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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.