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ADAMS, ALISON. Webs of Allusion: French Protestant Emblem Books of the Sixteenth Century. Geneva: Droz, 2003.

Review: S. Pickford in MLR 100.3 (2005), 811: "While focusing on the original French or Latin version of each work, Adams also explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century translations. These inform our interpretation of the original through their faithfulness or otherwise to the principal text, as well as through the stylistic and linguistic techniques employed by the translator. As a result, new light is shed on the reception and comprehension of emblematic works at different periods in history."

ADAMS, ALISON, STEPHEN RAWLES & ALISON SAUNDERS. A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. II: L-Z. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: J. Britnell in MLR 100.3 (2005), 810–11: Essential reference tool with "an admirable series of indexes: a consolidated index of names and titles, followed by one of principal authors and titles, and then more specialized indexes of editors, commentators, translators, and other supplementary authors; artists, dedicatees, printers/publishers; places of publication; dates of publication."

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

Review: Mentioned in Choice 42.4 (2004), 609 as a "significant European scholarly title" for 2003. Arbour's biographical dictionary lists women in the book trade. They are indexed first alphabetically, then by century.

Review : E. Berriot-Salvadore in BHR 66.3 (2004), 703–05: "Tout est construit pour faciliter l'utilisation de ce dictionnaire, conçu non comme une somme définitive mais comme un stimulant outil de découverte."

BADIOU-MONFERRAN. "Négation et coordination en français classique: le morphème ni dans tous ses états." LF 143 (2004), 69–92.

Shows that in classical French, "ni" functions primarily as an "argumentative connector," a use different from both medieval and modern French.

BARBOUR, REID. "Recent Studies in Seventeenth-Century Literary Republicanism." ELR 34 (2004): 387–417.

Barbour's bibliographical essay reviews general studies (biographical and critical) on the topic as well as studies of individual writers. Although the focus is English, 17th c. French scholars will find much of interest as pertains to rhetoric and the theatre, rhetoric and law, politics and fables, pastoral and ideology, and the politics of reading itself.

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

Review: M.-Fr. Hilgar in FR 78.3 (2005): 573–74. This massive tome undertakes stylistic analysis of a still more massive corpus—some 80,000 lines of poetry from Corneille and Racine. Beaudoin examines these authors' works with tools from computational linguistics, in particular, a device called a "métromètre" (574) which performs phonetic transcription and analysis. The result? Beaudoin notes the appearance of patterns such as greater rhythmic variety in verses which thematize love as compared to lines which thematize death. Her book also includes a history of the alexandrine and 150-page list of the rhymes which appear in the two authors' works.

BENSELER, DAVID P. & SUZANNE S. MOORE "Doctoral Degrees Granted in Foreign Languages in the United States: 2004." MLJ 88, no.3 (winter 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.

BERLAN, FRANçOISE. "Les verbes substituts lexicaux de la négation dans le théâtre classique. Le corpus racinien." LF 143 (2004), 93–110.

Analyses the use of verbs of negative meaning as opposed to negative adverbs, particularly in "constrained" forms such as the alexandrine.

BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE LA LITTERATURE FRANÇAISE (XVIe-XXe siècle). Eric Ferey & Sylvain Fort, eds. Paris: PUF, for the Société d'histoire de la littérature de la France. "Année 2001" issued as RHL "Hors série" vol.103. 17th c. section, p.316–330.

Alphabetical author and subject indices; title index by period, pp.561–700. Formerly also as no.3 of RHL (separate pagination). Now issued apart from journal, and with single pagination only. Continues the well-known "Rancoeur Bibliography."

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

Review: Mentioned in Choice 42.4 (2004), 609 as a "significant European scholarly title" for 2003. Arbour's biographical dictionary lists women in the book trade. They are indexed first alphabetically, then by century.

Review : E. Berriot-Salvadore in BHR 66.3 (2004), 703–05 : 《 Tout est construit pour faciliter l'utilisation de ce dictionnaire, conçu non comme une somme définitive mais comme un stimulant outil de découverte. 》

ARTS & HUMANITIES THROUGH THE ERAS. Ann Arbor: Gale, 2005.

Review: V.L. Wainscott in Choice 43.1 (2005), 62: A five-volume set of which volumes 4, Renaissance Europe 1300–1600 and 5, Baroque and Enlightenment 1600–1800, will be of most interest to dix-septiémistes. A multicultural approach intended to "bring history to life." In addition to 1–2 page articles, includes timelines, biographies, primary source references.

BAKER, SUSAN READ. "Nautical Fare in Robert Challe's Journal d'un voyage fait aux Indes Orientales (1690-1691)." CdDS 9.1 (2004): 21–32.

Using the differences between the draft of Challe's work and its published version, author examines the additions Challe made about food and drink; emphasizes that the work is not merely an inventory, but rather "an economics of consumption fraught with moral, political, ideological, even theological overtones."

BALSAMO, JEAN, ed. Les Funérailles à la Renaissance: XIIe colloque international de la Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle, Bar-le-Duc, 2–5 décembre 1999. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: M. J. Gill in Ren Q 57 (2004): 235–237: Highly interdisciplinary, this collection of 24 essays "constitutes an invaluable survey of current research in the culture and commemoration of death in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries [and is] organized into two parts, 'Rites and Princely Memorials' and 'Religious Polemics and Learned Discourses'" (235). Gill suggests topics for future investigation such as "the role of women as sponsors and as dedicated custodians of the afterlife" (237). Highly suggestive for future studies both artistic and literary.

BAR, VIRGINIE. La peinture allégorique au Grand Siècle.

Mentioned in Choice 42.4 (2004), 610 as a "significant European scholarly title" for 2003. In her book, Bar offers "an illustrated discussion of French allegorical painting of the 17th century, focusing on mural paintings and decoration at such important sites as Versailles" (610).

BEGUIN, KATIA. Les Princes de Condé. Rebelles, courtisans et mécènes dans la France du Grand siècle. Avant-propos de Daniel Roche. Champ Vallon, 1999.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/beguin.html. "[V]ery rich and subtle study of clientage, patronage, and princely household culture," written in "sparkling prose." Ranum notes that, "The organization of this book is just about perfect. It is generally chronological while being specifically thematic and also generational. Part I is the rise to fortune of Henry II, and the accrochage of his son in the Fronde. Part II is the clientage and household of the Grand Condé, and Part III is the cultural patronage." Final section devoted to literary and scientific patronage. A "splendid, thoughtful book."

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

Review: R. Barnes in Choice 42.4 (2004), 727. Here, Black attempts a history of Europe from 1550–1800 that eschews arguments about state-formation and governmental centralization. Instead, Black attempts to emphasize "political contingency, the constant need for compromise among elites, and general continuity" (727). Black bases these claims almost exclusively on secondary sources in English, and presents his findings in awkward, muddled prose. Although the reviewer expresses slight approval for the book's final chapter, which makes a case for the importance of capitalist forces in the rise of globalization, the reviewer nonetheless withholds his recommendation.

BRUNNER, HORST, ed. Die Wahrnehmung und Darstellung von Kriegen im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2000.

Review: G. Vollmann-Profe in Archiv 240 (2003): 382–84: The fourteen essays treat perceptions and representations of war in texts from the high Middle Ages to the early modern. Wide-ranging examinations from the theoretical to the literary, diplomatic and even propagandistic perspectives.

BURIDANT, JEROME. "La gestion des forêts de vénerie au XVIIe siècle." DSS 226 (2005), 17–27.

"On sait que l'exercice de la chasse par la plupart des rois de France a contribué depuis la fin de l'époque médiévale au maintien des grandes forêts d'Île-de-France, dans des périodes où la couverture sylvestre se réduisait comme peau de chagrin. Plus encore, la chasse et la vénerie en particulier conduisent à un véritable façonnement des milieux forestiers, du fait des aménagements tout autant que de la pression du gibier." The author concludes that the forests were marked particularly by the practices of the seventeenth century and not always for the better.

BURKE, PETER. Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. London: Reaktion Books, 2001.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 40 (2004): 464: Judged highly readable, Burke's study is wide-ranging, examining historical and pre-historical uses of the visual, context and intention. Individual chapters treat portraits and photographs, intellectual content, the sacred and supernatural (images of devotion, for example), propaganda, material culture, stereotypes, visual narratives, and useful theoretical methods.

CAMERON, KEITH, ed. La Vie et faits notables de Henri de Valois. Paris: Champion (2003).

Review: M. Lazard in FS 59.2 (2005), 239–40: The reviewer details the contents of Cameron's edition of a vehemently pro-Catholic and anti-Henri IV work. The biography is well edited and well-chosen, as it is very interesting in its own right for the insights it gives to what amounts to a justification for regicide. In the reviewer's words, this is "une excellente édition, utile à l'historien comme au littéraire."

CARRIER, HUBERT. Le Labyrinthe de l'Etat: essai sur le débat politique en France au temps de la Fronde (1648–1653). Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/carrier_labyrinthe.htm. Reviewer calls the work "magisterial" and "finds it difficult to imagine a more authoritative work than Carrier's!" thanks in part to the author's "profound understanding of monarchy as a political form." Ranum also notes that "the whole study is grounded on the careful exploration of key social as well as political terms, with pertinent quotations to support whatever point is being made." A "profound and important work" (Ranum).

Review: n.a. in BCLF 672 (2005), 116: 《 H. Carrier ne revient pas sur l'histoire de la Fronde proprement dite. . ., mais se demande dans quelle mesure ce soulèvement a conduit les Français à réfléchir aux grandes questions politiques de leur temps. Pour ce faire, il s'intéresse à la masse d'environ cinq mille cinq cents textes publiés de 1648 à 1653 et réunis sous le terme générique de 'mazarinades'. 》

CARSON, SUSANNAH. "L'économique de la mode: Costume, Conformity and Consumerism in Le Mercure gallant." SCFS 27 (2005), 133–146.

In the Mercure galant, "engravings, articles, and short fictions simultaneously encouraged readers to emulate a certain model of dress and enforced stratification through sartorial distinctions. This article reviews ways in which these conflicting concerns of assimilation and differentiation contributed to the evolution of a knowledge economy of clothes."

CASTELLUCCIO, STEPHANE. Le Garde-meuble de la couronne et ses intendants du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2004.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 670 (2005), 42–43: L'auteur 《 conduit avec rigueur l'histoire de cette institution: biens inaliénables, objets d'art (réserve monétaire rapidement disponible), domaine casuel et domaine fixe, critères retenus pour les ventes d'objets usés ou démodés, le rachat d'un mobilier neuf et d'une vaisselle à la mode entretenant le dynamisme et la créativité des artisans parisiens. 》

COGITORE, ISABELLE & FRANCIS GOYET, eds. L'éloge du Prince. De l'Antiquité au temps des Lumières. Grenoble: Université Stendhal-ELLUG, 2003.

Review: C. Thiry in LR 58 (2004): 144–46: These studies drawn from the papers read at the 1997 colloque at Grenoble and from others presented at the séminaire "Discours pour les Princes" focus on the theory and techniques of the éloge. Studies in the first half of the volume treat Greek and Latin literature and those of the second half examine the early modern. 17th c. scholars will appreciate contributions on the éloge in satire and in discourses of the Academy, image construction, propaganda and dissimulation.

CORVOL, ANDREE. "Droit de chasse et réserves à l'époque moderne." DSS 226 (2005), 3–16.

This article makes a detailed study of the uneven implementation of laws governing the hunt during the seventeenth century and how their enforcement or lack thereof benefited the privileged, altered the development of land involved for the greater good, and caused an uneven depletion in hunted wildlife. In undertaking a general analysis, the author points to a general lack of regulation in matters of the hunt in France between "l'ordonnance de 1669 et la loi de 1790, après quoi il faut attendre celle de 1844."

CRAVERI, BENEDETTA. L'âge de la conversation. Trans. E. Deschamps-Pria. Paris: Gallimard, 2002.

Review: A. Jaubert in RHL 104.4 (2004): 940–42. A general audience book that is both a "livre-somme" covering two centuries of cultural life, and a "livre-thèse" that demonstrates "l'intrication entre l'histoire des moeurs, le cheminement des idées, et la promotion de certaines formes littéraires." Most chapters center around the important women of the salons; author uses both primary sources and current scholarship, brought together in a 56-page annotated bibliography. Reviewer finds work both intellectually rigorous and agreeable to read.

CRAWFORD, KATHERINE. Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2004.

Review: J. Harris in Choice 43.1 (2005), 178: Demonstrates that gender played a significant role in the way regencies, starting with Catherine de Médicis and ending with Marie Antoinette, helped form the modern French state. The inclusion of Philippe d'Orléans, the only male regent of the period, strengthens her argument that thanks to Catherine de Médicis, the role of regent became strongly gendered, making it difficult for Philippe d'Orléans to fulfill it, which in turn led to the monarchy being challenged and ultimately, the Revolution. Harris indicates that the book also includes an "exemplary" use of images.

CRESCENZO, RICHARD, ed. Espaces de l'image. Paris: U Nancy II, 2002.

Review: C. Braider in Ren Q 57 (2004): 606–608: Less than enthusiastic review finds the volume uneven, the essays "short and this underdeveloped." Braider does have praise for Charlotte Simonin's "Les portraits de femmes auteurs ou l'impossible représentation" but he does not indicate who the women authors are. None of the other essays he mentions are on 17th c. French subjects.

CRESCENZO, RICHARD, MARIE ROIG-MIRANDA & VERONIQUE ZAERCHER, eds. Le Mariage dans l'Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: réalités et représentations. Nancy: U de Nancy II, 2003.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 144 (2004): 681–82: Rich two-volume collection of essays drawn from the 2001 Nancy conference on the topic of matrimony. The subject is examined by eminent scholars from a double perspective, the institution itself and its literary and artistic transposition (681). Sections include treatments of the following subjects: juridical rules and social organization; evolution from political matrimony to that of love; the importance of money; theatrical, satirical and fictive representations of marriage and the perfect spouse; divorce and separation after the Council of Trent; and adultery and 17th c. Catholic treatises.

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Femmes lunatiques: Women and the Moon in Early Modern France." DFS 71 (2005), 3–29:

"The vast constellation of literary and iconographic sources that exploit the theme of female lunacy reveals the femme lunatique as a significant satirical theme in seventeenth-century anti-feminist discourse. As such, this imagery served as a vehicle for the expression of male anxiety in an age of increasingly prominent public roles for women in the political, religious, literary and even military arenas, and of intense challenge to the allotted place of women as wives and mothers."

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

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/dejean_obscenity.htm. While reviewer calls the book "learnedly stimulating," he notes that Dejean fails to cite Alfred Soman, a pioneer in the field, although her conclusions are "strikingly similar" to his. Ranum notes that Dejean is a "careful and thoughtful reader of Foucault" and signals "the wonderful absence of reductionism" in her text. Ranum concludes, "Let the reader enjoy Dejean's work; no summary would do it justice."

DERSTINE, ANDRIA L. "The French Academy in Rome, 1666–1737: Art, Society, Politics and Relations with the Accademia di San Luca." DAI 65/09 (2005), 3191.

A detailed study of the workings of the French Academy in Rome, "founded in 1666 by Louis XIV and Jean-Baptiste Colbert [...] largely so that its pensionnaires would copy works in Rome for the burgeoning palace of Versailles.

DESPLAT, CHRISTIAN. Les Villageois face à la guerre (XIVe–XVIIIe siècle). Toulouse: PU du Mirail, 2002.

Review : C. Bruneel in RBPH 82.4 (2004), 1175–76: Les XXIIes Journées internationales d'Histoire de l'Abbaye de Flaran: 《 C'est avec une grande liberté d'approche et une large diversité que les différents auteurs ont apporté leur contribution au thème. Chronologiquement, les Temps modernes sont privilégiées et, plus particulièrement, par la force des choses, les XVIe et XVIIe siècles. 》

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

Review: T. Baranova in DSS 227 (2005), 367–368: The author studies "les libelles et les images du règne de Louis XIII en tant que 《médias》 de l'époque, permettant les processus d'information, de communication, de contestation et de propagande." The reviewer identifies "l'intérêt de ce livre est de donner au lecteur une vue d'ensemble sur la production de la période et sur son évolution, sur les thèmes qui suscitent les publications, sur les chaînes polémiques, sur les mécanismes de glissement du débat, sur la mise en service de l'information et de la désinformation."

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

Review: M. Bernos in RHL 104.4 (2004): 935–37. 37 short chapters, on everything from physiology to religion to work to marriage, offering a view of what it was like to be a woman in the seventeenth century. The author takes much of his information from texts by women, and the reviewer finds that he shows "une vraie 'sympathie' pour son objet." Though aimed at a large audience, the book does not sacrifice scholarly documentation; mixes consideration of great authors with many forgotten eye-witnesses of the period.

Review: A. Blanc in DSS 226 (2005), 173–175: The reviewer finds this to be an erudite and accessible contribution to the study of the status of women during the seventeenth century, building on the author's earlier body of work. "Roger Duchêne part du plus physique pour aboutir au plus intellectuel, allant de la physiologie féminine à la place de la femme dans la société et finalement à sa culture."

DU CREST, SABINE. "Les abeilles dans la Rome des Barberini: de la dilatation d'un insecte dans l'art." In Charles Mazouer, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 103–118.

The widespread use of the bee as a symbol in seventeenth-century Rome shows how the typically baroque artistic technique of dilatation destabilizes perception.

DUGGAN, ANNE E. Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Delaware: Associated University Presses, 2005.

Review: C.B. Kerr in Choice 43.3 (2005), 489: Explores the roles of Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy as "agents of cultural change" (Kerr). Also discusses Nicolas Boileau and Charles Perrault in order to revisit the tendency to separate these woman writers from the literary canon. According to Kerr, "highly recommended."

DUPORT, DANIELE. Le Jardin et la nature: Ordre et variété dans la littérature de la Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: R. E. Campo in Ren Q 57 (2004): 6464–48: Praiseworthy examination of "the philosophical and poetic antithesis between order and variety in Renaissance French literature as that opposition relates to anterior and contemporary manifestations, conceptions, and representations of the garden" (646). Duport's study treats 1) scientific discourses on horticulture, 2) the garden as a topos in the literature of the imagination, and 3) the role of the garden in poetic theory and accounts of royal entries. Appendices, and index and bibliography complete Duport's study which regrettably excludes illustrations.

EDELSTEIN, BRUCE L. "Maria de' Medici." Burlington 1230 (2005): 640–641.

A review of the exhibition Maria de' Medici: una principessa fiorentina sul trono di Francia at the Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The exhibition contains four parts: the artistic context in which she was raised, the music and other details of her proxy wedding to Henry IV, her role as a patron of the arts in France, and a look at her life in a European context. Edelstein: "The exhibition admirably rises to the challenge of its stated purpose," of making us re-evaluate Marie de Medici's life and her role as a patroness of the arts.

EGMOND, FLORIKE & ROBERT ZWIJNENBERG, eds. Bodily Extremities: Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003.

Review: W. Schleiner in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1096–1098: Schleiner finds that the eight well-researched and well-documented essays do "significantly advance our knowledge of the period" (1098). 17th c. French scholars will appreciate Peter Mason's essay "Reading New World Bodies" where he "compares the way the French painter Poussin wanted his paintings to be 'read' with the way Columbus and his contemporaries 'read' the New World bodies they encountered" (1098).

EYGUN, JEAN. "Louange des Bourbons et poésie occitane: de quelques chants royaux toulousains." RLR 108 no. 1 (2004): 135–154.

The three poems in Occitan praising Louis XIII and Louis XIV published here question the prevailing notion that Occitan poetry opposes rather than supports the prevailing political order.

FAVREAU, MARC. "La réouverture de la Manufacture des Gobelins en 1699 et la commande de tapisseries à Claude III Audran: les Portières des Dieux (1699) et les Mois grotesques (1709)" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 239–262.

The reopening of the Gobelins factory in 1699 marked a new artistic policy engineered by Mansart. Audran was responsible for a new esthetic which prized the arabesque or grotesque over historical subject matter and style.

FERGUSON, PRISCILLA. "Les Quinze Livres d'Athénée: French Culinary Culture in the Making." CdDS 9.1 (2004): 1–19.

Article examines the textualization of cuisine in Marolle's 1680 translation of Athenaeus. Stresses its cultivation of a mondain audience, the generic models it draws upon, and its illustration of Mauss's dictum that food is a "total social phenomenon."

FERRIERES, MADELEINE. Le Bien des pauvres: la consommation populaire en Avignon (1600–1800). Seyssel: Champvallon, 2004.

Review : BCLF 666 (2005), 107–08: L'auteur 《 fait revivre tout un univers d'humbles gens, la 'France d'en-bas' d'avant la Révolution. 》 Ferrières 《 passe en effet au crible un fonds d'archives considérable, celui du mont-de-piété d'Avignon, dans les bureaux duquel défilèrent, entre 1610 et 1791, plus de six cent mille Avignonnais. . . 》

FISHMAN, LAURA. "Crossing Gender Boundaries: Tupi and European Women in the Eyes of Claude d'Abbeville." FCS 4 (2003), 81–98.

Discusses the role of gender in Capuchin missionary Claude d'Abbeville's work with the Tupinamba of early 17th- century Brazil. Explores d'Abbeville's assessment in light of his own notions of gender, and questions whether his conclusions concerning the Tupinamba were accurate.

FOISIL, MADELEINE. Femmes de caractère au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Fallois, 2004.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 665 (2004), 28–29: 《 Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de vulgarisation, certes de bonne qualité. 》 Douze personnalités présentées dans cinq sections: 《 'Femmes du monde' (la marquise de Rambouillet et Madeleine de Scudéry), 'Femmes guerrières' (Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, Catherine de la Guette), 'Femmes consacrées' (Madame Acarie, Marie de l'Incarnation, Jeanne des Anges), 'Femmes veuve, reine, régente' (Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, Anne d'Autriche), et 'Femmes mémorialistes' (Mademoiselle de Montpensier, Françoise de Motteville). 》

FUDGE, ERICA, ed. Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Review: R. Morrison in Choice 42.1 (2004), 147. "[P]rovides provocative analyses of the significance of animals and their relationships with humans in early modern culture" (117). In her introduction, Fudge provides a useful context for the volume, whose essays broach topics such as animal experimentation, meat eating, and the relationship between animals and queerness. One essay also discusses the role and presence of animals at Versailles. Highly recommended by the reviewer, and said to be of interest for contemporary thought on human-animal relations.

GAILLARD, AURELIA. "Bestiare réel, bestiare enchanté: les animaux à Versailles sous Louis XIV." In Charles Mazouer, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 185–198.

Animals at Versailles, whether living or representations (paintings, sculptures, literary creations) exist in the world of both men and fable as they circulate in a complex network of leisure and learning, pleasure and knowledge.

GAILLARD, AURELIA. Le Corps des statues. Le vivant et son simulacre à l'âge classique (de Descartes à Diderot) Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: F. Zanelli Quarantini in S Fr 144 (2004): 613: Underscores and illustrates the centrality of the statue to the French imagination "in parallelo alla crescente attenzione scientifica intorno alla natura umana e alla sua condizione corporea e sensoriale" (613). Rigorous analyses include several on 17th c. topics: La Fontaine, Versailles, Poussin and D'Aulnoy among others.

GARBER, KLAUS & JUTTA HELD, eds. Der Frieden. Rekonstruktion einer europäischen Vision. 2 Vols. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2001. Vol. 1 Erfahrung und Deutung von Krieg und Frieden. Religion-Geschlechter-Natur und Kultur, edited by Klaus Garber et al.; Vol. 2 Frieden und Krieg in der Frühen Neuzeit. Die europäische Staatenordnung und die außereuropäische Welt, edited by Ronald G. Asch, Wulf Eckart Voß & Martin Wrede.

Review: M. Lentzen in Archiv 241 (2004): 181–86: Praiseworthy for its extensive insights in both presentations and discussions on war and peace in the early modern. Highly recommended not only as a valuable reference work but also as material which may promote and protect peace. Volume one is organized in sections treating religious perspectives, gender, culture and nature; volume two focuses on state formation, boundaries and the world outside Europe. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the attention to Marie de Gournay and Poullain de la Barre as well as to imaginary peaceful states or utopias and their ideologies.

GARNER, GUILLAUME. "'1700', '1690–1710': des ruptures dans l'histoire de la France et de l'Europe?" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 19–33.

The author examines the contradictory necessities of the historical notion of periodicization and the focus on particular, individual years (especially highly symbolic "round numbers" such as "1700").

GARRAWAY, DORIS. The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Durham: Duke UP, 2005.

GILBY, EMMA. "Economies of Perspective in Seventeenth-Century France." SCFS 27 (2005), 29–38.

"This paper is concerned with perspectival constructions in art and how they are written about in seventeenth-century France. Often, the work of Descartes is juxtaposed with seventeenth-century theories of perspective, and I shall maintain, while qualifying, this juxtaposition here."

GOULET, ANNE-MADELEINE. Poésie, musique et sociabilité au dix-septième siècle: les livres d'airs de différents auteurs publiés chez Ballard de 1658 à 1694. Lumière Classique 55. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.

Review: A. Stedman in FR 79.1 (October 2005): 182–183: "Anne-Madeleine Goulet's meticulous excavation of the Livres d'airs de différents auteurs. . . unearths a wealth of information that is sure to prove indispensable to literary, cultural, and musicological scholarship for years to come." Stedman calls the collection "one of the most successful and enduring musical anthologies of the seventeenth century," noting the coincidence of its publication dates with those of the "onset and decline of 'le goût nouveau.'" Goulet presents "poets, composers, patrons, themes, structures, generic exceptions, musical arrangement, instrumentation, performance practices, solicitation processes, prefatory digressions, and textual materiality," all of which ultimately "provides an invaluable window into the particular space of the late seventeenth-century salon." Stedman lauds Goulet's "painstakingly executed archival work" and "comprehensive synthesis of recent French scholarship on worldly sociability," though she notes Goulet's oversight of significant American scholarship on the topic. 200 pages of appendices.

GRANDE, NATHALIE. "Une vedette des salons: le caméléon." In Charles Mazour, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 89–102.

Examines seventeenth-century France's fascination with the chameleon and the animal's moral connotations as a symbol of changeability in the work of Madeleine de Scudéry.

GRANGER, SYLVIE. Musiciens dans la ville, 1600–1650. Paris: Belin, 2002.

Review: E. Weber in DSS 227 (2005), 370–372: "Cette minutieuse enquête porte notamment sur Le Mans, ville de province représentative, et concerne plus de 《mille musiciens》. En historienne avertie, Sylvie Granger a exploité deux siècles et demi de documents d'archives relatifs — de près ou de loin — à la présence de la musique, des musiciens, de concerts, d'instruments et de danses — bref, de la pratique musicale et chorégraphique."

GRENDLER, PAUL F. "The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation." Ren Q 57 (2004): 1–42.

Emphasis of Grendler's study is the Renaissance; however 17th c. scholars will appreciate important sections on humanism and research as well as the various challenges for 17th c. universities — new schools which "taught part of the university curriculum and gave young men specific professional skills and religious preparation for life" (24). Discusses schools founded by the Jesuits, the Doctrinaires and the Oratorians. Reminds that the most famous pupil of the Collège Henri IV operated by the Jesuits was René Descartes (26). Extensive descriptive appendix and bibliography.

GRENIER, BENOIT. "'Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur?': Une étude comparative de la présence seigneuriale (France-Canada), XVIIe–XIXe Siècle." FCS 5 (2004), 7–24.

Studies residency habits of seigneurs in the Saint-Lawrence valley in the 17th–19th centuries. Notes that the trend toward residency was the opposite of that in France during the same time period.

GRES-GAYER, JACQUES. "Tradition et modernité: la réforme des études en Sorbonne (1673–1715)." RHEF 88 no. 221 (2002): 341–389.

The author describes and analyzes the the new statutes of 1673–1675 and how they transformed the Sorbonne's course of theological studies in response to the necessities of the times. The article pays particular attention to how exams replaced debates as a means of verifying knowledge.

GUTHKE, KARL S. Epitaph Culture in the West. Variations on a Theme in Cultural History. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

Review: H. M. Richmond in Archiv 241 (2004): 176–78: Focus is not literary excellence but cultural factors as Guthke explores memory, motivations, uses, laughter and levity, suicides, animal epitaphs, etc. Chronologically ordered, Guthke's account demonstrates "both the continuity of certain themes and the thematic change that has occurred (Guthke 357).

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

Review: B. B. Davis in Ren Q 57 (2004): 663–64: Reviewer finds that Harding's study "supplies a unique perspective on the complex issues of dying and burial" (664). The contrasts between London and Paris are remarkable, explained to a degree by the larger number of parishes in London. 17th c. French scholars will appreciate the analysis of the ever more elaborate funeral, often undermining its moral and religious significance" (664). For the French sources Harding has relied on the 8000 testaments which were the basis of Pierre Chaunu's 1978 Mort à Paris.

HARRIS, ANNE SUTHERLAND. "Landscapes and Ruins." Burlington 1229 (2005): 578–580.

This is actually a review of two exhibitions; French dix-septiémistes will be especially interested in the section on the Houston Museum of Fine Arts exhibition The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting, 1630–1800. Of particular note are the works by Pierre-Antoine Patel the Younger and Claude Gellée, as well as the "superbly designed" catalog containing quality reproductions, a full bibliography, and "well-written texts."

HARRIS, JOSEPH. Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in 17th-Century France. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17 - 156, 2005.

HAUTEBERT, JOEL. La Justice pénale à Nantes au Grand Siècle: jurisprudence de la sénéchaussée présidiale. Paris: M. de Maule, 2001.

Review: K. Weidenfeld in DSS 226 (2005), 180–181: This reworked thesis is favorably reviewed as elucidating our knowledge of this little-studied institution. "Fondée sur l'analyse de documents d'archives, cette étude donne à voir le fonctionnement concret de la justice pénale sous l'Ancien Régime. Le tableau ainsi brossé est riche de détails vivants relatifs à la vie d'une juridiction."

HELGERSON, RICHARD. Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

Review: D. Robin in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1082–1083: Found generally "compelling," Helgerson's view is rich and "through an unusually wide lens" (1083). Rather than associating the "cult of domesticity" with the modern era, Helgerson finds it "indicative of an "important cultural shift that extended all across early modern Europe from 1590–1690" (1082). Includes an examination of Molière's Tartuffe.

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. Ut Pictura Theatrum: Théâtre et peinture de la Renaissance italienne au classicisme français. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2003.

Review: N. Gounaridou, J. Russell in SCN 63 (2005), 84–89: "The comparison between theatre, the literary genre closest to the image, and painting, both of which represent, was so obvious to thinkers of the Renaissance and classical France that they took it for granted and did not even think to formulate an ut pictura theatrum. Hénin's book seeks to rectify this gap and to show how today's ut pictura poesis depends on the earlier ut pictura theatrum." Considered by the reviewers as a "gift," the book is divided into three parts, "Portraits of the Theatre," "The Theatrical Image: From Unity to Unities," and "Ut Pictura Theatrum: The Theatre of Passions."

HODGSON, RICHARD G., ed. La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 5–7 Oct. 2000. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, Biblio 17 (138), 2001.

Review: Ph. Hourcade in IL 56.2 (2004): 60–61. Reviewer provides a thumbnail of each of the 27 papers in the volume. "[T]out cela est riche.... La vivacité du féminisme, à mon sens, n'a pas vraiment donné lieu ici au militarisme sectaire et manichéen, mais souvent à une conscience toute scientifique de la complexité des choses."

Review: J. Prest in FS 58.1 (2004): 94–95. While the review praises the content of the articles in this volume, it criticizes the work for a lack of cohesion, a situation that is made worse by the absence of an introduction or conclusion. The reviewer goes on to note many of the intriguing papers in the work and the questions they raise about the status of women, again wondering why the editor made no effort to draw the subject together.

HORNE, ALISTAIR. Friend or Foe. An Anglo-Saxon History of France. London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 2004.

Review: R. Mettam in TLS 5315 (Feb 11 2005), 25: As subtitle suggests, "a highly personal, idiosyncratic account" of French history. Author begins with Roman Gaul and ends with present time. Principal focus on the rulers of France, with frequent asides to consider life in Paris. Reviewer finds work remarkably free from errors, and the story is "told vigorously, with vivid anecdotes, well-chosen quotations and evocative detail."

HOURCADE, PHILIPPE. Mascarades et ballets au Grand Siècle (1643–1715). Paris: Ed. Desjonquères/Centre national de la danse, 2002.

Review: S. Granger in DSS 228 (2005), 570–573: The reviewer essentially indicates that this is an impressive beginning to a study that has yet to be completed. "L'avant-propos annonce la volonté de prêter attention aussi aux 《activités chorégraphiques du tout-venant》 et de 《prendre ses distances avec le centre géographique et politique du royaume》. Intention ô combien louable et stimulante, mais dont on doit reconnaître, ainsi que le fait l'auteur en conclusion, qu'elle n'a pas tout à fait été remplie."

JAMES, ALAN. The Navy and Government in Early Modern France 1572–1661. Rochester: Boydell & Brewster, 2004.

Review: E. Furgol in SCN 63 (2005), 79–82: Based on James' dissertation, the book is divided into three sections: "the navy in the 1570s–1620s, Richelieu's tenure as grand-maître, and the legacy of his efforts." The reviewer congratulates James for shedding light on the overlooked importance of the navy prior to Colbert's influence, but gently questions whether the author's "focus on political and administrative activities" would have been better served by analysis of "operational aspects" to gauge the efficacy of Richelieu's policies.

JARRARD, ALICE. Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Court Ritual in Modena, Rome and Paris. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Review: J.E. Moore in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1398–99: Moore finds that the usefulness of Jarrard's volume "lies in having gathered widely dispersed archival materials so as to reconstitute short-lived events and splendid projects for permanent structures, some of which were either never fully realized or completed after Francesco's death." Moore is not, however, convinced of the determining roles of Modenese sources and suggests that "to insist on Modena causes Jarrard to neglect Louis XIV's other exemplars, such as Henry IV and Louis XIII,. . . both of whom thought carefully about how to create an image" (1399). Attention should have also been given to patrons such as Richelieu, Mazarin, and Fouquet among others according to Moore.

JONES, COLIN. Paris: Biography of a City. London: Penguin, 2004.

Review: Ph. Marsch in TLS 5314 (Feb 4 2005), 27: "Provoking and readable book" that tells story of Paris from the Stone Age to Jacques Chirac. Concentrates on city's administration, and as reviewer says, "devotes more time to planning than to pleasure." Generally favorable review, but reviewer gives no detail on chapters treating the seventeenth century.

KIRWAN, JAMES. Beauty. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999.

Review: K. Gernig in Archiv 240 (2003): 389–91: Primary focus is beauty in relation to philosophies of aesthetics, art and cultural anthropology. Reception outweighs attention to historical change in Kirwan's exploration. Dimensions investigated (and section divisions) include: Beauty, Truth and Goodness, Beauty and God, Beauty as Cognition, and The Heavenly and Vulgar Venus.

LANNI, DOMINIQUE. "L'Afrique fantasmée. Les Hottentots dans les voyages manuscrits de Ruelle et Melet et dans les carnet d'esquisses d'un résident anonyme du Cap de Bonne-Espérance (1665–1672)." TL 17 (2004): 317–329.

Analyzes several relations of expeditions (Ruelle's journal, Jean-Jacques de Melet's memoir and a number of iconographic documents) for their influence on the early 17th c. "imaginaire collectif des gens de mer et des marchands, médecins et autres voyageurs de passage" (328). Reminding us of the various scenes of savagery, Lanni asks "mais celles-ci étaient-elles aussi éloignées de celles desdits Européens?" (329).

LARDELLIER, PASCAL. Les miroirs du paon: Rites et rhétoriques politiques dans la France de l'Ancien Régime. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: J. Miernowski in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1022–1023: Mixed review appreciated this analysis of "the royal entry as a ritual enactment of the power relationship between the king and the city" and the picture it contributes of "conditions of production and of reception, as well as. . . [of] the rhetorical structure of the published accounts of the entries" (1023). Lardellier's study is in the tradition of cultural anthropology. Miernowski would have appreciated more historical specificity without which he wonders "how Lardellier can fit the entries into the complex development of French absolutism" (1023).

LAVERNY, SOPHIE DE. Les domestiques commensaux du roi de France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: S. Vigneron in DSS 227 (2005), 368–369: This is the final product of a thesis defended in 1997. The reviewer concludes that despite being weighed down by numerous examples, the author's work "éclaircit notre connaissance de la société de Cour dont les commensaux étaient la cheville ouvrière. Plus largement, il questionne à nouveau la "hiérarchie sociale de l'ancienne France" analysée tant à travers sa structure que dans ses solidarités. Ce livre trouve donc toute sa place dans les bibliographies d'histoire politique et sociale de la France du XVIIe siècle."

LEVADOUX, CHRISTOPHE. "L'édit somptuaire de 1700: source pour l'étude de l'histoire de l'art et du luxe" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 34–54.

The author describes the sumptuary laws of 1700, their effects on the artisan economies, and their usefulness in studying the history and evolutions of taste.

LEVY, ALLISON, ed. Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003.

Review: M. Dunn in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1080–1082: Wide-ranging both geographically and chronologically, interdisciplinary and diverse in its methodologies, this collection's 13 essays examine "the relation between ritual, as it pertains to roles and responsibilities of widows, and representation" (1080). Sections treat "the didactic use of images to present the ideals of widowhood. . ., how widows manipulated their status to gain agency. . ., widows' patronage of large-scale sculptural and architectural projects, investigating motivations and means. . ., [and the representations of widowhood] broadening our understanding of the interplay of widowhood and representation" (1080–1081).

LINON-CHIPON, SOPHIE. "Visages et masques de la peur dans l'illustration de quelques relations de voyage à l'Age classique." TL 17 (2004): 345–359.

Wide-ranging, Linon-Chipon's essay treats fear in its horror and irony, from violent frescos of America to illustrations of Madagascar. She notes important differences between illustrations and texts: images may "servir d'antidote à la peur, d'en maîtriser les effets" (353). Underscores inexactitudes, syncretism and inversions-after all these authors had a serious dilemma: "ils ne pouvaient se permettre de trop ouvertement contester les idées reçues sur les populations atroces, au risque de renoncer à un de leurs principaux attraits" (359).

LINON-CHIPON, SOPHIE & SYLVIE REQUEMORE. Les Tyrans de la mer: pirates, corsaires et flibustiers à l'age classique. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: M. Harrigan in FS 58.1 (2004): 92–93. This review lauds the authors' multiplicity of approaches as well as their comprehensive work. According to the reviewer, this "intriguing subject of research" helps understand the social aspects of pirates during absolutism and how the pirate continues to fascinate readers.

LOVE, RONALD S. "'A Passage to China': A French Jesuit's Perceptions of Siberia in the 1680s." FCS 4 (2003), 85–100.

Shows that Philippe Avril's detailed account of his effort to find a land route to China was of immense importance in that it expanded geographic knowledge of Asia, even though the mission itself ultimately failed.

LUCIANI, GERARD and CATHERINE VOLPILHAC-AUGER, eds. L'institution du prince au XVIIIe siècle. Lyon: Charvet, 2003.

Review: P. Sossi in S Fr 144 (2004): 608–610: These Actes of the 8th French-Italian colloque of both French and Italian societies devoted to the 18th c. held at Grenoble in 1999 includes several contributions which will be of interest and use to 17th c. scholars, for example, those on: Montausier, the role of various academies, Fénélon's Télémaque, the fenelonien tradition and disciples, Saint-Simon. Rich bibliography and index of names.

LYNCH, KATHERINE A. Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200–1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Review: M. Sortor in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1078–1080: Despite certain reservations (involving demographics and neglected civic communities), Lynch's wide-ranging study with index, bibliography, tables and maps is judged "informative and thought-provoking. . . [and] will certainly shape subsequent discussions of the origins of civic consciousness and the emergence of democracy in Western Europe" (1079).

MARANDET, FRANÇOIS. "The Grand Prix of Nicolas de Poilly the Younger." Burlington 1229 (2005): 549–551.

Examines "The finding of the silver cup in Benjamin's sack," recently attributed to Nicolas de Poilly the Younger, a talented but troubled and not very prolific painter during Louis XIV's reign. Concludes from comparison with Poilly's other known works that the painting in question won the 1698 Académie royale Grand Prix.

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

Review: Ph. Hourcade in RHL 104.4 (2004): 937–39. A collection of papers that try to answer a number of questions: Did salons set taste, or follow it? What literary genres did they practice? How did they react to great works? Collection contains a useful index of all historical persons referred to.

McGEE, TIMOTHY J., ed. Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Early Drama, Art and Music Series 30. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003.

Review: J. Karr in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1088–1089: Receives generally praise for its "fairly good picture of the issues involved in improvisation" (1088). Volume's terminus ad quem is 1700; sections include Music, Dance, Drama and Art, but there is as well an emphasis on interdisciplinairity. Reviewer would have appreciated more of a focus on rhetoric but finds "much of value in this volume" for both performer and scholar (1089).

MECHOULAN, ERIC. "Immediacy and Forgetting." SubStance 34.1 (2005), 145–58.

In making a case for the sodality of mediation and immediacy, memory and forgetting, Méchoulan gives the example of Philippe de Champagne's 1657 Saint-Jean Baptiste, a painting given to Port-Royal as a gift when his daughter took the veil. Méchoulan highlights John the Baptist as a figure who comes both before and after Christ, and who is painted here on the verge of tears, a state of in-betweenness that Méchoulan takes to exemplify Pascalian notions of self-forgetting and de-centering in favor of a more explicit focus on God.

MECHOULAN, ERIC. "Report on Lydie Salvayre's Subversive Classicism." SubStance 33.2 (2004), 46–58:

Suggests that contemporary novelist Lydie Salvayre "exploits canonical authors (like Pascal) and Old Regime sociable practices (like conversation), in order to offer a mixture of vulgarity, ironic sublime, and profound despair" (47). Méchoulan devotes particular attention to Salvayre's La puissance des mouches, which takes its title from a line from Pascal. Salvayre's criminal protagonist works as a Port-Royal tour guide and ardently reflects on Les Pensées. Méchoulan's article also examines La conférence de Cintegabelle as a defense and exploration of conversation.

MENGES-MIRONNEAU, CLAUDE. "Un style 1700 dans l'estampe? Illustration, reproduction, interpretation" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 279–290.

The period saw a mixing of engraving and etching as artists tried new techniques and innovated in both portrait making and book illustration.

MERLIN, HELENE. "Un Nouveau XVIIe siècle." RHL 105.1 (2005): 11–36.

Text of a conference delivered at the Sorbonne in December 2004. Focuses primarily on the question of the feminization of titles (e.g., "Directrice") and its implications regarding the notion of the public; and on the way the body and humiliation in the seventeenth century cannot be accounted for by conventional notions (including Bakhtin's) of the classical.

MEYER, JEAN. L'Education des princes en Europe du XVe au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Perrin, 2004.

Review: J. Rogister in TLS 5320 (March 18 2005), 3–4: Subject broken down into historical periods. Includes teaching method which Bossuet devised for the Grand Dauphin. View of periodization perhaps too neat and open to question, but book "scores" in details and insights it provides rather than in its overview.

MIKESELL, MARGARET & ADELE SEEFF, eds. Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. Cranbury, NJ and London: U of Delaware P, 2003.

Review: P. Phillippy in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1459–60: Both theoretical and with an emphasis on pedagogy, Mikesell and Seeff's edited volume is the 4th in a series "sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland" and "like its predecessors is impressive in the scope of its inquiry [and] its rich interdisciplinarity." Judged both "progressive" and "pragmatic," its scholarship describes "applications" from staging of plays to developing technologies (1459).

MORTIMER, GEOFF, ed. Early Modern Military History, 1450–1815. New York: Palgrave, 2004.

Review: K.R. DeVries in Choice 43.1 (2005), 160. According to DeVries: "This collection, which contains works by many of the top military historians, is not bad, although others are better." Includes a chapter on Old Regime France and another on naval history through the mid-17th century.

MULRYNE, J. R. & ELIZABETH GOLDRING, eds. Court Festivals of the European Renaissance. Art, Politics and Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

Review: A. Stähler in Archiv 241 (2004): 368–70: Wide-ranging in scope (15th –18th c. and "with special emphasis" on the 16th and early 17th c.), the volume extends beyond Western Europe to Russia and East-Central Europe and is divided thematically in the following sections: "Recovering the Past," "Early Modern France and Festival," "Festivals for Charles V," "Ceremony and Elizabethan England," "The Performance of Festival: Music, Theatre and Event" and "Festival and Architecture" (368). Stähler finds all essays to be "stimulating in their own right as well as in their juxtaposition and accumulation" (369). Singled out for special praise as "a new reading of known documents" is Chantal Grell's essay on changes in 17th c. French court festivals, their "financing and material organization" (369). Strongly recommended volume for both serious scholars and a wider educated audience.

MULRYNE, J. R., HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLY, & MARGARET SHEWRING, eds. Europa Triumphans. Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: J. Wilson in TLS 5328 (May 13 2005), 26: Collection by 39 scholars treating a representative selection of 16th and 17th century festivals. Includes article by Christian Jouhaud on Louis XIII's "Joyeuse Entrée" into Troyes after defeat of La Rochelle. Writers maintain that festivals are "signifiers of regimes in crisis or flux," not of secure regimes. Rich material but usefulness compromised by its presentation. Indexing is insufficient, and the reviewer laments that there are no accompanying CDs. Use of modern technology could have enhanced the collection.

NAU, CLELIA. "Le temps de l'évanouissement: sur un monochrome de Poussin." RSH 275 (juillet-septembre 2004): 55–74.

Analyzes Nicolas Poussin's painting, Le Déluge or L'Hiver as an examination of the problem of temporality and of the sublime in painting. Examines the treatment of Poussin's painting by the critics of his time and after, and the idea of a "sublime classique."

NORBROOK, DAVID. "Women, the Republic of Letters, and the Public Sphere in the Mid-Seventeenth Century." Criticism 46:2 (2004), 223–240.

Uses the framework of Habermas' narrative of the early modern public sphere to reassess whether women were excluded from its emergence. Norbrook concentrates specifically on Margaret Cavendish, exiled in France, and Anna Maria van Schurman, who lived in the Netherlands. Their experience complicates the notion of women disappearing into the private sphere during this period; it also demonstrates important differences between the political implications of the public sphere in England, France, and the Netherlands.

OLSON, TODD P. Poussin and France: Paintings, Humanism and the Politics of Style. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002.

Review: H. Ballon in Ren Q 57 (2004): 648–50: Reviewer finds' Olson's work "thought-provoking," "smart and bristling with fascinating insights," but is not convinced by a number of Olson's "strained readings of Poussin's paintings" (649). Underscoring political angles and reception, Olson links Poussin's simplified style of the 1640s and 1650s with the anti-luxury discourse of the Fronde" (Olson 182).

ORR, CLARISSA CAMPBELL, ed. Queenship in Europe, 1660–1815. The Role of the Consort. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Review: T. Blanning in TLS 5307 (Dec 17 2004), 32: Volume contains account by Mark Bryant of Maintenon's influence on Louis XIV. Reviewer gives no detail but says that Bryant offers insights into reign that are "original and convincing."

OSBORNE, TOBY. Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: S. A. Epstein in Ren Q 57 (2004): 180–81: Judged a fine book, Osborne's examination focuses on Alissandro Scaglia (1592–1641) who "came into his own at the French court from 1624 to 1627" (181). "Based on impressive research conducted in a number of archives across Europe," Osborne's volume emphasizes politics, dynasty and art collection (180).

PATTY, JAMES S. Salvator Rosa in French Literature: from the Bizarre to the Sublime. Lexington: UK Press, 2005.

Review: A.M. Rea in Choice 43.1 (2005), 84–85. According to Rea: "an exhaustive and meticulous, though unillustrated, survey of French references to 17th-century Italian artist/poet Salvator Rosa." Focuses mostly on the Romantic period, but does include the arrival of certain paintings in the collections of Louis XIV and Mazarin.

PELLEGRIN, NICOLE & COLETTE H. WINN, eds. Veufs, veuves et veuvage dans la France d'Ancien Régime. Actes du colloque de Poitiers (11–12 juin 1998). Textes réunis par Nicole Pellegrin. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 143 (2004): 437: Rich and highly varied examination takes into account aspects such as law, portraits, music, and literature. Highly useful bibliography and thematic index.

Review: C. Clark-Evans in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1419–20: Judged exemplary, the reviewer praises its "collaborative, interdisciplinary, scholarly research that reveals both objective conditions and subjective realities of those women and men who survive the death of their legally and religiously sanctioned spouse in early modern France" (1420). Wide-ranging and "uniformly expert, the volume included sections on law, social history and cultural case studies as well as the representation of widows and widowers. Bibliography and index.

Review: B. Nicollier in BHR 66.3 (2004), 797–98: "Une bibliographie citant de nombreuses sources et un index contribuent à faire de cette étude une ouvrage à la fois utile et agréable à lire. 》 Voir les articles de D. Haase-Dubosc sur Madame de Châtillon, Isabelle Angélique de Montmorency et de S. Beauvalet Boutuyrie sur Jeanne de Chantal.

PERICOLO, LORENZO. "Two Paintings for Anne of Austria's Oratory at the Palais Royal, Paris: Philippe de Champaigne's 'Annunciation' and Jacques Stella's 'Birth of the Virgin.'" Burlington 1225 (2005), 244–248.

Describes Anne of Austria's Palais Royal apartment, in particular two paintings, of which Champaigne's was presumed lost but is now at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, while Stella's has been acquired by Lille's Palais de Beaux-Arts.

PETITFILS, JEAN-CHRISTIAN. Le Masque de fer: entre histoire et légende. Paris: Perrin, 2003.

Review: C. Daniélou in FR 78.2 (2004): 385–86. Through detailed archival research, Petitfils recovers the story of the famed "man in the iron mask," whose legend owes debts to Alexandre Dumas no less than to popular cinema. The reviewer assures us that Petitfils' study answers our most pressing questions about the mythic hero.

POUMAREDE, GERAUD. Pour en finir avec la croisade: mythes et réalités de la lutte contre les Turcs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècle. Paris: PUF, 2004.

Review: BCLF 665 (2004), 108–09: Poumarède réfute l'approche des 《 scientifiques, essentiellement anglo-saxons, [qui] n'ont pas hésité à voir dans certaines tentatives tardives de la Papauté aussi bien que dans des actions militaires, individuelles ou ponctuelles, une prolongation des croisades englobant ainsi dans ce concept la lutte contre les Turcs. 》

RANUM, OREST & PATRICIA. "The Fronde, as Presented by 'Monsieur X.'"

Article published at: http://ranumspanat.com/Monsieur_X.htm

RANUM, OREST & PATRICIA RANUM. "Fugitive Pieces."

Transcriptions of primary source historical documents published on the Ranums' website. Includes: "The death inventory of François Chapperon, music master of the Sainte-Chapelle, d. 1698;" "Final Accounts for the Te Deum sponsored by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, February 8, 1687;" "The Last Days of Bouthillier de Chavigny;" "Plainte pour Estiennette Charpentier, fille majeure, contre Jacques Mathas, January 16, 1709;" "A Funeral Oration for Mme de Guise, Petite-fille de France;" "Mlle de Guise Chooses a Painting for Her Gallery;" Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Jansenists Gossip about His Morals and His Death," "The Jesuits and Music: Some Fugitive Pieces;" "Herr Martin Mayr, the Duke of Bavaria's Agent, Tends to Things Musical in Paris, 1680–1685;" "Madame de Miramion's School for Girls;" "1683: Guillaume Pecour, the Dancer, Is Defamed;" "A Banquet at the Hôtel de Guise, 1671," "A Description of the Chapel and Worship Services at Port-Royal-des-Champs, 1679." All located on their website: http://ranumspanat.com/

RANUM, PATRICIA. "Musings on Word-Music Relationships in French Baroque Music."

http://ranumspanat.com/wordmusic_relationships.html

ROBERTS, GEOFFREY, ED. The History and Narrative Reader. London: Routledge, 2001.

Review: M. Fludernik in Archiv 241 (2004): 178–80: Fludernik finds this collection of 26 essays "on the relation of narrative and history" to be "written for historians," yet containing "much food for thought for narratologists" (178).

ROCHE, DANIEL, dir., with GILLES CHABAUD, JEAN-FRANÇOIS DUBOST, SABINE JURATIC, VINCENT MILLIOT & JEAN-MICHEL ROY. La Ville promise: mobilité et accueil à Paris (fin XII-début XIXe siècle). Paris: 2000.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/roche_ville.html. "[R]esearched very effectively and courageously" (because, as Ranum notes, "the sources about inns, hotels and visitors to the capital are very disparate, and sometimes not all that revealing about the subject"). Of particular interest to dix-septiémistes: chapter on "the geography of the various places that provided lodging for a fee" as well as the chapter on "displacement to the capital" (timing thereof, etc.). Ranum concludes by calling this book, "a profane caricature of the 'city on the hill.'"

ROSENBERG, PIERRE. Catalogue. Peintures françaises dans les collections allemandes, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 20 avril–31 juillet 2005.

Review : G. Raillard in QL 901 (du 1er au 15 juin 2005), 17: "Le Catalogue, en maint article précis, expose cette diversité (des situations), analogue à celle de l'Allemagne elle-même. Des noms, de souverains, de collectionneurs, des cours, des évêchés, des dates la ponctuent. Frédéric II est célèbre pour ses relations littéraires et philosophiques avec Voltaire. Mais il fut aussi, plus qu'un roi collectionneur un royal collectionneur."

ROWLANDS, GUY. The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661–1701. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: W. Kasinec in SCN 63 (2005), 77–79: Reviewed very favorably, this work undertakes a detailed analysis of the army under Louis XIV with particular emphasis on the period from the Nine Years' War into the War of Spanish Succession. "The author argues that dynasticism in the 'the crucial prism' by which one should understand the development of France's standing army in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in the context of Louis XIV's concern for the Bourbon dynasty." The reviewer lauds the work as an important contribution that "has changed the parameters of the ongoing discussion about 'absolutism' among military and political historians of the seventeenth century."

SABATIER, GERARD. Versailles ou la figure du roi. Paris: Albin Michel, 1999.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/sabatier.html. A "general analysis of the iconographic programs in the Versailles gardens, but also a very thorough study of the 'manière de montrer' the gardens." Extensive attention to Louis's "artisans of glory," Versailles and the public, maps, prose descriptions of visits to the gardens, etc. Reviewer calls the work "monumental."

SAHLINS, PETER. Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004.

Review: E. Ousselin in FR 78.5 (2005): 1046–47: Sahlins' history of naturalization extends from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century and devotes its primary attention to le droit d'aubaine, the monarch's right to seize the property of foreigners who die in France. Sahlins also undertakes a savvy and nuanced reading of early modern letters of naturalization, and examines the droit de résidence as "one of the components of the juridical model of citizenship in the kingdom" (1047). The book moves toward its conclusion by considering how the "narrow juridical category of 'citizen' took on new political significance during and after the revolutionary period" (1047).

SALVY, GERARD-JULIEN. "Marie de Médicis, le gouvernement par les arts." RDM (juin 2005): 179–81.

Salvy parle de la réhabilitation, bien méritée à son avis, de Marie de Médicis qui "ne fut pas cette 'grosse banquière' intrigante et castratrice trop longtemps caricaturée, mais au contraire une femme qui comprit que l'on pouvait gouverner par les arts. . ." [Exposition: "Marie de Médicis, une princesse florentine sur le trône de France," Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, jusqu'au 4 septembre 2005. Catalogue: Sillabe Editore].

SANKO, HELENE N. "Le Traité du jardinage de Jacques Boyceau (1560–1635?) et l'esthétique du XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXXII, 62 (2005), 33–49.

Through analysis of Boyceau's Traité examines the question: "Existe-t-il au XVIIe siècle un ensemble de principes à la base d'une expression artistique qui s'appliquerait au plan et à la réalisation des jardins connus aujourd'hui sous le nom de 《 jardins à la française 》?"

SCHNAPPER, ANTOINE. Le Métier de peintre au Grand Siècle. Paris: Gallimard, 2004.

Review: BCLF 666 (2005), 45–46: 《 Ce qu'A. Schnapper parvient à démontrer de manière particulièrement convaincante. . . concerne les relations de l'ancienne maîtrise, de la corporation des maîtres peintres héritée du Moyen Age qui se perpétue et qui change au gré de l'évolution du pouvoir monarchique, et de la nouvelle institution de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, relations conflictuelles certes, mais infiniment plus complexes que l'histoire de l'art ne le concevait jusqu'alors. 》

SERROY, JEAN, ed. Littérature et Peinture au temps de Le Sueur, Actes du Colloque organisé par le Musée de Grenoble et l'Université Stendhal à l'Auditorium du Musée de Grenoble, les 12 et 13 mai 2003. Musée de Grenoble: Diffusion Ellug, 2003.

Review: A. Niderst in OeC 29.2 (2004), 162–64: Colloque pluridisciplinaire qui "aboutit à un fort beau livre 》 en trois parties : 《 Théories littéraires et picturales 》, 《 Ecrits sur l'art, écrits d'artistes 》, 《 Formes littéraires et picturales. 》

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN. "Roland Joffé's Vatel: Refashioning the History of the Ancien Régime." EMF 10 (2005): 77–88.

After reviewing a number of nineteenth-century retellings of Vatel's suicide, author analyzes way the 2000 film is organized around issues of class and constitutes "an indictment of the ancien régime." Author argues that this is a result of modern mass culture's tendency to "efface cultural differences," and of bourgeois liberal democracy's need to vilify "the unjust regimes of the past."

SØRENSEN, MADELEINE PINAULT. "Les animaux du roi: De Pieter Boel aux dessinateurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences." In Charles Mazouer, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 159–183.

By looking at Boel's and the artists of the Académie's representations of the same animals two different yet complementary visions emerge: the academicians strove for anatomical correctness while Boel (whose work inspired Charles Le Brun) sought to show animals' affinities and similarities with man.

SPITZER, JOHN & NEAL ZASLAW. The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650–1815. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.

Review: R. Smith in Choice 42.6 (2005), 1032. This highly-praised work examines the rise of the orchestra by country and includes work on France. Spitzer and Zaslaw do an excellent job of documenting their sources, and provide useful tables which show the instrumentation of particular orchestras. The reviewer admires the work's index, its bibliography, and the quality of the research overall.

STANWOOD, OWEN. "Unlikely Imperialist: The Baron of Saint-Castin and the Transformation of the Northeastern Borderlands." FCS 5 (2004), 43–61.

Recounts "the volatile fortunes of an obscure French trader, the baron of Saint-Castin," to illustrate "the cultural transformations that accompanied the rise of empires in North America."

STURDY, DAVID. Richelieu and Mazarin: A Study in Statesmanship. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2003).

Review: A. James in FS 59.1 (2005), 88–89: Sturdy adopts a biographical approach in this history intended primarily for undergraduates. The reviewer's positive remarks include "readable," and "engrossing." While the form dictates a concise history in order to encourage further reader, Sturdy's history nonetheless includes a very, very successful recounting of the Frondes. A "balanced" and "clear" work.

TETART-VITTU, FRANÇOISE. "Exotisme et fantaisie dans la mode: les années 1690–1715" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 263–278.

A survey of turn-of-the-century fashion reveals original motifs as well as a synthesis of traditional elements, ancient fables, novels, and plays in the fabrics, lace, and embroidery that will influence styles through the rococo period (1730–1740).

TINGUELY, FREDERIC. "La peur du Turc (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles)." TL 17 (2004): 289–306.

Helpful and detailed investigation into "la turcophobie," considering sensationalistic discourse or "littérature de consommation facile" (290), reception and re-editions of important volumes such as De Turcarum moribus epitome (which had several 17th c. editions), tragedies and stories by François de Belleforest and relations of voyages such as those by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and by Guillaume-Joseph Grelot. Cl. D. Rouillard's synthesis of some 15 Turkish tragedies or tragi-comedies from 1560–1660 is noted and attention given to specific cases as Tristan's 1656 Osman.

TOLLINI, FREDERICK PAUL. Scene Design at the Court of Louis XIV. The Work of the Vigarini Family and Jean Berain. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

Review: B. Daniels in ThS 45 (2004): 314–315: A study of the set designers responsible for the Salle des Machines in the Tuileries and the set design for the Opéra. Excellent bibliography, but author does not formulate an approach to the subject. Reviewer finds insufficient discussion of the function of the set designs in stage productions. Tollini interested in anecdotal history of court spectacle, but less interested in the work of the designers themselves. "Neither an insightful nor a thorough study."

TONKOVICH, JENNIFER. "Claude Gillot's Costume Designs for the Paris Opéra: Some New Sources." Burlington 1225 (2005), 248–252.

Examines some costume designs Gillot did for the Paris Opéra in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

TUNLEY, DAVID. François Couperin and "The Perfection of Music." Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: J. Rubin in Choice 42.6 (2005), 1032. Tunley's study of this 17th- and 18th-century French composer considers Couperin's role in his culture's assimilation of Italian compositional style. Tunley balances his consideration of Couperin's sacred and secular music, and contextualizes both with regard to the composer's biography. The reviewer expresses praise for Tunley's appendixes and his quotation of score excerpts.

TURCKHEIM-PEY, SYLVIE DE. Médailles du Grand Siècle : histoire métallique de Louis XIV. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2004.

Review : BCLF 671 (2005), 105–06: 《 A la succession de trois ministres responsables — Colbert, Pontchartrain, l'abbé Bignon — correspondent trois groupes d'artistes et trois ensembles d'œuvres, La 'Série historique' confiée à Jean Varin; puis la 'Grande Histoire' (1691–1697) incluant des compositions de Jean Mauger et de Charles-Jean-François Chéron, puis la 'Série uniforme' ainsi nommée parce que toutes les médailles sont alors réduites au modèle de 18 lignes (= 41 millimètres). 》

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

Review: T. Luxon in SCN 62 (2004), 213–216: This represents the third volume in the author's "decades-long effort to write the literary and intellectual history of carnal knowledge." The reviewer considers this work "easily the fullest and best treatment of the subject to date," and summarizes the parts thusly: "Part One of Schooling Sex performs a thorough investigation of the erotic education trope in hard-core libertarian literature." "Part Two [. . .] turns attention to the reception — translation, adaptation, reading, and responses — of the hard-core libertine canon."

Review: M. Schachter in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1083–1085: Despite certain reservations, some involving interpretations of Foucault and others concerned with terminology, Turner's volume is found to be a "monumental accomplishment" and "will certainly serve as a catalyst for further inquiry in a range of fields" (1085). Focuses on "the relationship between. . . hard-core texts and contemporary doctrinaire rhetorical manuals, orthodox educational theory, and Cartesian philosophy" (1084).

TYLER, JAMES & PAUL SPARKS. The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

Review: V. Coelho in Ren Q 57 (2004): 323–25: An "important and essential study," Tyler and Sparks's volume is highly inclusive, offering "a detailed guide to the sources" and integrating "recent work from the fields of organology and iconography, archival and patronage studies, performance practice, and the analogous area of lute music" (324). Includes impressive new discoveries of manuscript sources from 1600–1750.

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 littérature française, 2001.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 143 (2004): 364: Wide-ranging and ample treatment from a sociological approach, influenced by critics from Goldmann to Elias and Bourdieu. Van der Schueren does not find his two major themes to be antithetical, but investigates numerous and fruitful rapports between them.

VASSEUR, SEBASTIEN. "Le château de Fléchères: état des connaissances actuelles sur un fleuron du patrimoine." DSS 228 (2005), 547–562.

The author recognizes that the château de Fléchères, "le plus grand et le plus imposant château du XVIIe siècle jamais construit en Dombes [...] n'a jamais fait l'objet ni d'une monographie sérieuse et complète, ni de recherches scientifiques relatives à l'ensemble du bâtiment et à son histoire." With this article, the author seeks to begin rectifying this situation.

VIROL, MICHELE. "Le siège de Namur de 1692: l'héroïsme et la technique." DSS 228 (2005), 465–488.

Taking the Siege of Namur as a case study, as related through historical documents and in its capacity as representative of "récits de siège", the author sheds light on "les tensions entre deux images de la valeur: l'héroïsme, d'une part; les mérites de la technique militaire bien maîtrisée, de l'autre. C'est un des aspects où l'histoire du XVIIe siècle peut s'enrichir aujourd'hui."

VON FRIEDEBURG, ROBERT, ed. Murder and Monarchy: Regicide in European History, 1300–1800. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Review: D.C. Baxter in Choice 43.3 (2005), 562. A collection of papers given in 2002 by the German Historical Institute in London. According to Baxter: "interesting if eclectic studies."

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE. "Ecrire le roi au seuil de l'âge classique: Pouvoir et fiction des entrées royales. De quelques fausses entrées" in Jean-Vincent Blanchard & Hélène Visentin, eds. L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir, Fasano / Paris: Schena editore / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, pp. 137–160.

A study in three parts: 1. "le contenu de sens et la représentation de l'entrée royale à la fin du XVIe et au début du XVIIe siècle; 2. "la problématique reliée à l'énoncé du pouvoir," and 3. "《l'invraisemblable vraisemblance》 du discours du pouvoir dans cette œuvre circonstantielle de propagande politique." With particular attention to Henri IV and Louis XIII.

WALKER, CLAIRE. Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. Houndmills, England and New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Review: F. C. Cesareo in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1112–1114: Reviewer finds that Walker's study begins to fill an important gap in scholarship, especially as it concerns women's roles in contemplative communities. Walker demonstrates that "despite enclosure and geographic distance from England, the nuns were determined to participate in the religious and political affairs of their homeland" (1113).

WEISBERGER, JEAN. La Muse des jardins: Jardins de l'Europe littéraire (1580–1700). Brussels and Bern: Peter Lang, 2002.

Review: E. Henein in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1087–1088: Henein praises the volume's wide appeal to scholars and its remarkable analyses of "literary descriptions of gardens written in five different languages" (1087). Includes illustrations, an extensive index and a selective bibliography. French specialists will particularly appreciate chapter 2, which studies "the function and status of French gardens during the seventeenth century" (1087) and chapter 4, which analyses various texts of La Fontaine, his Le Songe de Vaux for example, and presents a detailed study of Versailles.

WEISS, GILLIAN. "Barbary Captivity and the French Idea of Freedom." FHS 28.2 (Spring 2005), 231–264.

The author analyzes letters from Frenchmen taken as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries to show that their changing rationales for liberation reflect an evolving understanding of slavery and helped construct French identity as closely associated with the idea of freedom.

WIEDEMANN, MICHEL. "Les menus plaisirs de l'estampe ou la collection de gravures vers 1700" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 291–318.

The period saw the formation of grand scale print collections and a valorization of the print in treatises on art, collecting, and libraries.

WIEDEMANN, MICHEL. "Un receuil de gravures de poissons d'Adrien Collaert Piscium vivae icons in aes incisae et editae ab Adriano Collardo." In Charles Mazouer, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 119–157.

A descriptive analysis of the Flemish artist's collection of prints of fish that includes a biography of Collaert, a detailed bibliography, a table of prints, and extensive illustrations.

ABE, TAKAO. "What Determined the Content of Missionary Reports? The Jesuit Relations Compared with the Iberian Jesuit Accounts." FCS 3 (2003), 69–83.

Compares The Jesuit Relations, a 17th-century account of the Jesuit mission to the Huron, with reports of an earlier Jesuit mission to Japan. Shows that these writings reveal more about the public nature of Jesuit missions than the personalities of the accounts' authors.

ARIBAUD, CHRISTINE. Soiries en Sacristie: Fastes Liturgigues, XVII-XVIIIe siècles. Toulouse, Musée Paul Dupuy, 1998 / Somagy in Paris.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/aribaud.html. Book explores "the faithful's attempt to please the divine by dressing holy intercessors with it as majestically as possible." Includes the history of vestments, definitions, Vatican legislation around vestments. "Beautifully illustrated" (Ranum).

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Essai d'une taxonomie du savoir médical : 1665–1715." SCFS 27 (2005), 175–196.

Focuses on the Journal des Sçavans "pour tenter de suivre dans le plus grand détail possible les étapes de la constitution [du savoir médical] et l'élaboration de la pratique médicale et des disciplines y afférentes en France et en Europe. [. . .] Il ne s'agit pas de tracer ici une histoire de la médecine, mais plutôt chercher à comprendre comment se constitue le savoir dans ce domaine."

BACCAR BOURNAZ, ALIA. "Les avatars du Mahométan dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle." TL 17 (2004): 307–316.

Includes both a helpful historical context and an analysis of several works which permits us to appreciate the phenomenon and its representation. Balances the analysis of this fear with an appreciation of a culture which is also "avide de savoir et de découverte" (307). Although not pretending to exhaustivity, Bournaz's treatment is rich, very well-documented and highly suggestive.

BALSAMO, JEAN, ed. Les Funérailles à la Renaissance: XIIe colloque international de la Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle, Bar-le-Duc, 2–5 décembre 1999. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: M. J. Gill in Ren Q 57 (2004): 235–237: Highly interdisciplinary, this collection of 24 essays "constitutes an invaluable survey of current research in the culture and commemoration of death in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries [and is] organized into two parts, 'Rites and Princely Memorials' and 'Religious Polemics and Learned Discourses'" (235). Gill suggests topics for future investigation such as "the role of women as sponsors and as dedicated custodians of the afterlife" (237). Highly suggestive for future studies both artistic and literary.

BARDOUT, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE. "Malebranche et la situation métaphysique de la morale. Note sur le déclin de la prudence." DSS 226 (2005), 95–109.

The author sums up his discussion with three conclusions abbreviated here: "1/ Le projet moderne (plus spécialement cartésien) d'une fondation métaphysique de l'éthique rend compte, dès le XVIIe siècle, de la mise hors jeu de la prudence [...] 2/ L'oubli de la prudence ouvre néanmoins une crise des fondements de la morale [...] 3/ Une fondation purement objective des impératifs moraux s'avère donc doublement insuffisante, puisque la vision en Dieu des valeurs ne donne à voir que des règles générales, et que, de surcroît, une pure vision de l'entendement ne peut se muer en principe d'action pour la volonté."

BELIN, CHRISTIAN. La Conversation intérieure. La Méditation en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, "Lumière classique," 2002.

Review: G. Banderier in RBPH 82.3 (2004), 793–94: 《 Christian Belin montre de quelle manière la méditation post-tridentine reprend et transforme cette tradition biblique, augustinienne et monastique, longtemps après que la théologie eut abandonné les monastères pour descendre dans les villes et les universités. 》

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 144 (2004): 601–602: Wide-ranging, traces meditation from Augustine with diverse perspectives important to the French 17th c. Papasogli appreciates Belin's sensitivity to the transformation of the genre in its many facets and repercussions. Includes examinations of La Ceppède, Hopil, Bérulle, Bossuet, Pascal, Descartes and Malebranche (602).

BIANCHI, LORENZO, ed. with preface byALBERTO POSTIGIOLA. L'idea di cosmopolitismo. Circolazione e metamorfosi. Napoli: Liguori, 2002.

Review: P. Sossa in S Fr 144 (2004): 607–608: These Actes are drawn from the 2000 Naples conference organized by 3 scholarly societies including the Université de Bourgogne. Although the focus of the studies in generally the 18th c., 17th c. scholars will appreciate the contribution by the volume's editor on Bayle: "République des lettres e cosmopolitismo in Pierre Bayle" (47–70).

BLAIR, ANN. "Forum: Scientific Readers: An Early Modernist's Perspective." Isis 95.3 (2004), 420–430.

Blair calls for further study of reading notes and advice books on how to read in order to better appreciate the individual and collective reading practices of the early modern period. She briefly mentions Descartes, Bodin, and Peiresc, and concludes that "attention to scientific reading promises to bring to light not only telling individual examples, but also the grounds for generalizations about an aspect of scientific practice that can add to our understanding of both how ideas were formed and how they were received in particular contexts" (430).

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT. L'Optique du discours au XVIIe siècle. De la rhétorique des jésuites au style de la raison moderne (Descartes, Pascal). Saint-Nicolas, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005.

BOS, HENK J. M. Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes' Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction. New York: Springer Verlag, 2001.

Review: E. Knobloch in Isis 96.3 (2005), 431–432. Bos's two-part book first reviews the early modern tradition of geometrical problem solving before demonstrating how Descartes' "Geometry," guided by the two philosophical concerns of method and exactness, provided a solution to problems facing earlier mathematicians. "Presents an overwhelming richness of new historical insights, making a similar book on the 'fluid concept' of rigor in mathematics highly desirable."

BOUCHILLOUX, HELENE. La question de la liberté chez Descartes: libre arbitre, liberté et indifférence. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: J.-M. Gabaude in RPFE 195.2 (avril–juin 2005), 221–222: "Que la question de la liberté soit fondamentale et centrale dans la métaphysique de Descartes et que son traitement y soit cohérent dans sa progression, ce point de départ et cette conclusion établie nous paraissent justes... La difficulté est de définir et d'articuler malgré leur complexité les trois notions du sous-titre. Hélène Bouchilloux explique avec souci pédagogique, en suivi, les textes clés qu'elle intègre in extenso et chronologiquement."

Review: Mentioned in Choice 42.4 (2004), 606 as a "significant European scholarly title" for 2003. The work is described as a "study of the relationship of Descartes' metaphysics to concepts of liberty" (606).

BUISSERET, DAVID. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Review: C.W.J. Withers in Isis 95.4 (2004), 693–694: Buisseret's "elegantly written and beautifully illustrated account" explores "cartographic consciousness" throughout early modern Europe. Withers praises Buisseret's ability to merge detail and grand narrative, and highly recommends the book to a wide audience.

CAVAILLE, JEAN-PIERRE. Dis/simulations. Jules-César Vanini, François de la Mothe Le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé, Louis Machon et Torqualo Accetto. Religion, morale et politique aux XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002. Coll. 《 Lumière classique 》.

Review: I. Moreau in RPFE 195.2 (avril–juin 2005), 236–238: 《 La réflexion menée par Jean-Piere Cavaillé met en valeur l'originalité et l'audace de discours et de pratiques en rupture avec les lois et les règles imposées par la doxa. Si le propos n'est pas dénué d'intentions polémiques, la démarche adoptée a l'avantage de souligner un certain nombre de flottements sémantiques et conceptuels dans l'historiographie contemporaine, tout en préservant la richesse et la complexité des auteurs étudiés. On ne lui contestera ni l'envergure de la pensée, ni la clarté et la pertinence des analyses. 》

CHARLES, SEBASTIEN. "Du 《Je pense, je suis》 au 《Je pense, seul je suis》: crise du cartésianisme et revers des Lumières." RPL 102 (2004), 565–582.

Although this article concerns the influence of skepticism on the enlightenment, it is naturally of interest to dix-septiémistes because of its root subject, as well as discussions of Malebranche and l'abbé de Lanion. "L'influence du scepticisme sur les XVIe et XVIIe siècles est chose trop évidente pour être remise en question. Au siècle suivant, cette influence semble s'être amenuisée, ou plutôt déplacée exclusivement vers les dimensions sociales et politiques. L'A[uteur] souhaite montrer ici qu'une telle lecture partielle et qu'elle ne tient pas compte des questions sceptiques tributaires desest débats internes au cartésianisme qui vont faire, notamment par la médiation de la réception de l'immatérialisme berkeleyen, de la question solipsiste un des enjeux majeurs de l'épistémologie des Lumières."

CONLEY, JOHN J. The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.

Review: E. J. Benkov in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1023–1025: Judged "essential," and "clearly written," Conley's study "provides both biographical information and insightful analyses of the question of virtue and offers a broad introduction to the main trends in neoclassical moral philosophy" (1025). Stresses the importance of the salon and furnishes in his appendices highly useful and difficult to obtain texts of these women authors including Sablé's Maximes, Deshoulières' Réflexions diverses, Sablière's Maximes chrétiennes, and Maintenon's Sur les vertus cardinales.

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

Review: M Harrigan in FS 58.1 (2004): 93–94. According to the reviewer, this "well-researched" work is thorough in its analysis and sheds light on the birth of the "bon sauvage" while providing "insight on the strategies behind colonies and conversion."

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Femmes lunatiques : Women and the Moon in Early Modern France." DFS 71 (2005), 3–29:

"The vast constellation of literary and iconographic sources that exploit the theme of female lunacy reveals the femme lunatique as a significant satirical theme in seventeenth-century anti-feminist discourse. As such, this imagery served as a vehicle for the expression of male anxiety in an age of increasingly prominent public roles for women in the political, religious, literary and even military arenas, and of intense challenge to the allotted place of women as wives and mothers."

DEAR, PETER. "What Is the History of Science the History Of? Early Modern Roots of the Ideology of Modern Science." Isis 96.3 (2005), 390–406.

Dear traces the gap between what historians of science study and what is commonly understood as "science" to the early modern period, where Bacon sought to reconcile the contemplative natural philosophy of the scholastics with active, instrumental, experiment-based knowledge. Dear argues that "the history of science in large part concerns the story of [the] shifting, often mutually denying, interrelations" between the two models.

DESCOTES, DOMINIQUE. "Le problème de l'ordre chez Pascal." S Fr 143 (2004): 281–300:

Thorough comparison of Pascal and Descartes on the point of "l'ordre," essential for both the validity and the originality of thought (281). Descotes's article will be of particular interest to mathematicians, with its several formulae and illustrations. The "entrelacements de raisons" or "nexus rationum" in Pascal's argumentation are compared to frequent "noeuds dans l'ordre" of mathematical works such as Les Lettres de A. Dettonville where Pascal "cherche la mesure du bras d'un triligne sur sa base" (298). Despite these similarities, Descotes concludes that it would be an error to reduce Pascalian practice to the rules of the "esprit géométrique" (299).

DOMPNIER, BERNARD. "Thérèse d'Avila et la dévotion française à Saint Joseph au XVIIe siècle." RHEF 90 no. 224 (2004): 175–190.

The author examines how seventeenth-century French theologians reinterpreted and adapted the example of Theresa of Avila's devotion to St. Joseph thereby sparking growth in the saint's cult.

DOYLE, WILLIAM. Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2000.

Review: C. Daniélou in FR 79.1 (October 2005): 183–184: Doyle studies the Jansenist movement "dans son ensemble, en tant que phénomène religieux dont l'importance fut cruciale dans l'histoire politique française." Particular emphasis on "comment le jansénisme trouve son unite moins dans ses doctrines que dans la manière dont le mouvement, au nom des pères de l'Eglise et tout en y demeurant d'une loyauté sans faille, cultiva la résistance à l'autorité papale et épiscopale ainsi qu'à l'autorité royale qui les comdamnaient [sic]. . ." Ample treatment of l'abbé de Saint-Cyran and Cornélius Jansen's polemics and the innovative, defiant and independent spirit of the movement. Chronicles the "controversies et persecutions, condemnations de la Sorbonne, résistance au contrôle royale, refus des sacraments aux suspects de jansénisme, et ce jusqu'à la Paix de l'Eglise de 1669, trêve avant la rupture entre l'église gallicane et Rome, l'exil des amis de la vérité, le dispersement des religieuses, la fermeture en 1709 puis la destruction de Port-Royal-des-Champs." Second half of volume is devoted to Jansenism after Louis XIV's death. "[E]xtrêment dense et concis, ce petit ouvrage est bien précieux."

DUPORT, DANIELE. Le Jardin et la nature: Ordre et variété dans la littérature de la Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: R. E. Campo in Ren Q 57 (2004): 6464–48: Praiseworthy examination of "the philosophical and poetic antithesis between order and variety in Renaissance French literature as that opposition relates to anterior and contemporary manifestations, conceptions, and representations of the garden" (646). Duport's study treats 1) scientific discourses on horticulture, 2) the garden as a topos in the literature of the imagination, and 3) the role of the garden in poetic theory and accounts of royal entries. Appendices, and index and bibliography complete Duport's study which regrettably excludes illustrations.

FAYE, EMMANUEL. Philosophie et perfection de l'homme: De la Renaissance à Descartes. Paris: Vrin, 1998.

Review: J.-Cl. Carron in Isis 95.2 (2004), 275–276. Faye sees Descartes not as a blank slate, but rather as the final stage in the progressive liberation of philosophy from theology that began in the Renaissance. The crucial figure in this evolution is the heretofore neglected Charles Bovelles. The reviewer takes some issue with Faye's decision to examine solely French thinkers, and also with Faye's reluctance to consider the literary dimension of some of the works—such as Montaigne's Essais—he studies.

FERBER, SARAH. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Review: R. Mettam in TLS 5336 (July 8 2005), 28: Ferber charts the "contradictions and uneasiness provoked by demonic possession in Early Modern France." Vividly describes some major cases of demonic possession and sets them in wider European context. Devil was seen as an essential element of Christian teaching, but some church leaders questioned the wisdom of spectacular rites of exorcism. Such displays could be fodder for Protestant propaganda. Also discusses threat to institutional church when women liberated from Satanic power joined the ranks of female charismatics who claimed direct communication with God.

FISHMAN, LAURA. "Crossing Gender Boundaries: Tupi and European Women in the Eyes of Claude d'Abbeville." FCS 4 (2003), 81–98.

Discusses the role of gender in Capuchin missionary Claude d'Abbeville's work with the Tupinamba of early 17th-century Brazil. Explores d'Abbeville's assessment in light of his own notions of gender, and questions whether his conclusions concerning the Tupinamba were accurate.

GARBER, DANIEL & MICHAEL AYERS, eds. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. Cambridge (Royaume-Uni): Cambridge University Press, 2e éd., 2003 (1re éd., 1998), coll. "Cambridge History of Philosophy", 2 vol.

Review: J.-M. Gabaude in RPFE 195.2 (avril–juin 2005), 216–217: "Cette œuvre de référence sans équivalence en langue française émane d'un groupe international de 33 spécialistes. C'est une histoire des doctrines, des courants et des idées où le terme philosophie a un sens large, sans être aussi englobant qu'au XVIIe siècle. Au lieu d'étudier successivement les auteurs, elle traite 36 thèmes qui constituent autant de chapitres regroupés en sept parties : contexte de la philosophie du XVIIe siècle ; logique, langage et objets abstraits ; Dieu ; corps et monde physique ; esprit ; entendement ; volonté, action et philosophie morale. Le style est clair et précis. Les chapitres sont introduits, subdivisés et conclus. Une ligne directrice, c'est que l'héritage, le contexte institutionnel et intellectuel, le cours des sciences et les idées religieuses orientent et imprègnent le sens des doctrines."

GARBER, DANIEL & STEVEN NADLER, eds. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.

Review: F. Marrone in EP 2 (2005), 279–281: The first volume of a series intended to cover a period ranging from Descartes to Kant, to include not only philosophy, but also any subject that might lead to a better understanding of the cultural and scientific aspects of early modern life. In this first volume, 17th-century scholars will be especially interested in the four essays devoted to Descartes.

GAUKROGER, STEPHEN. Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Review: D. Des Chene in Isis 96.3 (2002), 436–437. Not a lot of new material, although Gaukroger does try to reconstruct the missing parts (4 and 5) of Descartes' Principles of Philosophy, an attempt that Des Chene deems "suggestive but thin." That said, "for anyone who wants a comprehensive overview of Descartes' natural philosophy, together with some sense of the place of Descartes's project in its period, Gaukroger's work is an excellent starting point."

GAY, JEAN-PASCAL. "Voués à quel royaume? Les Jésuites entre vœux de religion et fidélité monarchique. A propos d'un mémoire inédit du P. de La Chaize." DSS 227 (2005), 285–314.

The author analyses a text (Le Mémoire sur l'état présent de la Compagnie en France) "jusqu'ici inconnu du plus éminent des confesseurs de Louis XIV, le P. François de La Chaize, rédigé à l'occasion du conflit, trop mal connu, qui oppose le roi au général de 1688 à 1691." In so doing, he hopes to open a new line of inquiry into "la nature et les contradictions du gallicanisme jésuite."

GILBY, EMMA. "Economies of Perspective in Seventeenth-Century France." SCFS 27 (2005), 29–38.

"This paper is concerned with perspectival constructions in art and how they are written about in seventeenth-century France. Often, the work of Descartes is juxtaposed with seventeenth-century theories of perspective, and I shall maintain, while qualifying, this juxtaposition here."

GIULANI, PIERRE. "Médecine et imaginaire littéraire: la transfusion en débat sous Louis XIV." PFSCL XXXII, 63 (2005), 373–397.

"Le sang, nous le verrons, ne se donne pas seulement comme un élément de la nature, et l'âge classique souligne plutôt quel entrelacs de postulations diverses préside à ce que l'on s'efforce alors de dire et de faire de l'humeur généreuse. Origine de la vie, signe de la mort, agent de la génération, allié possible face à la marche du temps, objet d'expériences audacieuses : avec les opérations de transfusion qui ont eu lieu en 1667 et 1668, ce sont autant d'enjeux toujours ambivalents qui se révèlent ainsi à nous."

GREER, ALLAN & JODI BILINKOFF, eds. Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500–1800. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Review: A. Frazier in Ren Q 57 (2004): 657–59: Highly interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, this volume of selected conference proceedings (from a University of Toronto meeting in 2000) includes a few essays on the history of devotion in Canada (Quebec and Ontario). Dominique Deslandres finds in the nuns of New France "new models for women's heroism" (658). Geographical range is judged "remarkable" as well as the variety of materials examined: manuscripts, printed material, shrine receipts, local minutes, paintings, even embroidered collages (658).

GREINER, FRANK. Les Métamorphoses d'Hermès: tradition alchimique et esthétique littéraire dans la France de l'âge baroque (1583–1646). Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance 3,42. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: E. Campion in FR 78.6 (2005): 1238–39: A highly learned study of early modern alchemy that wastes its erudition by failing to adequately explain the background history of alchemy, its key practitioners and symbols, and the basic precepts of religious and social movements to which Greiner links alchemy. "Greiner makes fascinating comparisons between an interest in alchemy and the practice of religious movements such as Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, but once again the relevance of such comparisons will not be clear to readers who do not understand the core beliefs of these movements" (1238). The reviewer also laments Greiner's breezy citation of obscure works of fiction.

GRENDLER, PAUL F. "The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation." Ren Q 57 (2004): 1–42.

Emphasis of Grendler's study is the Renaissance; however 17th c. scholars will appreciate important sections on humanism and research as well as the various challenges for 17th c. universities—new schools which "taught part of the university curriculum and gave young men specific professional skills and religious preparation for life" (24). Discusses schools founded by the Jesuits, the Doctrinaires and the Oratorians. Reminds that the most famous pupil of the Collège Henri IV operated by the Jesuits was René Descartes (26). Extensive descriptive appendix and bibliography.

GRENIER, BENOIT. "'Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur?': Une étude comparative de la présence seigneuriale (France-Canada), XVIIe–XIXe Siècle." FCS 5 (2004), 7–24.

Studies residency habits of seigneurs in the Saint-Lawrence valley in the 17th–19th centuries. Notes that the trend toward residency was the opposite of that in France during the same time period.

GRES-GAYER, JACQUES. "Tradition et modernité: la réforme des études en Sorbonne (1673–1715)." RHEF 88 no. 221 (2002): 341–389.

The author describes and analyzes the the new statutes of 1673–1675 and how they transformed the Sorbonne's course of theological studies in response to the necessities of the times. The article pays particular attention to how exams replaced debates as a means of verifying knowledge.

GUARAGNELLA, PASQUALE. "Paolo Sarpi fra Montaigne e Charron." MLN 120.1 (2005) : 173–189.

Article qui traite de l'influence des Essais de Montaigne et De la sagesse (1601) de Pierre Charron sur les oeuvres de Paolo Sarpi, Pensieri medico-morale et Pensione sulla religione.

HAFNER, RALPH. Götter im Exil: Frühneuzeitliches Dichtungsverständnis im Spannungsfeld christlicher Apologetik und philologischer Kritik (ca. 1590–1736). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2003.

Review: E.C. Brancaforte in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1454–55: Judged "a stimulating study of European preoccupation with classical antiquity and early modern concerns in poetics and theology" (1455). Häfner's wide-ranging analysis includes attention to the 17th c. relationship between astrology and poetry as well as other "themes of importance to pagan classical times and early Christianity that reemerge as European scholars begin to reedit, translate, comment on, and publish these sources" (1454). Detailed bibliography, "impeccably prepared" index and analytical table of contents.

KOCH, EREC R. "Body, Passion, Ethics: Descartes's Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and the Passions de l'âme." SCFS 27 (2005), 39–49.

"Through Descartes's correspondence with Elisabeth of Bohemia and the more systematic Passions de l'âme, I examine the re-construction of [the] Cartesian body and explore the ways in which that body, rather than the mechanical Foucauldian docile body, produces the ethical individual in society, a subject-body."

LAURENTI, JEAN-NOEL. Valeurs morales et religieuses sur la scène de l'Académie Royale de Musique 1669–1737. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: J. Prest in FS 58.1 (2004): 103–104. In this positive review, Laurenti is lauded for "lucid" and "legitimate" arguments, and a "nuanced reading" of societal values. The reviewer would have liked more information on librettists and composers to facilitate the reading of quotations within the text, but otherwise finds this a "successful volume."

Lesaulnier, Jean & ANTONY MCKENNA, ed. Dictionnaire de Port-Royal. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: N. Hammond in TLS 5326 (April 29 2005), 32: "Invaluable documenation about even the most minor figures." Lengthy chapters on important writers, but volume also lists "every nun, teacher and pupil at Port-Royal between 1599 and 1710." Reviewer mentions risk that objectivity might be comprised by editors' decision to include only those figures in direct contact with and sympathetic to Port-Royal, but says the result is a very rich volume. Includes "telling contributions from Jean Mesnard and Philippe Selliers." Sumptuously produced with many high-quality illustrations, maps and chronologies.

LOPEZ, DENIS. "L'animal du XVIIe siècle: fond de tableau théologique, mythologique, philosophique (quelques points d'ancrage)." In Charles Mazouer, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 11–25.

A historical survey of the status of animals in philosophy, science, and religion in early modern France. While some (such as Montaigne, Descartes, La Fontaine) sought to challenge and question the lowly status of animals, the traditional theology of man's superiority over beast continued to hold sway.

LOVE, RONALD S. "'A Passage to China': A French Jesuit's Perceptions of Siberia in the 1680s." FCS 4 (2003), 85–100.

Shows that Philippe Avril's detailed account of his effort to find a land route to China was of immense importance in that it expanded geographic knowledge of Asia, even though the mission itself ultimately failed.

MARGOLF, DIANE. Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France: The Paris Chambre de l'Edit, 1598–1665. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State UP, 2004.

Review: D. Baxter in Choice 42.1 (2004), 180–81. Margolf examines this important Parisian court (one of many bipartisan courts established by the Edict of Nantes) in an attempt to understand its composition, its modes of operation, and the cultural issues germane to its work. Margolf then provides a political context for the court, situating it within the larger framework of early modern state-building and France's developing sense of national identity. She suggests that Huguenots were marginalized as well as protected by the courts, and that the Paris Chambre de l'Edit "played an important role in subordinating both Catholics and Huguenots to common obedience to the law, resulting in an extension of royal authority" (181). Recommended by the reviewer.

McCLELLAN, JAMES E. III. Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700–1793. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2003.

Review: M. Crosland in Isis 95.4 (2004), 704–705: Describes the tight control that the Académie Royale des Sciences exerted over its members, also documenting how the academy began several procedures, such as regular publication with peer review, that are now standard. Crosland calls the book "a fine piece of work," even though at times many of the details the book offers are of limited interest to non-specialists.

MORGAIN, STEPHANE-MARIE. "L'installation des carmes déchaux à Toulouse en mars 1623, de la Ligue au catholicisme royal." RHEF 89 no. 223 (2003): 363–384.

The establishment of a Carmelite convent in Toulouse in 1623 was part of the Catholic reformation which sought to expand Catholicism and stabilize political and religious turmoil.

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

Review: E. Moles in MLR 100.3 (2005), 813–14: Author "follows a meticulous survey of previous scholarship on theology and history with chapters on 'Descartes' forma future' (pp. 60–99), 'Pascal's Critique of Experience' (pp. 100–50), and Malebranche: 'What is falsely called experience' (pp. 151–49). In analyzing suspicion he sedulously avoids attributing a modern understanding of the self to his three authors."

QUANTIN, JEAN-LOUIS. "Le rigorisme: sur le basculement de la théologie morale catholique au XVIIe siècle." RHEF 89 no. 222 (2003): 23–43.

Traces how "rigorisme" combatted the challenge to moral theology posed by the notion of "probabilisme."

RANDALL, MICHAEL. "On the Evolution of Toads in the French Renaissance." Ren Q 57 (2004): 126–64.

Fascinating and very well documented study of "the story of the toads" from the time of Clovis to the 17th c. when they "became an endangered species. . . as political power was increasingly associated solely with the person of the king" (126). However, some 20 pages are devoted here to toads in late 16th and 17th c. France— detailed examination of "polemical toads," "defenses of lilies and toads" (by Tristan and Saint-Amant) and responses by the franc-comtois Jean-Jacques Chifflet (1588–1673).

RANUM, OREST & PATRICIA RANUM. "Fugitive Pieces."

Transcriptions of primary source historical documents published on the Ranums' website. Includes: "The death inventory of François Chapperon, music master of the Sainte-Chapelle, d. 1698;" "Final Accounts for the Te Deum sponsored by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, February 8, 1687;" "The Last Days of Bouthillier de Chavigny;" "Plainte pour Estiennette Charpentier, fille majeure, contre Jacques Mathas, January 16, 1709;" "A Funeral Oration for Mme de Guise, Petite-fille de France;" "Mlle de Guise Chooses a Painting for Her Gallery;" Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Jansenists Gossip about His Morals and His Death," "The Jesuits and Music: Some Fugitive Pieces;" "Herr Martin Mayr, the Duke of Bavaria's Agent, Tends to Things Musical in Paris, 1680–1685;" "Madame de Miramion's School for Girls;" "1683: Guillaume Pecour, the Dancer, Is Defamed;" "A Banquet at the Hôtel de Guise, 1671," "A Description of the Chapel and Worship Services at Port-Royal-des-Champs, 1679." All located on their website: http://ranumspanat.com/

RESTIF, BRUNO, "Le synodes du diocèse de Saint-Malo aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles." RHEF 89 no. 223 (2003): 345–361.

The synods of Saint-Malo were a part of the Catholic reformation that also helped consolidate and unify the diocese.

RIBARD, DINAH. "Pratique(s) jésuite(s) de l'écrit: le P. Tournemine, les Mémoires de Trévoux et Fénelon." DSS 228 (2005), 513–526.

Taking les Mémoires de Trévoux as "un instrument de la politique jésuite," the author focuses on the "pratique collective et institutionnelle du journalisme à partir d'un cas, celui du P. René-Joseph de Tournemine (1661–1739), directeur des Mémoires entre 1701 et 1719, et du point de vue d'une histoire de l'action par l'écrit qui n'isole pas la rédaction d'articles de presse de l'ensemble des opérations d'écriture [...] menées par un spécialiste dans ce domaine, de surcroît acteur central dans sa Compagnie comme dans la haute société et le monde intellectuel parisiens."

RUMBEKE, BETRAND VAN & RANDY J. SPARKS, eds. Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. Columbia: U of South Carolina Press, 2003.

Review: A. Strange in FR 78.6 (2005): 1260–61. Charts the sense of collective identity among Huguenots. Finds that dispersed Huguenots ceased to exist as distinct communities within two or three generations, though they nonetheless continued to feel a sense of cultural heritage. The volume explores French Protestants' immigration to spaces ranging from England, Germany, and the Netherlands to Canada and the Caribbean. The fourteen essays in this book "are based on extensive research into demographic and social data drawn from church documents, census and probate records, and private correspondence. This volume. . . would be a valuable addition to any library of French cultural history" (1261).

TALIAFERRO, CHARLES. Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge, 2005.

Review: J. Churchill in Choice 43.2 (2005), 306. According to Churchill: "Balance is an issue: the book is a third spent by the year 1700." Still, serves as an introductory survey with a substantial bibliography and useful appendixes.

TURREL, DENISE. Le Blanc de France: le [sic] construction des signes identitaires pendant les guerres de religion (1562–1629). Genève: Droz, 2005.

Review: BCLF 670 (2005), 113: 《 . . .une étude remarquable sur l'évolution d'un symbole. L'historienne envisage les guerres de religion dans leur extension chronologique la plus vaste, du massacre de Vassy (1562) à l'édit d'Alès (1629), qui marque pour les Réformés la fin de leur rêve d'une 'France protestante'. Le blanc, qui fut au long du XVIIe siècle la couleur des rois, était au départ la marque de leurs adversaires. 》

VAN DAMME, STEPHANE. "Les jésuites lyonnais et l'espace européen de la presse savante (1690–1714)." DSS 228 (2005), 499–511.

The author analyses the "différents espaces où se déploie l'action intellectuelle et éditoriale des jésuites lyonnais" and finds that they reveal "des représentations très différentes de la mobilisation de la composante jésuite, qui indiquent l'hétérogénéité de la République des Lettres, et les multiples façons de construire l'universel. Les Mémoires de Trévoux confirment ce nouveau dynamisme en élargissant le spectre des auteurs publiés, et en soulignant davantage l'importance des antiquaires par rapport aux philosophes de la nature."

VAN DAMME, STEPHANE. Le Temple de la sagesse: savoirs, écriture et sociabilité urbaine (Lyon, XVIIe–XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2005.

Review: BCLF 672 (2005), 117–18: Ouvrage en trois parties consacré aux jésuites: 《 La première partie s'intéresse à la circulation de l'information au sein de la Compagnie de Jésus. . . La deuxième partie étudie la place des collèges jésuites dans la cité ; la troisième analyse les rapports entre les jésuites de Lyon et la République des Lettres, autrement dit l'abondant flot épistolaire qui circulait entre les maisons de la Compagnie et les cabinets d'autres érudits. 》

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 littérature française, 2001.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 143 (2004): 364: Wide-ranging and ample treatment from a sociological approach, influenced by critics from Goldmann to Elias and Bourdieu. Van der Schueren does not find his two major themes to be antithetical, but investigates numerous and fruitful rapports between them.

VERMIJ, RIENK. The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic. Amsterdam: Edita KNAW, 2002.

Review: G. Vanpaemel in Ren Q 57 (2004): 303–304: Although the focus of Vermij's "impressive work of outstanding scholarship is the history of Dutch science, students of cartesianism will benefit from the section on Descartes's influence. Reviewer appreciates in particular here Vermij's "breadth of arguments and archival sources" (304).

VITTU, JEAN-PIERRE. "Du Journal des savants aux Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences et des beaux-arts: l'esquisse d'un système européen des périodiques savants." DSS 228 (2005), 527–545.

The author looks at "[l]es caractéristiques attachées à cette nouvelle forme éditoriale," put forth by the Jesuits and deciphers what distinguishes it from other "instruments de l'échange des lettrés et des savants[...] Ainsi, les conditions de la multiplication de ces périodiques et le rôle singulier qu'ils remplirent dans l'information en matière savante, dans l'échange des lettrés et des hommes de science, comme dans la validation de leurs travaux, conduisent à s'interroger sur la possible formation d'un système d'échange périodique dont la relation singulière avec les autres institutions savantes pourrait constituer une clé à ce que nous dignons comme la République des Lettres."

VUILLEMIN, JEAN-CLAUDE. "L'œil de Galilée pour les yeux de Chimène." Poétique 142 (2005): 153–165.

Explores Lucien Febvre's postulate that among the human senses in the Renaissance, sight was subordinate to smell and touch. Quotes classical authors who privilege sight above the other senses, then turns to Renaissance poetry in which eyes are compared to elements of the solar system, and in which poetry flows over into scientific discourse. Moves on to consider sight, sight processes, and their reliability in the thought of Bacon, Descartes, and Kepler. Vuillemin suggests that 17th-century doubts about vision fuel a critique of illusion in the Querelle du Cid, and inflects comedies such as L'Illusion comique, which play on motifs of visual deception.

WALKER, CLAIRE. Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. Houndmills, England and New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Review: F. C. Cesareo in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1112–1114: Reviewer finds that Walker's study begins to fill an important gap in scholarship, especially as it concerns women's roles in contemplative communities. Walker demonstrates that "despite enclosure and geographic distance from England, the nuns were determined to participate in the religious and political affairs of their homeland" (1113).

WELLMAN, KATHLEEN. Making Science Social: The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot 1633–1642. (Series for Science and Culture, number 6.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Review : J. B. Shank in FHS 28.4 (Fall 2005), 661–695: "Renaudot's bureau certainly has much to teach us about the seventeenth-century foundations of eighteenth-century science and society, and as such Making Social Science can be recommended as a book that isolates these important precursors, analyzes their importance, and argues compellingly for their integration into Enlightenment studies... She also offers a detailed and learned study of the idiosyncrasies of seventeenth-century natural philosophy that is highly instructive."

Review: K.K. Weaver in SCN 62 (2004), 263–265: Using Renaudot's conferences as her primary source, Wellman delves into "major ideas in the history of science, the history of gender and science, and the history of biology." The reviewer particularly appreciates the author's "significant contribution to the history of biology" and praises the author for doing "a fine job establishing the skeptical, humanitarian, utilitarian, and optimistic qualities of the medical discussions that took place among the members of Renaudot's group, and associates these characteristics with the Enlightenment's view of medicine."

WILSON, CATHERINE. Descartes's Meditations: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Review: R. Lee in Choice 42.1 (2004), 117. Recommended for beginning readers of the Meditations in conjunction with coursework on Descartes. Readers are encouraged to read Wilson's book in its entirety. However, reviewer notes that "the larger Cartesian picture, which is not easily accessible to a modern philosopher writing in the analytic mode, is difficult to detect" (117).

WORCESTER, THOMAS. "A Defensive Discourse: Jesuits on Disease in Seventeenth-Century New France." French Colonial History 6 (2005): 1–15.

Looks at the influence of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents in its socio-historical context in order to show that it was a "defensive, polemical discourse" meant to demonstrate "divine approbation of Jesuit teaching and Jesuit activities."

ABBRUGIATI, RAYMOND & JOSE GUIDI, eds. Les Belles Infidèles de la Jérusalem délivrée : la fortune du poème du Tasse, XVIe–XXe siècle. Actes du colloque international d'Aix-en-Provence, 24–26 octobre 2002. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'université de Provence, 2004.

Review: BCLF 668 (2005), 50: Quelques-unes des contributions 《 portent sur la manière dont plusieurs artistes surent rendre une scène identique (celle ou Armide aperçoit Renaud endormi) ou sur l'Armide de Quinault et Lully. 》 Manque d'index et de bibliographie.

ABRAHAM, CLAUDE. "Aperçu de la versification française du 17e siècle" in La poésie française du premier 17e siècle, eds. D. L. Rubin & R. Corum, Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2004, pp. 42–50.

"[N]ous voudrions simplement donner quelques elements de prosodie" with an eye to distinctions between verse and prose. Attention paid to "Le compte des syllabes," "Agencement des vers," "Le rythme," "Les sons," "Poèmes à forme fixe," and "Poèmes à strophe unique."

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

Review: G. Peureux in IL 56.2 (2004): 58–59. A comparative study of five poets—Abraham de Vermeil, Théophile de Viau, Marbeuf, Gabriel du Bois-Hus, and Tristan l'Hermite—that pits what each shares against what distinguishes them from one another. Author hopes that by reconstituting the "imaginary" of the poets we can arrive at an image of the period "Louis XIII." Reviewer takes issue with the author's methodological choices, felt to be anachronistically psychoanalytical; her dismissal of historical context; and her choice of these particular poets to encapsulate the Louis XIII era.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 143 (2004): 358: Adam applies the "critique de l'imaginaire" (theorized by Gilbert Durant and with references to Deleuze and others) to the poetry of the early 17th c., specifically to works of Vermeil, Viau, Pierre de Marbeuf, Du Bois-Hus and Tristan. The various analyses are original, courageous, and illuminating, if at times complex and debatable.

ARAGON, SANDRINE. Des liseuses en péril. Les images de lectrices dans les textes de fiction de La Prétieuse de l'abbé de Pure à Madame Bovary de Flaubert. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: F. Pilone in S Fr 143 (2004): 437: Analyzes the evolution of the woman reader from the mid-17th c. to the mid-19th. Focuses on readers in fiction: novels, short stories and comedy. Careful attention to the social evolution. Takes into account reading in society, the salons and the galant esthetic.

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

Review: Mentioned in Choice 42.4 (2004), 609 as a "significant European scholarly title" for 2003. Arbour's biographical dictionary lists women in the book trade. They are indexed first alphabetically, then by century.

Review: E. Berriot-Salvadore in BHR 66.3 (2004), 703–05: 《 Tout est construit pour faciliter l'utilisation de ce dictionnaire, conçu non comme une somme définitive mais comme un stimulant outil de découverte. 》

BACCAR BOURNAZ, ALIA, ed. L'Afrique au XVIIe siècle. Mythes et réalités. Actes du VIIe Colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Tunis 14–16 mars 2002. Biblio 17, 149. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003.

Review: B. Marquier in S Fr 143 (2004): 354–55: Rich and wide-ranging volume of the 7th colloque of the CIR and the first to take place in Africa. Unifying purpose was to "découvrir les horizons africains de la France au dix-septième siècle" (17). Remarkably varied in both types of texts studied and research perspectives, the volume is organized into 6 sections: "L'Afrique dénommée" (lexicography), "L'Afrique représenté" (perceptions, the symbolic, and the iconographic), "L'Afrique imaginée" (geographical spaces, societal perceptions, romanesque potentialities), "L'Afrique visitée" (voyage literature), "L'Afrique mise en scène" (dramatizations and absence, socio-political contexts, iconography), and "L'Afrique revisitée" (apologetics, philosophy, politics). The volume's final contribution is by editor Baccar Bournaz who examines numerous "réutilisations et adaptations, au XVIIe siècle, du conte de Psyché raconté [dans]. . . L'âne d'or d'Apulée" (355).

BACCAR BOURNAZ, ALIA. "Les avatars du Mahométan dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle." TL 17 (2004): 307–316.

Includes both a helpful historical context and an analysis of several works which permits us to appreciate the phenomenon and its representation. Balances the analysis of this fear with an appreciation of a culture which is also "avide de savoir et de découverte" (307). Although not pretending to exhaustivity, Bournaz's treatment is rich, very well-documented and highly suggestive.

BARON, PHILIPPE, DENIS WOOD & WENDY PERKINS. Femmes et littérature. Besançon: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtois, 2003.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 40 (2004): 471: A selection of essays from the 1998 conference at Birmingham, the volume is wide-ranging, from medieval times to the present-day. Examining both woman as creator and object of literature, the collection is organized thematically around the following areas: myth, the body and sexuality, women and society, and certain very influential women writers. Theoretical approaches are varied. Review does not indicate 17th c. subjects.

BAUSTERT, RAYMOND. La Consolation érudite. Huit études sur les sources des lettres de consolation de 1600 à 1650. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 144 (2004): 601: Brings together and reorganizes Baustert's several articles since 1990. His 8 studies are based on a corpus of some 80 texts of the first half of the 17th c. Rich for its precious bio-bibliographic information on "plumes mineures" (601), its ample and broad bibliography and the perspectives it offers on the mentality of the time.

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

Review: M.-Fr. Hilgar in FR 78.3 (2005): 573–74. This massive tome undertakes stylistic analysis of a still more massive corpus—some 80,000 lines of poetry from Corneille and Racine. Beaudoin examines these authors' works with tools from computational linguistics, in particular, a device called a "métromètre" (574) which performs phonetic transcription and analysis. The result? Beaudoin notes the appearance of patterns such as greater rhythmic variety in verses which thematize love as compared to lines which thematize death. Her book also includes a history of the alexandrine and 150-page list of the rhymes which appear in the two authors' works.

BERTRAND, DOMINIQUE, ed. Penser la nuit (XVe–XVIIe siècle). Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: G. Poirier in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1072–1073: Highly positive review appreciates the multifaceted essays drawn from the Colloque of 2000 at the Université Blaise Pascal. The 25 essays are divided into four sections on night and knowledge, the "taming" of night and its use in narrations, night and poetry, and night for its contributions to scenography and political interpretation. Poirier suggests that the volume might very well be useful to a graduate seminar, due to its "wide range of critical approaches and methodology, all dealing with a same and. . . interesting topos" (1073).

BIET, CHRISTIAN. "L'unité de la séance de théâtre: point de vue historique, point de vue méthodologique. Pour un autre regard sur le théâtre 《 classique 》. De l'unité du livre à celle de la séance: Texte, performance, spectacle." PFSCL XXXII, 63 (2005), 487–504.

Keynote paper at the Salford 2003 Centre for Seventeenth-Century French Theatre conference entitled "Seventeenth-Century French Drama: Texts; Pre-text, Para-Text, Intertext, Hypertext'." Underscores the importance of performative, as well as literary, aspects of theatre. "Travailler sur le theatre du passé, c'est ainsi prendre en compte le texte imprimé et la performance qui la constituait aussi. Il semble qu'en cherchant à instaurer une autre unité méthodologique, à remplacer l'étude du texte par l'étude de la séance de théâtre, [. . .] on gagnera en précision, et surtout, on sera à même de rendre compte du processus historique et simultanément d'impulser une dynamique dramaturgique pour la mise en scène contemporaine du théâtre du passé."

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

Review: J. Harris in FS 58.1 (2004): 95–96. According to the reviewer, this collection is, on the whole, successful. While readers "expecting an exploration of La Fontaine's general relationship to poetic tradition, may well. . . be disappointed," the volume has common themes, strong scholarship, and is tied together with a good introduction.

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT. "The Cyber-Baroque: Walter Ong, the History of Rhetoric, and an Early Modern Information Mode." EMF 10 (2005): 150–82.

Starting from the observation that many scholars of contemporary media revolutions have made use of Ong's description of Renaissance rhetorical practices, author examines the importance of visuality in Jesuit culture, especially emblems, and argues that, contrary to what Ong would hold, such images are not—no more than today's Internet—necessarily beholden to scriptural culture.

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT & HELENE VISENTIN, eds. L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir. Mises en scène de la souveraineté au XVIIe siècle. Fasano / Paris: Schena editore / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005.

With contributions by Christian Biet, John D. Lyons, Bénédicte Louvat-Molozay, Derval Conroy, Ralph Heyndels, Marie-France Wagner and Daniel Vaillancourt, all of which are summarized briefly in this volume of French 17.

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT & HELENE VISENTIN. "La Souveraineté est-elle une poétique de l'exception?" in J.-V. Blanchard & H. Visentin, eds., L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir, Fasano / Paris: Schena editore / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, pp.9–28.

Introductory essay to the volume which Blanchard and Visentin co-edited, which explains the genesis of the volume as an attempt to examine how "Etudier l'invraisemblance du conflit tragique permettrait de saisir, comme en contrechamp, la nature de la souveraineté." Includes sections entitled, "La souveraineté dans l'ordre des apparences politiques" and "La souveraineté est-elle une poétique de l'exception?" Includes summaries of the papers in the volume.

BOLDUC, BENOIT. Andromède au rocher: fortune théâtrale d'une image en France et en Italie 1587–1712. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2002.

Review: J. Clarke in MLR 100.3 (2005), 816: ". . .a relatively rare demonstration of how a single myth could act as a fruitful source of dramatic inspiration on both sides of the Alps for well over a hundred years."

Review: V. Gély in DSS 227 (2005), 364–365: "Un 《 combat mythique mettant aux prises un jeune homme et un monstre, et dont l'enjeu est la libération et la possession d'une beauté nubile 》 (p. 11): pourquoi et comment a-t-il spécialement fasciné les publics français et italiens du XVIIe siècle?" The premise for this study is thus articulated and the reviewer finds the ensuing discussion and response to be a rich contribution on this pervasive theme as the author grapples with a very large corpus of texts.

BOTTIGHEIMER, RUTH B. "France's First Fairy Tales: The Restoration and Rise Narratives of Les facetieuses nuictz du Seigneur François Straparole." M&T 19.1 (2005), 17–31.

Investigates French contes de fées as they relate to the domain of print and publishing, especially the French history of Giovanni Francesco Straparola's Piacevoli notti. Shows that French fairy tale writers such as Perrault and d'Aulnoy were inspired directly by Straparola.

BRAIDER, CHRISTOPHER. Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 2002.

Review: J.D. Crivelli in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1438–40: Reviewer judges the volume "a valuable contribution [both] to the scholarship of 17th c. French classicism [as well as] to the theatres of Corneille, Molière and Racine" (1440). Chapters treat: the authority of figures in light of Corneille; Horace, Cinna and Rodogune; Rotrou's and Molière's Amphytrion; Molière's Ecole des femmes; the theme of hypocrisy in Tartuffe and Dom Juan; and Racinian "perfection" (326).

Review: M.-F. Hilgar in FR 78.4 (2005): 774–75. Extending his analysis across such major works as Le Cid, Horace, Dom Juan, and Phèdre, Braider reads these texts through an equally assorted set of critical lenses, including Lacanian and new historicist perspectives. The reviewer laments Braider's ineffective handling of new theory with old texts, and describes his work as "[c]hallenging reading . . . a curious mélange of . . . statements which almost sound like lapalissades and, more often, heavy jargon" (775).

Review: R. Racevskis in SubStance 32.4 (2005), 141–46: Argues that classical plays anticipate critical responses to them and arm themselves with textual ambiguities that prevent easy dismissals and pre-scripted, theory-heavy analyses. Key examples of this phenomenon appear in Le Cid's preemptive response to playgoers' horror at the notion that Chimène would marry her father's murderer, and in Horace's ability to "force[] the cardinal to read closely" (Braider, 121). Viewer uncertainty about classical dramatic meaning is also said to be generated by certain comedies' willingness to stand as their own tragic counterparts, leaving playgoers to make sense of characters' perplexing ironic doubles. All these dramatic ambiguities implicitly force playgoers to seek elucidation in the "indiscernible counterpart to the play that is the text" (144). The reviewer regrets Braider's reductive dismissal of how readers apply critical approaches to plays; however, he nonetheless praises the work as "extensively researched, [and] provocatively written—makes a valuable contribution to an ongoing re-evaluation of "Le Grand Siècle"" (145).

Review: P. Scott in MLR 100.2 (2005), 499–500: 《 Braider takes up the concept of indiscernible counterparts, as formulated by Arthur Danto (The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1981), to describe objects that are indistinguishable from each other but at the same time distinct, and applies it to seventeenth-century theatre. In this way, individual responses to the written texts become indiscernible counterparts, liberating canonical works from standing as monolithic constituents of the grand siècle canon . . . Braider appeals for a shift in emphasis from interpretations based on purely performance-related issues. 》

BRANCHER, DOMINIQUE. "Portrait humoral du polémiqueur: Aléas de l'humeur et du style du XVIe au XVIIe siècle. 》 Special Supplement to MLN 120.1 (2005): S141–S169.

"Constitutive du genre polémique, la tension entre d'une part la technicité rhétorique, indice de maîtrise rationnelle et de force persuasive, et d'autre part la spontanéité d'un engagement passionnel, ancré par la tradition médico-philosophique dans la pathologie humorale, ouvre une palette d'attitudes qui valoriseront plutôt l'un ou l'autre de ces deux pôles indissociables. Dans les pages qui vont suivre, on se risquera, mais avec prudence, à s'inscrire cette polarité dans une trajectoire culturelle. Ainsi qu'en témoigne la querelle qui nous intéressera entre Garasse, Ogier et Guez de Balzac dans le premier tiers du XVIIe siècle, l'esthétique classique semble alors basculer de la noblesse tragique des 'fureurs' et 'forcenements' poétiques, placés sous le signe de l'impulsivité biologique, à une poétique plus raisonnée, qui reprend ses gages à l'humeur et démystifie la Muse tempéramentale."

BRIOT, FREDERIC. "La rime au XVIIe siècle: l'aiguë, l'ambiguïté et l'aguicheuse." RSH 276 (octobre–décembre 2004): 63–79.

Shows the ambiguity behind distinctions between prose and verse and analyzes period conceptions of the uses, difficulties, and limitations of the rime. Authors cited include Malherbe, Furetière, Théophile de Viau, Fénelon, Boileau, Pascal, and La Fontaine.

BURY, MARIANE & GEORGES FORESTIER, eds. Jeux et enjeux des théâtres classiques (XIXe et XXe siècles). Actes du colloque tenu en Sorbonne les 2 et 3 mars 2001, réunis et présentés par Mariane Bury et Georges Forestier, Littératures classiques, no 48, printemps 2003. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review : M.-O. Sweetser in OeC 29.2 (2004), 146–149: "Le volume est divisé en quatre parties: 'Penser', 'Voir', 'Ecrire', et 'Jouer', c'est-à-dire que la conception du théâtre et la notion de classicisme, la mise en scène et les représentations, la réception par la critique sont tour à tour envisagées. 》

CAMPANGNE, HERVE THOMAS. "De l'histoire tragique à la dramaturgie: Mainfray et Desfontaines lecteurs de Jacques Yver." DSS 227 (2005), 211–226.

"En portant à la scène des récits tirés des recueils d'histoires tragiques, les dramaturges des années 1560–1660 opèrent un travail de réécriture qui témoigne aussi de la manière dont ils conçoivent les règles et la fonction de l'art dramatique. Nous cherchons à comprendre les enjeux de ce travail de réinvention autour de l'exemple particulièrement révélateur des deux adaptations françaises de l'histoire tragique des amours d'Eraste et de Perside, qui constituait en 1572 le premier chapitre du Printemps de Jacques Yver."

CARABIN, DENISE. Les Idées stoïciennes dans la littérature morale des XVIe et XVIIe siècles (1575–1642). Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 671 (2005), 58: L'auteur 《 tente de déterminer tout ce que la culture française doit aux éditeurs, traducteurs et commentateurs qui ont su donner à ces idées diffuses une présence active, aussi bien sur le plan philosophique (leur territoire naturelle), que sur les plans théologique et artistique, qui vont leur permettre d'exercer une influence décisive sur les consciences. 》 Parmi les auteurs : Guillaume Du Vair, François de La Mothe Le Vayer.

CASANOVA-ROBIN, HELENE. Diane et Actéon: éclats et reflets d'un mythe à la Renaissance et à l'âge baroque. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: D. Gilman in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1452–53: Judged "an impressively researched study that elucidates the origins and elaborations of an important myth" (1453). 17th c. scholars will appreciate Casanova-Robin's attention to French baroque poets and artists.

CATANI, MAGDA CAMPANINI. "Alle origini del romanzo epistolare: la riposta come matrice narrativa elementare." S Fr 144 (2004): 441–56.

Demonstrates the numerous and diversified "répliques" as an integral part of the epistolary unit. Examines how they function in the artes dictaminis as well as in the mise en fiction. Includes brief treatment of Tristan's Lettres meslées. Catani's copious notes constitute a remarkable bibliography in themselves.

CAZANAVE, CLAIRE. "Le dialogue au XVIIe siècle en France: un genre français moderne? Eléments pour une mise au point." DSS 228 (2005), 427–441.

The author acknowledges that the "genre du dialogue" is generally studied as a Renaissance and eighteenth-century æsthetic and marginalized in the seventeenth, however, she points out that "[c]e relatif désintérêt de la critique ne répond pourtant pas à ce qui aurait été, en son temps, un désintérêt des écrivains de l'âge classique pour cette forme d'écriture. Au contraire, il y a eu [...] des revendications pour faire du dialogue un genre moderne français idéal, et c'est ce que nous proposons d'explorer ici, dans une forme de mise au point sur la question du dialogue en France au XVIIe siècle."

CEARD, JEAN & LOUIS-GEORGES TIN, eds. Anthologie de la poésie française. Paris: Gallimard, 2005.

Review : n.a. in BCLF 670 (2005), 76: 《 On n'y trouve pas moins de soixante-dix-sept poètes, lyriques, épiques, tragiques ou satiriques. Ces derniers sont présentés selon un ordre strictement chronologique, qui conduit de Jean Molinet (1435–1507) à Jean Godard (1564–1630), c'est-à-dire, en fait, de la fin du Moyen Age jusqu'à l'orée de l'âge classique. 》

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

Review: E. Campion in FR 78.2 (2004): 368. Chaouche explores the differences between comic and tragic acting through a close examination of period treatises on oratory and public speaking. The works she studies include the Abbé d'Aubignac's 1657 Pratique du théâtre, René Bary's 1679 Méthode pour bien prononcer un discours, and René Rapin's 1671 Réflexions sur l'usage de l'éloquence de ce temps. These works, analyzed in conjunction with period illustrations of how actors and actresses should stand, help Chaouche articulate paradigms of high, medium, and low diction. Her study also discusses declamation as it would have been used in canonical plays such as Phèdre and Le Misanthrope. The book is praised by the reviewer.

CHAOUCHE, SABINE, ed. Sept traités sur le jeu du comédien et autres textes. De l'action oratoire à l'action dramatique (1657–1750). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: C. Bonfils in RHL 104.3 (2004): 689. A collection of texts illustrating the growing preoccupation with naturalness and sensibility in theories of acting; editor underlines nonetheless the continuing importance of declamation. Texts preceded by a short general introduction and individual presentations; an appendix contains documents helping to situate each in its literary context. Reviewer finds the collection very useful, if riddled with typographical errors.

CLERC, ARTO. "Engagements pastoraux et utopiques au XVIIe siècle." Special Supplement to MLN 120.1 (2005): S170–S180.

"En étant attentifs à cette dimension ambiguë qui caractérise une bonne part de la littérature engagée du siècle, nous nous proposons d'interroger certains textes appartenant au genre pastoral et au genre utopique à travers le prisme de la notion d'engagement, que nous définirons sommairement ici comme une capacité ou une volonté attribuée à la littérature romanesque de faire évoluer les normes morales et religieuses."

CLERC, ARTO T. "Seduction and Subversion in French Seventeenth-Century Culture." DAI 65/11 (2005), 4218.

Examines "the position and the role of the seducer's figure" in d'Urfé and utopian fiction of the late seventeenth century. Argues that "the universe of the novel becomes an experimental ground for the constantly renewed game between the authoritarian tendencies of the French seventeenth century and the leaven of subversion introduced by the presence of the seducer."

COGITORE, ISABELLE & FRANCIS GOYET, eds. L'éloge du Prince. De l'Antiquité au temps des Lumières. Grenoble: Université Stendhal-ELLUG, 2003.

Review: C. Thiry in LR 58 (2004): 144–46: These studies drawn from the papers read at the 1997 colloque at Grenoble and from others presented at the séminaire "Discours pour les Princes" focus on the theory and techniques of the éloge. Studies in the first half of the volume treat Greek and Latin literature and those of the second half examine the early modern. 17th c. scholars will appreciate contributions on the éloge in satire and in discourses of the Academy, image construction, propaganda and dissimulation.

CONLEY, JOHN J. The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.

Review: E. J. Benkov in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1023–1025: Judged "essential," and "clearly written," Conley's study "provides both biographical information and insightful analyses of the question of virtue and offers a broad introduction to the main trends in neoclassical moral philosophy" (1025). Stresses the importance of the salon and furnishes in his appendices highly useful and difficult to obtain texts of these women authors including Sablé's Maximes, Deshoulières' Réflexions diverses, Sablière's Maximes chrétiennes, and Maintenon's Sur les vertus cardinales.

CONRAY, JANE. "Figures de Mithridate, 1580–1680: l'Orient redoutable." TL 17 (2004): 59–68.

Concentrates attention on four tragedies published between 1600 and 1673: La Monime by Margarit Pageau, L'Hypsicratée ou la Magnanimité by Jean Behourt, La Mort de Mithridate by La Calprenède and Mithridate of Racine. Includes a helpful survey of the transformation of the historic Mithridate, feared by the Romans, into a fiction, "en symbole d'une grande peur exorcisée, puis en 'mythe littéraire'" (59). This survey refers to both historical and iconographical sources and includes a remarkable color reproduction of an illumination from a 15th c. manuscript of Augustine's City of God, a work which was extremely influential throughout the 17th c. Highly suggestive study puts forward hypotheses in response to the question "pourquoi Mithridate," one being the various wars contemporaneous with the 17th c. works (64–65). Analyzes precisely the "type d'altérité" chez Racine's Mithridate (66–68).

CONROY, DERVAL. "Reines, invraisemblables rois? Reines vierges et épouses célibataires dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle. Les cas d'Elisabeeth, de Nitocris et de Pulcherie" in J.-V. Blanchard & H. Visentin, eds., L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir, Fasano / Paris: Schena editore / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, pp.89–122.

Contrasting theories of the representation of strong women on stage with actual practice of la gynécocratie, Conroy proposes that "l'idée communément répandue selon laquelle la souveraineté feminine est invraisemblable—et, de fait, impossible en France, étant donné la falsification de la loi salique promulguée par l'arrêt Lemaître en 1593—se trouve diversement soutenue ou remise en question par les representations théâtrales de ces reines régnantes." Includes consideration of plays by La Calprenède, Regnault, Thomas Corneille, Claude Boyer, Boursault, Du Ryer, and Pierre Corneille.

COURTES, NOEMIE. L'écriture de l'enchantement: magie et magiciens dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: A. Wygant in FS 59.2 (2005), 239–40: In the reviewers words, the author seems more content with "counting" and "taxonomy" than with necessarily understanding the implications of magic or magicians. This lack of an anthropological approach leads to the vague use of terms and some "confusion." However, the 128 pages bibliographies, annexes and indexes make it a useful reference work not without interest. In the end, the reviewer states, the work never comes to life but has magicians that are "stuffed and mounted."

CRAVERI, BENEDETTA. L'âge de la conversation. Trans. E. Deschamps-Pria. Paris: Gallimard, 2002.

Review: A. Jaubert in RHL 104.4 (2004): 940–42. A general audience book that is both a "livre-somme" covering two centuries of cultural life, and a "livre-thèse" that demonstrates "l'intrication entre l'histoire des moeurs, le cheminement des idées, et la promotion de certaines formes littéraires." Most chapters center around the important women of the salons; author uses both primary sources and current scholarship, brought together in a 56-page annotated bibliography. Reviewer finds work both intellectually rigorous and agreeable to read.

CRESCENZO, RICHARD, MARIE ROIG-MIRANDA & VERONIQUE ZAERCHER, eds. Le Mariage dans l'Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: réalités et représentations. Nancy: U de Nancy II, 2003.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 144 (2004): 681–82: Rich two-volume collection of essays drawn from the 2001 Nancy conference on the topic of matrimony. The subject is examined by eminent scholars from a double perspective, the institution itself and its literary and artistic transposition (681). Sections include treatments of the following subjects: juridical rules and social organization; evolution from political matrimony to that of love; the importance of money; theatrical, satirical and fictive representations of marriage and the perfect spouse; divorce and separation after the Council of Trent; and adultery and 17th c. Catholic treatises.

CRONK, NICHOLAS. The Classical Sublime: French Neoclassicism and the Language of Literature. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2002.

Review: E. Gilby in MLR 100.3 (2005), 815: "Cronk's focus is on the seventeenth-century questions and debates to which an interest in Longinus was, he suggests, a response. He observes, namely, not just the reader-oriented view of language encouraged by Peri Hupsous, but the undercurrents of Platonism and poetic enthusiasm which can be seen to support this. He relates Bolieau's 1674 translation of Longinus to broad ideas of poetic fury and inspiration, to hermetic discourse, and to minor genres such as the 'devise'."

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Femmes lunatiques : Women and the Moon in Early Modern France." DFS 71 (2005), 3–29:

"The vast constellation of literary and iconographic sources that exploit the theme of female lunacy reveals the femme lunatique as a significant satirical theme in seventeenth-century anti-feminist discourse. As such, this imagery served as a vehicle for the expression of male anxiety in an age of increasingly prominent public roles for women in the political, religious, literary and even military arenas, and of intense challenge to the allotted place of women as wives and mothers."

DEFRANCE, ANNE. "1700–1703: l'éclipse du conte de fees" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 204–221.

While many have argued that fairy tale production essentially ceased between 1700–1703, the author demonstrates that the work of Nodot, Madame d'Auneuil, and Madame Durand shows that the genre was in fact highly adaptable and evolving in a multitude of different directions.

DEMORIS, RENE. Le Roman à la première personne: du classicisme aux Lumières. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: R. A. Francis in FS 58.1 (2004): 102–103. This review notes the many praiseworthy aspects of Démoris' work, examining it section by section from the careful reading of the picaresque to works by Marivaux and Prévost. The reviewer admires this study, its updated bibliography, stating, "this study has become a classic that amply merits re-edition."

DORAN, ROBERT HERBERT. "The Sublime and Modern Subjectivity: The Discourse of Elevation from Neo-Classicism to French Romanticism." DAI 65/09 (2005), 3373.

"Seen as a discourse of elevation and emblem of heroic values, what characterizes the sublime in the modern era is its ability to reconcile notions of autonomy and transcendence, in the context of secularization. I show how this attempt at reconciliation figures in important ways in thinking the modern individual from an aesthetic as well as an anthropological perspective." Considers Longinus' original text, as well as its reception by Boileau, John Dennis, and Giambattista Vico.

DORNIER, CAROLE & JURGEN SIESS, eds. Eloquence et vérité intérieure. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002.

Review: C. Stiker-Metral in DSS 226 (2005), 169–170: A collection of articles drawn from a colloquium concentrating on the 18th century with a few contributions specifically on the 16th and 17th. "Le présent colloque tente d'articuler, entre la Renaissance et les Lumières, les deux notions d'éloquence et de vérité intérieure." Of particular note for the 17th, "Dominique Maingueneau propose une analyse sémantique des controverses entre jésuites et jansénistes." "Suzanne Guellouz s'intéresse à Gracian, à qui elle fait place au sein de la littérature française grâce au succès de la traduction de l'Oraculo manual par Amelot de la Houssaie en 1684." "Emmanuel Bury s'attache à la spiritualité de Fénelon: inspirée par la doctrine augustinienne du maître intérieur, ce dernier pose avec acuité la question du rôle de la parole humaine dans la prédication."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI, ed. Les Méditerranées du XVIIe siècle. Actes du Colloque du Centre international de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Tübingen: Biblio 17, 2002.

Review: C. Esmein in DSS 228 (2005), 564–566: "Placé sous le signe de la pluralité, ce volume se propose de mener une vaste enquête sur les modalités de la présence de la Méditerranée au sens le plus large du terme dans la littérature et les mœurs du XVIIe siècle: relations et échanges, modes de représentations littéraire, connotation et fonction. Six grandes sections scandent un volume marqué par une diversité de méthodes d'analyses et de supports." The reviewer only regrets the absence of "une étude de synthèse, introduction et/ou conclusion aux actes du colloque qui en aurait rendu la consultation plus immédiatement fructueuse."

DUFIEF, PIERRE-JEAN, ed. L'Ecrivain et le grand homme. Publication de l'ADIREL. Genève: Droz, 2005.

Includes articles by Catherine Douvier ("Henri IV vu par Bessonpierre"), Laurent Avezou ("Richelieu vu par Mathiewu de Morgues et Paul Hay du Cahstelet. Le double miroir de Janus"), Volker Kapp ("Un jésuite à la recherché du "grand homme": La Cour sainte de Nicolas Caussin"), Béatrice Guion ("L'aigle de Meaux, le cygne de Cambrai et Louis le Grand: Louis XIV devant Bossuet et Fénelon"), and Edouard Guitton ("Grand Dieu, grand roi, grand homme").

DUGGAN, ANNE E. "Women and Absolutism in French Opera and Fairy Tale." FR 78.2 (2004): 302–315.

Addresses the relationship between fairy tales and opera in the later 17th century, using examples from Mme d'Aulnoy to argue that fairy stories borrowed elements from opera while critiquing opera's disempowerment of women and its glorification of Louis XIV. Duggan's multi-faceted argument asserts that d'Aulnoy defended of the mondain genre of opera at the same time that she critiqued absolutist strains within it. Duggan suggests 17th-century fairy tales might have borrowed from opera, namely depictions of supernatural locomotion, chorus-characters, song, and palatial evocations of Versailles. However, this portion of the article could say more about the earlier chivalric and Italian fairy tale traditions that Duggan claims lacked such elements. After establishing an opera-fairy tale connection, Duggan uses a series of close readings to detail the "insular feminine spaces" which appear in tales, and which she reads as counters to "opera's... monarchical space of Versailles" (313).

EKMAN, MARY C. "Destinataire et/ou héritier du texte: Figuring the Child in Early Modern French Memoirs." FLS 31 (2004): 109–20.

Article demonstrates "the increasing importance of the child as heir and addressee of memoirs written by both men and women"; pays special attention to gender expectation in the texts.

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

Review: Z. Hakim in RR 95.4 (2004): 467–73. Through readings of the named writers, author advances the idea that all believe freedom can only be assured by the existence of an absolute authority, be it God or the monarch. Going further than even Hobbes, Corneille insists that monarchy serves the cause of liberation, and does so by proposing an "erotic contract" with its subjects. For Pascal, man is a slave to his passions, but is liberated by passive submission to God. Finally, author analyzes the many slaves (literal and metaphorical) in Racine's drama, concluding that slavery is always seen negatively, that it calls for a liberating authority—Louis XIV or God. Book ends with a consideration of whether this desire for authority is still with us. "Cet essai, historiquement engagé, argumenté avec beaucoup d'habileté et écrit de manière convaincante, saura intéresser tant les spécialistes d'études littéraires que de théorie politique, par l'originalité des sa perspective et la rigueur de sa thèse."

Review: N. Hammond in MLR 100.3 (2005), 814–15: "In this often stimulating study Ziad Elmarsafy sets out to read Corneille, Pascal, and Racine as (in his words) 'political theories in the guise of literature' (p. 18), arguing that all three, through their rich treatment of discourses on freedom and slavery, are apologists for absolute monarchy as incarnated in the figure of Louis XIV. Elmarsafy's analysis of various theoretical treatises and his choice of lesser-known works, such as Corneille's later theatre, Pascal's Ecrits sur la grâce, and Racine's Alexandre, are of especial interest."

ESMEIN, CAMILLE. "L'avènement d'une poétique romanesque au XVIIe siècle: Discours théorique et constitution d'un genre littéraire (1641–1683)." IL 57.1 (2005): 56–60.

Summary of the author's thesis, which interrogates the replacement—but is it one?—of the roman by the nouvelle around 1660. Argues that "c'est notamment en raison de la théorisation dont il est l'objet que le roman acquiert au cours du XVIIe siècle une légitimité et change de statut."

FEERIES: ETUDES SUR LE CONTE MERVEILLEUX XVIIe–XIXe SIECLES. No. 1: "Le Recueil" (2003) UMR LIRE, no. 5611. Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3.

Review: L. Seifert in M&T 19.1 (2005), 133–137: Favorable review of the inaugural edition of a new annual publication devoted to "a comparatist approach to a period that witnessed the birth and mass diffusion of the European literary fairy tale,"the first issue of which testifies to the recent growing interest in fairy tale studies. The journal as a whole will be of special interest to dix-septiémistes for the time period it covers. According to Seifert, the first issue, which focuses on collections of tales, is stimulating and opens the door for further inquiry. The chosen sub-topic is "le recueil" and topics announced for subsequent numbers include: "Le conte oriental au XVIIIe siècle" (no. 2), "Politique du conte" (no. 3), and "Le conte, la scène" (no. 4). Seifert: "scholars everywhere will benefit enormously from this and upcoming issues of Féeries."

FISCH, GINA. "Charrière's Untimely Realism: Aesthetic Representation in Lettres de Lausanne and La Princesse de Clèves." MLN 119.5 (2004): 1058–1082.

Comparative analysis: "I would like to bring out the following differences between the two novels: first, the difference in the portrayal of the mother-daughter bond as the origin of ethical subjectivity; second, the difference in the manner in which the daughters perform their infractions on convention; third, the difference in the impact the daughter's assumption of subjectivity in the act of confession has on her further development as a character in the novel."

FISCHER-LICHTE, ERIKA. History of European Drama and Theatre. Trans. Jo Riley. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Review: P. Thomson in ThR, 31 (2005) 88–89: Paperback translation of work first published in German in 1990. Theme that binds book's five chapters is fluctuating concept of identity. Chapter 2, "Theatrum vitae humanae," features Molière and Racine as well as Shakespeare and Golden Age Spain. Author traditional in her approach to genre. She sees comedy as a poor second to tragedy and treats popular forms, such as farce, with disdain. Nonetheless, much to enjoy in this book. Author is "alert to theatrical and social circumstances, and she can summarize superbly."

FÖCKING, MARC & BERNARD HUSS, eds. Varietas und Ordo: Zur Dialektik von Vielfalt une Einheit in Renaissance und Barock. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003.

Review: D. Marsh in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1075–1076: Judged "rich in diversity that engages fundamental questions about the emergence of early modern literature in Latin and the Romance languages" (1076), this volume collects 15 essays from the Munich Romanistentag of October 2001 and includes one by Marc FÖcking on Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin's Aspasie. FÖcking "interprets this classicizing comedy, written for Cardinal Richelieu in 1636, as implicitly espousing a quasi-Platonic notion of loyalty to family and state" (1076).

FORCE, PIERRE. "Innovation as Spiritual Exercise: Montaigne and Pascal." JHI 66 (2005), 17–35.

"Taking Pascal's appropriation of Montaigne as its main example, this article asks what it means to 'say something new' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It argues that literary and philosophical innovation is best understood in reference to the rhetorical tradition, and it analyzes what 'saying something new' means in terms of inventio, dispositio, elocutio, decorum, and ethos." (Abstract)

FRAISSE, LUC, ed. L'Histoire littéraire: ses méthodes et ses résultats. Mélanges offerts à Madeleine Bertaud. Geneva: Droz, 2001.

Review: G. Cesbron in LR 57 (2003): 357–59: The 17th c. is very well represented in this important volume which honors the founding president of ADIREL (responsible for the annual Travaux de Littérature). This volume of nearly 900 pages includes 29 contributions on particular areas of research and another 28 essays on works from the Middle Ages through the 20th c. Cesbron praises that fact that "description et théorie, enquête historique et réflexion de type poétique sont ici en synergie" (358). Wide range of articles in both sections focus on the 17th c., Bertaud's own vast area of expertise. Copious index.

GAILLARD, AURELIA, ED. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004.

Note: Individual contributions to this acta are summarized in the current volume of French 17.

GAUCHER, ELISABETH & FRANK LESTRINGANT, eds. Topiques romanesques: réécriture des romans médiévaux (XVIe –XVIIe siècles). Ateliers 22 (1999) (Cahiers de la Maison de la Recherche Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3).

Review: M. C. Timelli in S Fr 144 (2004): 567–70: Highly useful number of the review Ateliers, especially for students of literary history, history of the language and intellectual history. Brings together 5 studies of literary reception of "romances." 17th c. scholars will appreciate E. Gaucher's "Le diable et le bon Dieu: quelques aspects de la tradition de Robert le Diable"; she demontrates in detail the "culte [qui] connaît un grand succès justement entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle" (569). Another article of interest to 17th c. scholars because of its rapport with the Bibliothèque Bleue is Lise Andries's "La métamorphose animale dans 'Mélusine' et 'Valentin et Orson.'"

GENIEYS-KIRK, SéVERINE. "(Ré)visions de la période pré-moderne dans l'oeuvre de Philippe Sollers." EMF 10 (2005): 108–25.

Article examines the use made of Cyrano de Bergerac's (and Villon's) work; argues that Sollers makes of Cyrano's writing a prefiguration of Rimbaud's poetic quest: "Sollers fait sienne la langue du libertin et du poète maudit pour décrire l'expérience (méta)physique même de la lecture."

GETHNER, PERRY. "Ransom and Piracy in Classical French Comedy." CdDS 9.1 (2004): 83–90.

Comedies by Molière, Cyrano, Rotrou and Tristan l'Hermite furnish evidence on how pirates might have been viewed by a contemporary audience; author emphasizes in particular echoes of the ransom theme within the larger workings of the plots, and the fact that ransom demands always backfire: "ransom becomes a device to produce humorous surprises and to let the audience laugh at the normally somber baroque themes of human powerlessness and the instability of all things earthly."

GEVREY, FRANCOISE. 《 Cydias entre Céladon et Hylas: Fontenelle et L'Astrée. 》 OeC 30.1 (2005) : 137–152.

《 L'objet de la présente étude est de montrer qu'il ne s'agit pas seulement de facilité galante lorsque Fontenelle fait mention de L'Astrée. . . Il détourne le sens philosophique du roman pastoral pour y fondre sa propre conception de la morale et du monde, laquelle doit beaucoup à l'épicurisme. 》

GHEERAERT, TONY. Le chant de la grâce. Port-Royal et la poésie d'Arnauld d'Andilly à Racine. Paris: Champion "Lumière classique", 2003.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 144 (2004): 604–605: Attentive to a neglected area of Port-Royal, Gheeraert answers convincingly the question: "Esistono dunque dei poeti di Port-Royal?" with the response: "Sì, i giansenisti cantavano" (604). Provides an attesting corpus of texts and "paratextes" as it examines from primarily an historical/cultural perspective, compelling themes such as the rapports between the poetry and the Bible. Readers will be more and more convinced of "la centralità di Port-Royal nella cultura del grande secolo" (605).

GIAVARINI, LAURENCE. "Le libertin et la fiction-sorcière à l'âge classique: Remarques sur Dom Juan et Théophile" in Usages et théories de la fiction, ed. Françoise Lavocat, Rennes: PUR, 2004, pp. 185–218.

Article proposes to show "que c'est en investissant la fiction comme un non–lieu que les libertins font apparaître les enjeux complexes, politiques et moraux, impliqués dans les questions d'écriture au XVIIe siècle." With particular attention to Molière and Théophile de Viau.

GIORGI, GIORGETTO. "Poétiques du récit chevaleresque et poétiques du roman baroque." CAEIF 56 (2004), 319–336.

Of particular interest here is a brief history of the origins, development, and æsthetic of the novel as understood by les Scudéry, Huet, and other relevant authors.

GLAUSER, ALFRED. écriture et désécriture du texte poétique: De Maurice Scève à Saint-John Perse. Saint-Genouph: Nizet, 2002.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 40 (2004): 104: Studies "the ways in which figures of the author interact with their chosen form of poetic text" (104). 17th c. specialists will welcome the section on La Fontaine's fables as "a sort of dialogue between pedagogical and purely literary concerns" (104).

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH C. & COLETTE H. WINN, eds. Lettres de femmes: textes inédits et oubliés du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 670 (2005), 96: Ouvrage qui 《 juxtapose précisément des textes qui ont déjà fait l'objet d'une production éditoriale abondante et d'autres, (ré)imprimés pour la première fois depuis qu'ils ont été écrits. 》 Volume 《 bien conçu 》 mais appareil critique parfois inégal.

GREINER, FRANK. "Amours baroques: fiction, culture et sentiments des Bergeries de Julliette à La Chysolite (1585–1627)." IL 57.1 (2005): 53–56.

Summary of the author's soutenance d'habilitation. Seeks to know why sentimental fiction became so massively popular following the end of the religious wars. Emphasizes the development of a new ideal of individual happiness, and four themes: 1) the valorization of love and the "déculpabilisation de la chair"; 2) a sentimental individualism that distanced people from their social roles; 3) the recognition of an idealized feminine dignity; and 4) the shift from a model of courtly love to reciprocal love.

GREINER, FRANK. Les Métamorphoses d'Hermès: tradition alchimique et esthétique littéraire dans la France de l'âge baroque (1583–1646). Bibliothèque littéraire de la Renaissance 3,42. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: E. Campion in FR 78.6 (2005): 1238–39: A highly learned study of early modern alchemy that wastes its erudition by failing to adequately explain the background history of alchemy, its key practitioners and symbols, and the basic precepts of religious and social movements to which Greiner links alchemy. "Greiner makes fascinating comparisons between an interest in alchemy and the practice of religious movements such as Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, but once again the relevance of such comparisons will not be clear to readers who do not understand the core beliefs of these movements" (1238). The reviewer also laments Greiner's breezy citation of obscure works of fiction.

GREINER, FRANK. "Le roman d'amour au début des temps modernes: Approche définitoire. 》 OeC 30.1 (2005): 11–25.

Selon Greiner, 《 les lois réglant la représentation romanesque de l'amour dans la France du début des temps modernes ne sauraient se déduire—sinon partiellement—de la culture littéraire du XXe et du début du XXIe siècle. 》 Il affirme que son dessin était " de montrer que ces typologies larges proposées par G. Reynier [Le Roman sentimental français avant L'Astrée, 1908] et E. Constans [Parlez-moi d'amour, Le roman sentimental, 1999]. . . n'étaient pas incompatibles avec des mises au points plus nuancées tenant compte de leurs modulations historiques. 》

GRIMM, JURGEN. Französische Klassik. Lehrbuch Romanistik. Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2005.

GROVE, LAURENCE. Emblematics and 17th-Century Literature: Descartes, Tristan, La Fontaine and Perrault. Charlottesville: Rookwood, 2000.

Review: R. Runte in FR 78.5 (2005): 1000–01. Explores the extent to which seventeenth-century readers understood texts by associating them with emblems, figures that readers would have known through the wide circulation of emblem books. Grove makes a case for the influence of emblems on particular writers (namely Descartes, Tristan, La Fontaine and Perrault), who, according to Grove, encode emblems in their work. "[W]ell-researched and profound" (1001).

GUENOUN, SOLANGE M. "Peut-on parler de 《 littérature 》 et d' 《 esthétique 》 au XVIIe siècle? ou d'une question reformulée à partir de l'œuvre de pensée de Jacques Rancière." PFSCL XXXII, 62 (2005), 15–32.

Examines the question of the title, asking, for example, "Que croyons-nous faire et dire quand nous employons des termes qui désignent des référents radicalement différents d'un régime de l'art à l'autre? Pourquoi cet emploi quasi-machinal qui, tout en postulant qu'il y a eu un changement radical de régime de l'art, n'en tire pourtant pas les conséquences méthodologiques et critiques néecessaires?"

GUTIERREZ-LAFFOND, AURORE. Théâtre et magie dans la littérature dramatique du XVIIe siècle en France. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2003.

Review: N. Courtès in DSS 227 (2005), 358–359: Although the reviewer expresses a few misgivings regarding the general organization of the argument on the image of magic as well as a tendency to engage in a "dialogue perpétuel et sans véritable aboutissement entre actualité et littérature contemporaine," this thesis is impressively written; "on suit avec curiosité les circonvolutions de certains esprits préscientifiques aux prises avec les ambiguïtés de leur sujet d'étude."

HAASE, DONALD, ed. Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004.

Review: A. Vaver in Choice 42.6 (2005), 1018: This collection of combines essays written specifically for the purpose, as well as others published in Marvels & Tales, and tries to avoid "a monolithic view of the woman-centered fairy tale" (1018). Haase's volume is especially praised for its overview and its 30-page bibliography of primary texts and literary criticism in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Recommended by the reviewer.

HAFNER, RALPH. Götter im Exil: Frühneuzeitliches Dichtungsverständnis im Spannungsfeld christlicher Apologetik und philologischer Kritik (ca. 1590–1736). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2003.

Review: E.C. Brancaforte in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1454–55: Judged "a stimulating study of European preoccupation with classical antiquity and early modern concerns in poetics and theology" (1455). Häfner's wide-ranging analysis includes attention to the 17th c. relationship between astrology and poetry as well as other "themes of importance to pagan classical times and early Christianity that reemerge as European scholars begin to reedit, translate, comment on, and publish these sources" (1454). Detailed bibliography, "impeccably prepared" index and analytical table of contents.

HARRIES, ELIZABETH WANNING. "The Violence of the Lambs." M&T 19.1 (2005), 54–66.

Shows that violence is often necessary to tales of transformation and rebirth in that it allows characters to become "capable of new self-expression and self-understanding." "Fairy tales are often violent. But one kind of fairy-tale violence has been overlooked: the sacrificial violence that sometimes precedes a restoration to human form. In tales like the Grimms' "Frog Prince" and d'Aulnoy's "White Cat," previously mild and gentle characters must commit a violent act — often decapitation — in order to help a beloved animal regain its human shape. These symbolic transformations may provide a clue to the representation of self, particularly the autonomous female self, in d'Aulnoy's tales. The omission of such violence in many recent versions of the tales suggests our resistance to the possibility of true transformation and its costs." (Abstract)

HASKELL, YASMIN. Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Review: J. W. Binns in MLR 100.1 (2005), 188–89: Volume identifies "some 250 Latin didactic poems by Jesuits, out of a wider corpus of 350 such poems." The first of five chapters "is devoted to 'Jesuit Georgic in the Age of Louis XIV,' and discusses first René Rapin's Hortorum libri IV (Paris, 1665) and Jacob Vanière's Praedium rusticum libri XVI (Toulouse, 1730), immensely popular poems with many later editions and translations, both ultimately inspired by Virgil's Georgics, the former concerned principally with formal gardens, the latter containing much practical advice. The chapter concludes with a short section on some less well-known poems, including François Champion's poem on fishing, Stagna (Paris, 1689)."

HAUSMANN, FRANZ JOSEPH. "Le Langage littéraire dans la première moitié du 17e siècle" in La poésie française du premier 17e siècle, eds. D. L. Rubin & R. Corum, Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2004, pp. 23–41.

Article aims to "persuader le lecteur qu'il ne pourra se passer d'outils lexicographiques et grammaticaux pour saisir, sinon parfaitement, du moins autant que faire se peut la valeur contemporaine des textes," with particular attention paid to the evolution of language between the middle of the 16th century and the end of the 17th century.

HAUTCOEUR, GUIOMAR. "Passion et imagination de Cervantès à l'abbé Prevost" in Usages et théories de la fiction, ed. Françoise Lavocat, Rennes: PUR, 2004, pp. 219–237.

Posits that, "La remise en cause au cours du XVIIe siècle de la vraisemblance aristotélicienne dans le domaine romanesque et le problème de la légitimation du genre conduisent. . . à une reorganization des positions traditionnelles au sujet de la fiction qui amène insensiblement les poéticiens à tenter de concilier le point de vue platonicien et le point de vue aristotélicien." Article attempts to "retracer les liens qui unissent, sur une question aussi fondamentale que celle du 《 pourquoi la fiction 》, le présent et le passé." Concludes that, over the course of the 17th c., "la fiction semble détourner elle aussi son intérêt de l'objet de la représentation pour se concentrer sur le sujet," thereby leading to the emergence of the psychological novel.

HEINEN, VALERIE. Der Roman als perpetuum mobile. Zur Inszenierung des Lesens in Italien, Spanien und Frankreich. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2002.

Review: G. P. Giudicetti in LR 57 (2003): 361–63: Less than favorable review finds Heinen's study lacking in originality and the texts analyzed too well-known and too often examined (361). Heinen focuses on the dangers of reading and the "mise en doute du rapport entre réalité et fiction" (362). Another aspect of Heinen's work is the representation of reading in literature. 17th c. scholars will note the pages (37–38) on Pierre-Daniel Huet's Lettre à M. de Segrais sur l'origine des romans (1669) and Heinen's analysis of Sorel's Le Berger extravagant (1627–1628).

HELGERSON, RICHARD. Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

Review: D. Robin in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1082–1083: Found generally "compelling," Helgerson's view is rich and "through an unusually wide lens" (1083). Rather than associating the "cult of domesticity" with the modern era, Helgerson finds it "indicative of an "important cultural shift that extended all across early modern Europe from 1590–1690" (1082). Includes an examination of Molière's Tartuffe.

HENEIN, EGLAL. "Le voyage dans le roman pastoral." CAEIF 56 (2004), 337–357.

As the title indicates, the author considers the idea of the pastoral voyage in three texts: Les Diverses humeurs de la bergère Clysiante (1621), Les Bergeries de Vesper (1618), and l'Astrée (1st vol. 1607). By way of an interesting analysis, Henein seeks to determine whether "l'expression 《 voyage pastoral 》 semble-t-elle une redondance ou au contraire un oxymoron?"

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. "Rome, un lieu commun? usage et usure du topos dans les récits des voyageurs français à Rome au XVIIe siècle." RHL 104.3 (2004): 597–619.

Examines the status of various topoi regarding Rome in a number of travel narratives. Argues that the century sees a double movement: the erudite, humanist traveler is replaced by a more worldly tourist of the arts; and shows how later texts betray a wariness regarding topoi, and aiming instead to show "un individu qui visite, qui choisit et qui juge."

HODGSON, RICHARD G., ed. La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 5–7 Oct. 2000. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, Biblio 17 (138), 2001.

Review: Ph. Hourcade in IL 56.2 (2004): 60–61. Reviewer provides a thumbnail of each of the 27 papers in the volume. "[T]out cela est riche. . . . La vivacité du féminisme, à mon sens, n'a pas vraiment donné lieu ici au militarisme sectaire et manichéen, mais souvent à une conscience toute scientifique de la complexité des choses."

Review: J. Prest in FS 58.1 (2004): 94–95. While the review praises the content of the articles in this volume, it criticizes the work for a lack of cohesion, as situation that is made worse by the absence of an introduction or conclusion. The reviewer goes on to note many of the intriguing papers in the work and the questions they raise about the status of women, again wondering why the editor made no effort to draw the subject together.

HOFFMANN, KATHRYN A. "Of Monkey Girls and a Hog-Faced Gentlewoman: Marvel in Fairy Tales, Fairgrounds, and Cabinets of Curiosities." M&T 19.1 (2005), 67–85.

Makes cross-disciplinary connections between Madame d'Aulnoy's "Babiole" and contemporary culture, including cabinets of curiosities, medical inquiry, artistic renderings, pamphlets, and early modern fairs, locating "the marvel of monkey girls and a hog-faced gentlewoman within the strategies of knowledge, the cultural practices of display, and the pleasures of tale-telling that marked early modern Europe."

HORNER, AVRIL & ANGELA KEANE, eds. Body Matters. Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000.

Review: A. Gutenberg in Archiv 240 (2003): 391–94: This collection of 18 essays "can be considered an especially stimulating and informed example. . . [of probings of theories and models] in concrete, historicized readings of specific cultural and literary texts" (391). Reviewer had some quibbles with organization, but praises the editors' "interesting but concise introduction [which provides] an historical overview of how bodies came to matter to feminism" (391–92). Wide-ranging analyses of women writers, genres, theory and representations.

HOURCADE, PHILIPPE. "Sur le livret d'opéra et de ballet aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles." PFSCL XXXII, 63 (2005), 467–480.

Proposes "une mise en question, qui consistera à aborder, très sommairement parlant, les problèmes de définition lexicale du terme [de livret], ceux de recollection bibliographique du livret en tant qu'objet, enfin ceux d'édition envisageable de contenu textuel, et cela dans le droit fil de mes récents travaux sur le ballet de l'époque de Louis XIV et sur le théâtre des Petits Appartements."

HOWE, ALAN. Archives nationales: Documents du Minutier Central des notaires de Paris. Le théâtre professionnel à Paris 1600–1649. Documents analysés par Madeleine Jurgens et Alan Howe. Transcriptions par Andrée Chauleur et Pierre-Yves Louis. Paris: Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2000.

Review: J. Clarke in MLR 100.1 (2005), 210–11: "This truly important book brings to our attention for the first time over three hundred legal documents relating to theatrical activity in Paris in the first half of the seventeenth century. Alan Howe thereby completes and in some cases corrects the seminal works of such eminent professors as Madeleine Jurgens and S. Wilma Deierkauf-Holsboer, to whom he acknowledges his indebtedness."

Review: E. Forman in FS 59.2 (2005), 240–41: Specialists of theater of the first half of the seventeenth century "will be extremely grateful" for this "labor of love." A chronological study of legal documents of the period, this work untangles many questions about personages such as Tabarin, Alexandre Hardy, and others. Readers will be "grateful" for the attention to detail and clarity of the work.

IL NOME NEL TESTO. Rivista internazionale di onomastica letteraria. I–V. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 1999–2003.

Review: G. P. Giudicetti in LR 57 (2003): 359–61: Welcome new scholarly journal of the Association Onomastica & Letteratura will focus on articles studying names in literary texts. The revue accepts articles written in English, German, French and Spanish as well as Italian. The first issue draws from papers given at the society's 5th colloque, but those that follow include other sources as well (the reviewer would encourage this diversification). The index of names at the end of each issue makes this new periodical "un instrument de travail presque incontournable" (360).

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

Review: F. Greiner in DSS 226 (2005), 170–172: The reviewer praises the author's ability to present his discussion in a less didactic manner than some of his predecessors. His goal is to return to "l'érotisme du Grand Siècle son ancienne teneur subversive." The book is divided into three parts, (I. Le Tabou, II. La Provocation, III. Le Spectacle du désir) that cover a great deal of ground in this large subject. The reviewer points out, however, a few weaknesses: "Eros rebelle manque incontestablement de nuances. Ainsi la logique dialectique de l'auteur l'amène à forcer les contrastes entre une Renaissance allégrement hédoniste et un XVIIe siècle austère et pudibond; entre plaisir sensuel et ordre moral et religieux. Afin d'estomper ces oppositions un peu trop franches, sans doute aurait-il eu intérêt à donner de l'histoire des mœurs une chronologie plus précise[.]"

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 142 (2004): 180: Jeanneret's "promenade dans quelques quartiers malfamés du Grand Siècle" (15) includes analyses of Théophile, Sorel, Béroalde de Verville, Corneille's Cid and Molière's Dom Juan as well as less well-known authors. Demonstrates how "le choix de l'érotisme. . . se donne à lire comme un acte d'insubordination, un geste de rébellion intellectuelle et politique" (17).

JOHNSON, E. JOE. Once There Were Two True Friends: Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, Inc., 2005.

With attention paid to La Princesse de Clèves as well as La Fontaine.

JOUHAUD, CHRISTIAN. Les pouvoirs de la littérature. Paris: Gallimard, 2000.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/jouhaud_power.html. Although Ranum "quibbles" with some of Jouhaud's points, he is generally positive about this book, noting, for example, that "Chapter III is a stunning general exploration of the writing of contemporary history, and monarchical powers of direction and censorship." Ranum concludes that, "one always benefits from [Jouhaud's] learning and his example of analytical-civic-historical engagement."

JOUHAUD, CHRISTIAN. "Pouvoir et littérature: choix d'historiographes" in Marie-Claude Canova-Green & Alain Viala, eds. Racine et l'Histoire. Biblio 17 Number 155, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 169–182.

The author examines the evolution and variety of conceptions of the position of historiographe royale in order to place Racine's history writing in a more appropriate context and show how Louis XIV envisaged contemporary historiography.

JUNOD, SAMUEL, FLORIAN PREISIG & FREDERIC TINGUELY, eds. La littérature engagé [sic] aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Etudes en l'honneur de Gérard Defaux (1937–2004). Special Supplement to MLN 120.1 (2005).

Volume intended as a living tribute to Defaux by his current and former students appeared in January 2005 shortly after his death. The Introduction ("Gérard Defaux ou l'engagement critique") begins with two articles by Michel Jeanneret ("Gérard agonistès") and guest editors Junod, Preisig and Tinguely ("Le problème de l'engagement au seuil de la modernité"). Ten additional contributions and a Bibliography of Texts by Gérard Defaux complete the volume. Of particular interest to dix-septiémistes are articles by Dominique Brancher, "Portrait humoral du polémiqueur: Aléas de l'humeur et du style du XVIe au XVIIe siècle" and by Arto Clerc, "Engagements pastoraux et utopiques au XVIIe siècle."

JUNOD, SAMUEL, FLORIAN PREISIG & FREDERIC TINGUELY. "Le problème de l'engagement au seuil de la modernité." Special Supplement to MLN 120.1 (2005): S8–S14.

Les auteurs s'efforcent de 《 penser l'éngagement aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles et de fournir quelques pistes de réflexion 》 dans cet article introductoire d'un volume en l'honneur de Gérard Defaux de la part de ses étudiants, anciens ou actuels.

KAPP, VOLKER. "Le savoir livresque et/ou le style "naturel". La métamorphose de la culture oratoire du XVIe au XVIIe siècle (Jacques Faye d'Espeisses et Claude Fleury)." DSS 227 (2005), 195–209.

A fascinating discussion on the evolution of rhetoric concentrating on the central examples of d'Espeisses et Fleury arguing "savoir livresque" versus style 《 naturel 》. "Faye d'Espeisses inculque de même à ses collègues 《 que nostre eloquence se rapportast à celle des anciens Orateurs, aux oraisons desquels nous ne verrions point d'allégations apparentes, encore que leurs discours soient nerveux & tirés de bons livres 》. Mais il ne veut retrancher que les allégations superflues tandis que Fleury juge toutes les citations inutiles."

KASTEN, INGRID, GESA STEDMANN & MARGARETE ZIMMERMANN, eds. Kulturen der Gefühle in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2002.

Review: J. Griem in Archiv 241 (2004): 376–78: This issue of the German yearbook of women's studies "aims at establishing gender as a central analytical category of a historical examination of emotions between the 13th and the 18th centuries" (376). The 12 contributions are judged "perceptive and well-written" and the methodological basis "homogeneous" (adopting Norbert Elias's analytical tools but modifying his "unilinear" conceptualization) (376). Griem gives considerable attention to Joan DeJean's article (reprinted in the volume) "on a new 'language of the heart' to be found in French sources between 1670 and 1715"; De Jean argues for an earlier and more aristocratic culture of interiority than that proposed by Habermas (377).

KELLER, MARCUS. "The Literary Imagination of Early Modern France: Figuring the Nation." DAI 65/05 (2005), 1803.

"Using Etienne Balibar's political philosophy centering on the nation-form and fictive ethnicity as well as other current approaches to the study of the nation in social history and political theory," this study seeks to understand "the nation as an ideological construct." Examines texts ranging from Du Bellay to Corneille.

KESSLER, ECKHARD & IAN MACLEAN, eds. Res et Verba in der Renaissance. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002.

Review: C. Kallendorf in Ren Q 57 (2004): 608–609: Largely the proceedings of the 1998 conference at the HAB in Wolfenbüttel, the volume "examines the relationship between words, concepts and things in the period from 1450 to 1650 from a variety of philosophical and disciplinary perspectives," including theology, medicine, literature and legal discourse. Found a "better-than-average book of its type," it suggests "both how deeply embedded the Renaissance was in the culture of the immediate past and how richly it opened out into new, early modern ways of thinking" (609).

KIRWAN, JAMES. Beauty. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999.

Review: K. Gernig in Archiv 240 (2003): 389–91: Primary focus is beauty in relation to philosophies of aesthetics, art and cultural anthropology. Reception outweighs attention to historical change in Kirwan's exploration. Dimensions investigated (and section divisions) include: Beauty, Truth and Goodness, Beauty and God, Beauty as Cognition, and The Heavenly and Vulgar Venus.

KLINE, T. JEFFERSON. "The Racinian Roots of Pierre et Jean: Maupassant's Tragic Doubles." SYM 59.3 (2005) : 144–62.

Kline finds in the psychoanalytical and narrative parallels between "these two stories of maternal love run amok" the "sens definitif" of Maupassant's work.

KOCH, EREC R., ed. Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, Biblio 17 (131), 2002.

Review: J.-M. Civardi in IL 56.3 (2004): 57–59: A collection whose scope considerably exceeds the three rules of classical theater, and opens to consider a number of subjects—the city, spaces of public and private life, periodization and canonicity, power and representation, and many more. Reviewer provides a sketch of most of the 36 papers, concluding: "On peut y voir une diversité vivante et active ou une certaine dilution par rapport au titre général de ces actes."

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

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 143 (2004): 357: Critical edition which is from the "Textes littéraires français" series includes an introduction which examines the history of the play, its numerous 17th c. editions, its language and dramaturgy, and dating. This reproduction of the 1633 edition is accompanied by a rich critical bibliography, a lexicographic apparatus, an index of key words, annotations and a glossary.

Review : D. Shaw in MLR 100.2 (2005), 500: 《 Workmanlike 》 critical edition of an anonymous three-act comedy likely written in 1629 that includes some seventeen hundred proverbs and vernacular sayings. Evidence for attribution of the play to the comte de Carmain is inconclusive according to Kramer.

Review: V. Sternberg in DSS 227 (2005), 355–357: The reviewer appreciates the minute attention to detail that Kramer brings to this text in establishing a convincing timeline for its publication and exhaustively justifying his choice of the 1633 edition. While "le texte est établi avec la plus grande rigueur," the reviewer regrets that "l'auteur de cette édition si riche d'informations ne s'intéresse pas plus à l'aspect littéraire et surtout dramaturgique de la pièce."

KRIEF, HUGUETTE & SYLVIE REQUEMORA, eds. Fête et imagination de la littérature du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international du centre de recherches aixois sur l'imagination de la Renaissance à l'âge classique, Aix-en-Provence, 13–15 février 2003. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'université de Provence, 2004.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 667 (2005), 61–62: 《 L'ouvrage rassemble donc dix-huit études qui examinent non pas l'histoire ou la sociologie de la fête, mais sa représentation dans la littérature. . .  》 Pour le XVIIe siècle, il y a des communications sur Rotrou, Sorel, Théophile de Viau, et Molière.

KUIZENGA, DONNA. "Strategic Rewriting: Women as Knowledge Workers and the French Connection." SCFS 27 (2005), 51–69.

Examines the intersection of translation and novel-writing, two kinds of "work that brings to the fore women's roles in the early modern business of knowledge."

LANGER, ULLRICH G., ed. Au-delà de la Poétique: Aristote et la littérature de la Renaissance. Beyond the Poetics: Aristotle and Early Modern Literature. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: R. E. Keatley in Ren Q 57 (2004): 279–81: Found "intelligently organized and diligently researched," this volume includes essays on d'Aubignac and on Charron. Its diversity of approaches and wide range of topics proves editor Langer's point that "the importance of Aristotle and of the Aristotelian tradition cannot be reduced to a few 'préceptes ramassés dans la Poétique' (11), but rather must be pursued through the examination of particular applications of specific Aristotelian concepts within their literary, social or philosophical context" (280–81).

LANNI, DOMINIQUE. "L'Afrique fantasmée. Les Hottentots dans les voyages manuscrits de Ruelle et Melet et dans les carnet d'esquisses d'un résident anonyme du Cap de Bonne-Espérance (1665–1672)." TL 17 (2004): 317–329.

Analyzes several relations of expeditions (Ruelle's journal, Jean-Jacques de Melet's memoir and a number of iconographic documents) for their influence on the early 17th c. "imaginaire collectif des gens de mer et des marchands, médecins et autres voyageurs de passage" (328). Reminding us of the various scenes of savagery, Lanni asks "mais celles-ci étaient-elles aussi éloignées de celles desdits Européens?" (329).

LAUTHELIER, RACHEL. "Quand le récit de l'aventure supplante la relation du voyage: Le voyage de Perse au XVIIe siècle." RHL 104.4 (2004): 871–88.

Using a corpus of a dozen texts, author argues that during the classical period, "époque de révalorisation de l'aventure intellectuelle du moi," travel narratives become something close to autobiographical fiction, and the traveler "devient un héros que l'on met en scène."

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. 《 La Conversion religieuse dans le roman sentimental au début du dix-septième siècle. 》 OeC 30.1 (2005): 111–135.

《 . . .on s'attachera ici à montrer que la conversion religieuse-qu'elle intervienne comme rebondissement ou comme dénouement-exploite et subvertit les conventions du roman sentimental. Elle contribue de ce fait à l'élaboration du personnage de roman, par le détournement de thématiques privilégiées de la littérature dévote au profit de l'élaboration fictionnelle du for intérieur. 》

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE, ed. Usages et théories de la fiction: Le débat contemporain à lépreuve des textes anciens (XVI–XVIIIe siècles). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

With articles of interest on the 17th century by Laurence Giavarini ("Le libertin et la fiction-sorcière à l'âge classique: Remarques sur Dom Juan et Théophile"), and Guiomar Hautcoeur ("Passion et imagination de Cervantès à l'abbé Prevost"), all of which are summarized in this volume of French 17.

LEGRAND, MARIE-DOMINIQUE & LILIANE PICCIOLA, eds. Propos sur la laideur et les muses. Figurations et défigurations de la beauté. Nanterre: Littérales/Centre des sciences de la littérature française de l'Université de Paris X, 2004.

Review: P. Hummel in BHR 67.1 (2005), 171–72: 《 Peut-on penser la laideur sans la beauté ? Peut-on représenter la laideur sans se figurer la beauté ? Voilà la double question que pose, après le tome premier (paru en 2001), ce second volume consacré aux figurations et aux défigurations de la beauté. 》 Trois articles qui portent sur le 17e siècle : Y. Lévénez 《 examine la laideur de la nuit dans la poésie du XVIIe siècle 》 ; A. Fredriksen explore 《 les curieuses laideurs des tragédies à grand spectacle de Corneille 》 ; L. Picciola traite de 《 l'histoire de l'amour enlaidi 》 dans L'Historiette de l'Amour égaré (A. Furetière).

LEINER, WOLFGANG, ed. MLA Convention 2002. Selection of Papers. PFSCL 59 (2003): 347–422.

Review: S. Poli in S Fr 144 (2004): 600–601: Includes an introduction and five articles embracing literature, politics and ideology. Varied perspectives on the Grand Siècle from the Versailles menagerie to fantastic variations and rewritings.

LE MARCHAND, BERENICE VIRGINIE. "Reframing the Early French Fairy Tale: A Selected Bibliography." M&T 19.1 (2005), 86–122.

Lists printed primary and secondary sources of journal articles, books, dissertations, and conference proceedings related to French fairy tales. Does not include book reviews or electronic materials, nor does it cover material beyond its stated focus, the early French fairy tale. "Conceived as an aid to research and teaching, the select list of scholarship includes sources published primarily in French and English, complemented by additional items in German and Italian." (Abstract) Intended for students and researchers.

LEONARD, MONIQUE, ed. Mémoire et écriture. Actes du colloque organisé par le Centre Babel à la Faculté des Lettres de l'U de Toulon et du Var les 12 et 13 mai 2000. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: F. Pilone in S Fr 143 (2004): 436: Volume confirms Augustine's image of memory as a vast field as it treats memory of emotion, biography and autobiography, constructed memory, memorialists (including some from the 17th c.), memory and rhetoric and a final section which analyzes certain great authors (here no 17th c. ones are mentioned in the review).

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

Review: J.-M. Civardi in IL 56.4 (2004): 59–60: A clear and complete presentation of the notion of the baroque, and the interpretations it has generated since the nineteenth century. Book is organized around 50 questions, and multiple domains are considered: literature, music, architecture, painting, science, religion. Reviewer suggests that a confrontation of the baroque and classicism would have permitted several useful distinctions to be made, but praises the work.

LINON-CHIPON, SOPHIE. Gallia orientalis. Voyages aux Indes orientales, 1529–1722. Poétique et imaginaire d'un genre littéraire en formation. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003.

Review: N. Doiron in DSS 228 (2005), 566–567: The author discusses "les récits d'une vingtaine de voyageurs aux Indes orientales, des frères Parmentier à Robert Challe." "Ce livre possède le mérite de mettre en évidence la nature problématique du genre dans sa relation au monde, et de l'écriture dans sa relation au référent." The reviewer regrets that the author did not make a greater effot to draw "des rapprochements, sur certains points, entre les terres orientales et les terres occidentales: notamment concernant la question de la vérité du voyageur, de l'expérience ou de l'épreuve."

LINON-CHIPON, SOPHIE. "Visages et masques de la peur dans l'illustration de quelques relations de voyage à l'Age classique." TL 17 (2004): 345–359.

Wide-ranging, Linon-Chipon's essay treats fear in its horror and irony, from violent frescos of America to illustrations of Madagascar. She notes important differences between illustrations and texts: images may "servir d'antidote à la peur, d'en maîtriser les effets" (353). Underscores inexactitudes, syncretism and inversions—after all these authors had a serious dilemma: "ils ne pouvaient se permettre de trop ouvertement contester les idées reçues sur les populations atroces, au risque de renoncer à un de leurs principaux attraits" (359).

LOBBES, LOUIS. "Aman, figure odieuse de l'Autre." TL 17 (2004): 47–68.

Carefully traces this "incarnation de la cruauté" in the works of seven playwrights: two 16th c. ones (Pierre Matthieu and André de Rivaudeau) and five 17th c. ones (Antoine de Montchrestien, Pierre Mainfray or Ville-Toustain, Pierre du Ryer, Racine and the anonymous 1622 Tragédie nouvelle de la perfidie d'Aman, BNF Yf. 6536). The plays vary considerably; the anonymous one is a "sorte de bouffonnerie en trois actes, accompagnée cependant d'une moralité" (50) and Aman the master of a burlesque figure, the demon Durandal. Some plays may represent a condensation of the sacred text or a reduction of Aman to one feature while others (plays by Rivaudeau and Montchrestien, for example) develop the figure in all its horror. Racine's Aman does not follow "la poétique aristotélicienne" since this anti-hero does not evoke any pity at all (58).

LOEVLIE, ELISABETH. Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett. Clarendon Press, 2003.

Review: M. Bryden in MLR 100.3 (2005), 837–37: "Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett are chosen since their writing embodies, for Loevlie, an engagement with the unsayable or non-symbolic. More specifically, Pascal's Pensées, Rousseau's Rêveries, and Beckett's Trilogy are read, respectively as explorations of a 'non-symbolic God', a 'non-symbolic Self', and a 'non-symbolic "nothing"' (p.3)."

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

Review: O. Odaert in FL 57 (2003): 363–67: This reflection is judged "véritablement originale et stimulante" and, while it focuses on pedagogy, it provides also for the literary critic clear applications which are "souvent passionnantes" (363, 367). "Scène" is proposed as "'un espace d'exception où la machine romanesque s'arrête' pour laisser place à un espace visuel dominé par une logique iconique" (Lojkine 4, Odaert 363). As a transgression the scene is "bâtie sur les ruines du discours" (363). Lojkine's wide-ranging applications take us from Chrétien de Troyes to Nathalie Sarraute. 17th c. specialists will profit from her interpretation of the "dispositif scénique" in La Princesse de Clèves (365).

LOPEZ, DENIS. "'Peut-être d'autres héros / M'auraient acquis moins de gloire': du statut des animaux dans la poésie du XVIIe siècle." In Charles Mazouer, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 39–72.

The author surveys the variety of roles animal play in seventeenth-century poetry and concludes that "eléments du décor, figurants, confidents et messagers, seconds rôles ou personages principaux, les animaux sont conviés chez les poètes sur le théâtre des hommes pour les entourer, les représenter, voire pour exister en eux-mêmes et leur servir d'exemple."

LOUVAT-MOLOZAY, BENEDICTE. "De l'invraisemblance du pouvoir au pouvoir de l'invraisemblance" in J.-V. Blanchard & H. Visentin, eds., L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir, Fasano / Paris: Schena editore / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, pp. 69–86.

Contrasting Pierre Corneille's position on vraisemblance to that of Chapelain et l'abbé d'Aubignac, Louvat-Molozay first considers the etymological heritage of the word invraisemblance, then examines Corneille's implementation of this notion in Le Cid, Horace, Cinna and Nicomède. She concludes, "c'est donc moins le pouvoir de l'invraisemblance qui se substitue, chez Corneille, à l'invraisemblance du pouvoir que la vraisemblance extraordinaire—mais possible et donc croyable—avec la morale qui prend le pas sur le vrai. . ."

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

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 78.5 (2005): 999–1000: Examines how music was used in Renaissance and classical theater, charting developments such as the use of choruses, the flourishing of music in pastoral drama and tragicomedy, and the engagement of music and dance in comédie-ballets. Louvat-Molozay considers individual dramatic works as well as classical and early modern theoretical writing about the dramatic arts. The reviewer praises this historian's erudition as well as the accessibility of her work.

Review: L. Naudeix in DSS 227 (2005), 359–361: The reviewer appreciated the scope of this study grounded in "une approche historique et une analyse technique de la manière dont les théoriciens du théâtre ont pensé la présence de la musique dans le drame, et dont les dramaturges ont introduit les séquences musicales, les bruitages, le chant, dans leurs spectacles."

LYONS, JOHN D. "La Vérité tyrannique" in J.-V. Blanchard & H. Visentin, eds., L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir, Fasano / Paris: Schena editore / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, pp. 53–68.

With an eye to "la matière même de la tragédie dite classique: invraisemblance, pouvoir, tyrannie, mensonge, quête des origins, et affirmation de la légitimité par l'identification de ces origines," Lyons examines the convergence between tragedy and politics with particular attention to the Pensées and to Pierre Corneille's Rodogune. Lyons concludes that "Corneille et Pascal, tous deux, mettent leurs lecteurs dans la connivence d'une demystification de la vraisemblance. . . Dans les deux cas, la vérité monstrueuse est reconnue, puis enterrée ou refoulée."

MABER, RICHARD. "Knowledge as Commodity in the Republic of Letters, 1675–1700." SCFS 27 (2005), 197–208.

Examines the principles on which the Republic of Letters operated, "how it actually worked in practice. It is possible to gain some kind of understanding of what it was that caused some epistolary relationships to thrive and expand over the years, others to languish, and many others again never to get off the ground. One can trace underlying patterns of motivation and benefit in this extraordinarily complex situation: one can investigate, to put it crudely, what exactly was in it for the individuals involved. And in this, the parallel with more concrete forms of exchange is particularly helpful."

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

Review: R. Corum in FR 79.1 (October 2005), 161–162: Introduction to a vast body of works heretofore under-represented in literary criticism. "In his attempt to definite and delimit a fluctuating concept, Macé retraces the form and themes of the idyll before its rebirth in baroque poetry. . ." He also "demonstrates that the baroque practitioners enriched their poetic inheritance and extended considerably the presence of the pastoral with an abundance of new, minor genres, and adapted it to existent forms." Macé attributes the form's appeal to the "range of ideological perspectives" possible, with two major fils conducteurs identified: "a nostalgia for the delights of an imaginary Golden Age, and. . . longing and regret at losing this paradise at the Fall." While positing that the pastoral was "ideally suited to contemplate and muse upon the diverse political, religious, social, scientific, and psychological crises of the times," Macé also notes that "baroque practitioners poured their inspiration and their sensitivities into the pastoral. As such, it might well be considered the most significant poetic mode of the period."

Review: F. Greiner in DSS 228 (2005), 567–569: The reviewer appreciates this study of pastoral poetry, a vast topic that has been largely neglected despite a resurgence of interest in pastoral novels and theatre. The author "réussit la double performance d'évoquer largement une tradition littéraire complexe tout en nous révélant, avec nuance et dans une langue toujours agréable, le fonctionnement et la physionomie particulière de quelques-unes de ses illustrations les plus remarquables."

MAGNIONT, GILLES. "Morale esthétique de la circonstance dans les années 1690–1700" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 194–203.

The author examines the rhetorical notions of circonstance and occasion in the work of the Chevalier de Méré and François Lamy at the turn of the century.

MAGNOT, FLORENCE. "Le travesti et le roi: inscription de la chronique guerrière dans l'Histoire de la dragone (1703) et quelques autres texts autour de 1700" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 222–235.

The author examines how several fictive texts offer a chronicle of Louis XIV's European wars through stories of heroines disguised as soldiers.

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

Review: Ph. Hourcade in RHL 104.4 (2004): 937–39. A collection of papers that try to answer a number of questions: Did salons set taste, or follow it? What literary genres did they practice? How did they react to great works? Collection contains a useful index of all historical persons referred to.

MAZOUER, CHARLES, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la première journée d'études du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, Biblio 17 (146), 2003.

Note: All articles in this volume are summarized in this issue of French 17.

Review: O. Leplatre in IL 56.3 (2004): 56–57: A collection oriented around the representation of animals and their place in the arts. Thumbnail sketches of each paper.

MAZOUER, CHARLES. "Rire en 1700" in Gaillard, Aurélia, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 157–170.

A survey of comic material, the relationship between comedy and reality, and the quality of laughter around 1700. Although the year 1700 doesn't seem to be a turning point for comedy, the notion of "comedie fin de règne" offers a useful framework for analysis of the period's comic production.

McMORRAN, WILL. The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern Novel. Oxford: Legenda, 2002.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 40 (2004): 112–113: Found "admirable" in its scope, McMorran's study is as well a "brief introduction to the modes of early narrative [European fiction]" (113). Includes a detailed reading of Scarron.

MECHOULAN, ERIC. "1700, année posthume" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 72–87.

By examining the production and publication of moralist discourse (Eustache Le Noble, Saint-Evremond, and La Bruyère), the author re-evaluates the traditional interpretation of the years 1690–1710 as a period of transition between the high classicism of the period of 1660–1680 and the period of the Regency and the Enlightenment by focusing on their elements of discontinuity.

MENARD, PHILIPPE. "Histoires de loups-garous." TL 17 (2004): 97–118.

Very well-documented and useful to 17th c. students of contes in particular; focus is on earlier centuries and demonstrates convincingly that "malgré la diversité des temps et des lieux, des traits communs persistent, et parfois des details. . ., des ponts. . . fréquentés par des loups-garous [for example]" (115). This rich essay is accompanied by an engraving of Lucas Cranach the Elder (117).

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

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 144 (2004): 603: This collection of 10 "facéties" covers 1610–1642. The genre continues a tradition of Antiquity and one which had experienced a large revival in the 17th c. This faithful transcription with rich critical apparatus examines carefully these examples of a literary genre for their linguistic and allusive qualities.

MERLIN, HELENE. "Un Nouveau XVIIe siècle." RHL 105.1 (2005): 11–36.

Text of a conference delivered at the Sorbonne in December 2004. Focuses primarily on the question of the feminization of titles (e.g., "Directrice") and its implications regarding the notion of the public; and on the way the body and humiliation in the seventeenth century cannot be accounted for by conventional notions (including Bakhtin's) of the classical.

MOTHU, ALAIN & ALAIN SANDRIER. Minora clandestina, Le Philosophe antichrétien et autres écrits iconoclastes de l'âge classique. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003.

Review: F. Briot in RSH 275 (juillet–septembre 2004), 190–91: The first installment of a series that will bring to light works that sought to counter religious ideology of their time and were generally circulated only in manuscript form. Authors present include Fontenelle, Rousseau, Benoît de Maillet, William Lyons, Francis Hare. Copious introductions, which are helpful to the modern reader, precede most of the texts.

MURATORE, MARY JO. Expirer au féminin: Narratives of Female Dissolution in French Classical Texts. New Orleans: UP of the South, 2003.

Review: M.-Fr. Hilgar in FR 78.6 (2005): 1239–40: Asserting the conformist tendencies of male classical heroes, Muratore approaches heroines as dissenters who are inevitably purged from their literary worlds. Her short book contains ten quite varied chapters and analyzes texts such as Horace, Rodogune, Bérénice, Andromaque, Phèdre and the Princesse de Clèves. The reviewer notes Muratore's omission of a conclusion.

NEDELEC, CLAUDINE. Les Etats et empires du burlesque. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 670 (2005), 63–64: 《 Cette étude propose une réévaluation du burlesque, en lui rendant la place qui a été la sienne d'un bout à l'autre de ce long XVIIe siècle. 》

NEDELEC, CLAUDINE. "Etre moderne, être à l'avant-garde: le champ de bataille des belles lettres au XVIIe siècle." DSS 228 (2005), 453–464.

Using the 17th c. definition of "avant-garde" as a starting point, the author queries the meaning of "modernité comme acte" during the century and asks, "est-il réformiste, ou révolutionnaire? Armé, guerrier, militaire, ou pacifiste? Les 《 modernes 》 du XVIIe siècle (ou leurs adversaires) ont-ils théorisé leur action comme celle d'une avant-garde, groupe d'action minoritaire s'affrontant de manière polémique à la culture établie pour préparer des temps nouveaux?"

NEPOTE-DESMARRES, FANNY avec la collaboration de JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSPERRIN, eds. Mythe et histoire dans le théâtre classique. Hommage à Christian Delmas. Numéro hors-série de Littératures classiques. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: A. Génetiot in S Fr 143 (2004): 355–56: Praiseworthy for its "cohérence et son homogénéité," this ample volume (of over 450 pages) includes a bibliography of Delmas's works along with an "approche bibliographique" of cited works and 2 indices. Composed in two sections, the first contains 11 studies by Delmas himself on the rapport between myth and history in 17th c. French tragedy. The second division, on the same theme, contains 14 new studies in hommage to Delmas; these are remarkably varied, treating for example Dom Juan ("personnage fantasmatique" or "libertin") as well as Tristan l'Hermite's religious tragedy and Racine's "simplicité biblique" in Esther and Athalie.

NICOLICH, ROBERT. "La Fortune critique de la poésie du premier 17e siècle" in La poésie française du premier 17e siècle, eds. D. L. Rubin & R. Corum, Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2004, pp. 1–22.

Article seeks to explain the critical popularity, or lack thereof, for a series of early seventeenth-century poets. Includes sections on "La naissance du baroque," "L'Apogée du baroque et divergences," "Le Renouvellement érudit," and "Maniérisme et au-delà. . ."

NIDERST, ALAIN, ed. La Poésie à l'âge baroque: 1598–1660. Paris: Laffont, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 671 (2005), 70–71: 《 Plutôt qu'un classement par thèmes ou par genres, A. Niderst a opté pour une périodisation, à la faveur des grandes divisions chronologiques du XVIIe siècle. . . . 》 Un volume 《 prometteur 》; on souhaite 《 une réimpression corrigée, qui permettrait de (re)écouvrir, guidé d'une main sûre, cette production poétique immense et exquise. 》

NORBROOK, DAVID. "Women, the Republic of Letters, and the Public Sphere in the Mid-Seventeenth Century." Criticism 46:2 (2004), 223–240.

Uses the framework of Habermas' narrative of the early modern public sphere to reassess whether women were excluded from its emergence. Norbrook concentrates specifically on Margaret Cavendish, exiled in France, and Anna Maria van Schurman, who lived in the Netherlands. Their experience complicates the notion of women disappearing into the private sphere during this period; it also demonstrates important differences between the political implications of the public sphere in England, France, and the Netherlands.

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

Review: C.M. Natoli in CdDS 9.1 (2004): 159–64. Using the examples of a number of religious writers (including Augustine, Surin, and Guyon), author "aims to account for how a type of writing come to imply a mode of being and, conversely, how something people were learning to call 'inner experience' seemed to produce, as if naturally, authoritative books" (NP). Reviewer finds book "insightful" and "original" if at times challenging; praises its engagement with contemporary criticism and its "happy self-consciousness of the status and borders of its metaphors."

Review: n.a. in FMLS 40 (2004): 114: High praise is given for this "rare academic commodity, a page-turner" (114). Representing "state of the art thinking on the poetics of history," Paige's "beautifully coherent study" is wide-ranging, emphasizing religions writers such as Marie de l'Incarnation, Marie Alacoque, Jean de Labadie, Antoinette Bourignon, Jeanne Guyon and Jean-Joseph Surin (114).

PETERS, JEFFREY. Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.

Review: C. Kerr in Choice 42.4 (2004), 667: Working from the precept that maps visualize power, Peters' book is broadly situated amid the fields of literary theory, cartographic history, and women's studies. The reviewer explains that "Peters explores how allegorical cartography, starting with Madeleine de Scudéry's 'Carte de Tendre,'. . . cast in spatial terms the most tendentious political, social, and aesthetic controversies of the period" (667). The book also devotes attention to the Abbé d'Aubignac's Histoire du temps, Nicolas Boileau Despréaux's Dialogue des héros de roman, Antoine Furetière's Nouvelle allégorique, Sorel's Relation de Sophie, and M. de Callières's Histoire poétique de la guerre nouvellement déclarée entre les anciens et les modernes. The reviewer gives high praise to Peters' admirable writing and research, as well as to the fine quality of his book's illustrations.

PETERS, JEFFERY N. & TODD W. REESER. "Between Freedom and Memory: The Early Modern in Barthes's Le Degré zéro de l'écriture." EMF 10 (2005): 126–49.

Authors show how in Barthes's early writing classical écriture—"the mythological sign of a socially coercive practice of literary passivity"—was constructed as a foil for modernist écriture, which around 1850 "becomes the sign of a political act through which writers assume or reject their bourgeois condition."

PHILLIPS, HENRY. "Text, Theatre, Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century Tragedy." PFSCL XXXII, 63 (2005), 505–518.

"I aim to extend the discussion of theatricality of language, which I understand as a form of language whose characteristics and whose functional significance are particular to performance in a theatre before an audience, by exploring questions arising from the relation of theatrical language to the forms of discourse readily available to the spectator in seventeenth-century French society."

PISTER, DANIELLE, ed. L'image du prêtre dans la littérature classique (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles). Berne: Lang, 2001.

Review: G. Banderier in RBPH 82.3 (2004), 798–99: Actes d'un colloque tenu à Metz les 20 et 21 novembre 1998: "Le présent volume ne prétend pas apporter une vue d'ensemble. . . mais procède plutôt par sondages au cœur d'une matière si étendue et diverse. 》

POIRSON, MARTIAL, ed. Art et argent en France au temps des premiers modernes (XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2004.

Review: BCLF 669 (2004), 112: 《 Il y est question aussi bien des rapports des écrivains à l'argent que du rôle par lui joué dans leurs œuvres, en passant par les principes économiques exposés, plus ou moins discrètement, dans les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld ou les Saisons de Saint-Lambert. 》 Corneille et Molière figurent parmi les auteurs classiques.

POLI, SERGIO. "Littérature et peur du peuple aux débuts de la modernité." TL 17 (2004): 33–46.

Attentive examination of the "peur de l'homme pour l'homme [qui] se transforme en répression de la deviance. . ., en critique de 'l'exagération' ou encore des forces obscures de la passion" (33). Examines in François de Rosset's Histoires tragiques (1619) as well as in works by J. d'Intras, J. Prévost, Camus, La Bruyère and others, this fear which implicitly or explicitly is often expressed in a belief in the "bestialisation du peuple" (45).

RACAULT, JEAN-MICHEL. Nulle part et ses environs: Voyage aux confins de l'utopie littéraire classique (1657–1802). Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003.

Review: J. Stalnaker in RR 96.1 (2005): 115–17. Spanning Cyrano's L'Autre monde to Chateaubriand's René, book attempts "to articulate the relationship between the utopia as a literary genre and travel literature" (Stalnaker)—a proximity explained by the tendency of classical utopias to situate their ideals in distant lands. Focuses more on the formal characteristics of the genre than on its socio-political content, which tends to be poorer than in modern incarnations of the genre. Aside from Cyrano, other seventeenth-century texts analyzed include Foigny and Veiras. Reviewer notes a certain repetitiveness in the book's chapters that mirrors the stasis of classical utopia's structure; also notes the descriptive nature of the study, which opens "many tempting paths of reflection but offer[s] few broad conclusions." Still, reviewer praises the "richness and originality" of the study.

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

Review: L. Gregorio in Fr F 29 (2004): 127–29: Praised for its "concision and focus," Racevskis's study considers Augustine's "puzzlement over a definition of time" (127), finds theoretical bases in Stuart Sherman and Foucault, and aims "to provide an account of the ways in which one particular era in our civilization established a conceptual framework for understanding time" (Racevskis 22). Wide-ranging, from a survey of the history of 17th c. watches to time structures in Molière, Mme de Sévigné, and Mme De Lafayette. Gregorio finds a fascinating tie-in with Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before.

RAYNARD, SOPHIE. La seconde préciosité: Floraison des conteuses de 1690 à 1756. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2002.

Review: A. Duggan in M&T 19.1 (2005), 145–147: Generally characterizing the work as "a well-documented and informative study that convincingly ties the fairy tale to preciosity. The study attempts to link the flourishing of fairy tales in the 17th–18th centuries with the earlier précieux movement, in part by looking at the questions of female authorship and feminism. While Duggan feels the work would benefit from being "streamlined" and from the inclusion of more male fairy tale authors (e.g. Jean de Mailly, Perrault) as a point of comparison, finds on the whole that it provides "a nice overview of the writers, issues, and contexts of the early modern French fairy tale, which is rightfully situated within the larger context of the precious movement."

RIVARA, ANNIE. "Deux conceptions de la temporalité et de l'Histoire, Le voyage de campagne de Mme de Murat (1699) et Les Mémoires d'Artagnan par Courtilz de Sandras (1700)" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 91–109.

The author contrasts the temporality and narration of the brief but dense Voyage with the autobiographical wordiness of the Mémoires (published one year apart from each other) in order to develop the evolution of social and political representation under Louis XIV as well as the discrete subversive nature of the two works.

ROBERT, RAYMONDE. Le conte de fées littéraire en France de la fin du XVIIe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: P. Clancy in FS 58.1 (2004): 104–105. This is a very positive review of Robert's work, which is a re-edition of a 1982 volume. Robert's Bibliography and Indexes of Authors are vital tools and the author's overall contributions to the field are praised. This work is "an essential reference for anyone working on the literary fairy-tale."

ROBERTS, GEOFFREY, ED. The History and Narrative Reader. London: Routledge, 2001.

Review: M. Fludernik in Archiv 241 (2004): 178–80: Fludernik finds this collection of 26 essays "on the relation of narrative and history" to be "written for historians," yet containing "much food for thought for narratologists" (178).

ROMAN, MYRIAM, ANNE TOMICHE, et al. Figures du parasite. Clermont-Ferrand: PU Blaise Pascal, 2001.

Review: W. Redfern in MLR 100.1 (2005), 185–86: 《 This volume is a subsection of a series on hospitality in its plural aspects, generated by a team of wide-ranging specialists. Its range goes from ancient Greek comedies to Hergé's Captain Haddock. 》 Authors treated include La Fontaine and Molière. Reviewer finds the work 《 thought-inciting on the whole vital question of dialectical dependency. 》

ROSSO, CORRADO. La "Maxime". Saggi per una tipologia critica (1968). New edition with introduction by Werner Helmich. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001.

Review: R. Riggiero in Archiv 240 (2003): 445–48: Welcome second edition of Rosso's important work on the maxim. We see, thanks to Rosso's erudition, this form become a well-defined genre; Rosso also makes us aware of the relations of the early modern maxim and its ancestors of Antiquity. Furthermore Rosso makes evident the various possible distinctions of the genre: maxims, aphorisms, sentences, proverbes, etc. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the pages on La Rochefoucauld, Corneille, among others. Reviewer is particularly appreciative of Rosso's linking of the maxim to the civil and of the demonstration of the "engagement" of the maxim.

ROY, ROXANNE. "L'art de s'emporter: Colère et vengeance dans les nouvelles galantes et historiques (1661–-1690)." DAI 66/02 (2005), 611.

"[I]n the context of an historical anthropology of culture," study examines "the codification of anger and vengeance in galant and historical short stories written in the period between 1661 and 1690."

RUBIN, DAVID LEE, ed. La Poésie française du premier 17e siècle: Textes et contextes. Deuxième edition revue et augmentée avec la collaboration de Robert T. Corum. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2004.

Three introductory essays by Robert Nicolich ("La Fortune critique de la poésie du premier 17e siècle"), Franz Joseph Hausmann ("Le Langage littéraire dans la première moitié du 17e siècle") and Claude Abraham ("Aperçu de la versification française du 17e siècle") are all summarized in this volume of French 17. Collection also includes short essays on individual poets by a wide variety of specialists; see individual poets listed in Part V of this volume for details.

SANZ, AMELIA. "Entre cultures, entre temps: les femmes traduisent l'Histoire." PFSCL XXXII, 62 (2005), 99–112.

"Nous tenterons ici de replacer, tout d'abord, le sens du mot auteur, au masculin et au féminin, dans le système littéraire français de la fin du XVIIe siècle. Ensuite, une révision des défenses et des dictionnaires de femme illustres à l'époque nous permettra d'esquisser, tant soit peu, une vue d'ensemble sur la fréquentation des langues, des littératures et des cultures étrangères de la part de certaines femmes qui prennent la plume. Finalement, des rapports pourront être établis entre ces activités et une formule chère aux femmes: les nouvelles historiques triumphant à la fin du siècle, comme relecture et réecriture d'autres espaces et d'autres temps." The focus in this last section is on Anne de la Roche-Guilhen.

SCOTT, CLIVE. Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550–2000. Oxford: Legenda, 2002.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 40 (2004): 116: Praised both for "the breadth of their sphere of reference and their depth of textual analysis," the essays examine gender, translation, and "the notion of comparative literature." 17th c. scholars will appreciate the insights on the "rhythmic re-dramatization of translating Phèdre" (116).

SELLIER, PHILIPPE. Essais sur l'imaginaire classique, Pascal, Racine, Précieuses et Moralistes, Fénélon. Paris: Champion, "Lumière Classique", 2003.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 143 (2004): 361–62: Highly praised for its "approcio delicato e complesso" as well as for its impressive pluridisciplinarity. Sellier reviews and reflects profoundly on recent criticism while he opens new boundaries and avenues for future criticism.

SERMAIN, JEAN-PAUL. Métafictions (1670–1730): la réflexivité dans la littérature d'imagination. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: R. Francis in FS 59.2 (2005), 245: This "major work of synthesis" is highly praised by the reviewer for its thorough analysis of the major genres, in particular the novel, of the seventeenth century. Sermain's merit is to have traced the evolution of the novel through metafiction.

SPIELMANN, GUY. Le Jeu de l'ordre et du chaos: Comédie et pouvoirs à la fin du régime, 1673–1715. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: R. Bret-Vitoz in IL 56.4 (2004): 60–61: Author attempts to dust off a repertory consistently dismissed by two centuries of literary criticism—that of comedy from the death of Molière to the death of Louis XIV. Argues that the comprehension of these texts necessitates a familiarity with a profound change in the way this theater was produced and consumed; detailed attention is paid to how the theater was organized (foire vs. Comédie italienne vs. Comédie française) once Louis XIV's role as patron ceased and there was "la mise en place d'un système de spectacle nettement dominé par les forces du marché et l'émergence d'un public qui allait imposer ses goûts" (Bret-Vitoz). Very positive review, taking issue only with the author's use of tragedy as a foil; reviewer feels that many of the remarks made about comedy could also shed light on post-Racinian tragedy.

SPRIET, STELLA. "Unité et ruptures: Réévaluation des pièces de théâtre 'classiques' du XVIIe siècle." DAI 66/02 (2005), 612.

Study deconstructs the classical notion of "unity" using Genette, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Derrida. Also offers "an analysis of the stage work of some avant-garde directors, in particular Antoine Vitez and Daniel Mesguich, whose aim among other[s] is to elicit surprise from their audience."

STEINBERGER, DEBORAH. "Profiting from Scandal: The Case of La Devineresse." CdDS 9.1 (2004): 135–141.

Examining La Devineresse within the context of the Mercure Galant, proposes that T. Corneille and Donneau de Visé's efforts "to promote and publicize their work raise interesting questions about the interplay between scandal, journalism, publicity, and theater" at the time.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "Présence d'une pensée esthétique au XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXXII, 62 (2005), 51–62.

Examines the principal texts which testify to the presence of "une pensée esthétique' in three distinct circles: 'celui de Port-Royal, celui des cercles mondains, [et] celui des humanistes érudits."

TINGUELY, FREDERIC. "La peur du Turc (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles)." TL 17 (2004): 289–306.

Helpful and detailed investigation into "la turcophobie," considering sensationalistic discourse or "littérature de consommation facile" (290), reception and re-editions of important volumes such as De Turcarum moribus epitome (which had several 17th c. editions), tragedies and stories by François de Belleforest and relations of voyages such as those by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and by Guillaume-Joseph Grelot. Cl. D. Rouillard's synthesis of some 15 Turkish tragedies or tragi-comedies from 1560–1660 is noted and attention given to specific cases as Tristan's 1656 Osman.

TONOLO, SOPHIE. "De la froideur de Diane au Palais de la Volupté: quelques aspects de la chasse dans la poésie de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle." DSS 226 (2005), 41–53.

Building on the strong background of the topic in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the author analyses how it has changed and developed by the second half of the seventeenth. "Sans mettre en valeur un phénomène spectaculaire, efforçons-nous de montrer que le réservoir imagé constitué autour de la chasse connaît des inflexions sensibles dans son traitement sous la plume de poètes galants mineurs ou d'artistes majeurs comme Tristan, Scudéry, Le Moyne, Saint-Amant ou La Fontaine."

TOURRETTE, ERIC. "Une écriture du discernement: Enquête sur les formes brèves de la description morale (1574–1701)." IL 57.1 (2005): 49–52.

Summary of the author's thesis, which takes up Barthes's distinction between langue, style, and écriture, arguing for a "stylistique nouvelle." Analyzing a number of moralists, asks the twin questions of "Qu'est-ce qu'une forme brève?" and "Qu'est-ce qu'un moraliste?"

TUCKER, HOLLY. Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.

Review: S. Read Baker in SoAR 69.2 (2004): 109–112. An "erudite and eminently readable" study that "should entice humanist scholars from a wide range of disciplines." Tucker "successfully weds literary analysis to cultural history." Elucidates how "selected early-modern French texts represent the biological, social and political meanings of childbirth." Fairy tales, according to Tucker "inscribe a dialogue between conflicting cultural discourses concerning women's power of reproduction." Texts treated include cases reported in the Mercure Galant, the contes de fée of d'Aulnoy, and some eighteenth-century fairy tales.

Review: N. R. Gelbart in Isis 95:3 (2004), 496–497: Gelbart calls Tucker's account of how female writers of fairy tales explored the issues of reproduction and childbirth "original, nicely argued, and modestly but interestingly illustrated" (497). The reviewer also appreciates the aesthetic structure of the work, which begins and ends with analyses of jetons.

TUCKER, HOLLY & MELANIE SIEMENS. "Perrault's Preface to Griselda and Murat's 'To Modern Fairies.'" M&T 19.1 (2005), 125–130.

A translation of prefaces by Perrault and Murat, presented together to show the ways in which they complement each other as well as the tales they accompany. The prefaces "offer insights into the complexities of early modern tale transmission and allow us to recognize the late-seventeenth-century French fairy tale as a point of cultural and literary intersection. The juxtaposition of both prefaces here creates a dialogue between them and allows for richer contextual reading of the prefaces themselves, the tales they precede, and their compositional influences." (Abstract)

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

Review: T. Luxon in SCN 62 (2004), 213–216: This represents the third volume in the author's "decades-long effort to write the literary and intellectual history of carnal knowledge." The reviewer considers this work "easily the fullest and best treatment of the subject to date," and summarizes the parts thusly: "Part One of Schooling Sex performs a thorough investigation of the erotic education trope in hard-core libertarian literature." "Part Two [. . .] turns attention to the reception — translation, adaptation, reading, and responses — of the hard-core libertine canon."

Review: M. Schachter in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1083–1085: Despite certain reservations, some involving interpretations of Foucault and others concerned with terminology, Turner's volume is found to be a "monumental accomplishment" and "will certainly serve as a catalyst for further inquiry in a range of fields" (1085). Focuses on "the relationship between. . . hard-core texts and contemporary doctrinaire rhetorical manuals, orthodox educational theory, and Cartesian philosophy" (1084).

TRIVISANI-MOREAU, ISABELLE. "Bois et forêts dans l'univers romanesque de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle." DSS 226 (2005), 29–39.

Looking at "l'imaginaire forestier des romanciers," the author looks at various literary representations of the forest (Villedieu, La Fayette, La Fontaine, Scudéry, etc.) in order to understand the implications of "l'association de la forêt à la quête," and "comment le motif de la chasse, qui semble introduire la mondanité dans ces lieux écartés, ne survit dans l'univers romanesque qu'essentiellement au prix d'une intensification des aventures qu'elle autorise."

VAILLANCOURT, DANIEL. "Pouvoir, police, récit: Sur Clélie de Madeleine de Scudéry et Le Roman bourgeois d'Antoine Furetière" in J.-V. Blanchard & H. Visentin, eds., L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir, Fasano / Paris: Schena editore / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, pp. 161–182.

Vaillancourt offers "une lecture croisée entre la question de la police, des formes urbaines et celle de la gestion du récit," with attention to "l'avènement d'une certaine police de soi, qui conjugue politesse, polis et politique," as well as to la 《 renovation 》 de l'organisation urbaine de la capitale," both of which "font effet sur les univers fictionnels, les travaux, parfois laborieux, du récit, la théâtralisation de l'individu dans l'espace social."

VAN CRUGTEN-ANDRé, VALéRIE. "Quand l'Autre est roux. . ." TL 17 (2004): 195–204.

Useful, if rapid, survey of numerous "préjugés liés à la rousseur" which amounts to "une reconnaissance esthétique généralisé" (195). The essay begins with a long citation from Cyrano's letter "Pour une dame rousse," an apt "point de départ" for a study which includes biological sources as well as biblical and literary ones from Antiquity to the 20th c.

VIALA, ALAIN. "Lire les classiques au temps de la mondialisation." DSS 228 (2005), 393–407.

The author considers the essentially paradoxical nature of the terms "classique" and "mondialisation" in the context of the seventeenth century. He chooses Molière's Don Juan as representative of all senses of the former and eventually proves that the classics are indispensable to any comprehensive, modern understanding of "mondialisation."

VIALLETON, JEAN-YVES. Poésie dramatique et prose du monde: le comportement des personnages dans la tragédie en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris, Champion, 2004.

Review: M. Hawcroft in FS 59.2 (2005), 242–43: Vialleton's work omits "no example. . . no complicating factor," and is enhanced by the author's knowledge of Renaissance sources. For this, the reviewer says, the work is long, but worthy and very complete. Nonetheless, Vialleton can be criticized for overlooking important recent critics such as David Maskell and Valerie Worth-Stylianou.

VUILLERMOZ, MARC, ed. Dictionnaire analytique des oeuvres théâtrales françaises du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: C. Carlin in CdDS 9.1 (2004): 173–74. Editor sees this "invaluable research tool" (CC), which employed a team of over twenty contributors, as a modernization of Lancaster's and Scherer's classic work. The corpus is limited to plays existing in a modern critical edition (as of 1992); these are broken down into categories—type, personnages, structure de l'intrigue, lieux, temps—that include information on elements such as characters' relations, embedded genres (letters, songs), and liaison des scènes. Also includes a number of indexes. An "impressive quantitative structural analysis" that "provides a perspective on seventeenth-century theatre previously unavailable."

WEISBERGER, JEAN. La Muse des jardins: Jardins de l'Europe littéraire (1580–1700). Brussels and Bern: Peter Lang, 2002.

Review: E. Henein in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1087–1088: Henein praises the volume's wide appeal to scholars and its remarkable analyses of "literary descriptions of gardens written in five different languages" (1087). Includes illustrations, an extensive index and a selective bibliography. French specialists will particularly appreciate chapter 2, which studies "the function and status of French gardens during the seventeenth century" (1087) and chapter 4, which analyses various texts of La Fontaine, his Le Songe de Vaux for example, and presents a detailed study of Versailles.

WETSEL, DAVID & FRéDéRIC CANOVAS, general editors of the collection. CHRISTINE MCCALL PROBES & BUFORD NORMAN, eds. Les femmes au Grand Siècle. Le Baroque: musique et littérature. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth Century French Literature (Tempe: Arizona State University). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003. "Biblio 17"

Review: L. Norci Cagiano in S Fr 142 (2004): 182–84: First part of volume organized by Probes extends W. Leiner's edited collections on women (ELF 1978 and 1984). The panorama is vast as indeed the essay of Marie-Odile Sweetser makes perfectly clear; she astutely examines figures as diverse as Marie-Catherine Desjardins, Molière's Agnès, Racine's Andromaque, the Princesse de Clèves and Madame de Maintenon. Sweetser concludes: "en dépit des structures existantes et persistantes d'une société patriarcale, renforcées par l'ordre d'une monarchie absolue, en dépit des mentalités prévalentes, combattues par des groupes mondains et savants, des écrivains ont pu concevoir des personnages de femmes autonomes et leur donner une voix" (52). Reviewers also single out Mary Randall's examination of Madame Guyon and the "seventeenth century focus on the self" (111). The second half of the volume, organized by Norman, contains Patricia Ranum's fine study on the Requiem Mass of Jean Gilles, focusing in particular on the composer's rhetoric used to invite the hearer's emotion (184). Reviewer is also appreciative of Perry Gethner's analysis of the relation between music and madness.

WETSEL, DAVID & FREDERIC CANEVAS, eds. Pascal: New Trends in Port-Royal Studies. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Tome I. Tübingen: Narr, 2002.

Review: E. Gilby in FS 58.1 (2004): 101–102. While the reviewer praises more than a few of the "subtle" and "illuminating" contributions to this collection, some are "variable" in quality, others do not even have bibliographies. The reviewer reserves the harshest critiques for the editors: "The proceedings have a hasty feel, and the volume is let down by patchy proof-reading."

WILD, FRANCINE. Naissance du genre des Ana (1574–1712). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: R. Maber in Ren Q 57 (2004): 645–46: Judged "an extremely welcome study of a fascinating minor genre that has never received the detailed attention that it merits." Maber appreciates Wild's extensive introduction and "meticulous survey" of the Ana's evolution in France. Provides a close analysis of the important Ménagiana's early editions. Maber questions chronological limits as well as the inclusion of related works which do not have the required proper name in the title but insists nevertheless that Wild's extensive study (over 780 pages) "will be the foundation of all further work in its field" (646).

WOOD, BRYAN CHRISTOPHER. "Fictions galantes: Le 'roman sentimental' en France (1596–1610)." DAI 65/12 (2005), 4583.

A study of over forty pre-d'Urfé sentimental novels. "[P]articular attention [is] brought to bear on those narrative and stylistic techniques which made them so unique (amorous dialogues, letters and poems inserted in the story; gallant conceits; rhetorical figures) and on the moral intent of their authors (as expressed by their portrayal of love and the various types of story endings they used)." In depth analysis of works by Antoine de Nervèze, Sieur Des Escuteaux, and François Du Souhait.

ZIOLKOWSKI, THEODORE. The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton UP, 2003.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 40 (2004): 356: Paperback version of the 1997 volume which strongly promotes "literature's engagement with the jurisprudent" and investigates just and unjust acts and actions, codes of morality and their representation. The jurisprudent from ancient Greek tragedy through 20th c. German literature receives attention. Review mentions Renaissance Europe as a focus, but does not indicate 17th c. foci.

AATF. Future conventions: 2006 (Milwaukee); 2007 (Baton Rouge); 2008 (Belgium). Contact Jane Abrate, Executive Director (Southern Illinois U.). Tel. 618.453.5731, <abrate@siu.edu>, http://aatf.utsa.edu.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (U. Georgia-Athens). (1) Crit. eds.: Antoine Houdar de La Motte's Discours sur Homère and his Iliade (1714). Joint crit. ed., Anthoine's Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIII and of the Anthoine brothers' (the previous's sons) Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIV. (2) Arts. (submitted): "L'Illusion comique: le voir et le savoir," on the epistemological schemes in Corneille's 1636 comedy. "Les retrouvailles dans Gil Blas." "Essai d'une térato-lexicologie du XVIIe siècle." "Alain-René Lesage," dictionary entry, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Columbia, S.C., Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. (3) Book reviews: Two book reviews, one on the "commensaux" (domestic servants in noble houses) in the 17th c., the other on a new ed. of the Antoine Galland translation of The Arabian Nights. (4) Dissertation advisor: Michelle L. Brown, "An Anthropology of Death in Corneille's Tragedies."

BEASLEY, FAITH E. (Dartmouth). (1). Bk.: Salons, History, and the Making of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory (for fall 2005, Ashgate Publishing Co.). (2) The NASSCFL Acta for Dartmouth, edited with Kathleen Wine, which will be out this fall. (3) Ed. of an Options for Teaching volume for the MLA on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French women writers.

BIRBERICK, ANNE L. (Northern Illinois U.). See EMF. <annie@niu.edu>

BOLDUC, BENOIT (Toronto). (1) La pastorale dramatique en France: laboratoire de l'invention. (2) Corpus des entrées solennelles dans les villes françaises à la Renaissance: Henri II et François II (one of a twelve volume series edited by the Groupe de Recherche sur les Entrées Solennelles), Paris, Champion, 2006. (3) Dissertation advisor: Lenore Morra, "Racine et l'expérience tragique à la fin du XVIIe siècle et au début du XVIIIe siècle (France et Angleterre)" (expected date of completion 2007).

BURCHELL, EILEEN (Marymount C. of Fordham U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

CAMPION, EDMUND J. (Tennessee-Knoxville). Crit. ed.: Quinault's Pausanias (with William Brooks); publ. by Droz, Geneva, 2004.

CARLIN, CLAIRE (U. Victoria, Canada). (1) Forthcoming bk.: Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe, ed. C. Carlin, fall 2005 from Palgrave, Macmillan. [Volume contains contributions from NASSCFL members Dominique Bertrand, Hélène Cazes, Frédéric Charbonneau and Michel Fournier.] (2) Arts. in press: "Perfect History: Love and Marriage in Early Modern Pedagogy" in The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France, ed. Anne M. Birberick, EMF/Rookwood Press. Art. on Jeanne de Cambry's Traité de la réforme du mariage in Convent Voices in Early Modern France, ed. T. Carr, EMF/Rookwood Press.

CARR, TOM (Nebraska-Lincoln). Co-Organizer, NASSCFL Annual Conference 2007. <tcarr@unlserve.unl.edu>.

C17, CAHIERS DU DIX-SEPTIEME. Journal accessible exclusively on-line in HTML format, beginning with vol. VIII.1. Contact Francis Assaf, 706.542.3164 or <cahiers@arches.uga.edu> or John Boitano, Chapman C., <jboitano@chapman.edu>.

CIR 17. President: Cecilia Rizza (via Lagustena, 16/10, 16131 Genova, ITALY, tel. 010.522.1076). Membership now $30 (instead of previously announced $24), to Treasurer: Volker Schröder, French & Italian, Princeton U., Princeton, NJ 08544. Tel.: 609.258.1171, fax: 609.258.4535, email: <volkers@princeton.edu>.

CLARKE, JAN (Durham). (1) Bk.: The Hôtel Guénégaud Theatre in Paris (1673–1680). Volume 3: The Demise of the Machine Play. Book to be submitted summer 2005. (2) Bk.: The History of Theatre in France (with David Whitton); to be submitted December 2005. (3) Work on collaborative project Les Femmes et le theater sous l'Ancien Régime. (4) Bk. on the infrastructure of performance in 17th-century France. (5) Ed. of the two Registres de La Thorillière. (6) Ed. of Thomas Corneille, L'Inconnu. (7) Various articles on the design of the Guénégaud theatre, backstage and front-of-house staff, Pierre Corneille repertory, etc. (8) Dissertation advisor: Laetitia Vedrenne, on representations of Dido in 16th- and 17th-century French tragedy; due to be completed in October 2005.

COMETES. Revue des Littératures d'Ancien Régime. Much information; covers 16th-18th c. publications, events, programs. North American Correspondent: Volker Schröder. Site uses very small font and much red ink. http://www.comètes.org.

CONROY, DERVAL (University College Dublin). Derval Conroy and Johnnie Gratton, eds., L'Œil écrit. Études sur des rapports entre texte et image, 1800–1940 (Geneva: Slatkine, 2005). Derval Conroy et Johnnie Gratton, 'Introduction', in Derval Conroy and Johnnie Gratton, eds., L'Œil écrit. Études sur des rapports entre texte et image, 1800–1940 (Geneva: Slatkine, 2005), pp. xv–xxii. Articles: 'Reines, invraisemblables rois ? Reines vierges et épouses célibataires dans le théâtre du XVIIe siècle : le cas d'Elisabeth, de Nitocris et de Pulchérie', in L'Invraisemblance du Pouvoir. Mises en scéne de la souveraineté au XVIIe siècle, sous la direction de Jean-Vincent Blanchard et Hélène Visentin (Schena/Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2005), pp. 89–122; Bio-bibliographical entry on Catherine Bernard to SIEFAR online dictionary (Société international d'études sur la femme de l'ancien régime) http://www.siefar.org/DictionnaireSIEFAR/SFBernard.html (March 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>.

COWART, GEORGIA (Case Western Reserve). Bk. manuscript: The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Festive Arts.

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE (Bowdoin College). Forthcoming: "Textual Performance: Imprinting the Criminal Body," in Intersections, Faith Beasley and Kathryn Wine, eds. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2005; "Ventriloquism and the Voice of Authority: Nuns, Demons, and Exorcists in Early Seventeenth-Century France," in Early Modern Convent Voices: The World and the Cloister, Thomas M. Carr, Jr., ed. EMF 11 (2005); "Crossing Lines, Encouraging Ownership: Teaching the Occult Early Modern," in CdDS 10 (2005); Forthcoming: "Femmes lunatiques: Women and the Moon in Early Modern France," Dalhousie French Studies 71 (2005). In preparation: "Impressionable Women: Demon Marks and Divine Stigmata in Early Modern France;" "The Shape and Form of Writing: Pastoral Graffiti in Early Seventeenth-Century France;" 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 "superstitious" and "magical" writing practices; devotional self-inscription and stigmata, branding the criminal body, and tattooing by Jerusalem pilgrims and native American peoples). 2005 President and Conference Organizer, SE17 Annual Conference. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DENNIS-BAY, LAURA (Cumberland C.). Contrib. ed., French 17.

DUCHENE, ROGER (U. de Provence). See WEB17. [174, rue Abbé de l'Epée, 13005 Marseille, email: <rd.web17@free.fr>.

DUTTON, DIANE (Queen's U., Canada). In progress: (1) Bk., Plaidoirie, predication et theater. (2) Crit. ed. of a selection of lawyer's pleadings of the Ancien Régime for famous cases. (3) Crit. ed. of a selection of sermons of the Ancien Régime. (4) Essay on the famous court cases of the Université de Paris against the Jesuits (16th & 17th centuries), together with a crit. ed. and collection of pleading of all parties in all the law suits.

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 treated 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 and EMF Critiques. Publ. by Rookwood Press (see Rubin, David). Editors: Anne L. Birberick (Northern Illinois) and Russell J. Ganim (Nebraska–Lincoln). Website: http://www.unl.edu/EMF

FRENCH 17: AN ANNUAL DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FRENCH 17TH CENTURY STUDIES. Editor: Suzanne Toczyski. Team effort, begun in 1952, analyzes bks., arts., and occasional websites, covering the broad range of France culture of the period. In order to be as complete as possible, the Editor warmly encourages scholars to provide her or any Contributing Editor with reprints of arts., or information about their published research. Send these to: <suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu>

GANIM, RUSSELL J. (Nebraska–Lincoln). Co-Organizer, NASSCFL Annual Conference 2007. <rganim@unlnotes.unl.edu>

GETHNER, PERRY J. (Oklahoma State). Recent: Crit. ed. of Rotrou's La Pèlerine amoureuse in Volume 7 of the Théâtre complet (STFM). "Le Statut des personnages mineurs dans les livrets de Quinault" in Littératures classiques. "Les Pièces nouvelles de Graffigny: de la comédie sentimentale au drame" in Françoise de Graffigny, femme de letters, écriture et reception, ed. Jonathan Mallinson (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). "Telling Apart the Works of Male and Female Playwrights" in Women in French Studies. "Love and Friendship: From Tirso to Desjardins" in PFSCL. In progress: editions of Rotrou's L'Heureux naufrage, Mairet's Chryséide et Arimand, Voltaire's Irène, Françoise Pascal's L'Amoureuse vaine et ridicule, Sainctonge's Griselde, and collaboration on a new edition of French women playwrights pre-1800 (coedited with Henriette Goldwyn and Aurore Evain).

HARRISON, HELEN (Morgan State U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HEADRICK, ASHLEE S. (North Carolina-Chapel Hill). Dissertation: Images of Women Mentoring Women in French Literature 1650–1750. Considers works of fiction and theatre by Madeleine de Scudéry, Marivaux, and Françoise de Graffigny through the lens of women mentoring other women. Relationships between friends as well as between mothers and daughters are considered. The literary discussions - a chapter devoted to each of six works - are preceded by a detailed chapter providing historical background of women's lives in Ancien Régime France and a chapter framing the word mentoring in its origins in Homer's Odyssey and in its contemporary uses.