of analysis his distinguished predecessor [Georges Forestier] undertook for the play within the play and for disguise." Reviewer considers omission of John Golder's research on the décor simultané as "particularly striking" and regrets numerous typographical errors.

Review: B. Louvat-Molozay in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 303–304. "Vuillermoz donne dans cet ouvrage la pleine mesure de son savoir et de son savoir-faire, en matière d'histoire du théâtre, de dramaturgie et de sémiologie. Le livre vient, tout d'abord, combler une lacune dans notre connaissance du théâtre du XVIIe siècle en rendant à l'objet théâtral son importance non seulement comme aspect du spectacle mais aussi et d'abord comme élément intéressant, parfois dans des proportions remarquables, la dramaturgie elle-même. Il propose ensuite, comme l'indique son sous-titre, un véritable 《 système des objets 》, système qui s'élabore à partir d'une minutieuse typologie et permet d'identifier, au fil du parcours, l'ensemble des fonctions et des modalités d'utilisation de l'objet dans le théâtre français du deuxième quart du XVIIe siècle."

VUILLEUMIER LAURENS, FLORENCE. La Raison des figures symboliques à la Renaissance et à l'Age classique. Etudes sur les fondements philosophiques, théologiques et rhétoriques de l'image. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Review: J.-C. Margolin in SFr XLVI, 136 (2002): 183–186: Judged a "maître-livre," rich and a product which develops remarkably material that Vuilleumier Laurens has previously examined. Major divisions focus on 1) the sign of Pythagorus (here Italian influences are discussed; 17th c. scholars will appreciate the treatment of Béroalde), 2) Erasmus's and others use of symbola pythagorica (emphasis is on importance to 17th c. rhetoric), 3) "les enfants de Denys" (Denys l'Aéropagite), 4) "rhétorique des formes symboliques" and the triumph of the image (including reflections on Marino, Menestrier and others). Vuilleumier Laurens's conclusion, although judged "un peu brève", succeeds in underscoring "la profonde unité de ce monde culturel et de cet âge symbolique." Includes a rich bibliography, annexes with selections of rare works, and indices.

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE and CLAIRE LE BRUN-GOUANVIC, eds. Les Arts du spectacle au théâtre (1550–1700). Paris: Champion, 2001 and Les Arts du spectacle dans la ville (1404–1721). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 97.4 (2002), 958: Ten essays "on large-scale public spectacle in early modern Europe describe the transformations of urban space from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment." Of interest to dix-septiémistes are articles on the transformation of the French royal entry into a political spectacle (Wagner), transplantation of the ritual to the New World (Fournier), the development of the foire and the cours in 17th-century Paris (Vaillancourt), and the "aesthetic transformation of a political myth (the killing of the Hydra/Python by Hercules/Apollo), from an automaton repeatedly used for firework displays to a static allegorical painting celebrating the transcendent power of Louis XIV (Siguret)."

Review: J. Clarke in FS 57.4 (2003). Though the articles in this collection actually have little to do with the notion of spectacle, according to the reviewer, it is nonetheless an interesting and worthwhile reading for its text-based analysis. The collection notably covers works by Corneille, Molière as well as more general themes: use of stage machinery, the comédie-ballets, pastoral theater and the Comédie-Italienne. Of particular interest, says the reviewer, is Guy Spielmann's concluding article on the "syntaxe du spectaculaire" during the seventeenth century.

Review: K. Schoell in RF 114 (2002): 500–503: The Acts of a Congress on performance arts, these two volumes arrange their texts and essays chronologically and thematically as the titles of the volumes indicate. 17th c. specialists will welcome stimulating and well-documented treatments of subjects as diverse as "entrées royales," "une syntaxe du spectaculaire," mechanical figures and monsters, the theology of sacrifice, the pastorale, Corneille's Illusion, Molière's comédies-ballets, among others.

WAQUET, FRANÇOISE. Latin or the Empire of a Sign. From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. NY: Verso, 2001.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 38 (2002): 118–119: Translation by John Howe of Waquet's original French study. Although focus is Latin, "that perfect European sign," and not French, 17th c. scholars of French language and literature will appreciate the reflections on education, the church, language emergence and standardization.

WETSEL, DAVID and CANOVAS, FREDERIC, eds. Avec la collaboration de CHRISTINE PROBES and BUFORD NORMAN. Les Femmes au Grand Siècle. Le Baroque: Musique et Littérature. Musique et Liturgie. Actes du 33e Congrès de la NASSCFL, t. II. Arizona State U., Tempe, May 2001. Tübingen: G. Narr (Biblio 17, 144), 2003.

WETSEL, DAVID and CANOVAS, DAVID, eds. Avec la collaboration de Gabrielle Verdier, Elisabeth Goldsmith et Jacques Grès-Gayer. La Spritualité, L'Epistolaire, Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle. Actes de Tempe, t.. III, 2001. Tübingen, G. Narr (Biblio 17, 145), 2003.

WIESER, DAGMAR. "Création théâtrale et sentiment d'identité. Nerval au miroir de Corneille." RHLF 102.6 (2002), 921–56.

Examines Nerval's reading of Corneille's theater and language, which he approaches through Schlegel; shows that his understanding of Corneille's verse informed his own poetic and theatrical practice.

WIGGIN, BETHANY. Fiction, France, and Other Vices: Crossing German Borders in Fictional Narratives, 1680–1720. DAI 63/11 (2003), 3958.

Examines German reception of the French roman galant, which "was embedded in debates about the dubious merits of French influence and in discussions of women's intellectual capabilities." Concludes that "novels' depictions of sexual adventures [...] offered readers a space to explore sexed and gendered subject positions more difficult to inhabit in real life."

WILD, FRANCINE, éd. Genre et société. 2 vol. Nancy: U de Nancy 2, Groupe "XVIe-XVIIe siècles en Europe", 2000.

Review: N. Négroni in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 305–306. "Le dessein du groupe de recherche 《 XVIe-XVIIe siècles en Europe 》 pose la question des relations qui pouvaient exister à cette époque charnière entre des paramètres sociaux et certaines stratégies d'écriture". Reviewer indicates how the "évolution diachronique de la notion de genre. . . est donnée par l'organisation interne de l'ouvrage." Despite some reservations concerning the section "Recherches littéraires, résurgences, passage de frontière", ultimately praises "la richesse du panorama" which the volume offers.

Review: C. Winn in BHR 65.2 (2003), 418–20: "Ouvrage inaugural de la collection EUROPE XVI-XVII, Genre et société réunit dans deux volumes très riches mais assez incohérents les actes du congrès 'L'émergence de genres nouveaux dans les sociétés européennes des XVIe et XVIIe siècles' ainsi que quelques articles fournis par divers chercheurs." Winn loue "la diversité et la richesse des essais" mais regrette "que les éditeurs aient manqué l'occasion de contextualiser des études aussi disparates afin d'aborder des questions essentielles. . ." Voir les articles de N. Oddo sur "les circonstances politico-religieuses qui contribuent à l'émergence du roman dévot"; M.-H. Maux-Piovano "sur l'évolution des manuels didactiques publiés en France au XVIIe siècle dans le but d'enseigner l'espagnol aux Français"; P. Hourcade sur "l'émergence de genres nouveaux à la fin du XVIIe siècle."

WINN, COLETTE H., ed. Protestations et revendications féminines. Textes oubliés et inédits sur l'éducation féminine (XVIe-XVIIe siècle). Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: E. Berriot-Salvadore in BHR 65.1 (2003), 196–97: ". . .les quelques 150 pages de textes du XVIIe siècle présentés et commentés ici permettent de découvrir, bien au-delà d'un 'discours féministe', un échantillon très signatif des genres et des modes littéraires par lesquels les femmes veulent manifester leurs qualités et leur virtuosité."

WYGANT, AMY. Towards a Cultural Philology. Phèdre and the Construction of "Racine." Oxford: Legenda, 1999.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 38 (2002): 360: Praiseworthy for its wit and pluridisciplinary approach, Wygant's volume will be especially valuable for scholars of cultural identity. Includes with varying success, treatments of philology, music, poetry, design, death, art (Rubens's Death of Hippolytus and Le Nôtre's Labyrinthe at Versailles), the Sublime.

ZIMMERMANN, MARGARETE and BÖHM, ROSWITHA, eds. Französische Frauen der Frühen Neuzeit. Dichterinnen-Malerinnen-Mäzeninnen. Darmstadt: Primus, 1999.

Review: A Dörner in RF 114 (2002): 417–420: Welcome anthology of a "Galerie der französischen femmes fortes" of the Early Modern Era (417). Time span is from 1477 with Anne de Bretagne to 1713 with the death of Anne-Marie Renée Strésor. Political figures such as Catherine de Medicis as well as literary ones such as Madeleine de Scudéry are included. Wide-ranging essays treat biography, achievements, reception, the changing canon and the "condition féminine" in the Early Modern. Praised for its many new and interesting insights and excellent readability.

ZIPES, JACK, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001.

Review: A. Duggan in M&T 16 (2002): 295–298: Duggan: " an excellent anthology that debunks myths of pure oral or national traditions through a complicated outline of the genre's evolution that moves between a multiplicity of influences or 'contaminations' on the one hand, and recurring themes, characters, and motifs that establish the genre as such, on the other. Moreover, the many references to the various traditions from which fairy-tale writers drew opens up new directions in fairy-tale scholarship."

ZUBER, ROGER. Les émerveillements de la raison. Classicismes littéraires du XVIIe siècle français. Préface deGeorges Forestier. Paris: Klincksieck, 1997.

Review: V. Kapp in RF 114 (2002): 420–422: Judged the admirable "somme" of a rich scholar/researcher's life, Zuber's volume is as witty as it is clear-sighted and as stimulating as it is well-founded. An essay on "littérature et classicisme" is followed by a coherent ensemble which focuses on three themes: "Henri IV et les styles," "Classicismes et critiques," and "Boileau et Perrault." A conclusion effectively contextualizes the whole. As a testimony to the depth and quality of Zuber's scholarship, Kapp quotes Zuber's remarks on his debt to others beyond France: "Dans ma manière de lire et dans les questions que je me suis posées, je dois autant aux universitaires célèbres de Genève, de Louvain et de Turin, de Harvard, de Johns Hopkins et d'autres lieux qu'à mes meilleurs professeurs de khâgne" (302).