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ABLALI, DRISS. "Sémiotique et phénoménologie." Semiotica 151 (2004): 219–40.

Examines the increasing return since the beginning of the 1990s to phenomenology for the study of language and texts. Critiques this development and analyzes the relationship between phenomenology and semiotics in the works of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and the semioticians. Looks at how phenomenology pushes semiotics away from texts, which, according to the author, should be its focus, into idealism and metaphysics, to examine the old problem of the relationship between body and soul.

ADAMS, ALISON, STEPHEN RAWLES, and ALISON SAUNDERS. A Bibliography of French Emblem Books (Volume 2: L–Z). Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: D. Cecchetti in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003), 153: Welcome second volume of bibliography of emblem books from the 1500s through the 1600s. Indispensable, with highly useful indices.

ARBOUR, ROMEO. Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France (1470–1870). Genève: Droz, 2003.

Review: BCLF 653 (2003), 8–9: Cet ouvrage "recense utilement les données disponibles sur les femmes du livre. L'expression de 'femme libraire' ne doit pas cacher l'ampleur d'une enquête qui vise toute femme ayant eu la responsabilité de l'impression, de la vente ou de la reliure de toute forme d'imprimé (livres, estampes, feuilles de musique, etc)."

BADIOU-MONFERRAN, CLAIRE. "Représentations du français classique dans les grammaires modernes: l'exemple de la coordination négative par ni." DSS 223 (2004), 237–250.

Taking a linguistic approach to the "vieil antagonisme de la modernité et du classicisme," the author analyses "les gloses auxquelles à donné lieu la séquence "sans X ni sans Y en phrase positive" [...] On montrera que la description de cet emploi de ni - perçu par la modernité comme "mal formée", par opposition à la séquence "sans X et/ou sans Y en phrase positive" [...] - est habitée par un imaginaire de la "coupure" opposant irréductiblement langue classique et langue moderne, et qu'elle récupère, en le déplaçant hors de la sphère de la représentation, le grief d'absence d'énergie que la modernité imputait au langage [...] de l'âge classique, et dont elle prétendait se défaire pour elle-même en renouant, par delà le système des signes à vocation représentative, avec l'"être brut" du langage."

BALSAMO, JEAN and MICHEL SIMONIN, eds. Abel L'Angelier et Françoise de Louvain (1574–1620). Suivi du Catalogue des ouvrages publiées par Abel L'Angelier (1574–1610) et la Veuve L'Angelier (1610–1620). Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: T. Peach in MLR 98.4 (2003), 984–85: "This superb study of the activity of Abel L'Angelier and his wife, following in the honourable tradition of the exhaustive but rather slowly emerging Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle, must be all but definitive, with only the rediscovery of lost editions forming a possible future supplement."

BEASLEY, FAITH E. "Marguerite Buffet and la Sagesse Mondaine," in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 227–235.

Because women's role in the development of the French language has been largely erased, Buffet's text helps us to recognize the importance of the cultural milieu of "la sagesse mondaine"-the largely oral, worldly, salon culture dominated by women in seventeenth-century France.

BENSELER, DAVID P. & MOORE, SUZANNE S. "Doctoral Degrees Granted in Foreign Languages in the United States: 2003." MLJ 88, no.3 (2004), 433–446. French Section, 438–439.

Cites dissertations (and directors), first by discipline, then by institution, then by author, with all periods intermixed. These comprehensive listings began in 1926.

BESSIRE, FRANCOIS, ed. L'Ecrivain éditeur. Vol. I: Du Moyen Age à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Genève: Droz, 2001.

Review: J.-F. Gilmont in BHR 66,1 (2004), 201–02: "L'ADIREL (Association pour la Diffusion de la Recherche Littéraire) a publié deux livraisons des Travaux de Littérature (t. 14 et 15, 2001–2002) pour tenter de cerner la figure de l'Ecrivain éditeur du Moyen Age jusqu'au XXe siècle. Il s'agit, pour l'association, de mieux cerner ces écrivains qui ont pris personnellement en main tout ou partie des fonctions propres à l'éditeur et à l'imprimeur. En effet, les attitudes des auteurs face au produit imprimé sont multiples depuis une espèce d'indifférence vis-à-vis de la chose matérielle jusqu'à un souci maladif d'une production aussi réussie dans son esthétique que dans sa correction textuelle."

BIASON, MARIA TERESA. Retoriche della brevità. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002.

Review: S. Vecchiato in S Fr 47 (2003): 767: 17th c. specialists will particularly appreciate the essays on the role of the proper noun chez La Bruyère and on the form and content of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes.

ADAMSON, JOHN (DIR.). The Princely Courts of Europe: Rituals, Politics and Culture under the Ancien Régime, 1500–1750. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.

Review: N. Le Roux in DSS 222 (2004), 143–144: Through a collection of essays, Adamson and his colleagues look at the workings of the principal courts of Modern Europe: "Dans une introduction très nourrie, le maître d'œuvre de l'entreprise offre une utile synthèse des apports récents de l'historiographie, complétant ou réorientant les études fondatrices de Norbert Elias. Le corps de l'ouvrage est ensuite constitué d'une collection d'essais." "Sont ainsi évoquées successivement les cours d'Espagne (Glyn Redworth et Fernando Checa), de France (Olivier Chaline), d'Angleterre (J. Adamson), des Provinces-Unies (Jonathan Israel), de Rome (Henry Dietrich Fernandez), d'Autruche (Jeroen Duindam), de Bavière (Rainer Babel), de Prusse (Markus Völkel), de Savoie (Robert Oresko), de Toscane (Marcello Fantoni), de Suède (Fabian Person) et de Russie (Lindsey Hugues)."

ALBALA, KENNETH B. Eating Right in the Renaissance. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002.

Review: A. J. Grieco in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1288–1289: Judges the volume "ambitious" and notes that it is "the first to explore diet literature [here, from 1470–1650] primarily from the point of view of the medical discourse(s) on food and the advice... to its readers" (1288). Finds that its merit "lies... in providing an overall view of this field," yet the various chapters also treat medical examination of the human body, the "six non-naturals," the perception and consumption of food, class distinctions, food and nation, and the "complex relationship... between medicine and cuisine in the Middle Ages and early modern period" (1288). Although Grieco finds some chapters less convincing than others and offers several suggestions for future research (comparing prescriptive literature with texts revealing eating practices and readership of these dietary treatises), his overall assessment is positive.

ANTOINE, MICHEL. Le Coeur de l'Etat: surintendance, contrôle général et intendances des finances, 1552–1791. Paris: Fayard, 2003.

Review: BCLF 653 (2003), 141–41: "L'ouvrage est un modèle d'érudition dominée, un livre de premier ordre, essentiel pour comprendre le fonctionnement des institutions financières de la France d'Ancien Régime."

APPS, LARA and ANDREW GOW. Male Witches in Early Modern Europe. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003.

Review: R. Barnes in Choice 41.7 (2004), 1361. Argues that European notions of witchcraft were more or less gender neutral. Apps and Gow hold that the implicit feminization of men accused of witchcraft stemmed from their dim-wittedness, and that this trait's association with the female sex did not negate the accused men's gender as a whole. "The obligatory doses of babble... do not obscure the authors' substantive arguments" (1361).

ASCH, RONALD G., ed. Der europäische Adel im Ancien Régime. Von der Krise der ständischen Monarchien bis zur Revolution (ca. 1600–1789). Köln: Böhlau, 2001.

Review: H. Kleuting in HZ 277 (2003): 199–200: Welcomed as superior, this study of the European nobility in the Ancien Régime includes an essay of particular interest to 17th c. specialists. Jean-Marie Constant's treatment of French nobility between the death of Henri IV and the end of the Fronde includes considerations of freedom, stoicism and libertinage, as well as Protestantism and Jansenism.

ASCH, RONALD G., WULF ECKART VOß and MARTIN WREDE, eds. Frieden und Krieg in der Frühen Neuzeit. Die europäische Staatenordnung und die außereuropäische Welt. München: Fink, 2001.

Review: H. Schilling in HZ 277 (2003): 193–195: Welcome as the last of the "Jubiläumsbände" or volumes celebrating the Peace of Westphalia, this study receives praise for its wide-ranging and careful scholarship. Of particular interest for 17th c. specialists are essays on the judicial, the military (internal and external) and on the dévots and Richelieu.

ASSAF, FRANCIS. 1715: Le soleil s'éteint. Fasano, Schena / Paris, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: O. Ranum in PFSCL XXXI (60) 233–234. "Not directly seeking to bring new knowledge to bear on what happened in 1715, Assaf's aim is to offer what the "citoyen" (not the 'subject') might wish to know about courtly and learned culture in that year."

Review: P. Sosso in S Fr 47 (2003): 713–714: Unusual and compelling study demonstrates the complexity of a crucial year and provides a reconstruction of the last day and death of Louis XIV. Informed by Saint-Simon's Mémoires and by the journal of the brothers Anthoine (garçons de chambre of the king). Also includes a small section on the events of the last year, interesting documents on Louis XIV's last words and medical discourse, analyses of periodicals such as Le Journal des Sçavans. Selected bibliography.

AUZEPY, MARIE-FRANCE et JOEL CORNETTE, eds. Palais et pouvoir: de Constantinople à Versailles. Saint-Denis: Presse universitaire de Vincennes, 2003.

Review: BCLF 651 (2003), 75: Cet ouvrage "veut offrir, dans une série de synthèses, le survol de la longue histoire des bâtiments où logeait le pouvoir, des différents modèles et solutions suivant la conception même du pouvoir princier, depuis le grand palais de l'empereur à Constantinople jusqu'à la diffusion en Europe du modèle versaillais au XVIIIe siècle, en passant par les palais de l'Islam classique, du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance italienne."

BATTISTA, ANNA MARIA. Politica e morale nella Francia dell'età moderna. Genoa: Name, 1998.

Review: J. H. M. Salmon in Ren Q 53 (2002), 267–286. Judged "fascinating if at times controversial," Battista's study asserts that during the late 16th and 17th centuries, l'uomo sociale became l'uomo dissociato. Her thesis is tested and illustrated by a broad range of writers, from libertines and scientists to Neo-epicurians, mystics and Jansenists. Salmon finds useful the introduction by Anna Maria Lazzarino Del Grosso.

BAYLEY, PETER. "Crowning Children: Les sacres de Reims au dix-septième siècle" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 21–28.

Accounts of the royal coronation ceremonies highlight the royal coronation ceremony's ancient heritage and unchanging form, thereby making it difficult to understand its evolution over time. Particular attention is paid to the adaptation of the ceremony for an adult (e.g. Henri III in 1575) and a child (Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and Louis XV).

BEASLEY, FAITH E. "Marguerite Buffet and la Sagesse Mondaine," in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 227–235.

Because women's role in the development of the French language has been largely erased, Buffet's text helps us to recognize the importance of the cultural milieu of "la sagesse mondaine"-the largely oral, worldly, salon culture dominated by women in seventeenth-century France.

BELL, DAVID A. The Cult of the Nation in France. Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 276 (2003): 468–469: Wide-ranging and welcome treatment encompasses central considerations such as monarchy, kingdom, God and church, as well as modification in concepts such as nation, patrie, public, société, civilisation (468). Richly informative and well-written with detailed index. The complete bibliography is available on the internet at www.davidbell.net.

BELMESSOUS, SALIHA. "Etre français en Nouvelle-France: Identité française et identité coloniale aux dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles." FHS 27.3 (2004), 507–540.

Describes developments in relations between the French and those in the Canadian colony, native and non-native, and notes the creation of two identities, one national, one colonial.

BENES, MIRKA AND DIANNE HARRIS, eds. Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Review: M. Leslie in Ren Q 56 (2003): 834–835: Part two of this impressive collection of essays treats "The French Court" ("French garden culture from roughly 1550 to 1790") (834). Praiseworthy introductory essay as well as the volume itself which "contains the fruits of perceptive and tenacious scholarship matched with inventive curiosity and intellectual ambition" (834). Celebrating the lifetime work of Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, the volume "exemplif[ies]... cross-fertilizations" between the two national fields and demonstrates the benefits of "approaches that integrate... art historical scholarship,... sociological and intellectual context and the material culture" (834).

BERLANSTEIN, LENARD. "The French in Love and Lust." FHS 27.2 (2004), 465–479.

Reviews a number of recent works on the "history of love and sexuality," though only one, Georges Vigorello's A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, appears to incorporate the seventeenth century specifically.

BERTRAND, DOMINIQUE. "Le rire de Christine de Suède: du dénigrement burlesque à l'assomption baroque" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 77–86.

In a culture that carefully codified laughter, especially women's laughter, Christine de Suède proved a maverick figure whose laughter excluded her from the world of "civilité mondaine" and reinforced her royal and heroic bearing.

BLACK, JEREMY. Kings, Nobles and Commoners. States and Societies in Early Modern Europe. A Revisionist History. New York: Tauris, 2004.

Review: F. Heal in TLS 5296 (Oct 1 2004), 28: Ambitious overview of history of Europe, 1550–1800. Central argument that continuity, consensus and cooperation are the significant themes of these centuries. Hostile to classic interpretations of absolutism. "The language of authority, Black claims, far outstripped the practice of politics, which was based on cooperation and negotiation with the ruling elites." Black's secondary and less successful objective is to challenge the centrality of Western Europe, especially France, in early modern history.

BOECKL, CHRISTINE M. Images of Plague and Pestilence; Iconography and Iconology. Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2000.

Review: E. D. Howe in Ren Q 56 (2003): 205–206: Reviewer is not altogether happy with Boeckl's approach (Howe suggests instead an exploration of case studies of core works) and the, at times, "short shrift" given to scholarship since 1970. Howe nevertheless has praise for Boeckl's emphasis on "theological underpinnings" and her "placing the art of northern and southern Europe in dialogue and extending that contact to the New World" (206). 17th c. scholars will note the chapter entitled: "The Tridentine World: Plague Paintings as Implementations of Catholic Reforms (1600–1775)."

BOITANO, JOHN F. "Paris of the Ancien Régime: An Interdisciplinary Course on Cities and Civilizations" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 255–269.

The author describes an interdisciplinary course taught in an undergraduate general education program that includes a unit on Revolutionary Paris. The essay was awarded a pedagogical prize by the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature in 2001.

BOUSQUET, PHILIPPE. "L'héroïsme féminin au XVIIe siècle entre admiration païenne et représentations chrétiennes" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 93–107.

The representation of Lucretia (especially her morally troublesome suicide) shows how pagan virtues were assimilated into a model of Christian female heroism that was free of subversive elements.

BOYER, JEAN-CLAUDE. "Claude's 'Rape of Europa' and the Painter's Early French Patrons." Burlington 1213 (2004), 261–263.

Explains that detailed examination of this painting revealed a 'créquier,' a heraldic device found in the coat of arms of Charles de Créquy, duc de Lesdiguières and ambassador to Rome under Louis XIII. Concludes that while other facts about the painting's history remain unknown, Claude was most certainly a painter well-known to the French nobility.

BRAUN, GUIDO, et al., eds. Acta Pacis Westphalicae. Vol. 5. Parts 1 and 2. Die Französischen Korrespondenzen: 1646–1647. Münster: Aschendorff, 2002.

Review: A. V. Hartmann in HZ 277 (2003): 439–440: Welcome fifth volume of the French correspondence relating to the peace of Westphalia. Focus is on some 346 documents from November 1646 to June 1647. Important particularly for information on the French court and Mazarin. Praiseworthy critical apparatus.

BRAZEAU, BRIAN JAMES. "La réflexion qu'ils feront sur eux-mêmes: Empire and identity in Early New France (1604–1632)." DAI 64/6 (2003), 2106.

Argues that the creation of an overseas namesake" was the site of an important and sustained reflection on aspects of 'Frenchness.'" Examines texts by Marc Lescarbot, Gabriel Sagard, Samuel Champlain, and Jesuit missionaries.

BRIOIST, PASCAL, HERVE DREVILLON & PIERRE SERNA. Croiser le fer: Violence et culture de l'épée dans la France moderne (XVIe–XVIIIe siècle). Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2002.

Review: V. Piétri in DSS 223 (2004), 342–344: Reviewed favorably: "dans un premier temps, les auteurs tracent les contours d'une "civilisation de l'épée". Ils s'attachent d'abord à montrer comment, autour des années 1530, l'épée devient l'outil le plus commun de l'autodéfense civile. [...] Dans un deuxième temps, l'ouvrage aborde les processus de constitution de ce savoir / savoir-faire escrimeur comme science appliquée et néanmoins science homicide." Finally this study considers the larger context and "s'interroge sur la place de la noblesse au sein de la société et sur la difficile naissance de l'individu social et politique que l'on retrouve avec une acuité particulière au cours de la Révolution."

BROOKS, PETER. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2001.

Review: Anon in FMLA 39 (2003): 323. Focus is both legal formulation and the literary; for example, narrative strategies of legal practices as well as "their fictional counterparts" are examined. Reviewer terms Brooks's study "a confession of the strategic importance of comparative literature the better to understand life."

BROOMHALL, SUSAN. Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004.

Review: B. Fontana in TLS 5300 (Oct 29 2004), 30: Study covers period from mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth century. Broomhall uses wide range of sources: trials of female medical practitioners, documents establishing new guilds, such as guild for midwives, "popular" medical writing by women for women, and correspondence on medical matters among noblewomen. Broomhall's book written from gender studies perspective, but "the evidence it provides goes well beyond any schematic opposition between male and female roles, showing the great complexity and dynamic character of early modern approaches to health care."

BROWN, JONATHAN and JOHN ELLIOTT. "Courts of the Baroque." Burlington 1212 (2004), 203–204.

Critique of a Spanish exhibition whose aim "is to illustrate and explore the various court cultures of Catholic Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century." A show whose diversity is both its strength and its weakness, according to the authors. Accompanied by a "handsome" catalog.

CANOVA-GREEN, MARIE-CLAUDE. "L'équivoque d'une célébration: les fêtes du mariage de Louis XIII et d'Anne d'Autruche à Bordeaux (1615)." DSS 222 (2004), 3–24.

Canova-Green delves into the minute details of ritual and celebration marking the marriage along with the greater political and imperialistic ramifications of the "tension entre le dit et le non dit de la célébration que nous nous proposons d'étudier ici."

CANOVAS, FREDERIC & DAVID WETSEL, eds. Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002.

CARABIN, DENISE, ed. Nicolas Pasquier. Le Gentilhomme. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003.

Review: BCLF 658 (2004), 114–15: "Mais ce Gentilhomme, publié à Paris en 1611 et rédité aujourd'hui pour la première fois par Denise Carabin dans une édition critique d'une qualité en tous points remarquable, se révèle pourtant comme un texte important de la littérature politique d'expression française. Présenté par l'auteur comme une institution à l'usage de ses propres fils, le livre revêt en fait la forme plus ambitieuse d'un manuel de formation à l'usage de la noblesse d'épée."

CARLIN, CLAIRE. "The Staging of Impotence: France's Last Congrès" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 103–112.

Studies one particular case of the 17th-century congrès, which staged inquisitions on impotence, focusing on René de Cordouan, Marquis de Langey, and more specifically on the texts generated by the case, including those by Tallemant des Reaux and other satirists, those published in the Journal du Palais, Boileau, and Dr. Nicholas Venette, as well as those in defense of Langey, including the Protestant writer Jean Rou. Carlin argues that the case was important in helping to lay the groundwork for modern conceptions of matrimony.

CLOSSON, MARIANNE. "L'invention d'une 'littérature de la peur': le temps de la chasse aux sorcières." TL 16 (2003): 47–63.

Demonstrates that contrary to what is generally thought, "la sorcière est... une figure des temps modernes, contemporaire... de Descartes, et non du Moyen Age" (48). Includes treatment in literature (Pierre de Lancre, Bossuet) and art (Jacques de Gheyn II, Claude Gillot) of representations of "religieuses possédées." Underscores the remarkable success of works such as the Histoires tragiques de notre temps by François Rosset (more than 35 editions beginning with that of 1614) as well as the larger fascination of the subject and its function in multiple literary genres (57, 62).

COMPERE, MARIE-MADELEINE. Les Collèges français XVIe–XVIIe siècles. Paris: Institut national de recherche pédagogique, 2002.

Review: J.-C. Margolin in BHR 65,3 (2003), 775–77: Ouvrage en trois parties consacré aux collèges français de Paris chargés de l'enseignement des humanités et de la philosophie: "1) Etablissements appartenant à l'Université de Paris...; -2) Etablissements n'appartenant pas à l'Université (essentiellement le Collège jésuite-le célèbre collège de Clermont, devenu plus tard collège Louis-le-Grand, le Collège Royal, ancêtre du Collège de France, et l'Ecole militaire...; -3) Etablissements hébergeant des étudiants ou élèves britanniques, le Collège des Irelandais, des communautés clericales et des séminaires..."

CORVISIER, ANDRE. Les Régences en Europe. Essai sur les délégations de pouvoirs souverains. Preface by PIERRE CHAUNU. Paris: PUF, 2002.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 277 (2003): 394–395: Judged stimulating if at times methodologically problematic, Corvisier's volume examines the phenomenon of the regency from the Middle Ages to the present. Numerous interpretive assessments in spite of Corvisier's ironic question, "Est-il possible d'écrire une histoire du hasard?" (C. 100).

CROXTON, DEREK and ANUSCHKA TISCHER. The Peace of Westphalia. A Historical Dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 276 (2003): 180: This synthesis of thought includes essays on important personalities and events both central to and on the outskirts of the main topic.

CUNEO, PIA FRANCESCA, ed. Artful Armies, Beautiful Battles: Art and Warfare in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill Academic P, 2002.

Review: O. Schmidt in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1230–1232: Rather negative review of volume as a whole; charges a lack of integration between art and warfare and a "lack of military background" on the part of the contributors as well as the intrusion, at times, of a "twentieth-century mentalité" (1230, 1231). However, Schmidt says of the essays that "all are masterful and well-done" (1231). Schmidt singles out as "excellent" Julie Anne Plax's "Seventeenth-Century French Images of Warfare" (1231).

DAUMAS, MAURICE. "La sexualité dans les traités sur le mariage en France, XVIe–XVIIe siècle." RHMC 51.1 (jan.–mars 2004): 7–35.

Strong liberal trend at the beginning of the 17th century counters former Augustinian condemnations of pleasure in conjugal sex, restoring pleasure and even erasing it as sin. Instead treatises are more interested in the emotional relationship between husband and wife, essential to understand 18th-century development of the modern family.

DEJEAN, JOAN. The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Review: M. Longino in FR 77 (2003), 1258–1259. DeJean examines the 17th-century reemergence of the term "obscene," anchoring her analysis in three important moments obscenity's early history. The first of these addresses the homophobic persecution of Théophile de Viau, as well as the technique of suggestive obscenity by means of ellipsis. Next DeJean turns to the democraticization of eroticism through the publication of the cheap best-seller L'École des filles. DeJean's final gesture involves "Molière's savvy marketing of "obscenity" through Agnes' "le…" in L'École des femmes, an ellipsis that "set up the spectator to run a quick inventory of the female genitalia" (1259), generating press for the play which ensured its box office success.

Review: M. Mohr in SCN 61 (2003), 325–329: "DeJean argues that obscenity was reinvented in France between 1550 and 1663, and that it spread in its new form to England and Italy." The reviewer praises DeJean for the case studies she examines dealing with Théophile de Viau, L'Ecole des Filles, and Molière's role in the reinvention of obscenity with L'Ecole des femmes and its surrounding controversy. The reviewer, however, faults DeJean for over ambition in including a single chapter covering "ancient Rome, the middle ages, Italy and England," which "suffers from oversimplification and occasional factual inaccuracies." "Despite its drawbacks, The Reinvention of Obscenity has much for readers interested in early modern French print culture."

Review: K. Perry Long in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1266–1268: Praised as "a nuanced study of the rebirth of obscenity in seventeenth-century literature and culture," the volume treats "the early history of pornography," the "marketing of books to a variety of social classes," the "increasing control [of authors] over the production of their own works" and women as a significant audience (1267). Texts considered are Théophile's l'Ecole des filles and Molière's Ecole des femmes and Critique de "l'Ecole des femmes."

Review: J. Turner in MP 101.3 (February 2004), 423–431: "In this important and thought-provoking book (her seventh), Joan DeJean selects three well-documented episodes in French seventeenth-century book censorship, analyzing them as three critical stages in the simultaneous emergence of modern sexual discourse and modern authorship. (…) Though some points are marred by impetuous reading of the primary evidence and overdramatic foreshortening of history, the whole argument is seductive and many of the details deeply perceptive. This dashing book should be required reading for anyone working in print culture and the history of sexuality."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI. Littérature et société en France au XVIIe siècle. Vol. II, Fasano, Schena / Paris, Didier Erudition, 2000. Vol III, Préface de Jean Mesnard, Fasano, Schena / Paris, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001.

Review: S. Poli in S Fr 46 (2002): 434–435: Highly praiseworthy for its erudition, coherence, interdisciplinarity and attentiveness to all levels and aspects of 17th c. culture. Jean Mesnard, in his introduction, calls Dotoli "une vraie force de la nature." Sections of this ample study treat perspectives of comparatist research, theatre (Montchrestien), the commedia dell'Arte, Molière's Don Juan and, separately, the Misanthrope, the burlesque (definition and mentalités), Perrault and Pierre Boucher (ethnology of l'Amérindien in his Histoire).

Review: J.-Cl. Vuillemin in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 246–249. "Inspiré des prolégomènes théoriques hérités du structuralisme génétique concocté jadis par Lucien Goldmann, M. Dotoli part du principe que l'écrivain, tout en proposant sa propre conception du monde, demeure "le porte-parole de son référent situationnel" (II, 104). Nonobstant les vertus alléguées de l'interdisciplinarité et de l'approche comparatiste (III, 21–62), c'est surtout le milieu de l'écrivain. . . qui prend une importance capitale dans les textes ici réunis."

Review: BCLF 636 (2002), 107–08: "Mis à jour et traduits en français (si nécessaire), ces travaux pour la plupart déjà publiés entre 1984 et 2001 sont présentés en neuf sections qui sont révélatrices de la souplesse critique dont fait preuve l'auteur... Donnant au théâtre la meilleure place, G. Dotoli montre à la fois sa grande érudition (sa bibilographie burlesque est, à cet égard, précieuse) et sa finesse dans l'analyse des textes."

DUCCINI, HELENE. Faire voir, faire croire: l'opinion publique sous Louis XIII. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2003.

Review: BCLF 656 (2004), 144: "Jusqu'à présent, les libelles avaient surtout été exploités pour étudier la Fronde. H. Duccini s'est proposée d'écrire l'histoire de France sous Louis XIII à travers le prisme des pamphlets."

DUCHENE, ROGER. Etre femme au temps de Louis XIV. Paris: Perrin, 2004

Review: M. Slayter in TLS 5273 (Apr 23 2004), 26: A "chilling account of overt and covert oppression." Author describes status of women of all strata. Discusses limited options for women and common beliefs about them. Much of the book treats literary salons and court life, but in these milieux, too, it was difficult for women to succeed. Duchêne says that women had begun to participate in important debates by the end of the century and that the way was open for their independence. Reviewer struck by how far women were from achieving independence.

DULONG, CLAUDE. Mazarin et l'argent. Banquiers et prête-noms. Paris: École des chartes, 2002.

Review: K. Malettke in HZ 277 (2003): 744–746: Highly praised, this examination of the many layered subject of Mazarin and money reveals in a particularly penetrating manner the close association between power and money. Subtitle indicates emphasis of the work and its focus on particular and precise cases of banking families. Extensive investigation of archival sources contributes to the volume's value as do the indices and appendices.

ENGEL, GISELA, BRITA RANG, KLAUS REICHERT, and HEIDE WINDER, eds. Das Geheimnis am Beginn der europäischen Moderne. In collaboration with JONATHAN ELUKIN. Frankfurt: V. Klostermann, 2002.

Review: W. Schleiner in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1271–1273: Judged "an impressive monument [of 532 p.] to an international effort... united by one research topic" and praised for the "fit" of its essays and their "continuous argument" (1273). Twenty-eight articles plus three other introductory essays treat the secret in its multifarious forms; the articles are grouped in four sections: "The Public and the Knowledge of Rulers," "The Public and the Intimate," "The Body and Sexuality," and "The Arts and Knowledge." 17th c. French scholars will appreciate, among others, an article on Louis XIV's insulation at Versailles and another on the "Affaire des Poisons."

Review: G. Walther in HZ 276 (2003): 448–449: This collection of essays by 31 authors undertakes with considerable postmodern talent the investigation of secrecy in European politics, aesthetics and learning between the Renaissance and the Revolution. The multiple approaches to this many-sided phenomenon include sections on public and private spheres, the body and sexuality, and hermetic painting and poetic composition.

ENGLES, JENS IVO. Königsbilder Sprechen, Singen und Schreiben über den französischen König in der ersten Hälfte des achtzenhnten Jahrhunderts. Bonn: Bouvier, 2000.

Review: U. van Runset in RHLF 103.3 (2003), 726–27. Author argues against the thesis of the desacralization of the French monarchy between 1680 and 1750 through an examination of popular, non-official (as opposed to political or philosophical) sources. Maintains that the king remained an object of fascination, and that there existed a tacit pact between the king and the people. The argument is bolstered by a huge number of manuscript sources and secondary literature, but the reviewer regrets a lack of analytical depth and a weakness for erudite digressions.

ENTREES ROYALES, LES. DSS 212 (juillet–septembre 2001).

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 46 (2002): 436: This issue offers fascinating and erudite examinations on themes such as "l'encomiastique," "les entrées d'Henri IV à Lyon," "le voyage de Louis XIII en Provence," "description et rhétorique," "idéologie," among others.

ERNST, GERHARD and BARBARA WOLF. Textes français privés des XVIIe et XVIIe siècles. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001.

Review: A. Lodge in RF 115 (2003): 72–74: Highly praiseworthy diplomatic transcript of chroniques and journaux from 17th and 18th centuries. Focus is on the public, "covering major international events and the most trivial faits divers" (73). The CD-ROM presentation includes "pop-up explanations" and selected pages of the original manuscripts. Of special value to linguists and historians. Lodge states that "traces of the spoken language are present, and allow us to lift the veil ever so slightly on the lost world of variation in spoken French under the Ancien Régime" (74).

EXTERNBRINK, SVEN. Le Coeur du monde-Frankreich und die norditalienischen Staaten (Mantua, Parma, Savoyen) im Zeitalter Richelieus 1624–1635. Münster: Lit, 1999.

Review: K. O. Freiherr von Aretin in HZ 277 (2003): 737–739: Focus is on Richelieu's plans and purposes in this volume which is found to be commendable in its attentiveness to and interpretation of authoritative sources. An impressive and wide-ranging study of diplomatic history which offers important new understandings.

FRAPPIER, LOUISE. "La représentation de la Rébellion dans l'entrée de Louis XIII à Paris (1629)" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 67–82.

Louis XIII's entrée into the city of Paris (1629) after his victory over the rebellion at La Rochelle functions as an allegory which celebrates both the king himself and the city of Paris.

FUCHS, RALF-PETER and WINFRIED SCHULZE, eds. Wahrheit, Wissen, Erinnerung. Zeugenverhörprotokolle als Quellen für soziale Wissensbestände in der Frühen Neuzeit. Münster: Lit, 2002.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 277 (2003): 192: Praiseworthy examination of social stability of knowledge in the Early Modern Era. The hearing of witnesses as sources is focus of this collective volume which treats truth, knowledge and memory in 10 case studies.

GANTET, CLAIRE. La Paix de Westphalie (1648). Une histoire sociale XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles. Paris: Belin, 2001.

Review: R. G. Asch in HZ 276 (2003): 178–179: This empirical history of the war is also a history of the memory of the conclusion of the peace. Gantet's stimulating and fertile study is valuable for scholars of the idea of nation as well as for specialists of French hegemony in Europe.

GENIEYS, SEVERINE. "Deux savantes etrangères: du sérieux au rire, Le Comtesse de Pembroke et Christine de Suède" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 205–214.

La folle gageure ou les divertissemens de la Contesse de Pembroc (Francois Le Metel de Boisrobert) and L'Histoire des intrigues galantes de la reine Christine de Suède et de sa cour, pendant son séjour à Rome (Christian Gottfried Franckenstein) offer a contrasting portrait of "la femme de lettres" both of which nonetheless make the "vraie savante" an object of literary entertainment on par with the "précieuse ridicule."

GERMA-ROMANN, HELENE. Du "bel mourir" au "bien mourir." Le Sentiment de la mort chez les gentilshommes français (1515–1643). Genève: Droz, 2001.

Review: E. A. R. Brown in Ren Q 56 (2003): 798–799: Hortatory treatises, conduct manuals and secular hagiography inform Germa-Romann's thesis that a minority [of nobles] imposed its ideal [of dying well in battle] on the majority. The book is divided into two main sections focusing on "death in battle and noble ideology" and "typology of noble deaths, honorable and dishonorable" (799). The 17th c., according to Germa-Romann, saw "the displacement of the noble ideal by the Christian model." However, as Brown points out, Jean du Tillet's Recueil des Roys de France (editions from 1578 to 1618) gives many accounts of early exemplary Christian deaths. Praised for interesting commentaries.

GHEERAERT, TONY et GISELE VENET, eds. La Beauté et ses monstres dans l'Europe baroque, 16e–18e siècles. Paris: PU de la Sorbonne nouvelle, 2003.

Review: BCLF 651 (2003), 65: Actes d'un colloque tenu à Paris (28–30 septembre 2000). Les dix-neuf articles "montrent comment, dans la littérature et la peinture du XVIe au XVIIIe, le beau et le laid, de même que le bien et le mal, coexistent, voire coïcident, dans une mouvance et une fluidité nouvelles des catégories." Des interventions sur les poètes baroques ("fascinés par des figures mythiques qui lient la beauté et la mort, telles Méduse et les Sirènes") et la poésie dévotionnelle française du XVIIe siècle ("qui décrivent 'l'horrible beauté' du Christ souffrant").

GODINEAU, DONINIQUE. Les Femmes dans la société française: 16e–18e siècle. Paris: Armand Colin, 2003.

Review: BCLF 653 (2003), 139–40: "Judicieux et revendiqué dès l'introduction, le propos ne consiste pas à présenter une histoire de la femme, mais des femmes en tant qu'actrices sociales, économiques, religieuses et parfois politiques, confrontées à un système de contrainte masculine qui les réduisait au statut d'êtres dominés par les lois de la nature."

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH. "Fugitive Lives; Travel, Identity, and Runaway Women in the Age of Versailles." EMF 9 (2004): 110–124.

Examines how "[e]xiles, fugitives, ordinary travelers and their observes explored how physical separation and the itinerant life could grant access to new ways of imagining the self"; looks at texts by Sévigné, Marie Mancini, and Marie-Sidonie de Courcelles.

GOLDWYN, HENRIETTE. "Censure, clandestinité et épistolarité: Les Lettres Pastorales de Pierre Jurieu" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 285–294.

Describes how Pierre Jurieu adapted the polemic letter after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in order to address the people's sovereignty and the desacralization of the king's person. Because writing books was too dangerous, he wrote letters as a literature of action, a call to resistance, and a testimony of a pivotal moment of French history.

GORDENKER, EMILIE. Van Dyck and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth-Century Portraiture. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2001.

Review: J. M. Alexander in Burlington 1210 (2004), 33: Shows how Van Dyck influenced dress in portraits, starting while he was in England in the 1630s. The second and third chapters will be of particular interest to French dix-septièmistes, as they discuss France and the Netherlands in addition to England, and seek to demonstrate how both ordinary and fancy dress contribute to the overall representation and iconography of a portrait's subject. Contains quality black-and-white illustrations. According to Alexander: "the author has done a great service in clarifying the wide seams between actual and represented dress in seventeenth-century portraiture."

GOSMAN, MARTIN, MACDONALD, ALASDAIR, and ARJO VANDERJAGT. Princes and Princely Culture, 1450–1650. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.

Review: J. Huffman in Choice 41.8 (2003), 1541. Encompasses the major courts of northwestern Europe. Despite a regrettable neglect of ecclesiastical princes and their roles as artistic patrons, the work is recommended by the reviewer. Structurally, "the volume is framed by two fine opening essays by Gosman and Mörke, which are then fleshed out with surveys of court culture, its nexus with politics, and case studies of princely patronage" (1541).

GRELL, CHANTAL et MILOVAN STANIC,eds. Le Bernin et l'Europe: du "baroque" triomphant à l'âge romantique. Paris: PU Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: BCLF 651 (2003), 74: Actes d'un colloque international sur Bernin tenu en novembre 1998 à l'Institut culturel italien de Paris; 21 contributions.

GRELL, CHANTAL and MALETTKE, KLAUS, eds. Les Années Fouquet. Politique, société, vie artistique et culturelle dans les années 1650. En collaboration avec KORNELIA OEPEN. Münster: Lit, 2001.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 276 (2003): 467–468: The Acts of a two-day colloque in May 2000 at Versailles and Vaux-le-Vicomte. Essays by seven scholars in addition to the editors treat subjects as diverse as Vaux as an "espace littéraire" (Emmanuel Bury), the texture of relationships between Mazarin, Fouquet, Colbert, Louis XIV and Anne d'Autriche (Jean Meyer), La Fontaine's Clymène (Jean-Charles Darmon) and painting (Alain Mérot).

HARDING, VANESSA. The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500–1670. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: A. Fahrmeir in HZ 276 (2003): 750–751: Recommended as "extremely worth reading", Harding's investigation focuses on the meaning of the concurrence of the dead and living for the scarce space available in the two cities. Part two examines burial rituals, finding clear differences between Catholic and Protestant practices as well as a general tendency toward commercialization.

HART, JONATHAN. Representing the New World: The English and French Use of the Example of Spain. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Review: J. E. Kicza in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1216–1217: Judged "a comprehensive and well-substantiated examination" (1217) of the "ambivalent and contradictory ways" (Hart 3) French and English writers made use of Spain's success. The five chapters are chronologically organized; 17th c. French scholars will be particularly interested in chapters 4 (1589–1642) and 5 (1643–1713).

HINRICHS, ERNST, ed. Geschichte Frankreichs. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2002.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 277 (2003): 141–143: One of a series for students and educated lay persons. Focus is on political history, but cultural history finds representation in the illustrations. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the section on the absolute monarchy and Louis XIV as the French war king. Maps, tables and abundant illustrations in color.

HODGSON, RICHARD, ed. La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 5–7 octobre 2000. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2002.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 47 (2003): 701–702: These Acts of the October 2000 Colloque held in Vancouver treat not only the representation of the woman in the 17th c. but also her important role in the century's intellectual and literary life. Impressive by quality of analyses and rich variety of texts studied. Following the three "conférences magistrales" of Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani, Pierre Ronzaud and Christian Biet, the essays are grouped in the following sections: "Images de la femme dans l'imaginaire masculin," "Quand les femmes s'écrivent," "L'intériorité féminine: mélancolie, démence, dégéneration," "Tabous et transgressions: amazones, sexualité et corps de femme," "Dévotion, foi et mysticisme féminins," and "Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire? Mariage et sacrifice?"

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in OeC 28,1 (2003), 229–31: "L'histoire dans ses divers domaines tient une large place: histoire de la société, des idées, des mentalités avec recours aux sciences humaines." D'autres études consacrées aux écrivains marquants: Théophile de Viau (G. Mathieu-Castellani; N. Négroni); Corneille (M. Longino; D. Simhon; N. Ekstein); les Scudérys (D. Kuizenga; A. Rosner); Molière (K. Waterson); Guilleragues (V. Schröder); Mme de Sévigné (C. Cartmill); Mme de Lafayette (D. Duffrin Kelley).

LANDERS, JOHN. The Field and the Forge. Population, Production and Power in the Pre-Industrial West. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Review: P. Clark in TLS 5259 (Jan 16 2004), 24: Study of military and economic changes in Europe with Anglo-centric bias. "Wide-ranging analysis of links between economic and military change is thought-provoking." Reviewer criticizes tendency to treat everything in terms of shift from organic (timber and muscle-powered) economy to mineral-based economy. Role of cities deserves more attention.

LAVERGNEE, ARNAULD BREJON DE. "Baroque: The Jesuit Vision." Burlington 1208 (2003), 812–814.

Evaluation of an exhibition in Caen that seeks to define "the policy behind the images developed by the Jesuits between the end of the sixteenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries," as well as "to distinguish the chief features of the 'Jesuit vision.'" Although Lavergnée regrets "a lack of balance" in its catalog, the exhibition itself receives a favorable review.

LE BRIS, MICHEL and VIRGINE SERNA, eds. Pirates et Flibustiers des Caraïbes. Abbaye de Daoulas: Hoëbeke, 2001.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 520: Extremely rich in illustrations, the volume also includes essays on "la geste pirate" and "le mythe pirate."

LEGAULT, MARIANNE. "Représentations littéraires de l'amitié féminine au XVIIe siècle en France." DAI 65/03 (2004), 955.

"[Study] takes as its premise the view of many feminist thinkers, such as the philosopher Janice Raymond, who assert that, contrary to men, women have been denied same sex friendship for centuries. From this basis, I explore the effect of this homosocial and homopriviledged heritage on the deployment of female friendship as a thematical narrative in the works of both male and female writers in seventeenth-century France." Examines especially Montaigne, D'Urfé, Molière, Scudéry, Benserade, and La Force.

LEROUX, JEAN-BAPTISTE. Versailles, Côté jardins: chronique. Arles: Actes Sud, 2002.

Review: BCLF 646 (2003), 72–73: "L'auteur, Jean-Baptiste Leroux, n'a pas appréhendé les lieux comme le proposait Louis dans sa Manière de montrer les jardins de Versailles, mais en se laissant guider par la lumière. Pendant deux ans, il a été présent à toutes les heures du jour, pendant toutes les saisons, observant les jardins sous les rayons directs du soleil ou dans sa lumière diffuse."

LEVY, ALLISON, ed. Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

Review: J. Harrie in Choice 41.7 (2004), 1362. A collection of essays. A first section examines the ideal of widowhood as set down by literary models and images. Next, Widowhood moves on to consider how women deviated from these prescriptions to arrive at more individualized self-representations. A final grouping of essays probes the patronage projects women undertook upon their husbands' deaths, often in the attempt to express and preserve family history and memory.

LONG, KATHLEEN PERRY, ed. High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State UP, 2002.

Review: D. LaGuardia in E Cr 43 (2003): 101: Praiseworthy for its thorough and comprehensive definition and examination of masculinity and its application of contemporary critical theory ("psychoanalysis, performance studies, cultural materialism, feminism in its diverse varieties" 101). Focus is from the early 16th c. to the end of the 17th; texts as diverse as sonnets, essays, jokes, memoirs, comedies, fairy tales are examined along with theology and sacred iconography.

MALETTKE, KLAUS and CHANTAL GRELL with PETRA HOLZ, eds. Hofgesellschaft und Höflinge an europäischen Fürstenhöfen in der Frühen Neuzeit (15–18 c.). Münster: Lit, 2001.

Review: J. Süßmann in HZ 277 (2003): 189–190: Treats this wide-ranging subject (court society and courtesans in Europe of 15th–18th c.) from a comparative European perspective and includes intelligent new interpretations such as those by Bernhard Sterchi and Emmanuel Bury on the ceremonial.

MANNING, JOHN. The Emblem. London: Reaktion Books, 2002.

Review: D. Russell in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1234–1236: Judged "learned," "witty," and "extremely stimulating," the volume is "a truly new look at emblems and emblem books by a knowledgeable and eloquent specialist" (1234–1236). Organization is thematic and filled with rich illustrations; however, Manning "devotes relatively little space to French emblematics in his text" (1235).

MAUNAND, PATRICK, ed. Le Marais des écrivains. Urrugne: Pimientos, 2003.

Review: BCLF 651 (2003), 93–94: "Patrick Maunand a rassemblé des textes littéraires relatifs à cet espace clairement délimité à l'ouest par la rue Beaubourg et la rue du Renard, à l'est par les boulevards situés entre les places de la République et de la Bastille. Ces textes émanent d'auteurs d'une grande diversité. Des classiques, certes Tallement des Réaux, Mme de Sévigné, Saint-Simon..."

MELZER, SARA. "L'histoire oubliée de la colonisation française: universaliser la 'francité.'" DFS 65 (Winter 2003), 36–44.

L'auteur a deux objectifs: "fournir un contexte historique permettant de mieux comprendre la manière française de construire la 'francité';" et montrer que l'idéal d'universalisme que renferme l'idée de la "francité" remonte plus haut que la notion de République et qu'il est profondément ancré dans la politique impérialiste française au XVIIe siècle, surtout dans la politique coloniale française de l''assimilation.'"

MERLE DU BOURG, ALEXIS et ALAIN MEROT. Peter Paul Rubens et la France 1600–1640. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 2004.

Review: BCLF 660 (2004), 56: "Cet ouvrage fort bien documenté montre tout d'abord quels furent les 'patrons' français du peintre et retrace sa carrière diplomatique, avant d'analyser dans une seconde partie 'la fortune critique de Rubens en France', la manière dont ses oeuvres furent reçues et diffusées."

MERRICK, JEFFREY and MICHAEL SIBALIS, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. New York: Haworth, 2001. Published simultaneously as Journal of Homosexuality 41.3/4.

Review: J. Hayes in E Cr 43 (2003): 100–101: Wide-ranging and welcome collection of 17 essays from the Renaissance through the 1990s fills important lacunae. Interdisciplinary approaches include that of Lewis C. Seifert who analyzes references to sodomy in songs of the second half of the Grand Siècle.

MILLER, NAOMI J. and NAOMI YAVNEH, eds. Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2000.

Review: S. Covington in Ren Q 56 (2003): 213–214: Praised as highly significant for scholarship in this area: "no work has so comprehensively delved into the subject with such variety and innovation of interpretation" (213). Wide-ranging, the essays "all argue in favor of 'the malleable boundaries... of social roles for women' (3), while claiming the maternal as a social and bodily space in which women exercised power and agency" (213). This "fine and exhaustive treatment" is organized into sections such as "Conception, Childbirth and Lactation," "Nurture and Instruction," "Domestic Production," "Social Authority," and "Mortality" (213, 214).

MIRANDA, MARIE ROIG, ed. La Transmission du savoir dans l'Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: H. Cazès in RHLF 103.3 (2003), 714–15. A collection of 33 papers examining three main subjects: types of knowledge (technical, scientific), the presentation of knowledge (e.g., collections of commonplaces and emblems), and the circulation of knowledge (print, theater, libraries). "[Un] ensemble de contributions de grande qualité et riche en documents nouveaux."

MOENE, GENEVIEVE. "Jean Meslier, prêtre athée et révolutionnaire." FR 77 (2003), 114–125.

Gives a thoughtful presentation of village curate Jean Meslier (1664–1729), whose deathbed confession of atheism, followed by the release of lengthy polemical writings, concluded a largely humdrum ecclesiastic career with something of a bang. Meslier's Mémoire voices opposition to monarchy, aristocratic privilege, and organized religion, seeking "rien moins que…une revolution" (118). The text strives to unsettle and gradually incense its reader by systematic undermining both received Biblical truths and the new rational religiosity of the Cartesians. Moëne points out that Meslier's attachment to the paysannerie and his proto-communist ideals distinguish him from other avowed atheists of the time-who were for the most part aristocratic libertins. Voltaire and Diderot knew Meslier's Mémoire, although the former sifted out its socio-economic polemic when he circulated excerpts from the text.

MOODY, JENNIFER JOY. "In His Image: The Ideal Woman of Seventeenth-Century France." DAI 64/06 (2003), 2221.

Using "primarily the non-fiction prescriptive literature of the period," argues that there are models of the ideal woman in seventeenth-century France were produced by three groups. Two, the antifeminists and the feminists were identified by Carolyn Lougee, but a third group exists, the moderates, "who praised the role of wife and mother for women and saw it as the calling of most women, and yet,... believed in full equality of opportunities for women in education and spirituality."

MORTIMER, GEOFF. Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618–1648. New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Review: H. Durchhardt in HZ 276 (2003): Reviewer is not impressed by the contribution of this small volume based on a corpus of memoirs and informed by cultural studies.

NAPHY, WILLIAM G. Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps ca. 1530–1640. Manchester: Marchester UP, 2002.

Review: D. O. McNeil in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1289–1290: Archival research, notably in Geneva, has contributed to this rich and "thoroughly documented study [which] is a valuable addition to the growing library of works on the plague and its effects" (1289). Also sheds light on social history of witchcraft and on judicial processes. McNeil finds it "particularly instructive" that prosecutors often allege and the accused admit to pecuniary motives; "plague-workers... stood to benefit by plague... and it is entirely plausible that they acted in concert to spread plague" (1290).

NIDERST, ALAIN. "Ut Pictura Poesis." OeC, 29,1 (2004), 7–10.

"L'art du peintre consiste en partant du réel à le dépasser ou à le transfigurer. Le peintre est peintre de choses invisibles, comme la littérature est suggestion d'un concret qui se dérobe. L'une doit conduire par un discours muet au sentiment ou même à l'idée. L'autre par les mots doit donner l'impression qu'elle enveloppe un réel, qui finit par sembler présent, puisqu'il suscite tant de mots, d'émois et de réflexions." Deux auteurs du 17e siècle signalés: Madeleine de Scudéry qui, "négligeant davantage les anecdotes, en vient à confronter 'l'art de peindre' et 'l'art d'écrire', les portraits de Nanteuil et ceux qu'elle offres dans ses romans." Quant à Molière, il "a loué et analysé La Gloire du Val-de-Grâce de Mignard et dans le Sicilien il a montré un peintre au travail. Avec une modeste désinvolture il en est ainsi venu à une conception générale de l'art (littéraire, théâtral, aussi bien que pictural) et il s'est justifié et expliqué, lui 'le peintre des gens du monde'. . . ."

NORA, PIERRE, dir. Rethinking France (Les Lieux de mémoire). Vol. 1, The State. Trans. Mary Trouille. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.

Review: J. D. Popkin in E Cr 43 (2003): 105–106: Welcome translation, one of four projected volumes by the University of Chicago Press, continuing the Columbia University's three volume translation of some forty essays in their Realms of Memory. 17th c. scholars will appreciate essays on the symbolism of the state (Anne-Marie Lecoq), the king (Alain Boureau), Versailles (Hélène Himelfarb), and the wide-ranging essay of Pierre Nora on memoirs of men of state. Review notes the important service to Anglophone readers made by this volume along with the other partial translations but would have appreciated better references to the original French version.

NORBERG, KATHRYN. Incorporating Women / Gender into French History Courses, 1429–1789: Did Women of the Old Regime Have a Political History?" FHS 27.2 (2004), 243–266.

Focuses on political history, with a chronological analysis of "three figures- queen, regent, and favorite-and the political roles of noblewoman and nun, both in France and overseas in the French colonies." Concludes that woman's influence diminished over time, especially in the 17th century.

OSBORNE, TOBY. Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture in the Thirty Years War. Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

Review: L.R.N. Ashley in BHR 65,3 (2003), 690–91: Osborne's "pioneering book" is "a history of the house of Savoy. It is a military and a diplomatic history with everything from coded diplomatic dispatches to overt acts of violence. It is a treatise on the usefulness of friendly networks and the development of state formation. It is a history of court and supranational politics. It is a biography of the brilliant Abate Alessandro Scaglia (1592–1641)... the story of his clan, the Scaglia of Verrua. It is a survey of the arts and humanities in a period of international warfare." Of significant interest for scholars of Italy, France, Spain.

PELLEGRIN, NICOLE, sous la dir. de, et COLETTE H. WINN, ed. Veufs, veuves et veuvage dans la France d'Acien [sic] Régime. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003.

Review: BCLF 657 (2004), 145: Actes d'un colloque tenu à Poitiers, 11–12 juin 1998: "un ouvrage d'ensemble traite du problème du veuvage, du Moyen Age à la Révolution, en France et dans les colonies françaises d'Amérique du Nord."

PHILLIPS, HENRY. "Poussin's Confirmation: The Staging of an Image?" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 45–52.

Adds to previous work on theatrical metaphor in Poussin, arguing that Poussin "though the interpretative gaze, transfers the significance of the roles represented in the painting to the role played in the world by a bishop in seventeenth-century France as he would have understood it" (45). Attention paid to "visibility" and the important role of costume in the painting.

PROBES, CHRISTINE MCCALL. "Le Savoir historique à l'intersection de l'art et de la poésie emblématiques: les gravures de Pierre de Loysi mises en rapport avec Les Sonnet franc-comtois" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 81–90.

Probes examines emblematic poetry and art to see how they are understood in an historical context and how they function as traces of the past ("garant du passé").

RANUM, OREST. "A Note on the Meaning of Wearing Red Robes: The Pontoise Parlement of August 1652" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 85–89.

Revisits the question of the significance of the red robes warn by king, chancellor, and presidents of the sovereign courts by examining the refusal of Louis XIV to visit the Parlement of Pontoise because one judge had refused to don his red robe. In the context of the Fronde, what may seem a minor point of ceremony takes on greater importance as a gesture of "gentle servitude" and respect for royal authority.

RAPLEY, ELIZABETH. A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.

Review: D. Higgs in UTQ 73.1 (Winter 2003/4), 203–204: Rapley "has produced a splendid study of French teaching nuns from the 1630s to 1790, with an afterword about the post-revolutionary situation... The book is divided into two parts, the first sketching in the main developments among teaching nuns considered as a countrywide group of women over two centuries, and the second looking in more detail at the life of cloistered nuns from different orders. She has assembled statistics in a valuable appendix entitled 'Demographics of the Cloister.' She poses many hypotheses which will stimulate others doing research... She tries to read from a fresh perspective the uplifting and edifying chronologies produced by nuns writing about their individual communities and notable instances of piety.

REQUEMORA, SYLVIE and SOPHIE LINON-CHIPON, eds. Les Tyrans de la mer. Pirates, corsaires et flibustiers. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 520: Highly diverse volume of essays is divided into sections on history and literature. The "lieu" is the Mediterranean or Europe and the texts are concentrated on the 17th c. but also include 18th and 19th c.

RICCI, GIOVANNI. Ossessione turca. In una retrovia cristiana dell'Europa moderna. Bologne: Il Mulino, 2002.

Review: P. Carile in RSH 271 (juillet–sept. 2003), 183–89: Examines popular representations of the Turc in western Europe at the beginning of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, as the Turks became a great intercontinental power, provoking fear on sea and land and a real threat to Christian Europe. At the same time, alliances with the Turks were established under François Ier and later Louis XIV and corresponding positive images proliferated. Ricci explores the intense and highly ambivalent "obsession turque" through a local micro-history of 15th through 18th-century Ferrare based on meticulous archival research. The prototype of otherness, Turks were known for their military courage, ferocity, firm religiosity, artistic richness, relative tolerance of other religions, sexuality, and cruelty. This study reveals the cultural intermixing between Christians and Muslims in the city, where multiple daily exchanges between them took place, as a rich and complicated hybridization. Ricci shows that Ferrare became a point of reference for a new pseudo-science at the end of the 16th century-"turcologie."

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

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 436: Important volume by this illustrious 17th c. specialist focuses on systems of relationships between humanity and the world as well as the passage from honor to self-interest and amour-propre as motivating factors. Interdisciplinary, with highly pertinent analyses, Rohou's study includes indices and a rich critical bibliography.

ROSAND, DAVID. Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: J. Marciari in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1232–1234: Judged "the rare book that will interest scholars, critics and artists alike... both as a guide to the theory and history of Renaissance and baroque design and as a stimulus to new kinds of critical analysis" (1234). Rosand's theme or framework is "the phenomenology of drawing, the complex interaction of marking and meaning, making and viewing" (Rosand 2). Marciari appreciates the "eloquent and evocative formal analysis," the "footnotes [as] a mine of information" and the volume's coherence (1233).

ROSEN, JEAN, ed. Majoliques européennes, reflets de l'estampe lyonnaise (XVIe–XVII siècles). Dijon: Faton, 2003.

Review: S. Frigerio-Zeniou in BHR 65,3 (2003), 753–57: "Cet ouvrage, richement illustré, recueille les contributions à deux journées d'études internationales sous la direction de Sylvie Deswarte-Rosa, tenues à Rome en 1996 et à Lyon en 1997. Elles inauguraient le programme de recherche Culture artistique et imprimerie, un des axes d'étude du centre Emile Bertaux (Lyon), qui privilégie le XVIe siècle, un moment où l'imprimerie lyonnaise est en plein essor. Les articles sont groupés par thème en quatre grands chapitres, qui introduisent d'abord le lecteur dans le monde des livres à figures lyonnais, pour passer par la suite à celui de la majolique, à Lyon et dans le reste de l'Europe et enfin à d'autres modèles gravées."

Review: C. Poke in Burlington 1215 (2004), 409: While the papers in the book come from a 1996 colloquium, also included are essays covering more recent scholarship, all of which "consider the role of graphic sources and ceramics in Lyon in its wider European context." Includes a variety of critical approaches, and "the quality of design and presentation is high […] with excellent colour illustrations."

RUFF, JULIUS R. Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Review: H. Schilling in HZ 277 (2003): 193: Receives praise as a diverse, rich and distinguished treatment of the phenomenon of violence in the Early Modern Era. The perception and representation of violence in folk culture, weaponry and justice are only a few of the areas examined.

SCHAPIRA, NICOLAS. Un professionnel des letters au XVIIe siècle: Valentin Conrart: une histoire sociale. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2003.

Review: C. Jouhaud in Critique 684 (mai 2004), 388–401. Through this analysis of the forgotten Conrart, Schapira "[affronte] comme neuves de grandes questions comme: qu'est-ce qu'un homme de letters au XVIIe siècle, un officier, un protestant, voire un bourgeois parisien?"

SCHAPIRA, NICOLAS. "Les secrétaires du roi comme secrétaires au XVIIe siècle." RHMC 51.1 (jan.–mars 2004): 36–61.

Studies the cases of Anthoine de Laval who wrote a book on public functions that analyzed his own career as that of a secrétaire, and of Valentin Conrart, first secretary to the Académie française and also secrétaire du roi, who acquired power through the opportunities his position afforded him.

SCHOLAR, RICHARD. "The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi: Faultlines in Foucault's Classical episteme" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 255–265.

The author surveys Foucault's notion of the episteme and its transformation over time as well as highlighting the difficulties the very notion of an episteme offers, such as its inability to account for its own change and its reductivism. The je-ne-sais-quoi is offered as a concrete example of one of the notions Foucault's epistemic theory cannot account for because it is itself a faultline straddling an epistemic shift.

SCHRODER, VOLKER. "Ecrire les Gracques au temps de Louis XIV" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 121–132.

The author examines the difficulties of representing this episode of Roman history under the absolute monarchy.

SCHULTZ, UWE. Versailles. Die Sonne Frankreichs. München: Beck, 2002.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 277 (2003): Reviewer finds this treatment of Versailles uneven and indicates numerous errors including the confusion of various names and persons-"Madame" of 1663 and 1666 is still Henriette d'Angleterre, not yet Liselotte (Madame Palatine) (140).

SCHUTTE, ANNE JACOBSON, THOMAS KUEHN and SILVANA SEIDEL MENCHI, eds. Time, Space and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe. Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2001.

Review: J. M. Ferraro in Ren Q 56 (2003): 214–216: Metholodogy of "micro-historical analysis" proves particularly useful in this volume which "enrich[es] our understanding of the variety of women's experience" (216). Covers time period of 14th–18th c. and organizes the 16 essays under themes such as "historical periodization, ideology and law, religious life, marriage and gendered constructions of identity" (215). 17th c. scholars will appreciate Margarete Zimmermann's "trac[ing] of the voice of women from the querelle des femmes to twentieth-century feminism" (215).

SMITH, DOUGLAS ALTON. A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ft. Worth: The Lute Society of America, 2002.

Review: B. Bullard in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1236–1237: Despite a number of indicated shortcomings, Bullard finds this "panoramic view... of great value" and successful in certain of its aims such as the physical changes of the lute through the ages, its use in society and its symbolism (1236, 1237). Bullard notes Smith's "inclusion of some women's history" but regrets the "somewhat less [lengthy treatment] on France" (1236–1237).

SOMERSET, ANNE. The Affair of the Poisons. Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV. New York: Saint Martin's P, 2004.

Review: S. Blake in TLS 5261 (Jan 30 2004), 28: Treats affair as a lot of noise over nothing. Forces behind scandal are "boredom, sex, jealousy and the nosiness prevalent among the French aristocracy." For Louis, affair becomes means of cowing the arrogance of the aristocracy.

STURDY, DAVID J. Fractured Europe: 1600–1721. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Review: H. Durchhardt in HZ 276 (2003): 457–458: Mixed review points out value of study for English speakers along with significant problems, omissions or relegation of important considerations to the epilogue.

TOUBOUL, PATRICIA. "Le Statut des femmes: Nature et condition sociale dans le traité De l'éducation des filles de Fénelon." RHLF 104.2 (2004), 325–42.

Argues that the traditional view of Fénelon's treatise—that it ascribes to women various intellectual and moral weaknesses that prevent them from attaining excellence—is in fact incomplete, and that Fénelon in fact indicts only qualities resulting from the education of women as commonly practiced. "Aussi n'est-il plus permis de douter que Fénelon, par une toute autre voie que celle empruntée par un Poullain de La Barre, apparaisse comme un penseur féministe à sa façon."

TRASSARD, FRANCOIS, DIMITRE CASALI et ANTOINE AUGER. La Vie des Français au temps du Roi-Soleil. Paris: Larousse, 2002.

Review: BCLF 650 (2003), 135: Les auteurs "donnent ici un bel aperçu de ce temps, il y a trois siècles à peine, où la France était le premier pays d'Europe et Paris, sa plus grande capitale (500 000) habitants."

TURCHETTI, MARIO. Tyrannie et tyrannicide de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Paris: PUF, 2001.

Review: HZ 276 (2003): 700: This volume of over 1000 pages includes considerations of ethical dimensions, terminological and ideological distinctions. Remarkably universally intelligent in its treatment of this very broad subject.

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

Review: P. Cheek in MLQ 65 (2004), 313–316. Coming just upon the heels of a book on libertine culture and politics in early modern London, Turner in Schooling Sex examines "sotadic" or "hard core" pornography which revived in Renaissance Italy only to migrate to France and England in the 17th century. Turner devotes his attention to the erotic works' mixed relation to women's education, "a focus that simultaneously privileged and slandered women" (311). More in the vein of literary history, Turner's work also traces the emergence of an ars amatoria, (a term which he derives from Foucault's ars erotica). This work diverges from that of both Joan DeJean and Lynn Hunt in "argu[ing] persuasively for continuity in "hard core" works across time rather than for a sharp break in modernity" (315).

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE. "Avignon la Blanche dans La Voye de laict (1623)" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 43–65.

Reads an account of Louis XIII's 1622 entrée in the papal city of Avignon with special attention to how the themes and motifs of the color white, the Milky Way, and Galileo's telescope make the representation the city an "oeil du monde" in the "mécanisme cosmique."

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE and DANIEL VAILLANCOURT, eds. Le Roi dans la ville: Anthologie des entrées royales dans les villes françaises de province (1615–1660). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 99.2 (2004), 488–89: Thorough scholarship and meticulous editing characterize this account of the royal tours of the provinces (1656–1660) that declined after Louis XIII's reign: "Royal progress was no longer seen as a means to govern the country, but addressed different objectives, more limited in scope and often related to foreign and military developments."

WETSEL, DAVID & CANOVAS, FREDERIC, EDS avec la collaboration de Christine Probes et Buford Norman. Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. Individual articles summarized under author's name in the appropriate section.

Review: D. Kuizenga in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 319–321. Brief overview of the fifteen articles devoted to "les femmes au grand siècle' and the three devoted to "musique, littérature et liturgie". "Les articles réunis ici sont, dans leur grande majorité, d'une très haute qualité et méritent l'attention de tous ceux qui s'intéressent au grand siècle."

WINN, COLETTE. Protestations et revendications féminines: textes oubliés et inédits sur l'éducation feminine (XVIe–XVIIe siècle). Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: C. Clark-Evans in Ren Q 56 (2003): 809–810: Judged an "exquisite collection" (809), Winn's edition includes eight 17th c. theoretical texts (1695–1625), all written by women for women. Diverse in focus and strategies of debate and of varied length, the texts reveal the "power of women's intellect, their "worthiness" and their "natural capacity for education" (810). Clark-Evans also has praise for Winn's introduction and wide-ranging notes, bibliography and chronology (which also includes writings by men).

Review: A. Larsen in FR 77 (2003), 147–148. "Tour à tour traité théologique, portrait de femmes fortes, apologie des capacities des femmes et poème aux accents vibrants d'émotion, ce texte impressionne par l'abondance de ses sources" (147).

Review: BCLF 639 (2002), 118–19: "En portant leur attention sur les questions d'éducation, ces femmes avaient très bien compris où se formaient les inégalités, mais aussi les possibilités d'émancipation." Huit textes dont "le vieux français... en restreint le lectorat potentiel."

ZOBERMAN, PIERRE. "A Taste for Ceremony: Reading Monsieur's Magnificence" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 29–42.

While Monsieur's taste and reputation for display and magnificence suggests the possibility of a reading informed by gay studies, such a reading would be anachronistic and overlook the importance of ceremony as an assertion of power and rank.

ANKARLOO, BENGT and STUART CLARK, eds. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, V. 4. U Pennsylvania P, 2003.

Review: L.R.N. Ashley in BHR 66,1 (2004), 171–72: "It consists of the following: William Monter (Northwestern)'s 'Witch Trials in Continental Europe (1560–1660)' with an emphasis on civil and ecclesiastical court proceedings; Bengt Ankarloo (Lund)'s 'Witch Trials in Northern Europe (1450–1700)'involving Britain and Finland, etc.; and Stuart Clark (Wales at Swansea)'s 'Witchcraft and Magic in Early Modern Europe' with a preference for examining 'the realm of belief and ideas'. The lot adds up to a group of valuable approaches to an important topic in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries."

BEDUELLE, GUY. La Réforme du Catholicisme (1480–1620). Paris: Cerf, 2002.

Review: BCLF 649 (2003), 22–23: Cet ouvrage "propose, en douze courts chapitres, un parcours à la fois clair et convaincant qui permet de comprendre les enjeux historiques, politiques, ecclésiastiques, théologiques et moraux des réformes religieuses qui modifient profondément l'Occident chrétien au seuil de la modernité."

BIRNSTIEL, ECKHARD, ed. La Diaspora des Huguenots: les Réfugiés protestants de France et leur dispersion dans le monde (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: H. Phillips in MLR 99.1 (2004), 194–95: Work points to changes in the direction of studies concerning the Church of the Refuge: "Clearly, both terms in the latter expression should now be in the plural form, since a homogeneous history of Protestant emigration no longer stands the test of evidence, if it ever did. Indeed, the second term determines the first in the range of solutions required to accommodate the immense variety of situations and the differing roles of the churches encountered in contact with the host communities."

Review: G. Schrenck in RF 115 (2003): 390–392: Highly laudable review of these proceedings of a 1995 colloquium at Castres and at Ferrières (Tarn). Finds the great originality of the collection of essays to be its open stance, considering the problematic not only from religious but also from political, economic, demographic and socio-cultural perspectives. The welcome and the integration of many countries (South Africa, Germany, Holland, the Americas, British Isles, etc.) is as clear as is the hostility of France. The "savantes et passionnantes études" treat mechanisms of integration, modification of mentalities and progressive reestablishment of identities (390). Highly informative and suggestive for future scholarship with fine bibliography, valuable tables of statistics and indices.

BLAY, MICHEL. "De l'apparition subreptice des futures formules de conservation à l'occasion de l'algorithmisation de la science du mouvement au tournant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles." RSHA 54.3 (2001): 291–301.

"[F]ocuses on French scientist and mathematician Pierre Varignon's works... [E]mphasizes the close connection between what governed the mathematical structure of principles of conservation and the practice of the differential calculus linked to the genesis of the science of motion at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries."

BLAY, MICHEL. L'Homme sans repos: du mouvement de la Terre à l'esthétique métaphysique de la vitesse (XVIIe – XXe siècles). Paris: Armand Colin, 2002.

Review: BCLF 646 (2003), 16–17: "M. Blay déploie les perspectives d'une esthétique métaphysique de la vitesse en quatre chapitres. Dans les deux premiers, il retrace l'histoire de la mise en mouvement de la terre, grâce au travaux de Copernic, mais aussi à l'oeuvre de Newton... Le troisième chapitre raconte l'introduction du concept de vitesse grâce au calcul différentiel et intégral puis, surtout, grâce à la construction de l'algorithme de la cinématique, entre les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Le quatrième chapitre, enfin, ainsi que l'épilogue, déploient les figures de la vitesse, telles que les machines et finalement une véritable esthétique ont pu les introduire au sein de la culture moderne, pour en faire un véritable culte de la puissance, de la maîtrise du temps et de l'espace."

BOECKL, CHRISTINE M. Images of Plague and Pestilence; Iconography and Iconology. Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2000.

Review: E. D. Howe in Ren Q 56 (2003): 205–206: Reviewer is not altogether happy with Boeckl's approach (Howe suggests instead an exploration of case studies of core works) and the, at times, "short shrift" given to scholarship since 1970. Howe nevertheless has praise for Boeckl's emphasis on "theological underpinnings" and her "placing the art of northern and southern Europe in dialogue and extending that contact to the New World" (206). 17th c. scholars will note the chapter entitled: "The Tridentine World: Plague Paintings as Implementations of Catholic Reforms (1600–1775)."

BRANCHER, DOMINIQUE. "Les Ambiguïtés de la pudeur dans le discours médical (1570–1620)." CAEIF 55 (2003), 275–297.

One of a series of papers delivered at the LIVe Congrès de l'Association (2002) under the auspices of Louis Van Delft on the subject of "littérature et anatomie (XVIe–XVIIe siècle)." Here Brancher examines the early days of French medical discourse as practitioners and philosophers grapple with the appropriation and development of their own language, terminology, and reasoning, leaving behind the traditional medical Latin-language treatise. An inescapable tension arises between the necessity for anatomical exposure / description or any form of overt discussion in medical science and the increasingly strict rules of modesty that preclude all vulgarity in the public domain, particularly concerning any sexual / libidinous organs / function.

BRAZEAU, BRIAN JAMES. "La réflexion qu'ils feront sur eux-mêmes: Empire and identity in Early New France (1604–1632)." DAI 64/6 (2003), 2106.

Argues that the creation of an overseas namesake" was the site of an important and sustained reflection on aspects of 'Frenchness.'" Examines texts by Marc Lescarbot, Gabriel Sagard, Samuel Champlain, and Jesuit missionaries.

CABANEL, PATRICK. Juifs et Protestants en France. Les Affinités électives: XVIe–XXIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 2004.

Review: BCLF 661 (2004), 22: "L'histoire retracée dans Juifs et protestants en France: les affinités électives, qui couvre la période s'étendant du XVIe siècle à aujourd'hui, révèle comment une frange de la société française rompt dès la Réformation avec l'antijudaïsme chrétien et l'enseignement du mépris (qui disparaît dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle)."

CABANTOUS, ALAIN. Entre fêtes et clochers: profane et sacré dans l'Europe moderne XVIIe – XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 2002.

Review: BCLF 640 (2002), 145: "...cet ouvrage porte un joli titre. Mais celui-ci dissimule une conception réductrice de la vie religieuse des Français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Il est d'ailleurs présenté comme étant 'moins une histoire des manifestations du sacré qu'une histoire sociale et culturelle de son organisation avec le profane'."

CANOVAS, FREDERIC & DAVID WETSEL, eds. Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002. Individual articles summarized in the appropriate sections.

CARR, THOMAS M. "Remi de Beauvais's La Magdeleine (1617) and the apostolorum apostola Tradition" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 139–49.

Beauvais' Mary-Magdalene does not fit the most common model of a penitent and contemplative mystic that dominated the seventeenth-century. He instead portrays her as an apostola apostolorum who announces the resurrection and becomes a preacher herself. Beauvais' Magdalene is not a role model for women, but rather a "vehicle for presenting doctrine in a non-technical way suitable to women."

CARVALLO, SARAH. "Chimie et scepticisme: Heritage et ruptures d'une science. Analyse du Chimiste sceptique, 1661, Robert Boyle." RSHA 55.4 (2002): 451–92.

Examines Boyle's criticism of "Aristotelian and Paracelsian definitions of chemical objects" and his establishment of "a new methodology in chemistry that conformed to the requirements of experimental philosophy while avoiding a Cartesian-style reduction."

CHAREIX, FABIEN. "La découverte des lois du choc par Christian Huygens." RSHA 56.1 (2003): 15–58.

Analyzes how Huygens discovered the laws of motion of bodies after collision based on his manuscripts, where his engagement in the pursuit of finding a descriptive kinematics and the steps of that process are clearer than in his printed texts.

CHARRAK, ANDRE. "Huygens et la théorie musicale." RHSA 56.1 (2003): 59–78.

Huygens's writings on musical theory examine not only technical matters but links between music and mathematics, the physical explanation of consonance, and the historical development of future possibilities in music, proposing a theory of baroque harmony, here put in context.

CLAVELIN, MAURICE. Galilée copernicien: le premier combat (1610–1616). Paris: Albin Michel, 2004.

Review: BCLF 661 (2004), 11–12: Le but de cet ouvrage est de "comprendre et faire comprendre pourquoi Galilée, bravant hostilité et dangers, s'engagea dès 1610 dans un combat passionnée en faveur de Copernic."

CLOSSON, MARIANNE. "L'invention d'une 'littérature de la peur': le temps de la chasse aux sorcières." TL 16 (2003): 47–63.

Demonstrates that contrary to what is generally thought, "la sorcière est... une figure des temps modernes, contemporaire... de Descartes, et non du Moyen Age" (48). Includes treatment in literature (Pierre de Lancre, Bossuet) and art (Jacques de Gheyn II, Claude Gillot) of representations of "religieuses possédées." Underscores the remarkable success of works such as the Histoires tragiques de notre temps by François Rosset (more than 35 editions beginning with that of 1614) as well as the larger fascination of the subject and its function in multiple literary genres (57, 62).

DAHIER, ANDREA. Les Singularités de la France Equinoxiale. Histoire de la mission des pères capucins au Brésil (1612–1615). Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: C. Skenazi in BHR 65,3 (2003), 773–75: "Le livre d'Andrea Dahier cherche à tracer des liens entre un projet d'évangélisation française au Brésil du début du dix-septième siècle, les visées colonisatrices de la monarchie, et une conception ethnographique. Les trois parties de l'ouvrage offrent chacune une perspective différente sur la mission des pères capucins à Maragnan."

DAHLINGER, JAMES, S.J. "Liturgy and Last Things in the Grand Siècle: The Requiem High Mass For The Feast of All Souls" [sic] in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 169–180.

This article offers a description and explanation of the Tridentine rite requiem mass conducted during the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature conference in Tempe, AZ in 2001.

DE COURCELLES, DOMINIQUE. "La conquête d'un savoir raisonnable: l'Histoire naturelle et moralle [sic] des Indes, tant Orientalles [sic] qu'Ocidentalles [sic] du P. Jésuite José Acosta, 1598" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 311–321.

An analysis of the originality of Acosta's work which marks a shift in the criteria of scientific knowledge of both nature and human cultures. It allows us to see how the scientific criteria of history are not universal features but rather an early-modern invention.

DELPORTE, CHRISTOPHE. "Religiosité populaire ou dévoiement? Fêtes, pèlerinages et merveilleux dans les provinces septentrionales au XVIIe siècle. Quelques aspects de la censure cléricale" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 105–134.

This study examines how the clergy's tampering with liturgy, the disappearance of feast days, the rationalization and standardization of holidays and popular customs cut the popular classes' ties to the Church and contributed to their dechristianization and ultimate disdain for religion.

DESCOTES, DOMINIQUE, ANTONY MCKENNA, and LAURENT THIROUIN, eds. Le Rayonnement de Port-Royal. Mélanges en l'honneur de Philippe Sellier. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: T. Gheeraert in IL 55.3 (2003), 53–55. Feschrift contains five parts: "Spiritualités," "Art de penser et d'écrire," "Pascal," "Affinités" (on the Augustinianism of Port-Royal), and "Tensions" (on Port-Royal's adversaries). "La richesse des contributions montre... que les perspectives offertes par les travaux de Philippe Sellier... continuent... d'inspirer les pages de bien des travaux dix-septiémistes."

DESLANDRES, DOMINIQUE. Croire et faire croire. Les missions françaises aux XVIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 2003.

Review: J. Nicolas in QL 870 (du 1er au 15 février 2004), 18–19: "La France se veut terre de mission dans une double perspective: évangéliser ses 'sauvages' de l'intérieur et, de gré ou de force, porter sa bonne parole outre-mer dans ses terres d'influence. Dominique Deslandres, professeur à l'université de Montréal, est partie sur les traces de ce mouvement de christianisation assis sur une vision mystique, mais traversé de tous les appétits, les contradictions, les chocs du monde humain. Au XVIIe siècle, les vocations abondent, tous aspirent à l'aventure, récollets, jésuites, capucins et autres 'voltigeurs de l'Eglise'..."

Review: BCLF 660 (2004), 141–42: "Si les missions chrétiennes au XVIIe siècle constituent un sujet déjà largement traité, le souci de réinscrire ce phénomène dans un processus d'intégration socio-religieuse en plaçant au centre de la recherche la question de l'identité, celle des missionaires autant que celle des missionnés, revouvelle profondément l'approche."

DEVILLAIRS, LAURENCE. "L'immutabilité divine comme fondement des lois de la nature chez Descartes et les éléments de la critique leibnizienne." RHSA 54.3 (2001): 303–24.

Shows a link between Descartes's assertions in physics of the Principia Philosophae (1644) and the exposition of the doctrine of 1630 around the question of divine freedom in the creation of eternal truths.

DIXON, C. SCOTT and LUISE SCHORN-SCHüTTTE. The Protestant Clergy of Early Modern Europe. New York: Palgrave, 2003.

Review: M. Wiesner in Choice 41 (2004), 2115. Eight articles examine the creation of the European Protestant pastorate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A useful introduction synthesizes numerous regional studies on the Protestant clergy. The volume includes a chapter by Mark Greengrass on the pastorate in France.

DONETZKOFF, DENIS. "Port-Royal et le diable." TL 16 (2003): 65–82.

The devil is considered, as indeed Scripture teaches, "un adversaire effrayant" but not for the person of faith who "s'est mis à l'école de la volonté divine" (81). Traces the evolution of the relationship of Port-Royal and the devil from the eloquent writings of the Abbé de Saint-Cyran to several key memoirs, "relations," and treatises, focusing on persecution (Claude Lancelot, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, M. Hamon, among others).

EL YADA, OUZI et JACQUES LE BRUN. Conflits politiques, controverses religieuses. Essais d'histoire européene aux XVIe–XVIIIe siècles. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2002.

Review: T. Debbagi Baranova in DSS 222 (2004), 125–126: "Conçu en hommage à Myriam Yardeni, ce livre rassemble 14 articles sur des thèmes se trouvant au cœur des recherches de l'historienne: la conscience nationale comme une construction des polémistes et des historiens, le protestantisme et le judaïsme, l'écriture de l'histoire. Ces études portent essentiellement sur les situations de crise et de conflit qui se révèlent génératrices de nouvelles idées et de contacts stimulants dans la société moderne."

FORNEROD, NICOLAS, PHILIPPE BOROS, GABRIELLE CAHIER (d.), et MATTEO CAMPAGNOLO, eds. Registres de la Compagnie des Pasteurs de Genève. T. XIII, 1617–1618. Genève: Droz, 2001.

Review: R. M. Kingdon in BHR 66.2 (2004), 468–69: Excellent volume on Genevan ecclesiastical history "that reveals a good deal about Geneva's continuing role in providing intellectual leadership to the entire Reformed movement." Seventy-seven indexes, of which no. 16 contains an inventory of senior pastor Antoine de la Faye's private library and "constitutes a separate little treatise on the world of books used by the Reformed in the early seventeenth century."

FREMONTIER-MURPHY, CAMILLE. Les Instruments de mathématiques, XVIe–XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002.

Review: BCLF 651 (2000), 65–66: Catalogue offert par le département des Objets d'art du Musée du Louvre: cadrans solaires, calendriers, astrolabes, globes, "nécessaires de mathématiques," instruments d'arpentage, microscopes; "iconographie somptueuse."

GIGLIONI, GUIDO. "Francis Glisson's Notion of Confoederatio Naturae in the Context of Hylozoistic Corpuscularianism." RHSA 55.2 (2002): 239–62.

Examines the work of Francis Glisson and Ralph Cudworth who, "[t]aking opposing standpoints,... contributed to a mid-17th-century restatement of the extent and limits of naturalism." Shows how both attempted revival of vital corpuscularianism in different ways, demonstrating "that atomism could be reconciled with a hylozoistic, or even spiritualistic, vision of nature."

GIOCANTI, SYLVIA. Penser l'irrésolution: Montaigne, Pascal, La Mothe Le Vayer-trois itineraires sceptiques. Bibliothèque de la Renaissance. Série 3, tome 45. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: M.-F. Hilgar in FR 77 (2003), 370–371. Giocanti "prouve que Pascal et La Mothe Le Vayer doivent beaucoup au scepticisme des Essais de Montaigne. . .Elle trouve en eux une commune pratique du discours philosophique qui proscrit la manière dogmatique de philosopher" (371). Undertakes an inventory of these three philosophers' positions toward misology, that is to say, their "attitude intellectuelle adoptee à l'égard de l'irrésolution humaine… qui incrimine la raison… la rendant responsable de l'inconstance de nos opinions et volitions" (371).

GRAFTON, ANTHONY and WILLIAM R. NEWMANN, eds. Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe. Boston: MIT Press, 2001.

Review: J. Harrie in Ren Q 56 (2003): 846–849: Important collection of essays for its assessment of the complexity and impact of astrology and alchemy for early modern Europe. Includes investigations of interconnections with science, medicine and religion; of particular interest to 17th c. scholars is Didier Kahn's "exemplary study of the posting of Rosicrucian placards in Paris in 1623" (847).

GREINER, FRANK, ed. Pierre Jean Fabre. L'alchimiste chrétien: traduction anonyme inédite du XVIIIe siècle avec le fac-similé de l'édition latine originale. Paris: Société d'Etude de l'Histoire de l'Alchimie, 2001.

Review: J. Harrie in Ren Q 56 (2003): 846–849: Welcome facsimile of Fabre's Alchymista christianus of 1632, with 18th c. translation, copious notes and an extensive introduction by editor Greiner. Makes accessible this text whose importance is demonstrated both as a "practical art" and as "an additional weapon in the Counter-Reformation" (849).

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

Review: D. M. Posner in Ren Q 56 (2003): 190–192: Grenier's focus in this thèse d'état is alchemical themes in numerous Baroque texts, technical and expository treatises as well as literature. Demonstrates the shift in the alchemical tradition from the oral or manuscript based to "one residing primarily in the written word" (190). Praiseworthy for its rich and careful documentation, its "encyclopedic bibliography," Grenier's study "will therefore be a valuable resource to anyone interested in exploring alchemical themes, la poésie scientifique and Baroque aesthetics" (191).

GRES-GAYER, JACQUES M. "Autour du Requiem de J. Gilles: Cérémonial liturgique de l'Eglise gallicane" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 163–167.

A description of Gilles' Requiem, the historical background of its composition, and its liturgical functions that highlights the work's links with Catholic tradition and "solidarité."

GUERRINI, ANITA. "Duverney's Skeletons." Isis 94.4 (December 2003), 577–603.

Guerrini analyzes the controversy caused by the 1730 will of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, professor of anatomy at the Jardin du Roi and member of the Académie des Sciences. She argues that "the ambiguity of the skeleton itself in terms of its ownership, moral and scientific significance, and authorship reveals significant tensions in the prosecution, patronage and legacy of pre-Revolutionary Parisian anatomical study."

HARDING, VANESSA. The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500–1670. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: A. Fahrmeir in HZ 276 (2003): 750–751: Recommended as "extremely worth reading", Harding's investigation focuses on the meaning of the concurrence of the dead and living for the scarce space available in the two cities. Part two examines burial rituals, finding clear differences between Catholic and Protestant practices as well as a general tendency toward commercialization.

HARTMANN, PETER C. Die Jesuiten. München: Beck, 2001.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 276 (2003): 401–402: Small (128 pages) but useful volume offers a helpful overview of the controversial Society of Jesus. Literature scholars will appreciate discussion on theatre and genre formation and historians will benefit from the space devoted to the history of the order.

HILGAR, MARIE-FRANCE. "Cérémonial au séminaire de Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet à l'époque de Louis XIV" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 157–162.

The author describes the rules, traditions, and rites that ordered life at the seminary of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet in the seventeenth century.

HOURS, BERNARD. L'Eglise et la vie religieuse dans la France moderne XVIe–XVIIIe siècle. Paris: PUF, 2000.

Review: I. Mieck in HZ 276 (2003): 759–760: Hours's volume belongs to PUF's important "Collection Premier Cycle" designed for the public as well as for university students. Hours's aim is to "retracer les grandes étapes de la vie religieuse des Français à l'époque moderne, de manière non confessionnelle, en essayant de ne négliger aucun de ses aspects" and to give "une initiation précise à l'histoire religieuse de la France moderne dans une langue claire et accessible" (qtd. in review, 759). Of particular interest are considerations of 17th c. political and religious sensibilities, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Extensive glossary and general bibliography.

HUREL, DANIEL-ODON and GERARD LAUDIN, eds. Académies et sociétés savants en Europe (1650–1800). Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: J. Lauersdorf in FR 77 (2003), 1259. "Résultat d'un colloque organisé à Rouen en novembre 1995, cette collection d'articles très variés a pour objet ambitieux d'établir un portrait comparative aussi peu "réducteur" que possible de "l'Europe des Académies" des dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles" (1259). Places more emphasis on 18th than on 17th century. Gives consideration to a vast range of countries.

JACQUIN, GERARD, ed., notes & trad. latine et grecques. Jacques Ferrand. Traité de l'Essence et Guérison de l'Amour ou De la Mélancolie érotique (1610). Paris: Anthropos, 2001.

Review: A. Lanavère in DSS 222 (2004), 110–112: This medical treatise is published here with extensive translations, notes and corrections as well as an interesting contextual introduction. The reviewer remarks on the timeliness of this edition given the reference made to it by Starobinski, Pigeaud and Dandrey, among others. He notes that it is destined for a non-academic public, therefore, some of the spelling, notations and abbreviations have been normalized.

KAHN, DIDIER. "La condamnation des thèses d'Antoine de Villon et Etienne de Clave contre Aristote, Paracelse et les 'Cabalistes' (1624)." RSHA 55.2 (2002): 143–198.

This historical account of the condemnation of the theses on materialism and atomism places them in context of the University of Paris, where the rector may have initiated the reaction. Brings to light some previously unknown documents.

KOSTROUN, DANIELLA J. "Historical Appeal under Absolutism: Women and Gallicanism at Port Royal, 1690–1709" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 99–110.

Identifies two types of historical arguments, "figurist" and "gallican," used by the nuns at Port-Royal to guide their actions, hasten Port-Royal's destruction, and influence public opinion and future historians. A figurist reading highlights the nuns' victimization by royal tyranny, while a gallican logic sees them as preservers of tradition and precedent who scrupulously challenged the authority of both church and monarchy.

LAGNY, ANNE, ed. Les Piétismes à l'âge classique: crises, conversions, institutions. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 2001.

Review: BCLF 647 (2003), 19: "Rassemblement donc des articles théoriques sur la notion même du piétisme et des études historiques et biographiques retraçant sa diffusion, cet ouvrage s'adresse à des chercheurs en histoire, philosophie et théologie."

LAUX, HENRI et DOMINIQUE DALIN, eds. Dieu au XVIIe siècle: crises et renouvellement du discours: une approche interdisciplinaire. Paris: Editions facultés jésuites de Paris, 2002.

Review: BCLF 650 (2003), 12–13: "Ce volume rassemble les quatorze interventions présentées en septembre 2001 au Centre-Sèvres, qui est la faculté jésuite de Paris. L'évolution du discours sur Dieu au XVIIe siècle est envisagé globalement, d'un point de vue plus religieux qu'historique." On trouve que le volume " apporte peu de neuf sur les questions qu'il aborde. Le manque d'index et de bibliographie ne plaide pas en faveur de cet ouvrage."

LEMAITRE, NICOLE, ed. Histoire des curés. Paris: Arthème Fayard, 2002.

Review: V. Mellinghoff-Bourgerie in BHR 63,3 (2003), 704–07: "On ne peut que saluer la rigueur et la lucidité du constat auquel aboutit cette recherche collective en ajoutant, si la chose devait échapper au lecteur saturé par l'ampleur de la matière historique appréhendée, que le caractère 'pluriel' de la fonction pastorale que l'éditrice voit poindre à l'horizon n'est pas sans rejoindre les acquis de la Réformation." Notes, glossaire et index; manque de bibliographie générale.

LESTRINGANT, FRANK. Lumière des martyrs: essai sur le martyre au siècle des réformes. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.

Review: BCLF 661 (2004), 142: Ouvrage en trois volets: "Une première partie ('La cause des martyrs') pose d'abord la question des conceptions rhétoriques et juridiques qui servent de soubassement au martyrologe huguenot dans ses différentes mises en scènes livresques." On y trouve une lecture de la poésie d'Agrippa d'Aubigné. Dans la deuxième partie, "Le théâtre des martyrs," Lestringant donne "toute sa mesure à cette représentation très politique et dont la scène est l'univers." Dans la dernière partie, "Horreur et nostalgie des martyrs," l'auteur se livre à des réflexions "sur la postérité, aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, de ces archives sanglantes dans la mémoire protestante."

LOJACONO, ETTORE, dir. La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle de René Descartes. Textes établis par Erik Jan Bos. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2002.

Review: M. Devaux in DSS 222 (2004), 145–147: This large volume provides important commentary, translations and "concordances". Descartes' text serves as, "un prétexte en trois sens [...] a) La recherche de la vérité est un prétexte puisque le texte que nous avons n'est connu dans la langue même de Descartes que dans sa première moitié [...], la seconde jusque-là n'était connue que par la traduction latine (1701). Erik Jan Bos rétablit ces textes, et rend accessible la traduction néerlandaise (1684) de la totalité du texte, négligée jusqu'alors. b) La recherche de la vérité est un prétexte, ensuite, au sens où, par la datation (1634) proposée ici par Ettore Lojacono, il s'agit d'un texte antérieur au Discours de la méthode, et non pas d'un texte tardif comme on le dit souvent. c) Enfin, l'édition des différentes versions (le français et les traductions) est le texte à partir duquel les index et concordances sont établis - ce travail étant l'essentiel, par le volume, de cet ouvrage."

MARGOLIN, JEAN-CLAUDE. "Perspectivisme, relativisme et scepticisme: précarité et créativité de l'Anamorphose." S Fr 46 (2002): 527–545.

Masterful elaboration of the three "isms" and application of the technique of anamorphose to the literature of the Baroque era. Highly instructive, well-documented and precise, Margolin's essay insists that the three "isms" define a philosophical attitude and a method of research rather than a determined ideological position (535). Refusing ontological dogmatism, "ils nous engagent à cheminer au niveau des phénomènes... [et] aident surtout à mieux comprendre... la puissance de créativité et la précarité de l'anamorphose, dans son extension icono-textuelle" (535).

MARTIN, MARGOT. "Devilish Utterance Through Sublime Expression: The Union of the Sacred and the Profane in Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 231–237.

Médée offers an amalgamation of the sacred and the secular music traditions and can be interpreted as either "devilish utterance" or "sublime expression."

MARTIN, PHILIPPE. Une Religion des livres (1640–1850). Paris: Cerf, 2003.

Review: BCLF 655 (2004), 62: Ouvrage dédié aux livres de piété: "Le XVIIe siècle, époque des saints et des dévots, est la période faste pour les religieux, qui dominent tous les registres de la littérature pieuse; la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle est l'âge d'or de la production de livres de piété par des laïcs..."

MATERIA ACTUOSA. ANTIQUITE, AGE CLASSIQUE, LUMIERES. Mélanges en l'honneur d'Olivier Bloch. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: G. Stenger in RHLF 103.3 (2003), 727. 41 studies that immerse the reader in "trois mille ans d'histoire de la pensée." Essays on, among many others, the libertins érudits; Gassendi, Hobbes and Locke; and Spinoza.

MENTZER, RAYMOND A. and ANDREW SPICER, eds. Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559–1685. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: M. P. Holt in Ren Q 56 (2003): 800–801: Praised as "very useful" and "coherent," the volume offers rich and varied contributions on the question of Huguenot identity. Wide-ranging themes include: formal and informal networks of communication, legal processes, "convivencia" and antipopery, academies, the military, architecture and funerals.

MOENE, GENEVIEVE. "Jean Meslier, prêtre athée et révolutionnaire." FR 77 (2003), 114–125.

Gives a thoughtful presentation of village curate Jean Meslier (1664–1729), whose deathbed confession of atheism, followed by the release of lengthy polemical writings, concluded a largely humdrum ecclesiastic career with something of a bang. Meslier's Mémoire voices opposition to monarchy, aristocratic privilege, and organized religion, seeking "rien moins que…une revolution" (118). The text strives to unsettle and gradually incense its reader by systematic undermining both received Biblical truths and the new rational religiousity of the Cartesians. Moëne points out that Meslier's attachment to the paysannerie and his proto-communist ideals distinguish him from other avowed atheists of the time-who were for the most part aristocratic libertins. Voltaire and Diderot knew Meslier's Mémoire, although the former sifted out its socio-economic polemic when he circulated excerpts from the text.

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Review: N. Jolley in TLS 5298 (Oct 15 2004), 6: Explores Augustinian roots of philosophy of Descartes, Malebranche and Pascal. Moriarty argues that partisans of new mechanistic philosophy needed an authority to legitimize their rejection of scholasticism. Augustine seemed to provide that authority. Moriarty finds common link among these three writers and with Augustine's City of God in suspicion of everyday experience. Reviewer doesn't disagree, but says Platonic rationalism a more obvious source of this distrust.

MORMINO, GIANFRANCO. "Le rôle de Dieu dans l'oeuvre scientifique et philosophique de Christian Huygens. RHSA 56.1 (2003): 113–33.

Examination of Huygens's later writings, which "shed light on the philosophical, epistemological, and even theological foundations of his thought, about which Huygens remained silent in his scientific treatises."

NADLER, STEVEN, ed. A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Review: M. R. Antognazza in PhQ 54.216 (July 2004), 473–476. Includes essays on quite a few French philosophers, including Gassendi, Descartes, Pascal, Arnauld and Malebranche. "All told, this book is far more successful at achieving its self-imposed aim of giving 'a fair sense of the richness and variety of philosophy in the period' than any comparable volume yet produced."

NAPHY, WILLIAM G. Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps ca. 1530–1640. Manchester: Marchester UP, 2002.

Review: D. O. McNeil in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1289–1290: Archival research, notably in Geneva, has contributed to this rich and "thoroughly documented study [which] is a valuable addition to the growing library of works on the plague and its effects" (1289). Also sheds light on social history of witchcraft and on judicial processes. McNeil finds it "particularly instructive" that prosecutors often allege and the accused admit to pecuniary motives; "plague-workers... stood to benefit by plague... and it is entirely plausible that they acted in concert to spread plague" (1290).

PARMENTIER, MARC. "Demonstrations et infiniment petits dans la Quadratura Arthmetica de Leibniz." RHSA 54.3 (2001): 275–89.

Examines Leibniz's groundbreaking transcendental geometry, where he demonstrated the "method of indivisibles" and proved "that the indirect method of quadratures, based on a proof by reductio ad absurdum, and the direct method, based on infintesimally small quantities, are equivalent."

PERFETTI, AMALIA. "L'hypothèse atomistique dans L'autre monde de Cyrano de Bergerac." RHSA 55.2 (2002): 215–238.

Focuses on the author's knowledge and use of atomism to explain the phenomena of his world, a "universe... composed of an 'infinite number of invisible small bodies' whose characteristics were solidity, incorruptibility, and simplicity."

PONZIO, PAOLO. "À propos de l'atomisme de Galilée: Questions cosmologiques et problèmes théologiques." RHSA 55.2 (2002): 199–214.

"After providing a reconstruction of Galileo's position on the atomic constitution of matter, examines two significant consequences of this theory: the cosmological thesis of the plurality of worlds and the theological question of the sacramental mystery of the Eucharist."

POPKIN, RICHARD. The History of Skepticism: from Savonarola to Bayle. Revised and updated edition. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Review: F. Wilson in Choice 41.5 (2003), 922. This new edition now includes Bayle-a crucial figure in European skepticism in the wake of Montaigne. Popkin's work also includes counterbalanced consideration of important philosophers opposed to skepticism, such as Descartes and Spinoza. "This is a text not only in the history of philosophy, but in philosophy. Popkin's writing is lucid throughout, and, although his scholarship is everywhere evident, he wears it lightly" (922).

QUANTIN, JEAN-LOUIS. Le rigorisme chrétien. Paris: Cerf, 2001.

Review: M. Cloet in RBPH 81,2 (2003), 574–75: "Ce petit livre nous offre une synthèse abordable d'une matière extrêmement complexe. Le jeune auteur semble maîtriser le problème qui hante l'Eglise depuis toujours. Son livre traite avant tout les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, période des recherches personnelles approfondies de l'auteur. Le jansénisme en France et aux Pays-Bas espagnols est au centre de la problématique."

RACEVSKIS, ROLAND. Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV: Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2003.

Review: C. Levin in FR 77 (2003), 1233–1234. "This work presents a carefully researched study on the progress of the science of time measurement in the seventeenth century as well as a meticulous analysis of the use of time within the literary works the author associates with the cultural record he examines" (1234). Of interest to graduate students and scholars involved in the study of time.

RADELET-DE GRAVE, PATRICIA. "L'univers selon Huygens: Le connu et l'imaginé." RHSA 56.1 (2003): 79–112.

Examines how Huygens attempted to persuade skeptics of the truth of Copernican heliocentricity, and analyzes his exploration of and reflection on the universe, armed with Newtonian reflecting telescopes.

RANDALL, MARY M. "Mystic Edge or Mystic on the Edge? Madame Guyon Revisited" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 109–117.

The author urges us to vindicate Mme Guyon by considering the importance of her work for seventeenth-century literature, history, and religion.

RANUM, PATRICIA. "The Gilles Requiem: Ceremony and Rhetoric in the Service of Liturgy" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 181–195.

Ceremony and rhetoric join hands in Gilles' Requiem where music interspersed with liturgical texts "elevate the soul to a higher plane" so that it may "contemplate human foibles," death, and resurrection.

RAPLEY, ELIZABETH. A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.

Review: D. Higgs in UTQ 73.1 (Winter 2003/4), 203–204: Rapley "has produced a splendid study of French teaching nuns from the 1630s to 1790, with an afterword about the post-revolutionary situation... The book is divided into two parts, the first sketching in the main developments among teaching nuns considered as a countrywide group of women over two centuries, and the second looking in more detail at the life of cloistered nuns from different orders. She has assembled statistics in a valuable appendix entitled 'Demographics of the Cloister.' She poses many hypotheses which will stimulate others doing research... She tries to read from a fresh perspective the uplifting and edifying chronologies produced by nuns writing about their individual communities and notable instances of piety.

ROWAN, MARY. "Angélqiue Arnauld's Web of Feminine Friendships: Letters to Jeanne de Chantal and the Queen of Poland" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 53–59.

Angélique Arnauld's correspondence reveals the unique feminine voice of a "strong-willed nun" known for her "skillful exercise of authority" and her devotion to Jansenism.

SARKAR, HUSAIN. Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Review: M. Bertman in Choice 41.5 (2003), 923. Though narrowly focused, an admirable work. "Sarkar moves, with care and erudition, through several centuries of scholarly examination of the cogito. Most interesting and mind-stretching are collateral arguments previous to Descartes, e.g., between Porphyry and Eudoxus" (923). Also considers Descartes' influence on Arnauld.

SCHMALTZ, TAD. Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: A. Pyle in TLS 5270 (Apr 2 2004), 28: Study of strange branch of Cartesianism found in Dom Robert Desgabets and Pierry-Sylvain Regis. Belief that every substance indestructible even by God and that the "cogito" establishes the existence of the body as well as of the mind. Fundamental doctrine has impeccable roots in Descartes. A "richly rewarding excursion into a forgotten branch of Cartesianism illuminating the intellectual context of the French reception of Descartes." Also "helps us to focus on those aspects of mainstream Cartesianism that may be mistaken either exegetically or philosophically."

SCHRODER, WINFRIED. Ursprünge des Atheismus. Untersuchungen zur Metaphysik- und Religionskritik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1998.

Review: S. Taussig in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 307–309. "Les 618 pages du livre de Winfried Schröder présentent toutes les qualités d'un ouvrage d'érudition et de synthèse; le lecteur découvre à la fois des documents, la doxographie, l'état du débat, une bibliographie impressionnante, un index très utile, au soutien d'une démonstration nuancée mais ferme, menée selon une méthode rigoureuse et parvenant à un énoncé efficace des conclusions."

SCOTT, PAUL A. "Cloisters, Teaching, and Tragedy: A Rediscovered Lost Play of 1663" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 151–161.

The discovery of a copy of L'histoire philosophe ou l'histoire de saincte Catherine d'Alexandrie (1663) by the nun known only as "de la Chapelle" sheds light on a female tragedian, the genre of the religious tragedy, and the conception of patriarchal authority.

SCOTT, PAUL A. "Devotions on a Local Theme: Sainte Reine d'Alise" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 135–153.

Of the five different plays about the martyred Sainte Reine d'Alise published between 1661–1687, three were written for amateur performances in the village of Alise-Sainte-Reine which in the mid-seventeenth century had become the most popular pilgrimage destination in France. These plays actually became "actors" in an ongoing dispute with the Benedictines of the neighboring village of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain over contol of the sacred site and relics.

SCOTT, PAUL A. "Recreating a Traditional Liturgy: Jean Gilles's Messe des Morts" in Frédéric Canovas & David Wetsel, eds., Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002: 197–208.

A description and commentary, with photos, of the Tridentine rite requiem mass conducted during the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature conference in Tempe, AZ in 2001.

TAYLOR, LARISSA J., ed. Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period. Koln and Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Review: J. W. O'Malley in Ren Q 56 (2003): 824–826: Judged coherent and useful as contributing to an assessment of "the state of the question," Taylor's edition has sections on the following topics: "The Sermon as Genre," "The Social History of Preaching," and "Preaching and the Geography of Reformations." Taylor herself provides an essay on France.

THOUVENIN, PASCALE, éd. Nicolas Fontaine, Mémoires ou histoire des solitaires de Port-Royal. Paris, Champion, 2001.

Review: B. Guion in DSS 222 (2004), 129–130: The reviewer underscores the extraordinary accomplishment of Thouvenin, not only in finding the original Fontaine manuscript, but in bringing out such an important critical edition with a praiseworthy preface, detailed annotation, and indices. "Sainte-Beuve estimait que c'était l'ouvrage qui en offrait 'la plus vive et la plus parfaite idée', donnant à voir et à entendre les Messieurs dans leur vie la plus quotidienne," and the reviewer finds that this complete edition of Fontaine's memoirs will interest "pas seulement les spécialistes de Port-Royal, mais tous les curieux de la vie, et de la langue, du XVIIe siècle."

Review: M.-F. Hilgar in FR 77 (2003), 149–150. The behemoth memoirs of Fontaine, who became a member of the Solitaires community in 1644. The book constitutes an immense contribution to our understanding of Port-Royal. Addresses the abbey's efforts to defend its self-reform in the 1630s and 40s, while also recording "des signes de l'operation de la grâce chez des contemporains," and "les persecutions puis la détention des religieuses et des solitaires" (149). Contains transcriptions of numerous letters as well as an index of proper names, a glossary, and a 229-page introduction.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 46 (2002): 444: Judged of "inestimable value" for the rediscovery of Port-Royal and for the re-evaluation of the contribution of "Jansenist Augustinism" to 17th c. letters. Praised for the authentic and suggestive qualities of these texts and for Thouvenin's rich historical and philological apparatus, including notes, annexes with variants, biographical and bibliographical variants, analytical indices and an erudite introduction of some 200 pages. In addition, Fontaine's Mémoires are a pleasure to read.

Review: D. Wetsel in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 311–315. Reviewer refers to P. Thouvenin's discovery of Fontaine's original manuscript in the library of the Institut de France as "perhaps the most important discovery in Port-Royal studies since the discovery over fifty years ago of the importance of the two Copies of Pascal's Pensées." "The transcription and orthographic modernization of the text, the preparation of copious and always relevant notes and the writing of nothing less than a magisterial [211-page] Introduction might have taken any other scholar a lifetime to complete."

TREPANIER, HELENE. "Les grâces extraordinaires ou les 'surnaturelles connaissances expérimentales' de Jean-Joseph Surin" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 151–160.

Surin's work on a "science experimentale" based on human experience addresses the question of grâce extraordinaire ("visions, apparitions, extases, paroles intérieures, consolations sensibles") in order to explain and account for the inexplicable. In spite of the Jesuits' mistrust and disbelief in the supernatural, Surin seeks to convince that possession is legitimate and constitutes an essential proof of the existence of supernatural forces and therefore God.

TREXLAR, RICHARD C. Religion in Social Context in Europe and in America 1200–1700. Tempe, Ariz: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002.

Review: H. Lehmann in HZ 277 (2003): 390–392: 22 essays of which 21 have been reprinted from periodicals or collections (eight are appearing for the first time in English). Uneven quality of essays: some remarkably erudite, others present hypotheses as certain. Useful for intercultural comparisons. An index would have rendered the volume much more useful.

VAN DER SCHUEREN, ERIC, Les Sociétés et les déserts de l'âme. Approche sociologique de la retraite religieuse dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Bruxelles: Académie royale de langue et de littérature française, 2001.

Review: N. D. Paige in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 315–317. "Là où d'autres commentateurs ont trop facilement cru à ce que les retraitants eux-mêmes avaient dit de leur retraite - qu'elle représentait un refus de la société et de ses valeurs - Van der Schueren propose qu'en tous points la retraite ne fait que reproduire des distinctions déjà à l'œuvre dans la société extérieure". Reviewer finds fault however with "un hermétisme désespérant" and the fact that "l'auteur se plaît à multiplier les descriptions et diagnostics ponctuels, au détriment d'un argument suivi. Il en résulte qu'une grande partie de l'érudition et de la force de la pensée dont l'ouvrage fait manifestement preuve est perdue."

VERCIANI, LAURA. Le moi et ses diables. Autobiographie spirituelle et récit de possession au XVIIe siècle. Trad. Arlette Estève. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2001.

Review: F. Greiner in DSS 222 (2004), 127–129: In a series of case studies dealing with Jeanne Fery, Jeanne des Anges, Jean Joseph Surin and Madeleine Bavent, the author explores the diabolical according to a particular chronology which is designed to, "suggérer ainsi le mouvement d'une évolution conduisant de l'obscurantisme des grands inquisiteurs vers l'avènement d'une rationalité hostile à toute espèce de diableries."

WAITE, GARY. Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Basingstoke, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Review: S. Boettcher in Choice 41.10 (2004), 1953–1954. "Examples are drawn from England, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, and Eastern Europe, and convincingly connect popular and elite culture" (1954). Of particular interest is Waite's exposition of how the hounding of religious dissenters cleared the way for the application of these same persecutional strategies to would-be witches. Highly recommended.

WALKER, CLAIRE. Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe. Palgrave, 2003.

Review: L.R.N. Ashley in BHR 66,1 (2004), 190–91: Work dealing with English convents in France and the Netherlands: "How nuns in countries where foreign languages are spoken engage, from their cloisters, in the political controversies of their time (like getting involved in the restoration of Charles II), or even, so withdrawn from ecclesiastical politics (nuns seemed happiest with strict enclosure), managing to have effect upon non-convent spirituality within their church is an important but hard to see matter."

WETSEL, DAVID & CANOVAS, FREDERIC, eds. Pascal/New Trends in Port-Royal Studies. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 1. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 143, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002.

Individual articles summarized in the appropriate section, organized by author.

WETSEL, DAVID & CANOVAS, FREDERIC, EDS avec la collaboration de Christine Probes et Buford Norman. Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003.

Review: D. Kuizenga in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 319–321. Brief overview of the fifteen articles devoted to "les femmes au grand siècle' and the three devoted to "musique, littérature et liturgie." "Les articles réunis ici sont, dans leur grande majorité, d'une très haute qualité et méritent l'attention de tous ceux qui s'intéressent au grand siècle."

WYGANT, AMY. "La Mesnardière and the Demon" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 323–334.

Examines the relationship between medical and poetic knowledge through a comparative reading of La Mesnardière's work on demonology (Traitté de la mélancholie [sic]), his Poëtique, and d'Aubignac's Pratique du théâtre in order to show how medical knowledge was viewed as doubtful and imprecise whereas poetry was a cutting-edge, cerebral science.

YARDENI, MYRIAM. Le Refuge huguenot: assimilation et culture. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: H. Phillips in MLR 99.1 (2004), 194–95: Collection of articles from 1995 conference proceedings emphasizes "the creativity of Huguenot refugees in coming to terms with their new geography, in Europe and beyond" and dispels associated myths: "It is now almost universally recognized that the economic disadvantage to France of enforced exile of Protestants turned out to be much less than early historians of the Refuge had calculated, along with the economic advantage to host communities."

ZARADER, JEAN-PIERRE, dir. Vocabulaire des philosophes. 4 vol.s Paris: Ellipses, 2002.

Review: O.Tinland in EP 3 (2004), 431–432: From the Préface: "Il s'agit […] de saisir l'unité de chaque philosophie dans son articulation interne, telle qu'elle s'exprime dans le vocabulaire qui lui est propre ou qu'elle s'est approprié." Tinland finds that this work is destined to become "un classique des études philosophiques." Dix-septièmistes will especially appreciate volume II, "Philosophie classique et moderne (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles)."

ABLALI, DRISS. "Sémiotique et phénoménologie." Semiotica 151 (2004): 219–40.

Examines the increasing return since the beginning of the 1990s to phenomenology for the study of language and texts. Critiques this development and analyzes the relationship between phenomenology and semiotics in the works of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and the semioticians. Looks at how phenomenology pushes semiotics away from texts, which, according to the author, should be its focus, into idealism and metaphysics, to examine the old problem of the relationship between body and soul.

ACADEMIE DES INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLES-LETTRES. Histoire littéraire de la France. Paris: Boccard, 2002.

Review: W. Monter in BHR 65,3 (2003), 745–48: Final section of this volume (t. 42, fasc. 2) concentrating largely on the medieval period "is devoted to a life-and-works profile of a highly significant 16th-century French author, Théodore de Bèze (1519–1605), composed by the outstanding living authority on him, Alain Dufour."

ADAM, VERONIQUE. Images fanées et matières vives. Cinq études sur la poésie Louis XIII. Grenoble: ELLUG Université Stendhal, 2003.

Review: R. Galli Pellegrini. CTH 26 (2004): 104–106: Work offers careful analysis of the poetry of Abraham de Vermeil, Tristan l'Hermite, Théophile de Viau, Marbeuf, and Gabriel Du Bois-Hus, going beyond traditional conceptions of genres and enriching our understanding of the imaginary of these several lesser-known, poets. Adam adopts an approach of "critique de l'imaginaire," that has until now been used to analyze the poets of the 19th and 20th centuries, enriched with the work of specialists in the rhetoric of the image. Reviewer points out in particular the interest of Adam's reading of the importance of "rondeur" in Marbeuf's poetry, which also emerges as a lunar vocabulary in Du Bois-Huis. Théophile's dominant image is rather one of the protective "creux," a less original reading, but her analysis contributes important elements nonetheless. Adam's work on the plays of Tristan L'Hermite reveals a similar preoccupation with images of refuge.

ADAM, VERONIQUE. "Les topoï dans la poésie baroque." Littératures classiques 43 (2001): 11–25.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 46 (2002): 437: Essay for the issue of LC on "Le temps au XVIIe siècle," focuses on the theme of time in relation to death and relevant images of myths of Antiquity. Original interpretation.

ANGEBAULT, CHRISTOPHE. "L'exception d'Alceste, ou comment le classicisme a pu servir à la modernité." DSS 223 (2004), 183–198.

The author revisits the character of Alceste, as Hélène Merlin-Kajman describes in her introduction to this number, as a "'contre-modèle' que le XVIIe siècle a fait l'objet des erreurs les plus décisives. Christophe Angebault montre comment, en censurant la comédie de Molière au profit d'Alceste, Rousseau détache le héros de la fiction dramatique pour en faire le garant moderne d'un nouvel humanisme et d'un nouvel universalisme. Effectuant une relecture strictement agonistique du Misanthrope, il refoule toutes les apories et les contradictions qu'exposait la scène comique, à commencer par celles de la différence des sexes, condamnant au passage la séduction exercée par le genre théâtral sans comprendre la sagesse problématique dont le XVIIe siècle l'avait investie."

BANDERIER, GILLES. "Un aspect méconnu de la réception de Ronsard au XVIIe siècle: L'Hortus epitaphiorum selectorum." PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 101–113.

Examines a number of hypotheses aimed at explaining the variation between a number of Ronsard's original epitaphs and the version of them published in the Hortus.

BEAUDOIN, VALERIE. Mètre et rythmes du vers classique: Corneille et Racine. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: D. Evans in MLR 99.2 (2004), 489–90: Empirical study of the classical alexandrine in the complete works of Corneille and Racine, an expanded corpus of 77,000 lines compared to previous studies involving corpora of 1,000 lines. Using the computer program mètromètre, Beaudoin provides "many fresh insights into the alexandrine's essential rhythmic characteristics."

BENSON, STEPHEN. Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.

Review: E. W. Harries in M&T 18.1 (2004), 130–132. Harries recommends that all readers of the journal should also read this book, which she finds a "convincing demonstration of the continuing and reciprocal influence of tales on theory and theory on tales." Of particular interest to French17 readers is chapter 5, in which Benson focuses on Perrault and the 17th-century conteuses.

BERCHTOLD, JACQUES. Les Prisons du roman (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècle). Geneva: Droz, 2000.

Review: Anon in FMLS 39 (2003): 89: Judged "learned," "extensive," and "impressive," Berchtold's comparative study analyzes and identifies a "constant intertextual dialogue" from Greek and Roman antecedents to the 21st century.

BERENSMEYER, INGO. "No Fixed Address: Pascal, Cervantes, and the Changing Function of Literary Communication in Early Modern Europe." NLH 34 (2003): 623–638.

Here, Berensmeyer invokes Pascal's Pensées in order to frame a larger argument about literary texts' role in response to growing uncertainty about the universe. Pascal's awareness that science would continue to generate uncertainties as well as knowledge, and that systems of knowledge could very well continue to supercede each other, offers a background against which it becomes important to consider how information transfer could have occurred between radically different waxing and waning systems. For Berensmeyer, literary works such as Don Quixote figure as hybrid texts that served such a function, or at least called attention to their ability to do so.

BERTAUD, MADELEINE. "Un sujet idéal pour réunir étude littéraire et histoire des mentalités." TL 16 (2003): 9–23.

Introductory essay to this first of two volumes focusing on "les Peurs" reminds the reader of the mission of TL: "d'éclairer l'oeuvre [littéraire]" by the examination of its period, author, milieu, psychology, ideas, as well as its numerous ramifications in domains such as philosophy, religion, moeurs and politics (8). The current volume treats collective fears and their literary representations as it analyzes the complex relationship between "production littéraire" and "mentalités" (11). The five groups of fears investigated include the following: "Diable et diableries," "Fléaux et épidémies," "Peurs Mises en Scène," "Autres Temps, Autres Peurs," and "Peurs des Fins." As Bertaud indicates important qualities of this wide-ranging investigation (essays treat fears from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century), she refers to September 11, 2001, noting that the theme of fears, decided upon in March 2001, "a pris, quelques six mois plus tard, une terrible actualité" (23).

BERTAUD, MADELEINE, ed. Travaux de littérature. Les Grandes Peurs. 1. Diable, fléaux, etc. Publié par ADIREL, avec le concours du Centre national du livre. Droz, 2003.

Includes the following articles of interest to dix-septièmistes: D. Donetzkoff, "Port-Royal et le diable" and J.-P. Collinet, "Les Fables de La Fontaine et la peur du loup."

BERTAUD, MADELEINE, ed. Travaux de littérature. Les Grandes Peurs. 2. L'Autre. Actes du colloque de Nancy (30 septembre – 3 octobre 2003) organisé par ADIREL, avec la participation du Centre d'Etude des Milieux Littéraires de l'Université Nancy 2. Droz, 2004.

Includes the following articles of interest to dix-septièmistes: L. Lobbes, "Aman, figure odieuse de l'Autre," J. Conroy, "Figures de Mithridate, 1580–1680: l'Orient redoutable," E. Francalanza, "Challe: du vécu à la mise en scène des peurs," A. Baccar Bournaz, "Les avatars du Mahométan dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle," D. Lanni, "L'Afrique fantasmée. Les Hottentots dans les voyages manuscrits de Ruelle et Melet et dans le carnet d'esquisses d'un résident anonyme du Cap de Bonne-Espérance (1665–1672)," D. Combet, "Images de la peur et maîtrise de l'Autre dans les quatre premiers Voyages de Pierre-Esprit Radisson," and S. Linon-Chipon, "Visages et masques de la peur dans l'illustration de quelques relations de voyage à l'Age classique."

BERTRAND, DOMINIQUE. "Entre mythe et analyse: Palimpsestes savants du rire de Vigenère à Cramail" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 389–401.

Examines the learned conceptions of laughter in the 16th and 17th centuries through the ekphrasis of a statue of a laughing Cupid in the writings of Adrien de Montluc, comte de Cramail (Discours académique du ris) and Blaise de Vigenere (Suitte des Images ou tableaux de platte-peinture and his translation of Tasso's Jérusalem delivré). Both treatments of laughter trace a semiotics of the passions and make the face the privileged point of the analysis of interiority. While Cramail sketches a closed system of a reductive, dual vision, Vigenère offers up an enlarged hermeneutic that leads us towards uncovering the hidden meanings of symbols.

BESSIERE, JEAN and GILLES PHILIPPE. Problèmatique des genres, problèmes du roman. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999.

Review: F. McIntosh-Varjabédian in RSH 273 (2004): 163–64: Remarkable collection has original approach that situates itself at the crossroads between theory and history of ideas, a stimulating dialogue between the centuries. Fifteen articles that stretch from the 17th to today, including an essay by Camille Guyon-Lecoq on "la tragédie lyrique ou le romanesque dans la tragédie (1673–1733)."

BIASON, MARIA TERESA. Retoriche della brevità. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002.

Review: S. Vecchiato in S Fr 47 (2003): 767: 17th c. specialists will particularly appreciate the essays on the role of the proper noun chez La Bruyère and on the form and content of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes.

BIRBERICK, ANNE and RUSSELL GANIM, eds. The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. New York: Rodopi, 2002.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 158–159: Honors a most distinguished scholar renowned for his work on poetry of the first part of the 17th c. and on La Fontaine in the second. Collinet finds the volume rich and of high quality. Part two also could be considered an "état présent" of La Fontaine research in North America. Both sections present new and stimulating reflections on wide-ranging topics such as "l'art de la louange" (Sweetser) and the culinary (Birberick) to mention only two of the fourteen outstanding essays.

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 77 (2003), 984–985. A collection of fourteen essays, approximately half of which are devoted to La Fontaine. Contributions include "Andromaque and the Search for Unique Sovereignty" by Timothy Reiss, Jules Brody's reading of the fable "L'Alouette et ses petits," Russell Ganim's analysis of allegorical stained-glass windows created for Anne de Montmorency, and Catherine Grise's engagement with narratology and ekphrasis in the fable "Les Filles de Minée."

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

Review: B. Guion in RHLF 104.2 (2004), 495–97. A theological, historical, and literary study of Classical mythology in five parts. Part 1 looks at allegorical readings of myth in Classical France. Part 2 shows how during the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns fables lost their transcendence and became mere artistic convention. Part 3 shows how starting in the early eighteenth century mythology leaves the realm of theological consideration and starts to become the object of history. Pierre Bayle is the subject of the fourth part, which shows how he uses fables to illustrate the human tendency toward credulity. Part 5 examines the interpretations given to non-European mythology. Reviewer lauds the clarity of the work, the breadth of the corpus examined, and the importance of the subject: "l'étude de la réflexion sur la fable constitue aussi une étude de la genèse de la pensée des Lumières."

Review: A. Wygant in MLR 98.4 (2003), 986: The fable, by Huet, Fontenelle, Bayle, Voltaire, and others, "understood both as theological error and as literary fiction, exited the field of sacred history and made inroads into the concerns of the nascent human sciences." Boch views the fable as a "sensitive and revealing index" to the intellectual history of late seventeenth-early eighteenth-century France; "the study itself is little given to formulation and much inclined to summary, quotation, and paraphrase. The level of the text is rarely engaged."

BOHM, ROSWITHA. "La participation des fées modernes à la création d'une mémoire féminine" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 119–131.

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Marie-Jeanne Lheritier, and Henriette-Julie de Murat created a vital literary cenacle or "corps de fées modernes" to further women's writing and a female literary tradition.

BOLD, STEPHEN. "L'Usage de la raison: A Brief Literary Survey from Mersenne to Pascal." Romance Quarterly. 50.3 (2003): 163–175.

Bold attempts to "plot possible points of articulation in a cultural philology of raison" (164), paying attention to treatment of the concept rather than the mere appearance of the term Bold first explores the notion (as presented in Le Cid) that noble worth establishes itself on the basis of a demonstrable history of ancestral feats, deeds which are acknowledged by a plurality of points of view. This notion is then compared to the emerging Cartesian method in which truths are sought through a sequence of demonstrable proofs. Bold examines other plays by Corneille so as to both elaborate and strain this concept of reason, then concludes with a turn to Pascal. Of particular interest to Bold is the philosopher's preoccupation with infinity and how it changed his sense of what reason could accomplish.

BOLDUC, BENOIT. Andromède au rocher. Fortune théâtrale d'une image en France et en Italie 1587–1712. Firenze: Olschki, 2002.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 520: Part of a project of Canadian research directed by Françoise Siguret and Alain Laframboise, Bolduc's volume analyzes works composed in Italy and in France from 1587 to 1712. Original study considers the theatrical works along with iconographic documents. Includes reflections on Corneille's Andromède and Quinault's Persée. Important and ample bibliography and appendices.

BOUSQUET, PHILIPPE. "L'héroïsme féminin au XVIIe siècle entre admiration païenne et représentations chrétiennes" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 93–107.

The representation of Lucretia (especially her morally troublesome suicide) shows how pagan virtues were assimilated into a model of Christian female heroism that was free of subversive elements.

BOUVIER, MICHEL. "L'histoire anecdotique: Varillas et Saint-Réal." DFS 65 (Winter 2003), 68–83.

L'auteur soutient qu'en dehors de quelques procédés techniques du métier d'archiviste, "Saint-Réal n'a retenu des leçons de son maître Varillas que la révélation d'un univers autrefois enfoui, celui des anecdotes… d'une nouveauté si radicale qu'elle l'a obligé à inventer une forme littéraire inouïe, celle du roman moderne qui dominera de Madame de Lafayette à Marcel Proust…"

BOVET, JEANNE. "Pour une poétique de la voix dans le théâtre classique." DAI 65/03 (2004), 766.

Study that aims to reveal "that the intrinsic vocality of classical dramatic texts determines their staging as well as their writing process, and that this vocality is largely due to the influence of oratory pronunciation on the writing, transmission, and reception of literary works in the 17th Century." Places the problem of voice within "the shift from the social values of orality to those of literacy."

BOWIE, MALCOLM, TERENCE CAVE and SARAH KAY. A Short History of French Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Review: E. Hughes in TLS 5285 (July 16 2004), 20: Section on Early Modern by Cave. Authors acutely attentive to historical perspective. Work to avoid anachronism and to retrace the causalities of literary history. Reviewer finds "many attractions" in volume.

BRAIDER, CHRISTOPHER. Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Press, 2003.

Review: B. Knapp in SYM 57, 4 (2004), 241–42: "Braider's excellent volume on seventeenth-century French drama comprises both textual analyses of specific works by Corneille, Molière, and Racine and a celebration of their cultural, political, and dramatic impact on their audiences and readers." Knapp finds approach "novel and illuminating."

BREWER, WILLIAM D. and CAROLE J. LAMBERT, eds. Essays on the Modern Identity. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

Review: Anon in FMLS 39 (2003): 331: While the review does not specifically mention the 17th c., one section should prove useful to scholars of the Grand Siècle: "Early Modern Self-Understanding."

BROOKS, PETER. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2001.

Review: Anon in FMLA 39 (2003): 323. Focus is both legal formulation and the literary; for example, narrative strategies of legal practices as well as "their fictional counterparts" are examined. Reviewer terms Brooks's study "a confession of the strategic importance of comparative literature the better to understand life."

BROUARD-ARENDS, ISABELLE, ed. Lectrices d'Ancien Régime. Rennes: PU de Rennes, 2003.

Review: BCLF 655 (2004), 63–64: "C'est au lectorat féminin en particulier qu'est consacré ce colloque international qui s'est tenu en juin 2002- symboliquement-château des Roches, près de Vitré. Ses organisateurs souhaitent prendre en compte la lecture des femmes-en englobant pratique et représentation, historicité et évolution-pour contribuer à une meilleure connaissance de leur vie sociale et intellectuelle et des conditions de leur production littéraire."

BRUNN, ALAIN & TIPHAINE KARSENTI. "Pourquoi Horace s'enfuit-il? La bienséance, rapport ou limite." DSS 223 (2004), 199–212.

Hélène Merlin-Kajman summarizes an important contribution to this number dedicated to a discussion of classicism: "On le sait, le XVIIIe siècle est le véritable inventeur du "classicisme", mais c'est l'après-Révolution qui en fixera durablement la valeur." The authors "corrigent ici le préjugé tenace selon lequel la mort et le sexe auraient été interdits de représentation scénique pour des raisons morales. Au XVIIe siècle, la bienséance est essentiellement un concept poétique qui formule l'exigence d'adéquation entre une fable et l'économie de sa représentation [...] Mais à partir du XVIIIe siècle la bienséance devient morale. [...] C'est donc en négligeant le déplacement opéré par le XVIIIe siècle sur le "modèle classique" qu'on peut aboutir, à partir des Romantiques, à un partage aussi net entre ordre esthético-moral, d'un côté, excès et transgression des règles, de l'autre."

BUCHLER, DANIELE JOSIANE. "Le bouffon et le carnavalesque dans le théâtre français, d'Adam de la Halle à Samuel Beckett." DAI 64/07, 2506.

Examines the figure of the buffoon in six plays, among which Molière's Amphitryon. Argues that the figure is best understood through the lens of Mennipean satire as described by Bakhtin.

CAMPAGNE, HERVE THOMAS. "L'Imaginaire du voyage et de la découverte dans les histoires tragiques (1560–1630)." RHLF 103.4 (2003), 771–87.

Traces the debts owed by the authors of histoires tragiques—including Rosset—to travel relations of the Renaissance. Argues that the genre both disseminates such geographical information and fabricates "un imaginaire du voyage et de la découverte propre à l'âge baroque."

CANOVAS, FREDERIC & DAVID WETSEL, eds. Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle. Ceremonies and rituals in XVIIth century France. Actes du XXXIIIe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (May, 2001 - Arizona State University), Vol. 4. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlage, 2002.

CANTARUTTI, GIULIA, ed. La scrittura aforistica. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001.

Review: R. Ruggiero in Archiv 240 (2003): 448–451: Wide-ranging and rich collection includes essays on the genre in the literature and other discourses (medical, for example) of several countries and periods. 17th c. scholars will especially appreciate Jean Lafond's essay.

CARLIN, CLAIRE L. and KATHLEEN WINE, eds. Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honour of Ronald Tobin. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003.

Review: D. Shaw in MLR 99.3 (2004), 773–74: "This disciplined and wide-ranging volume consists of a brief biography of the distinguished critic, a list of his voluminous publications, and some thirty articles, arranged in four sections ['Theatre of Learning', 'Comedy and the World', 'Tragedy: Pure and Mixed', 'Modern Perspectives'], on a variety of topics reflecting the range of Ronald W. Tobin's intellectual interests."

CAVAILLE, JEAN-PIERRE. Dis/simulations-Jules-César Vanini, François La Mothe Le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé, Louis Machon et Torquato Accetto: religion, morale et politique au XVIIe siècle. Lumière Classique 37. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: M. Koppisch in FR 77 (2003), 781–782. Cavaillé's latest work on dissimulation and the withheld examines five libertins and their production of texts. Cavaillé analyzes these men's use of ambiguities, equivocation, and mental reservation as writerly techniques, rather than as moral negotiations. Tackling one writer per chapter, Cavaillé shows an interest in how the development of legitimate secret-keeping contributes to the emergence of the early modern subject. He describes a certain "protection élitaire" of certain kinds of knowledge. For Cavaillé, the tension between publishing versus protecting the truth constitutes "an essential aspect of Western culture" (782).

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

Review: M. Lagier in S Fr 46 (2002): 442: Praiseworthy for its rigor, diverse corpus and detailed analysis, Chaouche's study reveals a progressive "theatralization" of "le jeu du comédien": "Toujours influencée par l'actio oratoire, elle [l'évolution] commence à intégrer, dans le genre comique en particulier, le sens du jeu scénique et du mouvement" (L. 442). Important considerations of "conventions gestuelles et vocales," "le genre, "la cohérence entre jeu et personnage représenté," "les didascalies." Contests several accepted points of view such as that of Racinien declamation belonging to song (Chaouche's method here is that of minute statistic analysis).

CHAOUCHE, SABINE. "La diction poétique et ses enjeux au théâtre (le passage de l'âge classique au siècle des Lumières," PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 69–100.

Sets out to retrace the evolution of poetic diction in the ancien régime; examines such questions as: "Qu'est-ce que représente réellement le " chant " dans la diction de l'alexandrin au XVIIe siècle ? Que doit-on comprendre quand on prétend vouloir non pas " déclamer " mais " parler en récitant "?" and "Certains acteurs ont-ils réussi à imposer leur propre style déclamatoire ?"

CHARBONNEAU, FREDERIC. Les silences de l'histoire: les mémoires français du XVIIe siècle. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. La République des lettres, 2001.

Review: M. Pâquet in UTQ 73.1 (Winter 2003/4), 569–572: "Œuvre d'une érudition certaine et d'un raffinement analytique assuré, cette étude tente de comprendre l'unité problématique du genre mémorialiste au moment de son émergence en France moderne. De Brantome à Retz, en passant par de La Rochefoucauld, Sully ou Armand du Plessis cardinal de Richelieu, nombre des acteurs ayant traversé les bouleversements politiques de l'époque ont commis des Mémoires, des 'relations de faits, ou d'événemens particuliers pour servir à l'Histoire' comme le définissait le dictionnaire de l'Académie française en 1694."

CHEVREL, YVES and CAMILLE DUMOULIE, eds. Le Mythe en littérature: Essais offerts à Pierre Brunel à l'occasion de son soixantième anniversaire. Paris: PUF, 2002.

Review: A. Niderst in OeC 28,1 (2003), 228–29: Volume d'hommage portant sur le mythe: "des analyses-souvent fort originales-d'oeuvres illustres" et "des études de mythes qui circulent à travers plusieurs oeuvres" (par exemple, l'article de Krysinski et Ergal sur "Don Juan de Molière à Kafka et Beckett").

CHRAIBI, ABOUBAKR. "Galland's "Ali Baba" and Other Arabic Versions." M&T 18.2 (2004), 159–169.

A multifacted study of the tale of "Ali Baba" that includes investigation of its variations in Arabic narrative tradition. "In order to write "Ali Baba," a tale of thirty-six published pages, Antoine Galland amplified the text he had noted down in his diary, which only comprised six pages. While doing so, Galland also omitted certain details, such as the presence of food in the cave. These details enable us to decide whether the versions of the tale of "Ali Baba" recorded in the Maghreb and other Arab regions depend on Galland's text or whether they are independent. The analysis aims to contribute to a better understanding of the formation of this tale." (Abstract) Finds that Galland's version of the tale, one never before recorded and for which few oral versions exist, is a masterful, relatively modern creation that nonetheless has links to ancient tradition.

CLARKE, JAN. "Catherine Biancolelli or the Wit and Wisdom of Colombine" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 203–217.

The author surveys the actress Catherine Biancolelli's intepretation of Colombine, a stock character in the commedia dell'arte, on the Parisian stage. Colombine is a cynical observer, caustic commentator, and ardent defender of women.

CLEMENT, CATHERINE. Claude Lévi-Strauss. Paris: PUF, coll. Que sais-je?, 2002.

Review: J.-C. Coquet, Littérature 131 (sept. 2003): 123–24: Clément elegantly and succinctly presents a panorama of the exceptional and copious work of Lévi-Strauss, a pioneer of interdisciplinary research. Points that interest the reviewer include how the author underlines the often ignored importance of the body as model for structural analysis: "Le propre de Lévi-Strauss, c'est de sentir d'abord, d'analyser ensuite." Clément also highlights Lévi-Strauss's true ecological philosophy that stood against "une civilisation mondiale destructrice de ces vieux particularismes auxquels revient l'honneur d'avoir cré les valeurs esthétiques et spirituelles qui donnent son prix à la vie." Clément shows how Lévi-Strauss valorized instead what he saw in "primitive" cultures: "une secrète harmonie entre cette quête du sens, à quoi l'humanité se livre depuis qu'elle existe, et le monde où elle est apparue et où elle continue de vivre: monde fait de formes, de couleurs, de textures, de saveurs et d'odeurs."

CLOSSON, MARIANNE. "L'invention d'une 'littérature de la peur': le temps de la chasse aux sorcières." TL 16 (2003): 47–63.

Demonstrates that contrary to what is generally thought, "la sorcière est... une figure des temps modernes, contemporaire... de Descartes, et non du Moyen Age" (48). Includes treatment in literature (Pierre de Lancre, Bossuet) and art (Jacques de Gheyn II, Claude Gillot) of representations of "religieuses possédées." Underscores the remarkable success of works such as the Histoires tragiques de notre temps by François Rosset (more than 35 editions beginning with that of 1614) as well as the larger fascination of the subject and its function in multiple literary genres (57, 62).

COGITORE, ISABELLE and FRANCIS GOYET, eds. Devenir roi. Essais sur la littérature adressée au Prince. Grenoble: U Stendhal, ELLUG, 2001.

Review: L. Luisoni in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 227–228: The fruit of a seminar on "Discours pour les Princes" held at Grenoble from 1995–1998, this volume is wide-ranging, treating topics as diverse as prudence in Antiquity and the sublime in the Early Modern (F. Goyet) and princes and the cinema (C. Eades). 17th c. scholars will appreciate Christopher Allen's analysis of the works of Charles Le Brun.

COLLOGNAT-BARES, ANNIE. Le Baroque en France et en Europe. Paris: Pocket, 2003.

Review: BCLF 652 (2003), 86–87: Un "ouvrage de bonne vulgarisation" dont la matière est "divisée en une série de repères (historiques et culturels), de panoramas (architecture, peinture, musique…), de répertoires (thèmes, citations, oeuvres et auteurs)."

COMPAGNON, ANTOINE. "Racine and the Moderns" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 241–249.

Compagnon interrogates the apparent complicity between the classical Racine and the Moderns, particularly Claudel, Gide, Valéry and Proust. Compagnon points to the Modernist tendency to focus on horror and cruelty in Racine (particularly in Andromaque and Britannicus), and on the Moderns' ostensible preference for Shakespeare. Compagnon concludes that Racine is "a mirror of their own ambiguity, of the ambiguity of the Modern" (248).

COWARD, DAVID. A History of French Literature: From "Chanson de geste" to Cinema. Oxford, England; Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.

Review: A. King in WLT 77.2 (2003), 121: An historical approach to literature which focuses on historical, social and cultural contexts. Contains six subdivided chapters in chronological order followed by three chapters entitled "Beyond 'Literature,'" "Beyond Words" and "Beyond Imagination, Gender and the Métropole." King finds the first section considerably more useful than the second. Also, warns that it can be difficult to find information on a specific author or text and that the volume contains some errors. Still, King concludes this work could "supplement" a history of French literature.

CRONK, NICHOLAS. The Classical Sublime: French Classicism and the Language of Literature, EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003.

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

Review: Anon in FMLS 39 (2003): 99: Uneven collection of essays examines "the status of works issuing from authors who claimed in the wake of Barthes that the author is dead when mortality strikes back at these postures." Praise for Henry Philips' contribution on Molière.

CULLIERE, ALAIN. "La Mort du comédien Adrien Talmy (1603)." BHR 65, 3 (2003), 601–12.

Article sur Adrien Talmy, comédien et chef de troupe réputé, basé sur recoupement d'archives. Un acte notarié dans les archives de Metz "qui fait apparaître qu'Adrien Talmy est mort à Metz au printemps 1603, dans un état misérable" offre de nouvelles perspectives sur le théâtre messin et l'histoire théâtrale des décennies 1570–1620.

DANDREY, PATRICK and DELPHINE DENIS. De la polygraphie au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2003.

DANDREY, PATRICK et GEORGES FORESTIER, eds. L'Illusion au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2002. Littératures classiques, no. 44, hiver 2002. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 47, no.139 (2003): 154–155: This number of Littératures classiques is devoted to the theme of illusion in several manifestations: "Fiction et illusion," "Illusion et réalité au théâtre" and "Illusion et vérité." Authoritative analyses of theory and of particular literary texts.

Review: BCLF 636 (2002), 108: "Avec la question de l'illusion, le numéro d'hiver de la revue Littératures classiques [44] renoue avec les concepts majeurs de la philosophie au XVIIe siècle, comme le temps ou encore l'imagination (à paraître)... Il apparaît néanmoins que les rapports entretenus entre le concept d'illusion et ceux qui lui sont proches, comme la raison, la réalité ou la vérité, permettent d'esquisser une anthropologie critique, et cela en particulier à partir de la lecture de Pascal ou de Descartes. C'est là sans aucun doute que la réflexion est la plus fructueuse et que les pistes de recherche s'avèrent les plus originales.

DANGY, ISABELLE. "L'arbre des Gratiolet ou les déboires du marquis de Carabas (étude sur la famille Gratiolet dans La Vie mode d'emploi de Georges Perec)." Littérature 131 (sept. 2003): 37–58.

Analyzes the use of the genealogical model by contemporary writer Georges Perec's in La Vie mode d'emploi through comparison with Perrault's tale of Le Chat botté.

DECLERCQ, GILLES. "L'Identification des genres oratoires en tragédie française du 17e siècle (Iphigénie, Cinna)" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 230–238.

Declercq studies the notion of genres oratoires in the context of 17th-century tragedy, contrasting "rhétorique intrascénique [and] extrascénique" in order to show the primacy of the deliberative genre. Particular attention to Racine's Iphigénie and Corneille's Cinna.

DEJEAN, JOAN. The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Review: M. Longino in FR 77 (2003), 1258–1259. DeJean examines the 17th-century reemergence of the term "obscene," anchoring her analysis in three important moments obscenity's early history. The first of these addresses the homophobic persecution of Théophile de Viau, as well as the technique of suggestive obscenity by means of ellipsis. Next DeJean turns to the democraticization of eroticism through the publication of the cheap best-seller L'École des filles. DeJean's final gesture involves "Molière's savvy marketing of "obscenity" through Agnes' "le…" in L'École des femmes, an ellipsis that "set up the spectator to run a quick inventory of the female genitalia" (1259), generating press for the play which ensured its box office success.

Review: M. Mohr in SCN 61 (2003), 325–329: "DeJean argues that obscenity was reinvented in France between 1550 and 1663, and that it spread in its new form to England and Italy." The reviewer praises DeJean for the case studies she examines dealing with Théophile de Viau, L'Ecole des Filles, and Molière's role in the reinvention of obscenity with L'Ecole des femmes and its surrounding controversy. The reviewer, however, faults DeJean for over ambition in including a single chapter covering "ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, Italy and England," which "suffers from oversimplification and occasional factual inaccuracies." "Despite its drawbacks, The Reinvention of Obscenity has much for readers interested in early modern French print culture."

Review: K. Perry Long in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1266–1268: Praised as "a nuanced study of the rebirth of obscenity in seventeenth-century literature and culture," the volume treats "the early history of pornography," the "marketing of books to a variety of social classes," the "increasing control [of authors] over the production of their own works" and women as a significant audience (1267). Texts considered are Théophile's l'Ecole des filles and Molière's Ecole des femmes and Critique de "l'Ecole des femmes."

Review: J. Turner in MP 101.3 (February 2004), 423–431: "In this important and thought-provoking book (her seventh), Joan DeJean selects three well-documented episodes in French seventeenth-century book censorship, analyzing them as three critical stages in the simultaneous emergence of modern sexual discourse and modern authorship. (…) Though some points are marred by impetuous reading of the primary evidence and overdramatic foreshortening of history, the whole argument is seductive and many of the details deeply perceptive. This dashing book should be required reading for anyone working in print culture and the history of sexuality."

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

Review: B. Piqué in S Fr 46 (2002): 443: Praiseworthy for its linguistic and socio-literary competence, this third volume by Denis treating the "galant" (La Muse galant..., 1997; the anthology De l'air galant..., 1998), invites us to reconsider, reformulate and recontextualize categories and notions such as author and work, emphasizing the "galant" collectively (443).

DENIS, DELPHINE. "Préciosité et galanterie: vers une nouvelle cartographie" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 17–39.

The concepts of précisosité and galanterie lie in unstable critical territory: their configurations of allegorical space have alternately co-existed and overlapped according to ever shifting critical perspectives.

DESJARDINS, LUCIE. Le corps parlant. Savoirs et représentation des passions au XVIIe siècle. Québec, Paris: Presses de l'Université Laval, L'Harmattan, 2000.

Review: B. Bolduc in UTQ 73.1 (Winter 2003/4), 567–569: L'ouvrage de Desjardins renferme une impressionnante somme d'informations en mettant en dialogue des disciplines aussi variées que la médecine, l'éthique, la poétique, la rhétorique et l'esthétique. "Dans cette version remaniée de sa thèse de doctorat, l'auteur se donne pour objectif d'analyser les enjeux des représentations des passions, les principes et les règles qui en rendent compte, tels qu'ils se présentent dans un corpus composé d'une trentaine de textes choisis et publiés entre 1640 et 1680." Malgré quelques réserves, le critique trouve que l'ouvrage "présente la problématique de la représentation des passions dans toute sa richesse."

DESSAN, PHILIPPE et GIOVANNI DOTOLI, eds. D'Un Siècle à l'autre: littérature et société de 1590 à 1610. PU Paris/Sorbonne, 2001.

Review: BCLF 636 (2002), 108–09: "Ce volume réunit un ensemble de quinze communications issues de deux colloques tenus à Bari en 1997 et à Chicago en 2000. Leur objet d'étude était le passage symbolique du XVIe au XVIIe siècle, dans les limites chronologiques arbitraires de 1590 à 1610."

DEVINCENZO, GIOVANNA. "La femme de lettres selon Marie de Gournay" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 87–92.

Marie de Gournay's example and work advanced the inclusion of women in the republic of letters.

DIETZ, BETTINA. Utopien als mögliche Welten. Voyages imaginaires der französischen Frühaufklärung 1650–1720. Mainz: von Zabern, 2002.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 276 (2003): 764–766: Diligent, well-founded and informative study focuses on utopia in travel literature of the second half of the 17th c. and the early 18thc., investigating well-known and lesser known authors, including Fénelon, Fontenelle, Gabriel de Foigny, Denis Veiras, Claude Gilbert, Lahontan, and Tysot de Patot. Part two examines the reception of these works, censorship, criticism, popularization, believability, and so forth.

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI. Littérature et société en France au XVIIe siècle. Vol. II, Fasano, Schena / Paris, Didier Erudition, 2000. Vol III, Préface de Jean Mesnard, Fasano, Schena / Paris, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001.

Review: S. Poli in S Fr 46 (2002): 434–435: Highly praiseworthy for its erudition, coherence, interdisciplinarity and attentiveness to all levels and aspects of 17th c. culture. Jean Mesnard, in his introduction, calls Dotoli "une vraie force de la nature." Sections of this ample study treat perspectives of comparatist research, theatre (Montchrestien), the commedia dell'Arte, Molière's Don Juan and, separately, the Misanthrope, the burlesque (definition and mentalités), Perrault and Pierre Boucher (ethnology of l'Amérindien in his Histoire).

Review: J.-Cl. Vuillemin in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 246–249. "Inspiré des prolégomènes théoriques hérités du structuralisme génétique concocté jadis par Lucien Goldmann, M. Dotoli part du principe que l'écrivain, tout en proposant sa propre conception du monde, demeure "le porte-parole de son référent situationnel" (II, 104). Nonobstant les vertus alléguées de l'interdisciplinarité et de l'approche comparatiste (III, 21–62), c'est surtout le milieu de l'écrivain… qui prend une importance capitale dans les textes ici réunis."

Review: BCLF 636 (2002), 107–08: "Mis à jour et traduits en français (si nécessaire), ces travaux pour la plupart déjà publiés entre 1984 et 2001 sont présentés en neuf sections qui sont révélatrices de la souplesse critique dont fait preuve l'auteur... Donnant au théâtre la meilleure place, G. Dotoli montre à la fois sa grande érudition (sa bibilographie burlesque est, à cet égard, précieuse) et sa finesse dans l'analyse des textes."

DUCHENE, ROGER. Mon XVIIe siècle, de Mme de Sévigné à Marcel Proust. CD-ROM. Marseille: CMR 17, 2001.

Review: J.-R. Armogathe in DSS 223 (2004), 346–347: "Une excellente idée de Roger Duchêne fournit un remarquable outil de consultation, un "cédérom" pour PC et Mac contenant l'essentiel de sa bibliographie: plus d'une centaine d'articles, essentiellement sur le XVIIe siècle, les tables de matières, des introductions, des extraits de ses livres, un historique documenté des rencontres et colloques du CMR 17 (entre 1971 et 1993), un choix inédit, enfin, de lettres de femmes du XVIIe siècle."

Review: F. Lagarde in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 249–250. This short review indicates in sum what can be found on this CD-Rom which incorporates over 2000 pages of research written by Roger and Jacqueline Duchêne, and six hundred letters written by women in the seventeenth century. A full table of contents is available on http://cmr17.free.fr/C004/100htm.

DUCHENE, ROGER. Les Précieuses ou comment l'esprit vint aux femmes. Suivies de: Antoine Baudeau de Somaize: Les Véritables Précieuses, Les Précieuses ridicules mises en vers. Le Grand Dictionnaire des Précieuses ou la Clé de la langue des ruelles (1660). Le Grand Dictionnaire des Précieuses (1661) et autres annexes. Paris: Fayard, 2001.

Review: S. Hartwig in RF 115 (2003): 117–118: Welcomed as an important addition and corrective to much research on the précieux phenomenon, Duchêne's clearly argued study identifies both positive and negative connotations of the word in some 40 texts (about half are positive). Fiction and historical reality overlap as Duchêne's dossier of certain previously inaccessible texts demonstrates (the 1654 Carte du Royaume des précieuses by the Marquis de Maulévrier, for example). Duchêne's book is judged an essential reference work for future researchers in this area.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 78 (2004), 147–48. In a series of careful illustrations, Duchêne attempts to show that the term "précieuse" was used with a variety of positive connotations prior to the staging of Molière's 'ridiculizing' play. The book includes lengthy analyses of texts from both categories-those which employed the term for purposes of praise and those which launched précieuse satire and attack. Highly laudable is Duchêne's inclusion of many of these texts in a lengthy annexe at the back of the book, coupled with an extensive index. Also worthy of note is Duchêne's observation that Les précieuses ridicules derives much of its humor from a conflation of préciosité and galanterie. From a socio-economic point of view, the play's hyperbolic provincials are a far cry from the grandes dames to whom the term "précieuse" was more commonly applied.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in RHLF 103.3 (2003), 718–19. A detailed and accessible chronological presentation of the works of Somaize. Author argues that the works are not representative of social reality, but are rather a work of fiction. Author also concludes that the ambiguous use of the term (as much or more positive than negative) makes clear that it is impossible to "donner une description cohérente de ce qu'auraient été les précieuses" (Sweetser) and that the idea of a "mouvement précieux" is thus erroneous.

DUMORA, FLORENCE. "Note sur l'objet théorique selon Louis Marin." DSS 223 (2004), 289–302.

The author revists the notion, as Héléne Merlin-Kajmin explains in introducing this article, that "le "classicisme" du XVIIe siècle se troublait sous l'effet de la modernité, entrant avec elle dans un rapport de dialogue étroit, voire de connivence, et c'est ce dialogue que, dans le sillage de Louis Marin, Florence Dumora relance ici en montrant comment la réflexion menée sur le songe au XVIIe siècle, réflexion d'une très grande subtilité, déploie une théorie de la représentaton autrement plus complexe que celle à laquelle a voulu la réduire le Foucault lecteur de Port-Royal, et comment notamment cette pensée du songe, [...] fait pleinement place à ce que la modernité a appelé l'autoréférentialité pour en faire l'un de ses traits distinctifs."

DUTTON, DIANNE. "Rhétorique et poétique du plaidoyer de l'âge classique: Olivier Patru, Antoine Le Maistre et Claude Gaultier." DAI 65/01 (2003), 156.

Argues that dismissing the plaidoyer as non-literary does violence to the categories of the time. "Pleadings did not belong exclusively to judicial rhetoric, wherein the end is the Just; they were also a form of epideictic rhetoric, aiming to attain the Beautiful."

EGGINTON, WILLIAM. How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity. Albany: SUNY P, 2003.

Review: B. J. Nelson in MLN 118, 5 (2003),1327–29: "Bridging the fields of philosophy, comparative literature, and cultural studies, Egginton seeks to establish, through a series of historical and theoretical comparisons of French and Spanish classical theater, a common ground for both the ontological constitution of modernity and the epistemological drive of the theatrical subject for knowledge of self and world."

ELMARSAFY, ZIAD. Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2003.

Review: C. Kerr in Choice 41.5 (2004), 912. Proposes that early modern France feared liberty more than slavery, and that the absolutist state assuaged that fear, along with period literature that endorsed strong central sovereign power as a promise of justice and peace. "Corneille re-encodes politics in terms of love: private passions must be subjugated to love of the monarch. In Pascal, where the deity becomes absolute ruler, only divine love can save the individual from tyrannical earthly desires. Racine repeatedly presents narratives of enslavement and deliverance through the mediation of a savior king" (912).

EMELINA, JEAN. "L'Horreur dans la tragédie" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 171–179.

Emelina claims that in spite of Aristotle, horror haunts 17th-century tragedy. Beginning with references to horror in 17th-century critical texts, Emelina explores the nature of horror, contrasting it to la terreur and its counterparts with attention to the various meanings attached to the word "horror," the causes of horror, the more positive evocation of the frisson sacré, and the part of horror that is sublime as well as the predominance of metaphysical horror, whose effects do not last and which generally precedes terror. Emelina distinguishes horror felt by a play's characters to that experienced by the spectators.

ESCOLA, MARC. "Récrire Horace." DSS no. 216 (2002): 445–467.

Review: A. Arrigoni in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 438: Reviewer appreciated Escola's perspective on the "dualismo critico" which confronts Horace and renders it of such great interest. Focuses on the central and disturbing element of fratricide.

FERRARI, STEPHAN. "Histoire tragique et grande histoire: rencontre de deux genres." DFS 65 (Winter 2003), 18–35.

Une étude du rapport entretenu par l'histoire tragique et la grande Histoire des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. D'après l'auteur, cette étude "permet de mieux cerner le fonctionnement interne du genre et de mieux comprendre certains aspects de son évolution poétique."

FINUCCI, VALERIA and KEVIN BROWNLEE, eds. Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001.

Review: G. Ruggiero in Ren Q 56 (2003): 843–846: Wide-ranging in approaches (theoretical debates involve figures like Foucault, Lacan, Freud, Nietzsche, Irigaray and others) and themes (literature, medicine, theology), the volume is praised for its "essays by some of the most innovative and challenging scholars working on literature and history today" (843).

FORESTIER, GEORGES. "Poétiques de la passion dans la tragédie française" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 189–197.

Forestier examines the notion that classical theater focuses on "une action simple, soutenue de la violence des passions" (189; emphasis his) in an effort better to understand the true role of the passions in 17th-century theater. Forestier distinguishes between conflicts born internally (from heart or mind) and those imposed by the world without, and notes that as the century progresses, passion no longer explains human misfortune but actually comes to cause it by at once motivating action and undermining it. Concludes by underlining Racine's explicit relegation of passion as secondary to action.

FRAGONARD, MARIE-MADELEINE, ed. Le Mythe de Diane en France au XVIe siècle. Niort: Association des amis d'Agrippa d'Aubigné, 2002.

Review: BCLF 649 (2003), 94: Actes d'un colloque tenue à Paris du 29 au 31 mai 2001: "Des enseignants et des chercheurs venus de spécialités et d'horizons géographiques les plus divers y étudient les multiples facettes du mythe de Diane, tant dans le domaine de la littérature que dans les champs de l'histoire, des arts visuels et de la musique."

GAINES, JAMES. "The Violation of the Bumpkin: Satire, Wealth, and Class in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 155–168.

Gaines situates Molière's play in the tradition of country bumpkin satire which was itself a "vehicle for the ideology of social closure" (156). Gaines studies Scarron's Le Marquis ridicule, Gillet de la Tessonnerie's Le Campagnard, Raymond Poisson's Le Baron de la Crasse, Molière's Les Précieuses ridicules, Jean Claveret's L'Ecuyer, and H. Le Noble's Les Barons fléchois. Monsieur de Pourceaugnac is seen to incorporate various characteristics of the country bumpkin, as he represents at once "the out-of-fashion provincial rube, the presumptuous usurper, and the rural officier corps."

GALLUCCI, JOHN A. "Equivoque et mystère: autour de Boileau et Arnauld" in Pascal/New Trends in Port-Royal Studies. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 1. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 143, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002. 247–257.

Boileau and Arnauld's literary polemic against Perrault develops a theory of literary reading and allows us to see affinities between the concept of the sublime and Port-Royal.

GETHNER, PERRY, ed., Femmes dramaturges en France (1650–1750), Pièces choisies. Tome II. Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002.

Review: C. Mazouer in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 251–253. Reviewer comments briefly on each of the six plays which Gethner has included in his new volume. He views Gethner's "travail philologique" as impeccable, and adds: "Quant aux préfaces, elles sont sobres, utiles et engagent à la lectures des œuvres. Quant à l'annotation, elle est assez précise et bienvenue".

GETHNER, PERRY. "Mad About Lully: Three Scenarios for Opera Mania" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 223–230.

Ancien Régime opera criticism (especially performed parodies) offers a curious paradox: while maintaining that opera's fantasy world was morally harmful it nonethless praised music and dance.

GINGER, ANDREW, JOHN HOBBS and HUW LEWIS, eds. Selected Interdisciplinary Essays on the Representation of the Don Juan Archetype in Myth and Culture. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen P, 2000.

Review: Anon in FMLS 39 (2003): 114: Volume is found to be "lively" but reviewer is disappointed with the meager representation of France. These Acts of the 1999 conference at the University of Edinburgh, "Don Juan: the Rebel tamed?", are wide-ranging, with useful bibliography and index.

GLAUSER, ALFRED. Ecriture et désécriture du texte poétique de Maurice Scève à Saint-John Perse. Paris: Nizet, 2002.

Review: BCLF 646 (2003), 94: "Ayant pour objet essentiel le 'poème qui se désécrit', l'auteur envisage les traces du 'poète épuré, vu dans l'optique d'une création idéale', telles qu'il est possible de les percevoir dans des textes choisis où se manifeste une interrogation sur la facture de l'oeuvre, où s'insère dans la trame un commentaire, un à-côté qui fait douter de son intégrité en tant que masse', où se donne même à lire la 'négation d'un sens absolu et dont la forme est dissolue'..." La Fontaine figure parmi les auteurs.

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH. "Fugitive Lives; Travel, Identity, and Runaway Women in the Age of Versailles." EMF 9 (2004): 110–124.

Examines how "[e]xiles, fugitives, ordinary travelers and their observes explored how physical separation and the itinerant life could grant access to new ways of imagining the self"; looks at texts by Sévigné, Marie Mancini, and Marie–Sidonie de Courcelles.

GOLDZINK, JEAN. "Le torrent et la rivière" in Jean Racine: 1699–1999. Gilles Declercq & Michèle Rosellini, eds. Actes du colloque Ile-de-France - La Ferté-Milon, 25–30 mai 1999. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2003. 719–728.

Treats same three main parallèles between Corneille and Racine referenced in Mortgat-Longuet's article (Part IV, below) with more in-depth analysis of the parallèles themselves and extending the work to the 18th c.: Batteux, Vauvenargues, and La Harpe. Brief reference to Staël at the end of the piece.

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

Review: F. Wolfzettel in RF 115 (2003): 126–127: Wide-ranging treatment of these "deux-écritures" (8) includes over 20 essays examining the theme from Antiquity to the 20th c. Includes one contribution on the Grand Siècle; Sylvie Requemora reminds the reader of the definition by François Bertaud (1669) of travel literature as a "genre métoyen."

GOODDEN, ANGELICA. The Backward Look: Memory and the Writing Self in France 1580–1920. Oxford: Legenda, 2000.

Review: Anon in FMLS 39 (2003): 334: Focus is the 18th c. in this wide-ranging investigation of memory and the creative imagination. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the attention to Descartes.

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

Review: K. Ibbett in MP 101.4 (May 2004), 607–610: Goodkin's "important study of seventeenth-century French tragedy looks at plays from Pierre Corneille's Médée (1635) to Jean Racine's Phèdre (1677) and asks how we might reread such texts in the light of recent studies on inheritance, birth order, and sibling rivalry. This thoroughly researched study combines a historicist reading with a psychological approach to issues of birth order. The combination makes for a two-pronged attack: Goodkin looks at primogeniture in the seventeenth-century context of a developing capitalist ethic while also taking up the insights suggested by recent psychological studies of the family." The reviewer finds that "any scholar of the seventeenth-century theater would have much to gain from Goodkin's impressive rereadings of these important texts."

GOUVARD, JEAN-MICHEL. L'analyse de la poésie. Coll. Que sais-je? Paris: PUF, 2001.

Review: F. Pilone in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 519–520: Gouvard's work initiates the reader in this vast field. Poetry and its analysis is considered from a variety of perspectives, linguistic, literary, philosophical. Poetry is associated with the great questions of life in this study which takes the reader from ancient Greece to the present day. Review does not give details on 17th c. considerations.

GOUVARD, JEAN-MICHEL. Critique du vers. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: M. Roccati in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 518: Wide-ranging introduction to verse and principles of analysis. Furnishes a "représentation distributionnelle de l'alexandrin classique" (115) in its application on a corpus of some 1000 verses written between 1630 and 1840. Ample bibliography and index.

GRANDE, NATHALIE. Le Roman au XVIIe siècle. L'exploration du genre. Rosny, Bréal, 2002.

Review: M. Debaisieux in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 253–254. "Tout en visant à la clarté et à la concision, Nathalie Grande évite de simplifier son panorama du roman. La présentation est fondée sur une érudition évidente, mais sagement contrôlée, qui répond aux besoins des étudiants et leur fait apprécier la complexité et la diversité du genre. L'évolution quelque peu tortueuse du roman est bien rendue dans les réflexions qui servent de transitions entre les différentes catégories. Les commentaires des ouvrages juxtaposent, dans un juste équilibre, les remarques sur le contexte littéraire ou social à une analyse de texte faisant une synthèse éclairante d'études récentes. […] L'apport bibliographique (choix et système de références) s'avère être le point faible de l'ouvrage."

GRANDE, NATHALIE. Stratégies de romancières: De Clélie à la Princesse de Clèves (1654–1678). Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: C. Esmein in DSS 222 (2004), 116–117: "Le présent ouvrage se propose de mener une étude sociopoétique du roman féminin au milieu du XVIIe siècle. C'est à partir d'un corpus de 31 romans, œuvre de neuf romancières (...) que l'auteur s'interroge sur l'adoption du roman par les auteurs féminins comme véhicule privilégié: le lien avec le mouvement précieux, avec les mutations romanesques contemporaines ou avec les revendications d'une écriture féminine sont autant de questions que soulève le regroupement de ces ouvrages."

Review: A. Larsen in FR 77 (2003), 375–377. "Grande se penche donc sur la question de savoir pourquoi et comment les femmes se sont mises non seulement à écrire, mais à écrire des romans" (376). Grande presents the novel as a particularly feminine genre, and women writers of the period as crucial players in its renovation, particularly in the revamping of the novel's poetics. Grande also touches upon a certain "stratégie de l'audace" used by women writers to gain entry to the literary domain.

GRANDE, NATHALIE. "Le temps dans la fiction, les fictions du temps. Réflexions sur le temps et ses repésentations dans quelques oeuvres de fiction narrative en prose." LC 43 (2001): 147–159.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 46 (2002): 441: Temporal dimensions are analyzed in key works of fiction such as l'Astrée, Célinte, La Princesse de Montpensier. Focuses on time in relation to genre, exemplarity, idealism and structure, among other points.

GREENBERG, MITCHELL. Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of French Absolutism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2001.

Review: N. Paige in Fr F 28.3 (2003): 121–124. Highly praised as "the boldest and most ambitious recent contribution to the psychoanalyses of the French seventeenth century," but with certain reserves, in particular, "the constant slippage between the historical and the psychoanalytical arguments" (124). Includes illustrative analyses of texts from Molière, Racine, two early pornographic texts, texts of l'Abbé de Choisy and of Marie de l'Incarnation.

GRELE, DENIS D. "L'identité du héros dans les utopies du règne de Louis XIV." Neophil 87 (2003): 209–222.

Discovers important differentiating characteristics in two types of utopias, "présentation fragmentaire: l'utopie programme" and "représentation complète: l'utopie romanesque." In the first the narrator is an eyewitness, rarely a hero, while in the second the narrator is present "dans son intégralité" (214). The utopie, rather than being a "récit de voyage" is similar to the memoir. Points in common include: instruction of the reader, the history of the narrator's youth and education and a framework of the adventures as a "lien entre le monde 'réel' et le monde utopique'" (218). Treats Veiras, Gabriel de Foigny, Claude Gilbert, Lesconvel, Tyssot de Patot and Fontenelle. Useful bibliography of primary sources.

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

Review: D. M. Posner in Ren Q 56 (2003): 190–192: Grenier's focus in this thèse d'état is alchemical themes in numerous Baroque texts, technical and expository treatises as well as literature. Demonstrates the shift in the alchemical tradition from the oral or manuscript based to "one residing primarily in the written word" (190). Praiseworthy for its rich and careful documentation, its "encyclopedic bibliography," Grenier's study "will therefore be a valuable resource to anyone interested in exploring alchemical themes, la poésie scientifique and Baroque aesthetics" (191).

GUILIANI, PIERRE. "D'un XVIIe siècle à l'autre: la question du sang sur scène. Une mise en perspective." RHLF 104.2 (2004), 305–23.

Examines the various seventeenth-century arguments made against the representation of blood on the stage; argues that in the generation between Louis XIII and Louis XIV one passes "d'une violence volontiers sanglante à une violence toute verbale, qui substituera graduellement à l'épanchement suspect de l'humeur noble le plaisir licite des larmes."

GUISSARD, MICHEL. La Nouvelle française. Essai de définition d'un genre. Louvain-la Neuve: Academia-Bruylant, 2002.

Review: R. Godenne in LR 56 (2002): 380: Appreciative of Guissard's "approche globale" and final result: "[il] délivre un certificat d'existence à un genre littéraire" (380).

HACHE, SOPHIE. La Langue du ciel: Le sublime en France au XVIIe siècle. Lumière Classique 27. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2000.

Review: E. Campion in FR 77 (2003), 1232–1233. Calls attention to Guez de Balzac's 1620s familiarity with the concept of the sublime as elaborated by the pseudo-Longinus, an awareness visible well before Boileau's 1674 translation of "Du sublime," the text at which most scholars situate the emergence of the sublime as a cultural notion in France. Hache shows that 17th-century literature became less concerned with analyzing the sublime as a style and increasingly attentive to readers' and listeners' reception of emotionally sublime works. Hache sketches the ensuing debate on how moral uplifting and sublime feeling might relate to religious vs. lay texts and performances.

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

Review: L. Seifert in MLQ 65 (2004), 301–304. Suggests that female fairy tale writers did not trace their works to a fictitious orality as did male writers such as Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. Chapter 1 explains the establishment of a fairy tale canon which effectively excluded women's contributions. Chapter 2 shows how writers such as d'Aulnoy framed tale-telling in salons, not in mock-paysan oral culture. The third chapter examines the birth of the literary fairy tale in 18th-century England, while the last two address the reframing and transliteration of fairy tales, a facet of these works which Harries sees as the genre's defining trait. Reviewer admires Harries' transhistorical perspective.

HART, JONATHAN. Representing the New World: The English and French Use of the Example of Spain. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Review: J. E. Kicza in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1216–1217: Judged "a comprehensive and well-substantiated examination" (1217) of the "ambivalent and contradictory ways" (Hart 3) French and English writers made use of Spain's success. The five chapters are chronologically organized; 17th c. French scholars will be particularly interested in chapters 4 (1589–1642) and 5 (1643–1713).

HARTOG, FRANÇOIS. Régimes d'historicité. Présentisme et expériences du temps. Paris: Le Seuil, 2003.

Review: L. Zimmermann in Littérature 135 (sept. 2004): 124–26: Hartog argues that contemporary historiography is one of "presentisme," a valorization of the present that looks more to the future than to the past. Author analyzes the notions of memory and patrimony and outlines three approaches within historiography: the approach of the "Anciens," oriented toward the past; that of the "modernes," who look toward the future, and the most recent approach in which the present is the defining term. Should interest literary scholars both because of the author's excellent analyses of literary texts and the questions it raises for ways of doing literary history.

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. Ut pictura theatrum. Théâtre et peinture de la Renaissance italienne au classicisme français. Geneva: Droz, 2003.

Review: A. Niderst in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 257–258. "On ne sait trop ce qu'il faut louer. […] Dans tous les domaines [Hénin] nous donne l'impression d'une culture supérieure, qui domine les matières envisagées, sait percevoir des rapports inaperçus jusqu'alors, et ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives. Cette immense culture n'entrave pas la rigueur de la démarche, qui d'ailleurs sait éviter dans l'exégèse des textes de poétique et de rhétorique, le pédantisme et l'obscurité, les écueils où de pareils sujets entraînent si souvent."

Review: BCLF 660 (2004), 59–60: "L'ancienne pensée de l'art, s'interrogeant sur les fondements théoriques de la peinture, quand elle affirmait la parenté de la peinture et de la poésie, pensait plutôt, apprend-on, à celle de la peinture et du théâtre."

HEYNDELS, RALPH and BARBARA WOSHINSKY, eds. L'autre au XVIIe siècle. Tübingen: Narr, 1999.

Review: D. Fricke in RF 115 (2003): 267–269: Important, rich and highly readable volume of proceedings of the 4th CIR-17 Colloque (Miami, 1998). Special thanks not only to the fine editors but to Wolfgang Leiner, editor-in-chief of PFSCL and the Biblio 17 series. Wide-ranging essays explore "l'autre" or "la mondialisation avant la lettre" (267). The "modernity" of the French 17th c. is evident in essays treating such themes as the Ottoman Empire, the science-fiction of the salons, the criminal, Racine's Esther, the libertin, among others.

HINDS, LEONARD. Narrative Transformations from L'Astrée to Le Berger extravagant. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2002.

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 77 (2003), 587–588. Uses ideas from Bakhtin and Kristeva's notion of intertextuality to examine citation in d'Urfé's L'Astrée and Sorel's parody thereof. For Hinds, both authors "look not only to the literary past but also anticipate and prepare the way for innovations and modernization in narrative fiction" (587). D'Urfé's updating of the pastoral is second only to Sorel's mockery of d'Urfé's end product, an adaptation that attempts "to salvage what is good [in the baroque pastoral novel] and redirect it toward a more realistic manner of writing" (588). "Sorel's 'antiromance' thus serves as a transition between the old romance and the soon-to-emerge modern novel" (588).

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 436–437: Comparative study of transformation from idealistic pastoral romance to the more realistic anti-romance. Hinds's theoretical framework is furnished by Bakhtin and Kristeva and particular attention is paid to narrative themes. Important demonstration of relevance of the two works in the 17th c. literary panorama and of their influence on the development of baroque and classical narrative. Abundant critical bibliography.

Review: M. E. Vialet in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 261–263. "Hinds's study of the transition from L'Astrée to its parody, the polemical and self-conscious anti-romance embodied by Sorel's Le Berger extravagant, not only makes this transformational and historical moment accessible but it also provides for lively and engaging reading. As a window on the narrative and critical perspectives developed in the almost seven thousand pages of the combined Astrée and Berger, as one of the most concise and informative introductions to early modern and Baroque literature, and finally as a study of heteroglossia and intertextuality at the beginning of the seventeenth century, Leonard Hinds's book is a 'must read.'"

HODGSON, RICHARD, ed. La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 5–7 octobre 2000. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2002.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 47 (2003): 701–702: These Acts of the October 2000 Colloque held in Vancouver treat not only the representation of the woman in the 17th c. but also her important role in the century's intellectual and literary life. Impressive by quality of analyses and rich variety of texts studied. Following the three "conférences magistrales" of Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani, Pierre Ronzaud and Christian Biet, the essays are grouped in the following sections: "Images de la femme dans l'imaginaire masculin," "Quand les femmes s'écrivent," "L'intériorité féminine: mélancolie, démence, dégéneration," "Tabous et transgressions: amazones, sexualité et corps de femme," "Dévotion, foi et mysticisme féminins," and "Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire? Mariage et sacrifice?"

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in OeC 28,1 (2003), 229–31: "L'histoire dans ses divers domaines tient une large place: histoire de la société, des idées, des mentalités avec recours aux sciences humaines." D'autres études consacrées aux écrivains marquants: Théophile de Viau (G. Mathieu-Castellani; N. Négroni); Corneille (M. Longino; D. Simhon; N. Ekstein); les Scudérys (D. Kuizenga; A. Rosner); Molière (K. Waterson); Guilleragues (V. Schröder); Mme de Sévigné (C. Cartmill); Mme de Lafayette (D. Duffrin Kelley).

HOOGLAND, RENEE. "The Matter of Culture: Aesthetic Experience and the Corporeal Being." Mosaic 36.3 (sept. 2003): 1–18.

Purpose is to explore the question of the place of the aesthetic in literary theory today, examining, among others, contributions by Iser, De Man, Valdés, Ricoeur, Guattari, Bakhtin.

HOUGH, CHARLOTTE KAY. "Bonheur and Utopia: A Crisis of Humanism." DAI 64/04, 1275.

"The organizational task of seventeenth-century utopian fiction inserts an ideological system into a poetic that breaks with former models, and creates a form that is clearly romanesque. Utilizing the circular structure of the imaginary voyage, the utopian narrative exemplifies an increasingly complex fictional mediation as it passes from a theological vision of the world to questioning the authenticity of a 'real' history." Examines Gabriel de Foigny, Denis Veiras, Claude Gilbert, and Simon Tyssot de Patot.

HOUPPERMANS, SJEF, PAUL J. SMITH and MADELEINE VAN STRIEN-CHARDONNEAU, ed. Histoire, jeu, science dans l'aire de la littérature. Mélanges offerts à Evert van der Starre. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

Review: L. Luisoni in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 517–518: Praised both for its rigor and vision, these mélanges include several essays of interest to 17th c. specialists: Maarten Van Buuren's "Paul Valéry et le classicisme," Madeleine Van Strien-Chardonneau's "Madame de Genlis et le roman historique" (we recall Genlis's trilogy La Duchesse de la Vallière, Madame de Maintenon, Mlle (sic) de La Fayette) and Paul J. Smith's "Le rat et l'huître: les avartars d'un emblème, d'Alciat à La Fontaine."

HOQUET, THIERRY, ed. La Connaissance du physique et du moral (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles). Corpus: Revue de Philosophie, 43. Université Paris X, 2003.

Review: A. Niderst in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 264–265. This 'important numéro' of Corpus divides into two parts. In the first part, "par petites touches, nous avons comme un panorama de l'histoire de la pensée européenne de la fin de la Renaissance à la fin du siècle des lumières." The second part, Dossier Charles Bonnet, contains a 'très long, très savant, très éclairant article de Christiane Frémont."

IBBETT, KATHERINE MARY. "The Bodies of Politics: Spectacle and Secrecy in French Theater, 1624–1661." DAI 64/07 (2004), 3318.

A reading of Corneille relating his representations of the martyr and the hostage to contemporary theories of "raison d'état." "I argue that in this period theorists of theater and state share an anxiety about what may be shown and what must be hidden from the public; thus, neoclassical poetics worries over what sort of bodies should appear on stage, and reason of state theory concerns itself with what sort of knowledge may be revealed."

INVENTION DU ROMAN FRANÇAIS AU XVIIe SIECLE, L'. DSS no. 215 (avril–juin 2002) 54e année.

Review: A. Arrigoni in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 155: This number of DSS publishes the Acts of a French-German conference held in Bonn (2000). Special attention to l'Astrée as a "roman expérimental du geste théâtral," the religious and the romanesque, the emergence of the individual in the novel, narrative forms, historical and "semio-cultural" perspectives, among other subjects.

JARRETY, MICHEL. La Poétique. Paris: PUF, 2003.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 47 (2003): 776–777. Embracing the rhetoric of poetry since its origins in Aristotle, this rich and clear manual of the "Que sais-je" collection takes up the relationship between poetry and rhetoric, the theory of genres and the imitation of models.

JEANNERET, MICHEL. Eros rebelle: littérature et dissidence à l'âge classique. Paris: Seuil, 2003.

Review: F. Briot in RSH 273 (2004): 166–67: Study presented in three sections. "Le Tabou" examines the collections of satirical texts of the beginning of the 17th century, that reviewer finds too easily explained as a repression by church and royal powers, that Jeanneret calls "idéologie militaire de la société civile." Part 2, "La Provocation" analyzes the stakes of reading "pornographic" texts, providing detailed readings but lacking serious attention to their "aspects ludiques." Reviewer regrets that many texts are not read in the original, which leads to distortions. Part 3, "Le spectacle du désir" treats the great pillars of Classicism, Corneille, Racine, and Molière, and is original in its reading of their work in light of the texts previously examined. Reviewer finds this study "à la fois intéressant et frustrant."

Review: V. Desnain in MLR 99.2 (2004), 487–88: "Michel Jeanneret's book presents erotic literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the context of political and social opposition to a centralized and increasingly repressive power and as a response to the tightening hold of religious authorities on individuals' lives (he insists, for example on the role of the confessor) as Louis XIV rises to absolute power." Treats authors including Théophile de Viau, Corneille, Molière, and Descartes.

Review: L. Leibacher-Ouvrard in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 265–268. "Cet ouvrage qui se lit avec beaucoup de plaisir fonctionne sans aucun doute comme un très belle 《 promenade 》 (15). Bien menée et vagabondant à travers des genres variés, elle dépasse de très loin les "quelques quartiers mal famés du Grand Siècle", auquel elle proposait de se limiter. La vision d'ensemble à laquelle elle aboutit est d'une grande richesse, formant un large panorama dont le visiteur-lecteur, spécilisé ou non, ressortira indéniablement stimulé."

Review: W. Stephens in MLN 119.4 (2004), 887–92: "...Eros rebelle explores the culture wars that took place over sexuality in seventeenth-century France. In a broader context, Jeanneret sees sexually explicit literature as an intergral part of a culture-wide battle over rules, which split French society into two camps along Horatian lines, the proponents of plaisir versus the moralistic guardians of utile."

Review: BCLF 649 (2003), 93: L'auteur "s'intéresse plutôt à la façon dont les auteurs se répartissent entre les chantres d'un érotisme festif et joyeux et les esprits visant à une instrumentalisation du sexe. Son travail, érudit et agréablement documenté, passe en revue les différents aspects de la question par le biais d'une relecture commentée des principaux auteurs. De Ronsard à Molière, sans oublier Montaigne ni Corneille, pour les plus illustres, les écrits sur l'érotisme sont aussi des prises de parole sur l'amour et le sexe."

JOUHAUD, CHRISTIAN et ALAIN VIALA, éds. De la publication. Entre Renaissance et Lumières. Paris, Fayard, 2002.

Review: F. Lagarde in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 268–270. Reviewer comments briefly on the editorial introduction and on each of the articles by A. Tarrête, M. Bombart, D. Ribard, M. Virol, J-P. Cavaillé, Cl. Girard, N. Schapira, Cl. Lévy-Lelouch, F. de Vivo, C. Callard, D. Blocker, S. Delahaye, S. Van Damne, M. Maître, C. Cazanave, and A. Lilti. "Ce suivi détaillé des chaînes de publication élabore une sociologie et une histoire de la publication, ou de la 《 publicité 》 au sens où l'entendent les auteurs, plutôt qu'une science de la littérature."

JUIF ERRANT, LE. UN TEMOIN DU TEMPS. Paris: Editions Asam Biro-Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, 2001.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 229: Important and richly illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Paris Museum (2001–2002). Interdisciplinary, the volume treats the theme from literary, artistic and anthropological perspectives. The diffusion of the myth in the 17th c. is explored in an article by M. Kriegel, "Le Lancement de la légende ou la 'Courte description et histoire d'un juif nommé Ahasvérus'" (the text in question was translated in 1605 from the original German).

KENNEDY, DENNIS, ed. The Oxford Encylopedia of Theatre and Performance. Two Volumes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003

Review: E. Ziter in TDR 183 (Fall, 2004), 194–96: Range of critical perspectives on subject of performance. Emphasis on "concepts, theories, styles and movements." Eschews categorization according to "national traditions and geographic regions" and organizes performance history around population centers and linguistic traditions.

KIRSCH, FRITZ PETER. Epochen des französischen Romans. Wien: WUV 2000.

Review: E. Engler in RF 115 (2003): 86–89: Reviewer offers a considerable number of questions and corrections as she tackles this second version of Kirsch's analysis of the very broad subject, suggesting, for example, regarding Lafayette, the usefulness of an examination of 17th c. salon conversation and of the different narrative modes of Lafayette and Scudéry.

KNAPP, BETTINA. French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach. Albany: SUNY P, 2003;

Women in Myth. Albany: SUNY P, 1997;

Woman, Myth, and the Feminine Principle. Albany: SUNY P, 1998;

Gambling, Game, and Psyche. Albany: SUNY P, 2000.

Review: P. J. Archambault in SYM 58,1 (2004), 43–50: In this "Review Essay" on four of Bettina Knapp's books, Archambault has high praise for her approach and vast range in French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach (2003): "She is dealing in a fresh new way with an ancient academic pursuit, that interdisciplinary connection among literature, psychological analysis, and religion." Tales analyzed include lesser known works (Madame d'Aulnoy's "The Blue Bird"), as well as familiar ones (Perrault's "Donkey's Skin," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Bluebeard"). In Gambling, Game and Psyche (2000): "The opening chapter on Pascal's "Wager" is an excellent piece on the great Jansenist thinker as a metaphysical gambler. . ."

Review: P. De Méo in DFS 66 (2004), 109: Reviewer sees the great strength of Knapp's book in that her approach embraces not only the sociopolitical aspects of fairy tales and the psychoanalytical perspective but also takes into account perspectives of myth and spirituality. The book is organized chronologically with significant fairy tales selected from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Included in the 17th century are Perrault's Donkey Skin, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard and Mme d'Aulnoy's The Bluebird. Knapp uses Jung's approach "to analyze these fairy tales with respect to the individuality of the author in all of her or his complexity, and with respect to universal archetypes. Knapp's analyses are enriched by her vast knowledge of world religions and literature."

Review: A. E. Duggan in E Cr 43 (2003): 110–111: Found interesting in its analyses but "problematic" in its theoretical underpinnings. Knapp, however, is attempting "to provide insight into and solutions for readers' own psychological problems" (111). Arranged chronologically, each section situates the authors in history, provides a biographical sketch and analyses the tales " in the tradition of Marie-Louise von Franz and Bruno Bettelheim" (110). 17th c. selections include D'Aulnoy.

KRAMER, MICHAEL, éd. La Comédie de proverbes. Pièce comique d'après l'édition princeps de 1633. Genève: Droz, 2003.

Review: C. Mazouer in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 270–272. "La Comédie de proverbes intéresse au premier chef les historiens de la langue. Le travail de Michael Kramer répond à leur attente."

Review: BCLF 649 (2003), 125–26: "Cette édition fournit donc une somme impressionnante de données pour qui s'intéresse à la langue populaire de notre premier XVIIe siècle: elle se recommande par son érudition et son sérieux."

LAFOND, JEAN. Lire, vivre où mènent les mots. De Rabelais aux formes brèves de la prose. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: F. Lagarde in OeC 28,2 (2003), 182–84: "Le beau titre est tiré d'un Album de Valéry et fait référence à un abandon du lecteur à la littérature et à sa poésie, abandon ici très contrôlé par un prodigieux savoir encyclopédique." Etudes précédemment publiées à l'exception d'un article sur La Rochefoucauld qui "se démarque assez nettement des thèses de Starobinski et de Jean Mesnard: il y a bien une morale, et non pas seulement une esthétique, dans les Maximes."

LANGER, ULRICH, ed. Au-Delà de la Poétique: Aristote et la littérature de la Renaissance. Genève: Droz, 2002.

Review: BCLF 647 (2003), 86: ". . .actes du colloque tenu en septembre 2000 à la Newberry Library de Chicago et à l'université du Wisconsin à Madison. Sont ainsi réunies, par les soins d'Ulrich Langer, neuf contributions (dont trois en français et six en anglais), extrêmement riches et denses et dont les sujets sont d'une grande diversité." Voir l'article de R. Goodkin selon qui "c'est également l'Ethique à Nicomaque, et non point la Poétique, qui serait la véritable source d'inspiration de d'Aubignac quand il entreprend, dans les années 1640, la rédaction de La Pratique du théâtre."

LARSEN, ANNE R. "French Women and the Early Modern Canon: Recent Conferences, Editions, Monographs and Translations." Ren Q 53 (2000): 1183–97.

Larsen reviews in four sections, as the title indicates, recent results of a dramatic resurgence of interest in the field. Most of the editions, conferences, etc. extend into the 17th c., Marguerite de Valois' Correspondance (Champion, 1998) and Mémoires (Champion, 1999), for example. Larsen highlights an important number of contributions, including the acts of the Colloque de Chantilly, Femmes savantes... ed. Colette Nativel (Droz, 1999) which features essays on law, the male gaze, "women on the fringes," Madame de la Sablière, Madeleine de Scudéry, Madame Dacier, Madame de Villedieu, Jeanne Guyon, etc. Larsen calls for further study of the socio-historic and economic aspects of women's production as she rejoices in the "invigorating portent of developments."

LARZUL, SYLVETTE. "Further Considerations on Galland's "Mille et une Nuits": A Study of the Tales Told by Hanna." M&T 18.2 (2004), 258–271.

"Whereas the earlier volumes of Galland's French translation are based on Arabic manuscripts, the later volumes include a variety of tales originating from the oral performance of the Syrian narrator Hanna. This second part of Galland's work leaves more room for creation than the first one and emphasizes exoticism to a larger extent. Apart from being constantly concerned with the representation of cultural specificities, the author multiplies the exotic leitmotivs and thus depicts a universe composed of khans, sofas, and veils. Galland's penchant for luxury also reigns freely in those tales, with his artistry giving rise to a magnificent Orient overflowing with gold and gems." (Abstract)

LE BRUN, JACQUES. "Fable et mythe au XVIIe siècle: les débuts de l'histoire des religions" in Jean Racine: 1699–1999. Gilles Declercq & Michèle Rosellini, eds. Actes du colloque Ile-de-France - La Ferté-Milon, 25–30 mai 1999. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2003. 473–492.

Le Brun studies erudite writings of the 17th c. on pagan and Antique religions: John Selden, Gérard Jean Vossius, Jean Le Clerc, Fontenelle, and (most extensively) Pierre-Daniel Huet. For Racine, the essential references are Greek and Latin; he diverges from Huet, privileging the most "scandalous" ancient stories.

LECOQ, ANNE-MARIE, ed. La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, précédé d'un essai de Marc Fumaroli. Paris: Gallimard (Folio classique), 2001.

Review: J.-P. Landry in RHLF 103.3 (2003), 724–25. An annotated anthology of texts relating to the quarrel, accompanied by a chronology, bibliography and an index. Review find's Fumaroli's 212-page introductory essay, which examines the quarrel's origins and implications, brilliant and dense. A 50-page postface, by Jean-Robert Armogathe, traces the quarrel back to Saints Paul and Augustine. "Cet excellent livre" shows that even if the Moderns "won," "la vraie culture se constitue d'un va-et-vient permanent entre le passé et le présent."

LELOUCH, CLAIRE. "Les Notices biographiques dans les Œuvres complètes de Racine (1722–1783)" in Jean Racine: 1699–1999. Gilles Declercq & Michèle Rosellini, eds. Actes du colloque Ile-de-France - La Ferté-Milon, 25–30 mai 1999. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2003. 729–746.

Excellent in-depth analysis of the role of notices biographiques in Racine's Œuvres complètes whose work is part of the birth of this new genre. Considers notices with and without specific authors' names attached to them, and the legitimacy of case, as well as the role of the notice in forming the reputation of a specific author. Argues convincingly for careful attention to be paid to this revelatory paratext.

LEROY, CHRISTIAN. "La Poésie en prose française du XVIIe siècle à nos jours. Histoire d'un genre. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: G. Banderier in RBPH 80,3 (2002), 1080–82: Ouvrage "qui par sa précision et par l'ampleur de l'enquête à laquelle s'est livré l'auteur, dépasse de loin le cadre d'un travail d'initiation ou de vulgarisation." Parmi les auteurs du 17e siècle: Balzac, Scudéry, Le Moyne, Chapelain.

Review: BCLF 640 (2001), 87: "Divisé en trois parties, cet ouvrage solidement structuré éclaire la présence ambiguë de la 'poésie en prose', assurément gênée par le triomphe du 'poème en prose.' Non seulement savante, cette étude s'avère agréable à lire-phénomène assez peu fréquent pour être noté."

LEVILLAIN, HENRIETTE. Qu'est-ce que le baroque? Paris: Klincksieck, 2003.

Review: BCLF 657 (2004), 85: "Le problème est que ce mince volume n'est point un travail destiné à ouvrir une discussion (a priori déjà close de longue date) entre spécialistes, mais bien un livre à l'intention des étudiants..."

LOJKINE, STEPHANE. La Scène du roman. Méthode d'analyse. Paris: Armand Colin, 2002.

Review: F. Pilone in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 229: Proposes a theoretical instrument for textual analysis as Lojkine develops the study of the scène of a text as concrete and visual. Narrative effectiveness is then related to scenic effectiveness as indeed is the "interiorità psicologica dell'individuo." Panorama includes Madame de La Fayette.

LONG, KATHLEEN PERRY, ed. High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State UP, 2002.

Review: D. LaGuardia in E Cr 43 (2003): 101: Praiseworthy for its thorough and comprehensive definition and examination of masculinity and its application of contemporary critical theory ("psychoanalysis, performance studies, cultural materialism, feminism in its diverse varieties" 101). Focus is from the early 16th c. to the end of the 17th; texts as diverse as sonnets, essays, jokes, memoirs, comedies, fairy tales are examined along with theology and sacred iconography.

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

Review: B. Brazeau in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1263–1265: Praised as "absorbing" and "innovative" (1263), Longino's volume demonstrates that the 17th c. and its theatrical production "represents a crucial phase in the development of a collective French identity" (Longino 1). Plays which receive Longino's close analysis and which contributed "notions necessary for colonialism" are: Médée, Le Cid, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Tite et Bérénice (Corneille) and Bérénice (Racine) examined together, and Bajazet (1264). Brazeau suggests a related question for future research: "What were the applications of this collective French identity in the New World?" (1265).

Review: C. Carlin in DFS 66 (2004), 112–113: Longino studies representations of the Ottoman "Other," both hostile and admiring. "Each of the seven canonical plays analyzed is read alongside documentary texts (newspaper articles, maps and other illustrations, letters and memoirs by merchants, collectors, diplomats, linguists) which show how the French were penetrating the Ottoman world at the same time that depictions of the Orient were becoming increasingly popular on the Paris stage. Longino's supple, multi-dimensional methodology [...] allows her to study plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine in an important but neglected dimension of their seventeenth-century context."

Review: S. Melzer in MLQ 65 (2004), 616–618. Postulates that 17th-century France and its theater held an oppositional relationship to the Orient, one which played a crucial role in the construction of Frenchness. Supported by the state, 17th-century French theater assumed the task of creating a national story and identity. However, as Longino points out, French dramatists' heavy borrowing of plotlines from classical authors meant that "the official story of France's identity was woven out of stories of an other" (616). Dispelling the seeming insularity of the classical stage, Longino again and again shows it to be run through with writers' and playgoers' avidity for travel narratives from the east. Methodologically, the book pays careful attention to offstage characters and historical references, which are shown to have a central, rather than a marginal, importance to the plays. Highly praised by the reviewer, "[Longino's] book has cleared and broken important new ground" (618).

Review: R. Parish in MLR 99.1 (2004), 193: Treatment of seven canonical plays including Médée and Le Cid by P. Corneille, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière, the two Bérénice plays, and Bajazet and Mithridate by Racine. Good presentation of "the complex état présent which informs the whole area of debate."

LOUVAT-MOLOZAY, BENEDICTE. Théâtre et musique. Dramaturgie de l'insertion musicale dans le théâtre français (1550–1680). Paris, Champion, 2002.

Review: Cl.-G. Dubois in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 275–279. "Un ouvrage qui répond avec savoir et savoir-faire à ce qu'on attend de lui, à l'intérieur des limites fixées, sur un corpus déterminé, sans débordements ni bavures: corpus sanum pour le matériau traité et mens sana pour l'auteur qui le traite."

LOUVAT-MOLOZAY, BENEDICTE. "Le traitement du temps dans la tragi-comédie et la pastorale (1628–1632): les enjeux dramatiques du début autour de la règle des vingt-quatre heures." Littératures classiques 43 (2001): 127–146.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 46 (2002): 437: Of particular importance for considerations of time, genre and "mixité générique."

LYONS, JOHN. "Au seuil du panoptisme général." DSS 223 (2004), 277–287.

Expanding on the framework of Foucault's 'panoptisme' and Bentham's original intentions, Lyons reaches back to the 17th c. to explore both Corneille's Le Cid and Lafayette's La Princesse de Cléves as examples of the veritable "mise en place du panoptisme" during the 17th c. and concludes that the "panoptisme de Foucault, en tâchant de rendre compte d'une civilisation "moderne" à partir du XVIIIe siècle, ouvre la possibilité de décrire la littérature du XVIIe siècle dans son ambivalente modernité." In her introduction to this number of DSS, Héléne Merlin-Kajman describes Lyons' objective: "comprendre le procès de subjectivation de Chimène et de Mme de Clèves à la lumière des analyses de Foucault sur l'individualisation normative et le dispositif panoptique, John Lyons nous donne ici un témoignage éblouissant de leur productivité critique, tout en montrant que ces grands textes [...] conduisent à des nuances, alors inaperçues par Foucault, concernant l'épaisseur active et la complexité contradictoire des subjectivités ainsi révélées."

LYONS, JOHN D. & CARA WELCH, EDS. 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: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003.

Individual articles indexed by author in the appropriate section.

MACE, STEPHANE. L'Eden perdu. La pastorale dans la poésie française de l'âge baroque. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: L. Petris in BHR 65,3 (2003), 769–73: "Héritière de l'Antiquité, de la Renaissance néo-latine et des bucoliques en langue vulgaire, la poésie pastorale subit à l'âge baroque une mutation capitale qui favorise un revouvellement des formes comme des contenus, investis par les dévots comme par les libertins, qui en font le lieu d'une nouvelle expression de la subjectivité. C'est à décrire cette évolution que s'attache Stéphane Macé dans cet excellent ouvrage, qui étudie tour à tour l'héritage antique, néo-latin et vulgaire (première partie), le caractère protéiforme du genre de la pastorale (deuxième partie), en enfin les horizons esthétiques de la pastorale et de l'univers baroque (troisième partie)."

MANDOKI, KATYA. "Power and semiosis." Semiotica 151 (2004): 97–114.

Response to Bourdieu's and other critiques of semiotics as neglecting the political dimension. "[P]resents an analysis of power as an effect of semiosic processes that involve four components: body, place, capital, and discourse... [E]xamines Foucault, Bourdieu, and Sheets-Johnstone's concepts of power..." Incorporates a biological perspective, rather than a purely ideological or linguistic explanation of power dynamics.

MARGOLIN, JEAN-CLAUDE. "Perspectivisme, relativisme et scepticisme: précarité et créativité de l'Anamorphose." S Fr 46 (2002): 527–545.

Masterful elaboration of the three "isms" and application of the technique of anamorphose to the literature of the Baroque era. Highly instructive, well-documented and precise, Margolin's essay insists that the three "isms" define a philosophical attitude and a method of research rather than a determined ideological position (535). Refusing ontological dogmatism, "ils nous engagent à cheminer au niveau des phénomènes... [et] aident surtout à mieux comprendre... la puissance de créativité et la précarité de l'anamorphose, dans son extension icono-textuelle" (535).

MARTIN, CHRISTOPHE. "Agnès et ses soeurs: Belles captives en enfance, de Molière à Baculard d'Arnaud." RHLF 104.2 (2004), 343–62.

Examines first the motif, in the literature up to and including Molière, of the "précaution inutile" that is the sequestration of the innocent girl; proceeds to argue that eighteenth-century appropriations of this motif are contaminated by the idea of an experimental isolation that is actually efficacious. The author ascribes this modification to a new "epistemè": "Avec l'avènement de l'empirisme, en effet, l'idée d'une nature humaine parfaitement malléable n'est plus inimaginable."

MARTIN, CHRISTOPHE. "Espaces 《 incitatifs 》, de La Prison sans chagrin (1669) à La Petite maison (1763): Genèse et ambiguïtés d'un chronotope libertin." E Cr 43 (2003): 16–27.

Examines a series of "actualisations concrètes" of these "espaces incitatifs" in order to assess and define the chronotope. Some but not all of the "traits constitutifs" may be found in the anonymous La Prison sans chagrin, but missing is a functional complicity "qui relie l'espace et le corps, par la posture et le geste" (Henri Lafon as qtd. in Martin 18). Other analyses from the 18th c. confirm, as Martin states in his conclusion, that "l'espace incitatif est au coeur du désir libertin et de ses contradictions" (26).

MARTIN, MARGOT. "Devilish Utterance Through Sublime Expression: The Union of the Sacred and the Profane in Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 231–237.

Médée offers an amalgamation of the sacred and the secular music traditions and can be interpreted as either "devilish utterance" or "sublime expression."

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

Review: Z. Zalloua in FR 77 (2003), 372. Mathieu-Castellani calls attention to the importance of emotions in rhetorical practice. In the work's first half, the author reminds us how rhetorical passion has traditionally been denigrated in favor of more rational forms of decision-making (as seen, for example, in Plato's Gorgias.) Thus contextualizing rhetoric as moral philosophy's seductive antagonist, Mathieu-Castellani uses her book's second half to highlight the utterly different framework in which Descartes set rhetoric, considering the passions upon which rhetoric plays "as [would] a physician, subordinating their philosophical treatment to his dualistic preoccupations: "les passions deviennent l'objet du discourse philosophique en tant que mode de la relation et de l'union de l'âme et du corps" (196)" (372).

MAZOUER, CHARLES. Le Théâtre d'Arlequin-Comédies et comédiens italiens en France au XVIIe siècle. Préface de Giovanni Dotoli, Cultura Straniera n°112, Biblioteca della Ricercha, Schena Editore, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: F. Briot in RSH 271 (juillet–septembre 2003), 190–91: This volume is a collection of 16 articles published by Mazouer between 1986 and 1999 on Italian actors and comedies in 17th-century France. Articles are presented in three unequal sections, first examining the installation of Italians in France, second the Ancien Théâtre Italien et le Recueil de Gherardi, and third, Prolongements. Volume includes a bibliography, somewhat lacking in recent publications, and an index to plays and other spectacles cited. The nature of such collections leads to inevitable but unfortunate multiple repetitions in presentation, dates, quotes, references and sometimes analyses. Reviewer is also skeptical of categories like "plaisant," "impayable," or "grossier." Collection is however very useful in its practicality, and precious because it corrects a number of errors, shows the difficulty of evaluating not completely written theatrical texts, and gives us a far better understanding of Molière in particular.

Review: J. Emelina in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 284–285. Volume brings together sixteen articles published by Mazouer between 1985 and 2000. "Rien de plus pratique et de plus utile pour le chercheur que cette gerbe d'études érudites pleines de rigueur et de ferveur; rien, surtout, qui permette mieux de mesurer… le poids de la Commedia dell'arte dans notre paysage théâtral."

Review: S. Poli in S Fr 47 (2003): 707–708: Highly recommended for its solid erudition, sensitivity and coherence, the volume also includes a preface by G. Dotoli. Sections on "L'installation des italiens en France," "Scènes ou pièces entières" (the longest section; 55 texts are analyzed), and "[De l']Ancien théâtre italien [au] nouveau."

MAZOUER, CHARLES. Le Théâtre français de la Renaissance. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: D. Cecchetti in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 152–155: Masterful work continuing Mazouer's monumental history of the French theatre (see his 1998 volume on the Middle Ages). Reviewer singles out for special praise the original and innovative chapter on the "Théâtre scolaire." Impressive array of analyses includes attention to theoretical texts as well as to particular examples of "tragédie, tragi- comédie, comédie française, comédie italienne en France... [and] pastorale dramatique" (152).

Review: D. DiMauro in Ren Q 56 (2003): 1262–1263: Judged "an up-to-date study of impressive breadth and erudition" by the "preeminent scholar in the field," this is the second volume of the series (vol. 1 on the medieval theatre appeared in 1998) (1262). Organized into 9 chapters, the study focuses on "theatrical production between... 1500–1610," situating it historically and culturally (1262) and is written in "lucid" and "elegant" prose (1263). 17th c. specialists will particularly appreciate chapters on tragedy and tragi-comedy, on the French and Italian comedies, on "le théâtre scolaire," and on "les spectacles de cour" and "la pastorale dramatique." Indices and exhaustive bibliography.

MECHOULAN, ERIC, ed. La Vengeance dans la littérature d'Ancien Régime. Montréal: Paragraphe, 2000.

Review: C. Bernard in Fr F 28.1 (2003): 135–137: Impressive by its quality , the numerous genres under consideration and various methodologies. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the two theoretical essays by Méchoulan, a "mise au point conceptuelle et historique" by Christian Biet as well as several other studies treating duels in Tristan, the theory of humeurs, vengeance sur la scène, Madame de Villedieu and Saint-Simon.

MERCIER, ALAIN, ed. La seconde après-dînée du caquet de l'accouchée et autres facéties du temps de Louis XIII. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003.

MERRICK, JEFFREY and MICHAEL SIBALIS, eds. Homosexuality in French History and Culture. New York: Haworth, 2001. Published simultaneously as Journal of Homosexuality 41.3/4.

Review: J. Hayes in E Cr 43 (2003): 100–101: Wide-ranging and welcome collection of 17 essays from the Renaissance through the 1990s fills important lacunae. Interdisciplinary approaches include that of Lewis C. Seifert who analyzes references to sodomy in songs of the second half of the Grand Siècle.

MONTOYA, ALICIA C. "La femme forte et ses avatars dans les tragédies de Marie-Anne Barbier" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 163–173.

Barbier's work shows how women writers have appropriated and transformed the traditional topos of the femme forte.

MORTGAT-LONGUET, EMMANUELLE. "Aux origines du parallèle Racine-Corneille" in Jean Racine: 1699–1999. Gilles Declercq & Michèle Rosellini, eds. Actes du colloque Ile-de-France - La Ferté-Milon, 25–30 mai 1999. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2003. 703–717.

Well-developed study of a number of 17th-century parallèles as a genre unto itself, with specific reference to Longepierre, La Bruyère and Fontenelle. Particular attention to the idea that postériorité is equivalent to supériorité, as well as to the opposition between le génie and le goût. Stresses the great opposition between "l'esprit et le coeur" found between Corneille and Racine.

MURAT, MICHEL, ed. Le Vers français. Histoire, théorie, esthétique. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: P. Ihring in RF 115 (2003): 273–274: Volume is representative of both domains of poetry research: linguistic and literary. Divided into three main sections: Origins of Old French Poetry, Codification with the Pléiade, and the crisis of metrical uniformity and aesthetic authority (from 1850 on). 17th c. scholars will appreciate essays on dialectal variation and on Racine's phrase. Extensive bibliography and indices.

NANCY, SARAH. "Les règles et le plaisir de la voix dans la tragédie en musique." DSS 223 (2004), 225–236.

The author attempts to place the voice in this art form within the general discussion at hand in this number focused on the classic versus modern (XVIIe siècle et modernité) while addressing many essential problems of representation.

NEPOTE-DESMARRES, FANNY, éd. avec la colloboration de J.-Ph. Grosperrin. Mythe et histoire dans le théâtre classique. Hommage à Christian Delmas. Toulouse, Société de Littératures classiques, 2002.

Review: F. Lagarde in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 290–291. Reviewer comments briefly on the twelve reprinted seminal articles by Delmas, and on the fourteen new articles by R. Zuber, G. Molinié, P. Dandrey, Ch. Biet, F. Népote-Desmarres, J.-Ph. Grosperrin, D. Moncond'huy, B. Guion, A. Viala, P. Ronzeaud, G. Forestier, F. Berlan, B. Louvat-Molozay, and H. Visentin. Volume is described as "[un] ouvrage de réference digne de figurer dans toutes les bibliothèques universitaires."

NISSIM, LIANA, ed. La cruelle douleur d'Artémis. Il mito di Artemide-Diana nelle lettere francesi. Milano: Cisalpino, 2002.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 47 (2003): 777: These acts of the 2001 Seminario Balmas include twenty-one essays on the rich and varied theme of Artemis-Diana from Antiquity through the 20th c. Four essays focus on the figure of Diana in the Mannerist and Baroque era. Important for the arts as well as for literature, the volume includes an impressive number of illustrations and tables as well as indices of myth, places and persons.

NORMAN, BUFORD. "Hybrid Monsters and Rival Aesthetics: Monsters in Seventeenth-Century French Ballet and Opera" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 180–188.

Norman questions the generalization that early seventeenth-century texts present monsters that consist of actual hybrid bodies, while the later seventeenth century would focus more on the monsters within. Cites examples in for and against this model, including Estienne Durand's Ballet de la délivrance de Renaud, Quinault and Lully's Armide, and Racine's Phèdre. Concludes that physical monsters did not cease to exist in the second half of the century.

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

Review: S. Veys in LR 56 (2002): 329–330: Appreciative review of this collection of essays on the mother in its "multiplicité de visages" and its "détermination fondamentale" (330). Wide-ranging both in genres and periods covered as well as in perspectives, negative and positive. 17th c. scholars will benefit in particular from Domna Stanton's essay on Mme de Sévigné's "maternité divinisée et dévorante" and Deborah Hahn's treatment of "le type grotesque de la mère coquette... dans le théâtre comique" (329, 330).

NORMAN, LARRY F., PHILIPPE DESAN, & RICHARD STIER. Du Spectateur au lecteur-Imprimer la scène aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Cultura Straniera n°118, Biblioteca della Ricercha, Schena Editore, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: F. Briot in RSH 271 (juillet-sept. 2003), 191–92: This international conference held at the University of Chicago and the Newberry Library in March 2001 facilitated rich dialogues between French and Anglo-Saxon critique, French and English theater, and the theater of the 16th and 17th-centuries. Contributions examine relationships between the stage and the book with consistently high quality, with few exceptions. This collection helps us to better understand what we are talking about when we discuss the work of the great dramaturges of the period. Norman provides a learned and substantial preface entitled "Du spectateur au lecteur, ou du lecteur au spectateur?" Essays are grouped under four themes: part 1, "Perspectives théorique et historiques," which consists of three remarkable contributions by Roger Chartier, Christian Biet and Georges Forestier; part 2, "Le théâtre du XVIe siècle;" part 3, "Le cas Shakespeare;" part 4: "Le théâtre du XVIIe siècle."

Review: P. Gethner in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 294–297. Reviewer comments briefly on prefatory essay notes by L. Norman and on articles by R. Chartier, Ch. Biet, G. Forestier, J. Balsamo, E. Buron, A. Preda, L. Marcus, L. Erne, D. Bevington, L. Giavarini, G. Dotoli, M. Hawcroft. Although "approaches vary radically" and there is "an apparent lack of proof-reading", volume "contains much worthwhile material and deserves a place in university libraries."

O'HARA, STEPHANIE ELIZABETH. "Tracing Poison: Theater and Society in Seventeenth-Century France." DAI 65/01 (2004), 157.

This study "looks beyond the Affair and explores how poison circulated as a material substance and as a metaphor in ancien régime France." Includes analysis of poison crimes depicted in pamphlet literature, in factums, and on stage (Corneille, Rotrou, Racine, and others). In regards to the latter representations, study contends that "as the genre of tragedy developed, it increasingly represented poison in highly aesthetic and metaphorical ways, effectively neutralizing it."

PAIGE, NICHOLAS D. Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Review: R. Goodkin in MP 101.3 (February 2004), 455–458: "This beautifully written and insightful study of the development of an 'autobiographical mentality' in seventeenth-century France reverses 'the marginalization of the religious in traditional literary history' (p. 10) by focusing on the writings of four religious figures-Jean de Labadie, Antoinette Bourignon, Jeanne Guyon, and Jean-Joseph Surin-whose works are symptomatic of the problems and paradoxes of early modern conceptions of interiority and subjectivity. (…) Paige is to be congratulated for his analysis of a particularly compelling early modern example of the quintessentially modern right: the pursuit of unhappiness."

PASQUIER, PIERRE. "L'ombre du temps: reflexion sur le statut du temps dramatique dans le discours esthétique classique." LC 43 (2001): 89–116.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 46 (2002): 441: Pasquier's focus is several theoretical texts (Aristotle, Chapelain, Mairet, Marechal and others) and their importance for the concept of time, le vraisemblable and the rapport author-spectator. Pasquier is also the editor of this number of LC and the author of its "Prologue."

PAVESIO, MONICA. Calderón in Francia. Ispanismo ed italianismo nel teatro francese del XVII secolo. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2000.

Review: V. Sternberg in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 125–126: Appreciative review of this study which consists of an introduction, two parts, a conclusion, a bibliography and an index. Found to be both "rigoureuse et intuitive," the investigation focuses on Spanish and Italian troupes, Calderón's relationships with the French and Italian theatres, his adaptations in France and the mediation of Italian troupes.

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE. "Destin de la femme naufragée dans la fiction narrative du Grand Siècle" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 141–149.

The author examines a number of seventeenth-century novels and romances to distinguish the different representations of women lost at sea.

PISTER, DANIELLE, ed. L'image du prêtre dans la littérature classique (XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles). Actes du colloque organisé par le Centre "Michel Baude - Littérature et spiritualité" de l'Université de Metz, 20–21 novembre 1998. Berne-Francfort: Peter Lang, 2001.

Review: F. Preyat in RBPH 81,2 (2003), 502–07: "Saisir, dans la foulée de la réforme tridentine de l'Eglise jusqu'aux polémiques philosophiques des Lumières, l'image du prêtre à travers l'interaction entre réalité et fiction, voilà l'ambitieux programme que se proposent de satisfaire les dix-sept communications rassemblées par D. Pister."

PIVA, FRANCO, ed. Bruto il maggiore nella letteratura francese et dintorni. Fasano, Schena, 2002.

Review: P. Gethner in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 297–299. Volume contains twenty articles (of which seven are in Italian) concerning "the literary treatments of Brutus in the period roughly 1550 to 1850 [and] concentrates mainly on France, with a few excursions into England, Germany and Italy." Reviewer comments on articles by A. Mastrocinque, R. Grazia Lana Zardini, Ch. Mazouer, A. Niderst, Cl. Poulouin, F. Piva, J. Ehrard, C. Auger, J. Renwick, H.-J. Lüsebrink, R. Barny, Ph. Bordes, M. Delon, and B. Didier. "This volume, which pulls together a wealth of interesting information, is enjoyable to read and at time enlightening. Though the articles range from superficial to first-rate, the overall quality is high."

PLUS GRANDES OEUVRES DE LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE, LES. Paris: Classiques Garnier multimédia, 2002.

Review: BCLF 646 (2003), 95–96: L'ouvrage "se présente sous la forme d'un cédérom que complète un livre illustré de plus de trois cent pages" et qui "se recommande par sa qualité et son utilisation aisée." Quelques regrets en ce qui concerne le XVIIe siècle: "les Provinciales n'accompagnent pas les Pensées; les deux dernières pièces de Racine manquent."

POT, OLIVIER, éd. La Critique littéraire suisse. Autour de l'Ecole de Genève. In memoriam Jean Rousset. Œuvres et critiques XXVII, 2. Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 300–302. "[Le volume] présente ici des études éclairantes sur les critiques ouverts et indépendents, rassemblés sous le titre aujourd'hui consacré d'Ecole de Genève, mais qui dépassement largement le cadre géographique ou universitaire qu'une telle appellation semblerait indiquer. […] On ne saurait trop recommander cet important fascicule qui fera date dans l'histoire de la critique."

PROBES, CHRISTINE MCCALL. "Le Savoir historique à l'intersection de l'art et de la poésie emblématiques: les gravures de Pierre de Loysi mises en rapport avec Les Sonnet franc-comtois" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 81–90.

Probes examines emblematic poetry and art to see how they are understood in an historical context and how they function as traces of the past ("garant du passé").

RACAULT, JEAN-MICHEL. Nulle part et ses environs. Voyages aux confins de l'utopie littéraire classique (1657–1802). Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, coll. Imago Mundi, 2003.

Review: J.-M. Goulemot in QL 864 (du 1er au 15 novembre 2003), 13–14: Cet ouvrage, qui traite des textes de L'Autre Monde de Cyrano de Bergerac à Atala de Chateaubriand, "regroupe une vingtaine d'études que... Racault a publié au hasard de colloques ou d'ouvrages collectifs et que connaissent tous ceux qui travaillent, réfléchissent ou rêvent éveillés face aux textes utopiques. Car, tout en admettant leur validité opératoire, on se gardera de limiter l'approche utopique aux deux catégories proposées ici: littéraire et sociologique. N'oublions pas les rêveurs passionnés en reconnaissant qu'ils habitent parfois le même espace que les sociologues, les politiques ou les littéraires et se confondent avec eux. Preuve heureuse de ces confusions: l'analyse littéraire de... Racault qui n'empêche pas la réflexion sur le sens politique des œuvres prises ici en compte."

RACEVSKIS, ROLAND. Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV: Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2003.

Review: C. Levin in FR 77 (2003), 1233–1234. "This work presents a carefully researched study on the progress of the science of time measurement in the seventeenth century as well as a meticulous analysis of the use of time within the literary works the author associates with the cultural record he examines" (1234). Of interest to graduate students and scholars involved in the study of time.

REVARD, STELLA. Pindar and the Renaissance Hymn-Ode, 1450–1700. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance studies, 2001.

Review: J. K. Hale in MLR 99.1 (2004), 278–79: Chapter arrangement provides organizing principle of this study: 'Pindar, Man and Poet', 'Pindar and his Muses', 'Hymns to the Gods', 'Classical Hymn in the Renaissance', 'Pindar and the Christian Hymn-Ode', 'Three Graces in their merriment: Pindar and the Light Ode', and the Philosophical Ode in the Seventeenth Century'. Emphasis on Italian, French, and British poets.

RIBARD, DINAH et ALAIN VIALA, éds. Le Tragique. Paris, Gallimard, 2002.

Review: S. Chaouche in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 302–305. "C'est une anthologie… qui a trait au Tragique sous toutes ses formes." The introduction is followed by fifty-two extracts from different works, divided into six chapters, "marquant chacun une étape de la gestation de la notion de tragique de l'Antiquité à nos jours et suivis chacun d'un résumé synthétique (analyses et commentaires des textes et/ou mise au point historique sur le genre tragique)."

RIGGS, LARRY. "Monstres naissants: Masculine Birth and Feminine Subversion in the Theatrum Mundi" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 266–274.

Riggs situates issues such as gender, hegemonic discourse, self-fashioning, spectacle, and surveillance within the topos of the theatrum mundi, citing 17th-century theater as an especially fruitful area for work in these areas. Particular attention paid to Le Cid, Horace, Phèdre, Dom Juan, and Le Misanthrope.

RIGGS, LARRY. "Mythic Figures in the Theatrum Mundi: The Limits of Self-Fashioning" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 375–383.

Identifies a paradox at the heart of absolutism's use of theater which both buttresses and subverts the absolute monarch. Myth and legend, the stuff of theater, are the building blocks of the monarchy's lineage and prestige. At the same time, however, they also point to the lack of legitimacy and the absence of an underlying transcendent truth. The theater's dependence on mythological characters and themes suggests a theatrum mundi where there are no stable truths.

RIOT-SARCEY, MICHELE et al. Dictionnaire des utopies (Les référents). Paris: Larousse, 2002.

Review J.-Cl. Polet in Ecl 71.3 (2003), 281: Polet finds the some 1500 "notices" fit together well, whether they be "d'orientation ou de fondement spirituel et religieux, idéologiques ou politiques, historiques ou sémiologiques, comparatistes ou proprement françaises." A reference work highly recommended both for consultation and for informative, pleasurable reading.

ROBERT, RAYMONDE. Le conte de fées littéraire en France de la fin du XVIIe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002.

Review: J. Zipes in M&T 18.1 (2004), 121–122: The reviewer recognizes the enormous impact of this seminal study of the fairy tale in French literary studies since it was originally published in 1981. However, although this work, first published in 1981, paved the way for an entire new field of scholarly inquiry, Zipes finds this republication disappointing, namely because it fails to include any fresh analysis of "the extraordinary scholarship which her own work generated since the beginning of the 1980s.

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

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 436: Important volume by this illustrious 17th c. specialist focuses on systems of relationships between humanity and the world as well as the passage from honor to self-interest and amour-propre as motivating factors. Interdisciplinary, with highly pertinent analyses, Rohou's study includes indices and a rich critical bibliography.

RONZEAUD, PIERRE, ed. L'Imagination au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: BCLF 639 (2002), 84–85: "Le dernier numéro en date de Littératures classiques, composé sous la direction de Pierre Ronzeaud, renoue avec les grands concepts de l'Age classique en prenant comme objet d'étude l'imagination. Etroitement associée à l'illusion, à laquelle était consacré le numéro prédédent, cette notion possède une très vaste extensnion sémantique au XVIIe siècle, dont rend compte un champ lexical proprement labyrinthique (fantaisie, représentation, conception, vision, illusion, songe, chimère, etc.)."

ROSSO, CORRADO. La "Maxime." Saggi per una tipologia critica. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001.

Review: R. Ruggiero in Archiv 240 (2003): 445–448: Welcome new edition of Rosso's 1968 study with introduction by Werner Helmich. Essential to the study of this genre and of particular interest to 17th c. scholars because of the genre's prevalence in that period.

ROUKHOMOVSKY, BERNARD. Lire les formes brèves. Paris: Nathan Université, 2001.

Review: F. Pilone in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 518–519: Both a study of short forms and a small collection of such texts, Roukhomovsky's work is useful for its considerations on notions of brièveté (influence of the salons, mania for maximes and énigmes) and representatives such as La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère and Pascal.

ROWAN, MARY. "Angélqiue Arnauld's Web of Feminine Friendships: Letters to Jeanne de Chantal and the Queen of Poland" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 53–59.

Angélique Arnauld's correspondence reveals the unique feminine voice of a "strong-willed nun" known for her "skillful exercise of authority" and her devotion to Jansenism.

ROYE, JOCELYNE. "La figure de la 'pédante' dans la littérature comique du XVIIe siècle" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 215–225.

Examines comic literature to bring out the terms of the criticism of women "pédantes" and their similarities and differences with the frequently ridiculed male "pédant." The figure of the pédante participates fully in the debate over the equality of the sexes and their participation in learning and access to knowledge. The caricature of pédantes also carries positive elements in the discussion of women's status: "elle revendique un juste équilibre dans un monde depuis trop longtemps masculin. Elle balaie les arguments de ceux qui affirment que la femme n'a ni les qualités ni les compétences requises pour se livrer aux affaires de l'esprit."

RUBIN, DAVID LEE et JULIA V. DOUTHWAITE, eds. Rethinking Cultural Studies 2: Exemplary Essays. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 7. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2001.

Review: L. Leibacher-Ouvrard in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 305–307. Reviewer comments particularly on essays by M. Harper, R. Racevskis, J.-V. Blanchard, M. Longino and N. Paige. "Cette collection d'essais s'annoncait comme une série d'《 Exemplary Essays 》. Ce qualificatif est particulièrement approprié."

SAFTY, ESSAM. "Le Corps mort dans la tragédie baroque: de l'anonymat au spectacle" PFSCL 29, no. 57 (2002): 305–322.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 156: Important for its scholarly attention to deaths both collective (the people, crowds, etc.) and individual as represented by the baroque theatre. Dramatic qualities and spectators' reactions are examined.

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

Review: J. Pendergrass in Ren Q 56 (2003): 804–805: Important for its "insight into France's classical heritage" and its assessment of the "impact of classical studies in early-modern France" (804). Focus is on the Renaissance, but articles will be highly useful to 17th c. scholars, in particular Laurence Plazenet's essay on Amyot and his influence on "generations of French playwrights and novelists" (805).

SCOTT, CLIVE. Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550–2000. Oxford: Legenda, 2002.

Review: R. Pensom in MLR 99.1 (2004), 281–82: "Crossing the boundary between the critical and the creative, Clive Scott continues the debate on the 'undecidable' in the meaning of art text and concomitant problems in the theory of translation." In 'Translating and Dramatizing Phèdre', Scott gives a "thought-provoking translation of a key passage of text embodying his idea that Racine's characters have a 'metrical thumbprint' ...but once again incoherent metrical analysis of Racine's text (pp. 101–04) decisively damages the case..."

SEIFERT, LOUIS. "The Male Writer and the 'Marked' Self in Seventeenth-Century France: The Case of the Abbé de Boisrobert." EMF 9 (2004): 125–142.

Argues that certain gendered norms (the sodomitical and the heterosexual) were not viewed as incompatible in the period, given information supplied by the life of Boisrobert.

SERMAIN, JEAN-PAUL. Métafictions (1670–1730). La réflexivité dans la littérature d'imagination. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: P. Hartmann in RHLF 103.3 (2003), 725–26. A work that "s'impose d'emblée à l'attention par sa hauteur de vue, sa connaissance intime du corpus et sa remarquable inventivité théorique." The concept of metafiction allows the author to group a wide variety of works that all "visent moins à créer de toute pièce un univers fictionnel crédible qu'à interroger les différentes manières... de saisir le réel." Reviewer lauds "ce livre exigeant et ardu" while wondering if the author's tendency to make metafiction the paradigm for the Ancien Régime novel is really warranted, given that to do so he ignores a number of major works, notably La Princesse de Clèves.

SERMAIN, JEAN-PAUL. "Les Modèles classiques: aux origines d'une ambiguïté, et de ses effets." DSS 223 (2004), 173–181.

The author examines the implications of designating a certain period in 17th c. literature and history as "classique". Adopted in the nineteenth century, Sermain discusses how the term came to differentiate between classic and modern and evaluates its merit and application in contemporary thought.

SHEPARD, JAMES C. Mannerism and Baroque in Seventeenth-Century French Poetry: The Example of Tristan L'Hermite. Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 2001.

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 77 (2003), 373–374. Clarifying the temporally co-existent aesthetic categories of mannerism and the baroque, Shepard identifies the former as having "an essentially ludic quality"—a preoccupation with display and mastery of convention in the context of élite games—whereas "baroque literature is passionately serious" (374), personal, and religious. These terms are defined in the book's first third, while Shepard uses his remaining pages to illustrate how the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite spans both styles.

SPIELMANN, GUY. Le Jeu de l'Ordre et du Chaos. Comédie et pouvoirs à la fin de règne, 1673–1715. Paris, Champion, 2002.

Review: L. N. Cagiano in S Fr 47, no. 139 (2003): 442–443: Welcome contribution to the "fermento di interessi" in a reevaluation of this transition period between centuries. Noteworthy for its breadth of perspectives offered on the dramatic production of the time, particular attention is paid to two criteria—the success or failure of a creation (along with the public's taste) and the observation of innovative elements. Theatre develops not only as entertainment, but also as a place of power. This volume of over 600 pages is divided into five chapters: Toile de fond, Splendeurs et misères de la comédie Fin de règne, Le réel subverti, En marge du théâtre littéraire, La crise du mariage ou l'ordre ébranlé. An epilogue traces the "bilan d'un périple en 'zone incertaine'." Cagiano finds Spielmann's analyses and arguments very articulate and well documented, from Aristotle to the latest web site. Impressive bibliography and indices. An even more exhaustive appendix may be found at http://www.georgetown.edu/spielmann/finderegne.

Review: B. Norman in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 310–311. "This is one of the most important books on French theatre that I have read in a long time. In addition to presenting a wealth of information about long-neglected but important theatres, such as the foire and the Comédie-Italienne, it places this information in the context of the esthetic, social, economic and political developments and forces us to revise our notion of classicism".

STEFANOVSKA, MALINA. "L'anecdote dans les ana et les mémoires du XVIIe siècle" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 111–120.

Stefanovska focuses on how the anecdote or "historiette" functions as a form of historical knowledge in the 17th century.

STIKER-METRAL, CHARLES-OLIVIER. "Les leçons de l'Histoire: histoire, rhétorique et morale (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)." DFS 65 (Winter 2003), 45–57.

L'auteur conclut qu'il y a deux traditions historiques aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles: "la maîtresse de vie, dans le sillage de Plutarque, et la dénonciatrice des comportements humains, dans le sillage de Tacite." Ces deux traditions partagent certaines pratiques et diffèrent radicalement pour d'autres.

SUMMERFIELD, GIOVANNA. "Contes de fées by Women of the Seventeenth-Century [sic]: New Discourses of Sexuality and Gender" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 133–139.

The genre of the conte de fées allowed women to question prevailing discourse on sexuality and gender and offered a forum for expressing a new vision of women's equality.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "Voix féminines dans la littérature classique" in Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 41–52.

The author analyzes how texts by a variety of authors (Villedieu, Urfé, Molière, Racine, Lafayette, Mme de Maintenon) represent the feminine quest for autonomy.

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

Review: D. M. Posner in Ren Q 56 (2003): 190–192. Found to be rich and illuminating if a bit uneven and scanty in its bibliography. Valuable for its patient examination of Lucain's presence in French Baroque literature and for its demonstration of positive readings of Lucain in response to "devastating critiques... both ancient... and modern" (192). Of particular interest is Ternaux's analysis of Corneille's adaptation of Lucain in La Mort de Pompée.

THEOBALD, CATHERINE J. "The Literary Portrait and the Early French Psychological Novel." DAI 65/02 (2004), 539.

Studies the role of the portrait "beyond its role as a salon game," especially its relation to the evolving novel, and its relation to painted portraiture. "[I]nstead of replacing or erasing the set-piece heroic portrait as a result of changing tastes in narrative verisimilitude, the nascent French psychological novel uses the literary portrait in new, complex ways as a function of verbal depiction's changing status as an activity and a textual object."

THOUVENIN, PASCALE. "Les Mémoires de Port-Royal: bilan et perspectives" in Pascal/New Trends in Port-Royal Studies. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, eds. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 1. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 143, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002. 219–229.

Because they combine humility with visibilty, austerity and pleasure, and collective and individual writing, the memoirs of Port-Royal abound with paradox. The author also summarizes recent scholarship on the genre.

TOBIN, RONALD W. "In Memoriam. Paul Bénichou (1908–2001)" in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Eds. John D. Lyons & Cara Welch. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 147, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 13–15.

Moving hommage to the author of Morales du grand siècle.

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 (winter 2003): 125–136.

In this article in English, Tobin revisits the main points of his article "Qu'est-ce que la gastrocritique?" (see below), adding England (Dickens) to his survey of gastronomically inspired texts, along with an additional focus on the etymology of the word gastronomy and new examples from Greek mythology and Roman history. Additional attention is also paid to La Varenne.

TOBIN, RONALD W. "Qu'est-ce que la gastrocritique?" DSS vol. 217, no. 4 (2002): 621–630.

Tobin refutes the notion that the classical era showed no interest in the physical elements of daily life by tracing alimentary themes, first in a wide variety of world literatures (including Greece, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Russia), and then focusing on French literature. Tobin studies the interpenetration of alimentary practices and cultural institutions, developing the notion of la gastrocritique based on the relation between "actes oraux" and "actes d'ingestion" and arguing for a pluridisciplinary approach. To date, dix-septièmistes seem not to have focused on this area (perhaps due to Racinian criticism); Tobin develops a convincing list of names worthy of gastrocriticism, including Boileau, Sorel, La Fontaine, d'Aulnoy, Tallemant des Réaux, Herault de Gourville, la princesse Palatine, Mme de Maintenon, Saint-Simon, Sévigné, La Bruyère, and the lesser-known Du Four de la Crespelière. Tobin devotes several pages to Molière.

TRIBOUT, BRUNO. "Des récits de conjuration entre histoire et fiction." DFS 65 (Winter 2003), 84–100.

En examinant des ouvrages d'auteurs aussi différents que le cardinal de Retz, Sarasin, Saint-Réal ou encore le Noble, l'auteur observe qu'"aucun ne pouvait satisfaire pleinement à telle ou telle étiquette: le morceau de l'histoire, voire le récit de vie, la nouvelle historique ou l'histoire secrète y font sentir des influences variées qui viennent se fonder dans l'esthétique mêlée des récits de conjuration."

TUCKER, HOLLY. Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.

Review: K. Hoffmann in M&T 18.2 (2004), 323–326: An interdisciplinary study of fairy tales in early modern France, starting with Mme d'Aulnoy and continuing with Bernard, Murat, and others. Study is based on detailed research of literary, medical, historical, and scientific contexts with a particular on gender issues. According to Hoffmann: "It is a book that is a must for those working in gendered or interdisciplinary perspectives in fairy tales, and one that will be of interest to anyone curious about the ways in which early-modern science, marvel, and tale-telling crossed boundaries." Reviewer calls the book "a fascinating look at the intersections of medical discourse and fairy tales in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Delving into the realms of midwifery, fertility, embryological theory, sexual and nutritional sex-selection practices, pregnancy cravings, cesarean sections, and maternal markings, Holly Tucker illuminates a space of intersecting social and narrative practices."

Review: C. Jamison in Choice 41.4 (2003), 714–715. Draws connections between women's writing/telling of early fairy tales and growing female upset at men's medical takeover of the birthing process, that is to say, the supplanting of midwives in favor of surgeons. Tucker's book examines tales, medical treatises, and legends/hearsay. "Highly recommended" by the reviewer.

UHRIG, REINHARD. Changing Ideas, Changing Texts: First-Person Novels in the Early Modern Period. Frankfurt, Berlin, and Bern: Lang, 2001.

Review: R. Skrine in MLR 98.4 (2003), 1076–77: "...an authoritative account of the origins and rise of the European novel founded on the thoughtfully evaluated research" treats the transmission and transformations of texts that "were manipulated by generations of editors, publishers, adapters, and translators." Thought-provoking juxtaposition of autobiography and fiction with Apuleius's episodic first-person narrative (The Golden Ass), Augustine's Confessions and "the multiple versions of the comical yet true history of Francion, a seventeenth-century success which was translated into English, Dutch, and German between 1643 and 1663, and ran through numerous ever-changing French versions between 1623 and 1721, becoming a compound of different segments proliferating to almost twice the original length 'in a manner similar to later additions to the Recherche by Proust' (p. 72)." Chapter 5 contains a subsection on "Morality in Seventeenth-Century Literature."

VAN DELFT, LOUIS. "Theatrum Mundi Revisité" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003. 35–44.

Van Delft contrasts past and present understandings of the notion of theatrum mundi, developing the paradoxical and complex nature of the theme, citing its importance to fields as disparate as theology, cosmography, cartography, the history of theater, etc.

VARTY, KENNETH, ed. Reynard the Fox: Social Engagement and Cultural Metamorphoses in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.

Review: Anon in FMLS 39 (2003): 478: Wide-ranging collection of 15 essays by Reynard specialists illuminates this "hero" from the 12th to the 20th c. Important attention to diversity and to society.

VIOLA, CORRADO. Tradizioni letterarie a confronto. Italia e Francia nella polemica Orsi-Bouhours. Verona: Fiorini, 2001.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 47 (2003): 709: Intelligent and careful comparatist study. French focus includes not only Bouhours's Manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit, but also, as important writers of the "République des lettres," Rapin, Boileau and Madame Dacier.

VON STACKELBERG, JURGEN. "Erich Auerbachs Wissenschaftsauffassung." RF 115 (2003): 351–359.

Perceptively examines Auerbach's scholarship for its various interpretations, distinguishing at times the young Auerbach from the seasoned scholar. 17th c. specialists will appreciate in particular Von Stackelberg's insightful ad highly readable assessment of Auerbach on Pascal.

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

Review: A. Howe in MLR 99.1 (2004), 190–91: Collection of ten "well informed and stimulating" essays "as much concerned with Speech as with Spectacle" in French theater during the Renaissance and seventeenth century. See A. Soares on Corneille's L'Illusion comique, B. Louvat on Molière's comédie-ballets, and D. Lafon on the collaboration between these two dramatists.

WETSEL, DAVID & CANOVAS, FREDERIC, eds. Pascal/New Trends in Port-Royal Studies. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 1. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Tübingen: Biblio 17 Number 143, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002.

Individual articles summarized in the appropriate section, organized by author.

WETSEL, DAVID & CANOVAS, FREDERIC, EDS avec la collaboration de Christine Probes et Buford Norman. Les femmes au Grand Siècle; Le Baroque: musique et littérature; Musique et liturgie. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Volume 2. Arizona State University, Tempe, May 2001. Biblio 17 Number 144. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003.

Individual articles summarized under author's name in the appropriate section.

Review: D. Kuizenga in PFSCL XXXI, 60 (2004), 319–321. Brief overview of the fifteen articles devoted to "les femmes au grand siècle' and the three devoted to "musique, littérature et liturgie". "Les articles réunis ici sont, dans leur grande majorité, d'une très haute qualité et méritent l'attention de tous ceux qui s'intéressent au grand siècle."

WILD, FRANCINE. Naissance du genre des "ana" (1574–1712). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2001.

Review: M. Escola in DSS 222 (2004), 133–138: The reviewer finds this to be an exceptionally important and much-anticipated study of the ana as a genre. He characterizes the book as "un exceptionnel "précis" sur le tournant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles trop souvent délaissé —, elle regarde largement vers l'amont (l'ère des "annotateurs" humanistes puis la période du 《 libertinage érudit 》 revisitées ici à nouveaux frais) et l'aval (pour l'analyse de la réception du genre, dans le contexte de la seconde Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes)."

WINE, KATHLEEN. "Theatrum Mundi: An Overview" in Theatrum Mundi. Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin & Kathleen Wine, eds. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003.

An overview of the articles contained in this volume dedicated to Ronald Tobin, divided into sections entitled, "Theaters of Learning," "Comedy and the World," "Tragedy: Pure and Mixed," and "Modern Perspectives."

WORTH-STYLIANOU, VALERIE. Confidential Strategies: The Evolving Role of the Confident in French Tragic Drama (1635–1677). Travaux du Grand Siècle 12. Geneva: Droz, 1999.

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 77 (2003), 374–375. As her title suggests, Worth-Stylianou examines the development of confidents, which in many early dramas stood as mere expositional devices-'listeners' to whom main figures could speak, thereby conveying information to the audience without the awkwardness of monologue. Yet confidents in the hands of Racine are shown to evolve into "full-fledged sharers in the play's tragic passions and destinies" (374). Worth-Stylianou situates her subject amid 17th-century criticism on the convention of the confident, in particular, vis-à-vis D'Aubignac's disapproval of confidents in the works of Pierre Corneille. D'Aubignac claimed these figures were disjointed from their plays' primary actions and sentiments.

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

Review: Anon in FMLS 39 (2003): 335. Enormous (over 1000 pages) anthology by a scholar praised for his authority. Fine essays and illustrations accompany famous and lesser-known stories, all arranged thematically.

AATF. Future conventions: 2005 (July 7–10, Quebec City); 2006 (Milwaukee); 2007 (Baton Rouge); 2008 (Belgium). Contact Jayne Abrate, Executive Director (Southern Illinois U.) Tel. 618-453-5731 abrate@siu.edu, http://aatf.utsa.edu.

ARTAMENE (Scudéry). Project by research team at U. Neuchâtel, to "redonner une chance" au Grand Cyrus, the longest French novel. Online text in collaboration with ARTFL, documentation, iconography. Subsidized by Swiss FNRS. Web: http://www.artamene.org.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). Bks. Festschrift: To tou Basileos Stefanoma. Essays on French 18th & 19th-century Literature and Art in Honor of Basil Guy; forthcoming from Editions Peeters, Leuven, Belgium. Critical editions: Antoine Houdar de La Motte's Discours sur Homère and his Iliade (1714); Joint crit.ed. of Anthoine's Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIII and of the Anthoine brothers' Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIV. Arts: "L'Illusion comique: le voir et le savoir." (on the epistemological schemes in Corneille's comedy). "Les retrouvailles dans Gil Blas." "Alain-René Lesage." Dictionary entry: The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. Book reviews: one on the "commensaux" (domestic servants in noble houses) in the 17th century, the other on a new biography of Molière. Paper: "La Philosophie de la mort chez quatre poètes du premier âge baroque." To be read at the Philosophy of Death session, French 17th-century division, MLA convention, December 27, 2004, Philadelphia. Editor, Cahiers du Dix-Septième; French 17th Discussion Group; Founder, SE 17. fassaf@CHARTER.NET , also fassaf@uga.edu. Web.: http://www.rom.uga.edu/mac/fassaf.

AYRES-BENNETT, WENDY (U. of Cambridge, UK). Sociolinguistic variation in 17th C. France (in press with Cambridge UP).

BEASLEY, FAITH (Dartmouth). Co-President, NASSCFL 03.

BIRBERICK, ANNE L. (Northern Illinois U.). See EMF. annie@niu.edu

BURCHELL, EILEEN (Marymount C. of Fordham U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

C 17. CAHIERS DU DIX-SEPTIEME: Journal accessible on-line in HTML format, beginning with vol. VIII,1. Contact Francis Assaf, 706.542.3164 or write cahiers@arches.uga.edu; or contact John Boitano, Chapman University.

CAMPION EDMUND J. (Tennessee-Knoxville). Ed. crit., Philippe Quinault, Pausanias, (avec William Brooks). Geneva: Droz, 2004. Article: "Erasmus and Switzerland," Swiss-American Historical Review, 39, 3 (November 2003), 5–30 (deals with religious tolerance; is dedicated to the memory of Georges May).

CARLIN, CLAIRE (U. Victoria). Editor: Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2005. 17 articles on the idea of contagion by a team of literary specialists, cultural historians, art historians and philosophers covering France, England, Spain, Italy, Germany and Sweden. Divided into three sections (theory, practice, projections), the book explores both the medical history of contagion from the 15th–18th centuries, and the impact of the metaphor of contagion in economics, religion, politics, literature and the plastic arts. Bk in progress: L'imaginaire nuptial en France, 1550–1715. Explores texts on marriage of diverse genres (e.g. religious and medical treatises, conduct manuals, theatre and novel). Arts.: "'Le beau mariage': Duty, Civility, Tranquillity" in The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France, ed. Anne L. Birberick, EMF: Studies on Early Modern France (Charlottesville, Rookwood Press); "Jeanne de Cambry: Hearing Voices, Making Texts" in The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices, ed. Thomas M. Carr Jr, volume 11 of EMF: Studies on Early Modern France (Charlottesville, Rookwood Press), 2005.

CIR 17 (Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle). President, Cecilia Rizza; Secretary, Pierre Ronzeaud. Dues for North American members: $ 24/year; checks payable to: Volker Schröder / CIR 17; Dept. of French & Italian, Princeton U., 303 East Pyne, Princeton, NJ 08544-5264; volkers@princeton.edu

CLARKE, JAN (Durham). Secretary, Society for French Studies. http://sfs.ac.uk or jan.clarke@durham.ac.uk

CMR 17 (Colloque de Marseilles). For its Mémoires on CD-ROM, see Duchêne, R. Website: http://cmr17.free.fr/.

CONROY, DERVAL (University College Dublin). Forthcoming: "Iconographie et mise en scène d'un pouvoir au féminin : les quatre livres d'entrées de Marie de Médicis en exil." in Les jeux de l'échange: entrées royales et divertissements, sous la direction de Marie-France Wagner, en collaboration avec Louise Frappier et Claire Latraverse (Paris, Champion, 2005); "Reines: invraisemblables rois? Reines vierges et épouses célibates dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle" in L'Invraisemblance du Pouvoir. Théâtres de la souveraineté au XVIIe siècle, sous la direction de Jean-Vincent Blanchard et Hélène Visentin (Schena/Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2005). In progress: Bk. "Ruling Women: Gender, Government and Sovereignty in Seventeenth-Century France." Bk: "Strategies of the Image: The Iconography of Women in Seventeenth-Century Book Illustration." Contrib. ed. French 17. derval.conroy@ucd.ie

CORNEILLE (MOUVEMENT). Corneille Quadricentennial 1606–2006. Centre International Pierre Corneille, organized in 1982. Colloques. Hôtel des Sociétés Savantes, 190 rue Beauvoisine, 7600, Rouen. Présidente, Myriam Maître (U. Rouen), myriam.maitre@caramail.com

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE (Bowdoin College). Forthcoming: "Femmes lunatiques: "Women and the Moon in Early Modern France,"DFS; "Textual Performance: Imprinting the Criminal Body," PSCFL. In preparation: "Ventriloquism and the Voice of Authority: Nuns, Demons, and Exorcists in Early Seventeenth-Century France;" "Impressionable Women: Demon Marks and Divine Stigmata in Early Modern France;" "Crossing Lines, Encouraging Ownership: Representing the Occult Early Modern;" Currently: Collaborative anthology with Martha M. Houle on the Querelle des femmes (1405–1793); Bk. Signing the Body in Early Modern France, an interdisciplinary examination of the body as a literally inscribed, marked, and imprinted object in the early modern period (chs. on devotional self-inscription and stigmata, branding the criminal body, and tattooing by Jerusalem pilgrims and native American peoples); ongoing research on material writing practices including graffiti and the "superstitious" writing and wearing of texts. Contrib. Ed., French 17. Current President, SE-17 2005 (conference scheduled Oct. 6–8, 2005). Inquiries: Dept. of Romance Languages, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011-8478, kdauge@bowdoin.edu or (207) 725-3915.

DENNIS-BAY, LAURA (Cumberland C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DUCHENE, ROGER (U. de Provence). See WEB 17.

DUGGAN, ANNE E. (Wayne State U.) Bk., Provisional title: Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Forthcoming from Delaware UP.

EMBLEMS: 7th International Conference, "Emblems in the 21st Century: The Material and the Medium." Society for Emblem Studies, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 24–30 July, 2005. Papers and panels to treat all aspects of emblem studies, from early appearance in MSS. to digital emblematica. Traditional scholarship and emerging approaches blended.

EMF (Studies in Early Modern France). Vol. 11, Early Modern Convent Voices: The World and the Cloister. Ed., Thomas M. Carr, projected for '05. For more information on EMF, visit http://www.unl.edu/EMF See RUBIN, DAVID, Editor-in-Chief (infra); also RIGGS, LARRY.

FORCE, PIERRE (Columbia). Bk., Self-Interest before Adam Smith. A Genealogy of Economic Science, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003, "Ideas in Context" Series.

GETHNER, PERRY J. (Oklahoma State). Crit.ed.: Rotrou's La Pèlerine amoureuse , slated to appear late '04. Current projects include the eds. of Mairet and Voltaire plays, plus a variety of articles. Treasurer, NASSCFL. Dues $20 to PJG, Head, Dept.of Foreign Languages & Litts, Oklahoma State U., Stillwater, OK 74074 pjg@okstate.edu

HARRISON, HELEN (Morgan SU). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HENEIN, EGLAL (Tufts). See SATOR eglal.henein@tufts.edu

HOULE, MARTHA M. (William & Mary). President and Conference Chairman, SE 17 '04. mmhoule@wm.edu Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795.

ISPAFA International Society of Phenomenology, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts). 10th Annual Conference, 27–28, May, 2005, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Topic: "Beauty's Appeal in the Transformation of Standards for Valuation>" Abstracts due Jan. 1, '05; full papers Mar 1. Webpage: (http://www.phenomenology.org) Registration $125. For detailed information contact Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Dept. of Creative Arts, Siena C., 515 Loudon Rd., Loudonville, NY 12211-1462. vox 518-783-2912 ptrutty@siena.edu

JOHNS, EDWARD H. Editor, Current Research...in the U.K. (online version): 17th C. section. david.h.jones@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk

JUDOVITZ, DALIA (Emory). Two arts. completed on Georges de La Tour. Currently researching / writing a small book on his work, entitled Georges de La Tour: The Enigma of the Visible.

KOCH, EREC (Tulane). Bk., The Aesthetic Body: Sensibility and Passion in Pre-Classical France, 1620–1660. [In progress]. Arts., Sacred/ Secular Rhetoric in Pascal's Lettres provinciales.. PFSCL. [In press]. "Introduction, L'Epistème classique," Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, U. of Virginia, Charlottesville, May 2002. Ed. John D. Lyons. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 239–41. "Nicole, Pierre," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Seventeenth-Century French Writers. Ed. Françoise Jaouën. Vol. 268. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003. 264–71. "Pascal, Blaise," ibid., pp. 272–89.

KOSTROUN, DANIELLA (Stonehill C.). Bk. Project, Undermining Obedience: Louis XIV and the Port Royal Nuns." Under contract at Columbia UP, to appear probably in the summer 2006. [In 1709, Louis XIV had 200 soldiers destroy the Port Royal convent. At that time, the convent contained only 22 elderly nuns. Why did the King attack these seemingly helpless women? To address this question, I explore the reform, growth, and eventual destruction of Port Royal in the context of the 17th C. Jansenist debates. Using previously unexploited MS. Letters by the nuns, I show how they became the vanguard of Jansenist resistance to Louis, by using their authority as proprietors of a wealthy Parisian convent, and by affirming gender discourses about feminine obedience and ignorance to assert (paradoxically) freedom of conscience. While narrating the nuns' remarkable resistance to royal authority, I also highlight the gendered underpinnings of discourses about salvation, free will, and obedience to the state under absolutism. My method of analysis involves close readings of texts and discourses, but my project is grounded in an older historical concern with political action and the limits of absolutism].

KUIZENGA, DONNA (Massachusetts-Boston). Appearing : Madame de Villedieu The Memoirs of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière. TDK.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. "Une Altérité voilée: images de l'Afrique dans la fiction de Madame de Villedieu." In L'Afrique au XVIIe siècle. Mythes et réalités, Alia Baccar Bournaz, ed. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003. 127–39. "Madame de Villedieu." Dictionnaire des Femmes de l'Ancienne France, http://siefar.femmes.free.fr/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFVilledieu.html. In Press : "La Curiosité de Madame de Villedieu." To appear, La Curiosité au XVIIe Siècle. Emmanuèle Lesne-Jaffro, ed."Madame de Villedieu Englished-- les traductions anglais des ouvrages de Villedieu au XVIIe siècle." To appear, Madame de Villedieu romancière. Nouvelles perspectives de recherches. Etudes réunies et présentées par Edwige Keller-Rahbé. "XI–XVII Littérature." Lyon: PUL "Traductions et trahisons : le sort de trois romans français en Angleterre." To appear : Femmes et traduction, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, ed. Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa. "Espaces féminins? La topique des lieux dans les Nouvelles afriquaines et les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière de Mme de Villedieu." To appear, Locus in Fabula, Nathalie Ferrand, ed. Louvain: Editions Peeters. In Progress: Bk., Strategic Rewriting in the Early Modern Novel.

LE FABLIER (Journal of the Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine). La Fontaine et l'Héritage de l'Europe Humaniste. Actes du Colloque de l'Institut de France, 15–16 November 2001 (2e partie). Contains articles, documents, bibliography of the poet for the year 2000. Last Colloque in Paris, 5/04 . President & Directeur of publications, Patrick Dandrey). See Part V: LA FONTAINE.

LEINER, WOLFGANG (U. Washington, U. Tübingen). Editor, NASSCFL, Biblio 17, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (PFSCL), Œuvres et Critiques. Past President, CIR 17. Romanisches Seminar, Wilhelmstrasse 50, D-72074, Tübingen, Germany. wolfgang.leiner@uni-tuebingen.de or wleiner@aol.com. See also CMR 17.

LE MARCHAND, BERENICE V. (San Francisco State). Arts. in progress: "Staging the Mirror: the Spectacular in Blasons, Emblems, and Fairy Tales of Early Modern France"; "The "corps-marionnette"in the French fairy tales (last "mise en scène des contes du Grand Siècle)." Projected: book-length MS. on the representations and uses of the looking glass in 17th C. fairy tales. Bibliography of fairy tale literature, for forthcoming issue of Marvels and Tales (ed. by Holly Tucker).

LYONS, JOHN D. (Virginia). Ed., Actes de Charlottesville Meeting, Biblio 17, 2003. President, NASSCFL 2002. Dept. of French, Box 400770, U. Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4770. jdl2f@unix.mail.virginia.edu, also jdlyons@virginia.edu.

MABER, RICHARD (Durham). Ed., The Seventeenth Century (see infra); Director, Durham 17th C. biennial Conference (last held in 2003) University Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN England. R.G.Maber@durham.ac.uk

MAZOUER, CHARLES. European Treasurer, CIR 17. (8 rue de la Chênaie, F-33170, Gradignan).

McCLURE, ELLEN (Illinois-Chicago). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

MILLER, MICHELLE L. (Michigan-Ann Arbor). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

MOLIERE WEBSITE. Prepared by Gabriel Conesa and Robert Garapon, for widest public on all levels. Contains announcements of new performances, colloquia and bibliography; illustrated chronology of life and times (limited); œuvres with apparatus, from early eds.; multiple-aspect dictionary with articles, accessible by letter, then word; contemporary iconography with links alsewhere in the site; bibliography of c. 5000 items; useful filmography on life and works, both ciné and TV. http://www.toutmoliere.net/index.html.

MONTEL-GLENISSON, CAROLINE (NYU). Director, New York University in France. Bks., Guide des noms et des lieux aux sources de la Nouvelle-France: Un Tour de France Canadien, Montréal Canada, La Presse, 1980 (Re-edition scheduled for the end of 2004); Il y a 450 ans, Jacques Cartier. Paris, Attya; Cartier au Pays de Canada (Cartier in Canada), Paris; Biographies, Gallimard; Champlain, la découverte du Canada;. Paris, Nouveau Monde, March 2004; Champlain au Canada, les voyages d'un gentilhomme explorateur. Paris, Biographie juniors, Nouveau Monde. Project France-Canada 1604–2004, March 2004; Exhibit catalogs, documentaries, colloquia.

NASSCFL 2004. 36th Annual Conference was held at Portland State U., 6–8 May 2004. President and Editor of the Actes: Jennifer R. Perlmutter, jrp@pdx.edu [see infra]

NASSCFL 2005. 37th Annual Conference, April 14–16, 2005, at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. SC. President Buford Norman. Working topic: "Formes et Formations au 17e Siècle. Sessions and concurrent roundtables discussing brief texts; subjects include lyric poetry, tragedy/prose, Quinault, Francion, Tartuffe, Villedieu, Boileau, Pascal, Bossuet. One-page proposals for paper or presentation due by 15 November, to chair or moderator. For detailed information on program and chairs, registration, lodging, transportation, and bibliography, see website: http://www.cla.sc.edu/dllc/fren/Events.Activities/nasscfl/nasscfl.html. NASSCFL Dues: U.S.$20 to Perry Gethner; Canadian $30 to Claire Carlin (supra) [reductions for students, retirees, part-time faculty, untenured]. NASSCFL Teaching Award: contact Erec R. Koch, Office of the Assoc. Dean, Tulane U., New Orleans, LA 7018-5698 erkoch@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina). Data base on history of opera performances at court and in Paris, through 1687. With William Brooks (Bath). Should be on line by the end of 2004, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Paper on exceptions and excesses in classical theater, fall 2004. Revision / translation of book on Quinault's libretti (Touched by the Graces). Bk. on Racine and music. Most of the research done, but not much of the writing. Retirement in the summer of 2005—then the writing will get done. President, NASSCFL 2005. Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Columbia, SC 29208-0001 NormanB@GWM.SC.EDU

PAIGE, NICHOLAS (California-Berkeley). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

PERLMUTTER JENNIFER R. (Portland State U.). President, NASSCFL 2004. Recent: Participation in OPI certification training, ACTFL Annual Conference, Chicago, 11/04. Guest Speaker, "L'acquisition des langues pour tous ages," OATF /WATF (Oregon / Washington AATF), 10/04. Art., "Education and the Nouvelles of the Mercure Galant," for The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France, ed. Anne Birberick. Current: arts., "Shades of Anonymity: Women and the Ana"; "Commemoration and the Ana Savants." ). Editor, Actes de Portland: deadline for paper submission, from participants, extended to 12/1/04: send to Box 751 (FLL), Portland State U. Portland, OR 97207-0751. (503) 725-8783 jrp@pdx.edu.

PROBES, CHRISTINE (U. South Florida). Recent: Bk., co-ed. with Buford Norman, David Wetsel and Frédéric Canovas. La Femme à l'âge classique; Le Baroque, la musique et la liturgie: edited the section on the Woman in the Classical Age, pages 41–217 and wrote the preface, p. 11–15. Collection Ed. is Wolfgang Leiner. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003. Arts., (1)"La Littérature et l'art au service de la théologie: le voyage terrestre et le voyage spirituel, la poésie de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet mise en rapport avec les emblèmes de Pierre de Loysi," in La Spiritualité, l'épistolarité, le merveilleux au Grand Siècle, ed. David Wetsel. Tübingen, Narr, 2003. 81–93. (2) "L'entrelacement des sens et de la nature chez Jean-Baptiste Chassignet," in vol. Jean-Baptiste Chassignet, Ed. Anne Mantero. Paris: Champion, 2003, 163–179. (3) "'N'ois-tu pas soupirer Zéphire, 'Goûtons mille douceurs': Une exploration de la profusion des sens dans la poésie de Tristan l'Hermite," Actualités de Tristan, éd. Jacques Prévost. Nanterre: Centre des Sciences de la Littérature, 2003, 241–259. (4) "Le Savoir historique à l'intersection de l'art et de la poésie emblématiques: les gravures de Pierre de Loysi mises en rapport avec Les Sonnets franc-comtois," Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle, eds. John D. Lyons and Cara Welch, Tübingen: Narr, 2003, 81–90. (5) "Les Sonnets franc-comtois de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet: la représentation du 'premier lecteur' et la persuasion du lecteur idéal," in press for vol. ed. by A. Cullière and Anne Mantero, Besançon: PU, 2004. (6) "Des lectures au sein de la famille royale: la correspondance de Madame Palatine comme révélant des modes féminins de connaissance au XVIIe siècle," accepted for vol. ed.by M. Camus at PU de Franche Comté (7) Paper, with doctoral student James Aubry, "Translating the Renaissance" at SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November 2003. Pending: Papers: (1) "Rhetorical Stratégies for a locus terribilis: Senses, Signs, Symbols and Theological Allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris," at 5th International Marlowe Conference at Cambridge, England, June 30–July 4, 2003. Submitted for planned vol. (2) "The Prince and the Subject at the Intersection of Emblematic Poetry and Art: Moral and Pragmatic Reflection" for the 2004 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota. (3) "Avez-vous senti Dassoucy? Pour une rhétorique des sens chez 'l'Empereur du Burlesque'" for the 2004 Colloque on Dassoucy organized by Domnique Bertrand at Clermont Ferrand, France. (4) "La Mémoire et l'identité transmises par la femme antillaise: stratégies littéraires et cinémato-graphiques" for the 2004 convention of CIEF (Conseil International des Etudes Francophones), Liège, Belgium. Longer version planned for vol. (5) "Rhetorical Strategies for a locus terribilis: Senses, Signs, Symbols and Theological Allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris," submitted to the organizers of the refereed volume to be published from selected papers delivered at 5th International Marlowe Conference at Cambridge, England, June 30–July 4, 2003. Contrib. Ed., French 17; Secretary, NASSCFL.

REPERTOIRE CHRONOLIGIQUE des Spectacles à Paris, 1673–1715. Includes information on lyric theatre, Italian comedians, other theater, by Guy Spielmann. To be enriched with other visual documents. http://www.georgetown.edu/spielmann/finderegne

REPERTOIRE INTERNATIONAL DES DIX-SEPTIEMISTES. New edition in press, forthcoming from CIR 17. Price: US$ 24 or 24 euros; send checks or inquiries to Volker Schröder (see above under CIR 17).

RIGGS, LARRY W. (Butler). Bk., Critique on Molière's response to modernity (accepted by EMF, 9/04).

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). Recent: "Saint-Amant, Holland House, and the Queen of England." Analecta Husserliana, LXXXI (2004), 45–60. "Research in Progress 2003," in French 17, vol. 51 (2003), 153–163. Papers: "Perelle's Preservation of Louis XIV's Paris," NASSCFL, Portland State, 5/04; "Reality vs. Illusion in 17th Century Parisian Engravings," Phenomenology Conference, Harvard U., 5/04. Submitted: "Perelle's Topographical Albums: Problems and Solutions." Forthcoming: "Dissertations '03–'04," in PFSCL (in press, winter no.); "The 'Front de Seine' in 1630–1660" and "Perelle's Veües des Plus Beaux Endroits de Versailles," CdDS. Bibliographer, NASSCFL; Directeur, Cahiers Maynard; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

ROBIN, JEAN-LUC (Rice U.). Bk., Expérience et modèle dans les textes littéraires et scientifiques classiques (on the literary shaping of modern reason and today's still-prominent scientific concepts in the works of Galileo, Descartes, Molière, and Mme de Lafayette). Arts. on Descartes, Mme de Lafayette,, and Leibniz.

RUBIN, DAVID (Emeritus, Virginia). Editor-in-Chief and publisher, Rookwood Press. Bk., appearing in late 2004: La Poésie française du premier 17e siècle: textes et contextes, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged in collaboration with Robert T. Corum. See also EMF.

RUBIN FESTSCHRIFT. The Shape of Change: Essays in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick & Russell Ganim. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. ISBN 90-420-1449-0. $33.50. Contains essays by 14 scholars, exploring how artistic endeavor shapes and is shaped by literary memory. Large section on La Fontaine. Contact: rganiml@unl.edu

SADR, TABITHA SPAGNOLO (Duke). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SATOR 05. XIXe Colloque annuel, Clermont-Ferrand, Summer 2005. Topic: "Mémoires d'Europe: topographie de la rencontre dans le roman européen." Contact: Jean-Pierre Dubost, jpdubost@gmx.fr. See HENEIN, EGLAL.

SCFS. See Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies.

SCHRODER, VOLKER (Princeton). Recent 《 Ecolier, ou plutôt singe de Bourdaloue 》: portrait du satirique en prédicateur," in Boileau: poésie, esthétique, ed. Emmanuel Bury & Volker Kapp, PFSCL XXXI, 61 (spring 2004); "Situation des études raciniennes: histoire et littérature," in Jean Racine 1699–1999, ed. Gilles Declercq & Michèle Rosellini, PUF, 2003; La Tragédie du sang d'Auguste: politique et intertextualité dans Britannicus, 2e tirage, Narr, 2004. Forthcoming: "Versailles, opéra aux fantômes: The Ghosts of Versailles," in Versailles dans la littérature: mémoire et imaginaire aux XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. Véronique Léonard-Roques, PU Clermont-Ferrand, 2004; Crit. ed. (with Alicia Montoya) of Marie-Anne Barbier, Cornélie mère des Gracques (tragedy, 1703), Littératures classiques, 2005. In progress: arts. on Boileau, L'Héritier, Deshoulières. Review editor, PFSCL.

SCOTT, PAUL (Kansas). Recent : Arts., "Les crucifixions féminines: une iconographie de la Contre-Réforme," Revue des Sciences Humaines, 269 (2003), 153–174. "Manipulating Martyrdom: Corneille's (Hetero)sexualisation of Polyeucte", MLR , 99 (2004), 228–238. In Progress: Research 'The Representation of Martyrdom in Early Modern France," book-length project, expected completion March 2005. Crit. ed., Marie de La Chapelle, L'Illustre philosophe ou le martyre de sainte Catherine (1663), expected completion in April 2005. Art. on "The Curious Preoccupations of Abbé Jean-Baptiste Thiers." Research for conference presentation and subsequent publication on "Jean de Baricave's La Défence de la Monarchie Française et autres monarchies (1614) as Refutation of the Vindiciae." Translations of sections (Biblical and Latin) of Pascal's Pensees (Catholic University of America Press; David Wetsel General Editor). Art. under consideration: "Subversive Revisions in the work of Charles de Beys."

SE17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Studies). 23rd Annual Conference was held 28–30 October 2004, at William & Mary College. Conference Chairman, Martha M. Houle, Modern Languages and Literatures, The College of William & Mary in Virginia, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. mmhoule@wm.edu. 24th Conference (2005) to be held at Bowdoin College in Maine; contact Katherine Dauge-Roth, Dept. of Romance Languages, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011-8478, kdauge@bowdoin.edu or 207.725.3915.

SEIFERT, LEWIS C. (Brown). Bk manuscript: Man against Man: Masculinity and Marginality in Seventeenth-Century France. [Examines the intersection of marginal cultural positions and masculine identities in 17th C. France; analyzes the place of marginal masculinities in the writing and culture of the period and defines the relationship between normative masculinities and various positions of marginality; considers the effeminate man, the male melancholic, the sodomite and their rela- tionships to the honnête homme, the "galant" hero, and the King (among others)].

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN (Holy Cross). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE. Editor, Richard Maber. Journal covers all aspects of the 17th c. Encourages period study so as to transcend national and disciplinary boundaries. Vol. XVIII,1 (April 2003). Also accessible online Two issues per year. website: http://mupmcc.ac.uk See MABER (supra).

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 7/04. Contact: Michael Sheringham (President), French Dept., Royal Holloway U. of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. Fax: +4 (0) 1784 70180. E-mail: m.ockenden@rhul.ac.uk SFS Home page: http://www.sfs.ac.uk/

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). Website: http://www.c17.org.uk Contact : Amy Wygant A.Wygant@french.arts.gla.ac.uk

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE (Illinois-Chicago). Recent: Bk., Parcours lafontainien: d'Adonis au Livre XII des Fables. Biblio 17, vol. 150, Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 2004. Art., "Paysages, jardins et parcs, miroirs de l'affectivité et des goûts de Tristan," Actualités de Tristan, Littérales, no. spécial, 3 (2003), 135–50. Papers: "Présence d'une pensée esthétique au XVIIe Sc," MLA Session at San Diego, to be publ. in PFSCL (no. 62 ou 63); "Des dieux et des déesses dans l'imaginaire de La Fontaine, Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine, Paris, May 27–29, 2004 (organized by Patrick Dandrey, President), to be publ. in Le Fablier. In progress: La Fontaine and questions of esthetics in the 17th C. ; "Les grandes tendences de la critique cornélienne des vingt dernières années (ou 1984–2004) for OeC 2006, under the direction of Charles Mazouer, for the Quadricentennial of Corneille (1606–2006). Guest Contributor, French 17 (2003), no. 51.

TOBIN, RONALD W. (California-Santa Barbara). Past President, NASSCFL.

TOCZYSKI, SUZANNE C. (Sonoma State) Art. in progress: "Navigating the Sea of Alterity." Editor, French 17: An Annual Descriptive Bibliography of French 17th Century Studies. Recent: Number 50 (50th Anniversary issue) awarded the Prix Web 17 2002. Correspondence: Modern Languages & Literatures, Sonoma State University, 1801 Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu or http://www.sonoma.edu/users/t/toczyski/

TOPOSCAN. Ce groupe de recherches dirigé par Max Vernet ne dépend plus vraiment de la SATOR. Nous avons redéfini la direction de recherches, et procédons à l'élaboration d'un logiciel qui comporterait un moteur de recherches capable de déceler les topoi narratifs dans les textes entre 1600 et 1800 (cette fourchette temporelle seulement parce que nous en sommes aux tous débuts). vernetm@qsilver.queensu.ca

VOS-CAMY, JOLENE (Calvin C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WALLIS, ANDREW (Whittier C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WEB 17. Ed. by Roger Duchêne (U. de Provence), is a website for those interested in 17th c. Invites additions & corrections, information about correspondence, books, articles, and other items particularly interesting to Web readers. Editor requests suggestions for the annual Prix Web 17 prizes. Alphabetic index of site, at bottom left-hand book icon on welcome page. http://web 17.free.fr/ Contact RD at 174 rue abbé de l'Epée, 13005 Marseille roger.duchene@wanadoo.fr.

WETSEL, DAVID (Arizona State). President, NASSCFL 01. Ed., with Frédéric Canovas, Actes de Tempe. Volume I. Pascal/New Trends in Pascal Studies; Volume II. Les femmes au Grand Siècle/Le Baroque: musique et littérature; III. La Spiritualité/ L'épistolaire/Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle; IV. Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle; V. Philosophies au siècle classique en France; VI Présences du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance en France Classique. [The complete set runs to some 1438 pages]. To order: Vols. I–III may be ordered via links in the collection Biblio 17: ACTA, 1–3 and Gunter Narr Verlag, A. Francke Verlag, Attempto Verlag. Vols. IV–VI may be ordered via the following links: roma15 and Romanice. Photos of the Jean Gilles Réquiem may be downloaded from the following site: Index: Wetsel Images. Other photographs of the conference are available by request year. Wdwetsel@aol.com

WINE, KATHLEEN (Dartmouth). Co-President, NASSCFL 03. Kathleen.Wine@dartmouth.edu.

ZAISER, RAINER (U. de Cologne). Art.: "Le page disgracié de Tristan L'Hermite et la naissance du roman moderne en France", in Actualités de Tristan. Actes du colloque international 《  Actualités de Tristan  》 tenu à l'U. de Paris X-Nanterre et à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (22, 23 et 24 novembre 2001). Réunis et présentés par Jacques Prévot. Université de Paris X-Nanterre : Centre des Sciences de la Littérature, 2003, pp. 313–323. Papers: "Don Quichotte à la française: L'Histoire comique de Francion de Charles Sorel et le déclin du monde héroïco-chevaleresque à l'aube de l'âge moderne", communication tenue au "Deutscher Romanistentag" à Kiel du 28 au 30 septembre 2003 ; "La mise en abyme : mode d'emploi de la modernité dans la littérature et l'art du XVIIe siècle", communication tenue au colloque "La modernité mode d'emploi" organisé par le groupe de recherche "Poétiques modernes comparées" de l'U. de Paris XII-Val de Marne, le 2 avril 2004. Co-Editor, PFSCL. rzaiser@gmx.de