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AGAPIOU, NATALIA. Endymion au carrefour: La fortune littéraire et artistique du mythe d'Endymion à l'aube de l'ère moderne, Ikonographische Repertorien zur Rezeption des antiken Mythos in Europa 4. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2005.

Review: P. Hunt in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 983–85: Highly recommended as "an insightful new study by a gifted linguist and sensitive literary imagist" who is also praised for her "sleuthing" efforts through an extensive corpus, both artistic and literary (984). A useful guide for future studies. seventeenth-century specialists will appreciate the inclusion of Poussin and Galileo. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

AMATUZZI, ANTONELLA & PAOLA CIFARELLI, presentazione di LIONELLO SOZZI, eds. Favola, mito ed altri saggi di letteratura e filologia in onore di Gianni Mombello. Franco-Italica, 23–24, 2003.

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 171–172: This volume of the journal, in honor of Mombello, contains some thirty essays, organized in three sections: "Entre fable et mythe," "l'Art d'écrire au Moyen Age et au XVIe siècle" and "Portraits réels et imaginaires" (171). Seventeenth-century scholars will find at least eleven of the essays of significant interest including Cecilia Rizza's "Entre mythe et fable. Petite histoire des deux mots au XVIIe siècle" (111–123). Rich and varied, the volume includes linguistic, narrative, poetic, biographical and cultural studies.

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Ecriture de la violence dans les histoires comiques." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 565–571.

"La violence définit pour une grande part l'épistémè baroque dans les histoires comiques. Elle illustre de façon catégorique le schème disséminatoire, montrant qu'alors même qu'elle est douce et charmante, l'existence est fragmentaire, contradictoire, absurde, odieuse même. Faite de mots sur le papier, la violence dans les histoires comiques n'en prétend pas moins à une réalité que n'hésite pas à condamner le texte lors même qu'il la conforte."

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Francion: écriture moderne, écriture baroque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 81–107.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. L'auteur se propose d'examiner le Francion, la structure et l'imaginaire du récit, et "constate une 'dynamique disséminatoire' qui synthétise les contraires et qui détermine la polysémie du texte."

BALLARD, MICHEL. De Cicéron à Benjamin: traducteurs, traductions, réflexions. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 2007.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 695 (2007), 35–36: "Au XVIIe siècle, on invente la traductologie, ainsi que l'expression 'belles infidèles' (qu'on doit à Gilles Ménage) qualifiant les traductions qui prennent toute leur liberté face à l'original pour se conformer au goût de la société qui les reçoit." On trouve cet essai "très utile par son approche chronologique et sa volonté de passer au crible tous les grands textes écrits sur la traduction. Il ne faut pas y chercher cependant d'apport théorique nouveau, ni de perspectives soutenues vers des horizons extra-européens."

BARBAFIERI, CARINE. Astrée et Céladon. La galanterie dans le théâtre tragique de la France classique (1634–1702), Rennes: PUR, 2006.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 151 (2007), 434–435: Barbafieri's very interesting and suggestive study is organized in three parts, the first focusing on "la constitution d'un mythe critique," the second analyzing "la tentation galante" —in particular "les charmes de la douceur," the third treating "le dilemme de la tragédie" as it examines in confrontation "l'idéale galante" and "l'idéale tragique" (434). Barbafieri analyzes both critical and dramatic texts as well as identifies a tragic model which is "adeguatamente definito e precisato" (435). Rich bibliography.

BEASLEY, FAITH E. Mastering Memory: Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France. Aldershot, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: S. O'Hara in SCN (2007), 19–22: "In this thought-provoking study, noted feminist critic Faith Beasley argues that literary history has misread and suppressed the major role women writers and thinkers played in seventeenth-century French salon culture. Indeed, this willful misreading and suppression became the foundation upon which to build the officially accepted view of French literary history — and consequently, French cultural identity."

BELIN, CHRISTIAN. "Enquête sur le plaisir spirituel au XVIIe siècle." TL 21 (2008), 131–145.

Wide-ranging investigation convincingly demonstrates the very real and extensive quality of spiritual pleasure. From Pascal who had used Tertullian's formula in one of his letters to Charlotte de Roannez, "on ne quitte les plaisirs [de ce monde] que pour d'autres plus grands" (132) to others who like le P. Le Moyne noted the dangers of excessive severity as well as the "dimension ludique ou divertissante" of devotion (139), Belin traces both in conceptualization and practice the essential nature of "plaisir" and underscores its Augustinian quality ("grâce" is described "sous les traits d'une 'delectatis victrix,'" for example, and "l'amour de Dieu se communique [in Augustinian theology] sous la forme d'un plaisir inédit et inouï" (144).

BERCHTOLD, JACQUES & MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD, éds. La Mémoire des guerres de religion. La concurrence des genres historiques (XVI–XVIIIe siècles). Genève: Droz, 2007.

Review: E. Herdman in MLR 103.2 (2008), 533–34: "The fifteen articles in this volume explore the historiographical genres employed to evoke the wars between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; a further volume studying the nineteenth century is envisaged. Marie-Madeleine Fragonard's excellent methodological introduction raises historiographical questions such as the blurring of traditionally literary and historical genres, the quest for authenticity and the position of the historian, and the challenges to historiography in different historical contexts. The chronologically arranged articles combine explorations of individual genres and specific case studies: contextual readings are often employed and elisions with each historian's contemporary political concerns frequently emerge."

Review: A. Mellet in BHR 69.3 (2007), 828–31: "Cet ouvrage réunit les actes du premier colloque de l'équipe Formes et idées de la Renaissance aux Lumières (Université de Paris III). Il est constitué de quinze articles consacrés à la représentation des guerres de religion françaises dans différents genres littéraires entre 1560 et 1780. Comme l'indique M.-M. Fragonard dans un beau texte introductif, trois problématiques majeures se croisent dans ces études: celle de la nature de l'actualisation d'un passé conflictuel, celle de la constitution d'une méthode historique et de l'utilisation de textes anciens, enfin celle de la circulation des références au passé à travers plusieurs genres historiographiques."

Review: N. Salliot in DSS 238 (2008), 178–180: "Les quinze contributions et leur présentation (par M.-M. Fragonard) s'attachent à l'écriture de l'histoire des guerres de Religion du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Classées par ordre chronologique, elles posent le problème de la relation mémorielle à un passé plus ou moins proche, traumatisant, parfois occulté, délicat à appréhender et toujours soumis au risque d'une vision partiale ou parcellaire, mais dont le souvenir, retravaillé par les formes qui le diffusent, demeure essentiel pour la réflexion politique et religieuse, et ce jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle."

BERREGARD, SANDRINE. "La Comédie en France dans les années 1630: des auteurs en quête de légitimité." S Fr 151 (2007), 107–116.

Berregard closely examines paratexts or "péritextes" of authors, focusing not only on contributions to theory but also on tensions between theory and practice. The heterogeneity of these texts is made evident here as is the desire on the part of authors to rehabilitate a devalorized genre and demonstrate its independence. The corpus considered here includes texts by Pierre Corneille, Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Mairet and Rotrou but Berregard makes reference as well to late 1sixteenth-century texts such as those of Nicot and Laudun d'Aigaliers. Precepts dictated "par les Anciens" are not blindly applied and authors wish to establish comedy as a respectable genre. Views on rules may vary but all concede that the supreme rule is that of pleasing the public. Berregard demonstrates that the theory found in these "péritextes" does not always reflect the reality of the plays themselves (Corneille's use of Matamore in l'Illusion comique despite his claim in l'examen of Mélite to renounce the characters of the commedia dell'arte). Even at the end of the century the tensions and diversity remain apparent; Furetière's dictionary defines the genre generally by its form, its agreeable events represented and characters "de médiocre consition," but also includes the link to the farce or to the facétie.

BIET, CHRISTIAN & CHRISTOPHE TRIAU, avec postf.Emmanuel Wallon. Qu'est-ce que le théâtre? Paris: Gallimard, 2006.

Review: BCLF 684 (2007), 51–52: ". . .dans une étude extrêmement intéressante de L'Illusion comique de Corneille, les auteurs montrent comment le dramaturge lui-même prenait acte de l'illusion née de la perspective et jouait 'des points de vue multiples' qui en naissaient. 'Point de vue' est ici un terme essentiel. Christian Biet et Christophe Triau ont en effet choisi d'étudier le théâtre sous un angle bien particulier: celui de la réception."

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT & HELENE VISENTIN. L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir: mises en scène de la souveraineté au XVIIe siècle. Brindisi: Schena, 2005.

Review: H. Phillips in FS 61.4 (2007), 511–12. The review of this collection of essays is mixed. While some of the authors (Biet, Lyons, Louvat-Molozay) live up to the promise of the title, others fail completely. The best essays recognize that the real discussion is not vraisemblable vs. invraisemblable, but the intersection of language and power.

BODE, CHRISTOPH. Der Roman. Eine Einführung. Tübingen: Francke, 2005.

Review: M. Löschnigg in Archiv 244 (2007), 340–341: Bode's investigation does not present the novel in its totality but rather focuses on theoretical aspects of the genre and narrative categories. Includes discussion of differences between "histoire" and "discours" and wide-ranging examples from European and American literature. Reviewer appreciates Bode's work here and his earlier (2001) study of the lyric and hopes that he will do a similar work on drama.

BONTEA, ADRIANA. "George Dandin ou les Plaisirs du désenchantement." CdDS 11.2 (2007), 1–26.

This article studies spectacles in the seventeenth century as meaningful intrinsic parts of the plays. The author looks at the description of place, décor, architecture, music, and dance, and the festivities of the Fête de Versailles on July 18, 1668. She then turns to George Dandin as the pinnacle of these festivities. Art rivaled with nature and became the object of historical knowledge.

BOURGEOIS, CHRISTOPHE. "Figures du sens: pour une poésie et spiritualité." TL 21 (2008), 81–95.

Compelling interrogation of the spiritual dimension of "l'art poétique" explores the rapport between "le sens figuré" of poets and "le sens spirituel" of interpreters of the bible. Examples drawn from poets from 1550–1630 (Hopil, Favre, La Ceppède, among others) illustrate Bourgeois' examination of poetic exegesis ("corps et esprit, lettre et esprit") while pertinent references to Church Fathers and theologians (Origen, Aquinas, and notably St. Augustine) guide his investigation into "Théologies de la figure: res, verba, signa (89)."

BOURGEOIS, CHRISTOPHE. Théologies poétiques de l'âge baroque: La Muse chrétienne (1570–1630). Lumière classique 69. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: D. Clifford in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1350–52: Judged "a book for scholars written by a scholar," Bourgeois' 852-page tome, originally a thesis, is highly informative and thorough as it examines "poetic theologies," and demonstrates and analyzes "the interpenetration of the poetic and the theological." Reexamines "the coming together of interior asceticism and spectacular language as it reconsiders the very meaning of "baroque" and the multiple expressions of "la muse chrétienne": "sermon, poem, personal meditation, dogmatic discourse, sacred hermeneutics and moral exhortation" (1351–52).

Review: L. Marsh in SCN (2007), 239–242: "Bourgeois has set an enormous agenda in a volume that is more important as a resource for French devotional poetry of the period than as a work that answers convincingly the question of how the baroque aesthetic is expressed in that literature, if indeed it is."

Review: V. Kapp, PFSCL XXXV (69), 755–760. "[Ce livre] explore un domaine peu connu avec une érudition admirable and une grande sensibilité littéraire dont la finesse de ses analyses témoigne abondamment."

BOURQUI, CLAUDE. "La fable du fabuliste: Ésope, du Grand Cyrus à La Fontaine." TL 20 (2007), 303–319.

This contribution to TL's section "Du choix d'un genre: A la Reconnaissance de l'écrivain," provides a close analysis of Ésope as a "personnage" who has, in Le Grand Cyrus, not only a decisive role in the intrigue but also an elaborate development as character. Ésope along with other authors such as Sapho, Anacréon, etc. are shown to incarnate "les valeurs scudériennes dans le domaine de la création littéraire" (305). Further affinities are noted between Ésope and Sarasin, especially for example in "dialogues de raillerie" (311). Bourqui also tackles the thorny point concerning La Fontaine's choice of Planude's "Vie" as he responds to the question: "Pourquoi ne pas se fonder sur des sources plus crédibles, que procuraient les progrès de la philologie et de la science historique?" (317).

BRAY, BERNARD. Epistoliers de l'âge classique. L'art de la correspondance chez Mme de Sévigné et quelques prédécesseurs, contemporains et héritiers. Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007.

Review: C. Lignereux in DSS 238 (2008), 180–181: "En choisissant de rassembler une quarantaine d'articles parus entre 1959 et 2003, Bernard Bray facilite grandement l'accès à des travaux qui, pour les plus anciens, furent pionniers, à une époque où l'épistolaire — son histoire, sa théorie, sa génétique — était loin de constituer un objet d'étude autonome."

BREDNICH, ROLF WILHELM et al. Enzyklopädie des Märchens. Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung. Vol. 11. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003–2004.

Review: A. Gier in Archiv 244 (2007), 150–155: Welcome continuation of this major project, volume eleven includes articles on types of narratives, various narrative traditions of particular countries, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Gier's review includes comments on numerous entries. seventeenth-century scholars will appreciate in particular the section on discourses or récits de voyage.

BRUNEL, MAGALI. "L'évolution de la pratique des stances théâtrales: un chemin de traverse du baroque vers le classicisme." OeC 32.2 (2007), 121–34.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. "Nous nous appuierons. . . sur la production cornélienne, particulièrement représentative de cette pratique, puisque Corneille reste de loin le dramaturge qui a le plus inséré de stances, et ce, dans tous les genres théâtraux. Pous envisager l'évolution de leur intégration, nous proposons d'élargir notre corpus aux quatre seuls textes qui utilisent celles-ci après 1660, c'est-à-dire d'une part deux pièces de Corneille, La Toison d'Or et Psyché, et d'autre part, la première tragédie racinienne, La Thébaïde ou les frères ennemis, ainsi qu'une comédie de Montfleury, La femme juge et partie."

CAMPBELL, JULIE D. Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe: A Cross-Cultural Approach. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: P. Phillippy in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 633–34: Valuable for several disciplines, especially for gender and cross-cultural studies as well as intertextual criticism, Campbell's work explores "the relationships between literary circles in early modern Italy, France, and England, and texts by the men and women who frequented them" (633). Treating the early modern querelle des femmes as both a literary and social phenomenon, she "reenergizes this familiar touchstone" (633). French scholars will be interested in her exploration of Claude-Catherine du Cleremont, Duchesse de Retz and the testimony of her contemporaries as to her writing.

CERRETINI, ANNE-MARIE &VERONIQUE ZAERCHER,sous la dir. de. Dialogue et Intertextualité, Europe XVI–XVII. Sarreguemines: U de Nancy II, 2005.

Review: E. Kushner in BHR 70.2 (2008), 490–93: 《  Pourquoi associer dialogue et intertextualité? D'emblée on songe à l'extraordinaire essor du genre dialogique au XVIe siècle et à ses modèles platoniciens, cicéroniens, lucianiques. . .. Le rapport des textes nouveaux à ces modèles anciens est caractérisé par la double volonté de les imiter mais aussi de se distancier par rapport à eux. Il en résulte une tension créatrice qui à elle seule suffirait largement à justifier un travail soutenu d'observation du comportement intertextuel et dialogique.  》 Voir l'article de Claire Cazanave qui 《  montre comment, le dialogue ayant perdu sa popularité au début du XVIIe siècle, Pellisson remet à l'honneur les dialogues de Sarrasin, mais pour leur utilité mondaine plutôt que philosophique.  》

CHARTIER, ROGER. Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century. Trans. ByArthur Goldhammer. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 2007.

Review: A. Lloret in MLN 122.4 (2007), 928–32: "Inscription and Erasure dispute the long-standing division between the interpretation of texts and the description of the material supports and social-historical environments in which texts appeared and circulated. Throughout the eight chapters that constitute this book—some of them had already been published—Chartier examines from a middle-ground between a socio-historical study of graphic culture and the hermeneutics of the poetical text 'the manifold relationship between inscription and erasure between the durable record and the ephemeral text, by studying the way in which writing was made literature by certain works belonging to various genres and composed in various times and places' (vi)." Chapter 5 treats Cyrano de Bergerac's States and Empires of the Moon (1657) and States and Empires of the Sun (1662).

CHOISY, FRANÇOIS-TIMOLÉON DE et al. The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. Trans.Steven Rendall.Intro.Joan DeJean. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004.

Review: Caroline Jumel in Marvels & Tales 21.1 (2007), 160–62. Jumel praises this edition as useful to students of French literature, gender studies and fairy tale studies. Jumel takes some issue with the translation in spots, but finds DeJean's introduction strong, and the tale's treatment of cross-dressing and "so-called unconventional marriages" still relevant today. Also notes that this is the first edition to address the question of the tale's authorship and genealogy by attributing it to three separate authors: de Choisy, L'Héritier and Perrault.

CHOMETY, PHILIPPE. 《 Philosopher en langage des dieux. 》 La Poésie d'idées en France au siècle de Louis XIV. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.

Review: W. Gershuny in SCN (2007), 250–252: In looking at didactic and scientific poetry, the author successfully broaches a scarcely studied topic. "Examining the works of poets ranging from the great to the forgotten, from La Fontaine to Magnon, Chevalier, and Vion Dalibray, Chométy displays both vast erudition and scrupulous methodological rigor in calling attention to a rich and fascinating literary corpus, the understanding of which is revealed in the multiple tensions and paradoxes embodied therein."

CHRISTOUT, MARIE-FRANÇOIS. Le ballet de cour de Louis XIV. 1643–1672. Mises en scène Paris: Picard, 2005. "La vie musicale en France sous les rois Bourbons", n. 34.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 151 (2007), 173: Useful analysis of the ballet de cour from a period in which the précieux and the fantastic were prevalent to the triumph of ostentation in the ballet of 1660–1672. Theory (Michel de Pure, C.-F. Ménestrier, d'Aubignac) and diverse components of the ballet (music, dance, costume, mise en scène) are investigated in Christout's study which includes interesting annexes, a rich bibliography and illustrations.

CIVARDI, JEAN-MARC. "Du secret tragique au silence harpocratique: Polymestor et Sigalion." DSS 238 (2008), 19–26.

Described by Anne Piéjus as "une réflexion liminaire sur l'allégorie jésuite et sur les origines de ce Sigalion," Civardi provides crucial background for a selection of related articles while allowing us to understand "comment, selon les voeux de l'auteur de la tragédie, la figure du secret reliait indirectement le ballet à l'épisode tragique de Polymestor sacrifiant son fils Déiphile[.]"

CIVARDI, JEAN-MARC. La Querelle du Cid (1637–1638). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.

Review: M. Bombart in DSS 240 (2008), 562–563: A particularly strong study "qui rassemble le corpus des pièces polémiques publiées autour du Cid et en propose une étude d'ensemble. La première partie du livre, après un état de la question et un bilan critique des travaux consacrés à la Querelle, constitue une étude générale de la polémique en trois temps." The first presents all the relevant context, the second, "une série d'études transversales isolant les 《 enjeux 》 de la Querelle," and the third, a modern analysis of its critical consequences over time.

CONESA, GABRIEL & VERONIQUE STERNBERG, eds. Le salon et la scène: comédie et mondanité au XVIIe siècle. Littératures classiques, no. 58 (printemps 2006).

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 436–437: These essays are the fruit of the Colloque de Valenciennes, May 15–16, 2002, organized by the Centre d'Analyse du Message Littéraire et Artistique de l'Université de Valenciennes and le Centre de Recherches sur la Transmission des Modèles Littéraires et Esthétiques de l'Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne. The volume is organized in the following sections: "Le salon à l'épreuve de la scène", "La scène à l'école des salons?" "Oui, toujours des marquis"; les mondains ou l'invention des types modernes" and "Jeux et enjeux de la représentation comique." Musio's review offers concise remarks on each contribution.

CONROY, DERVAL. "Des noeuds que l'amour ne rompt point'? Sisters and Friendship in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy and Tragi-comedy." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 603–624.

"Leaving the more common representation of sisters as jealous rivals aside — the 'simplified, conventionalised' representations of female relationships which Woolf bemoaned — the aim of this article is to examine a number of other models of sisterhood and of female friendship with which the dramatists provide us, and hence to analyse how [blood] sisterhood is configured [in early modern tragedy and tragi-comedy]." Focus is on four plays which feature sisters: Thomas Corneille's Ariane (1672), Rotrou's Antigone (1639), Du Ryer's Berenice (1645) and Boyer's La Sœur généreuse (1647).

CONSTANT, JEAN-MARIE. La folle liberté des baroques (1600–1661). Paris: Perrin, 2007.

Review: A. Roullet in DSS 239 (2008), 370: In looking at the first half of the century, the author asserts that the political history "se confond avec l'histoire culturelle, en faisant le choix de lier dès qu'il le peut aux grandes oeuvres littéraires ou artistiques le déroulement des événements marquants de l'époque baroque."

COROPCEANU, LILIA. "Faber suae fortunae: Subject's Self-Constitution in French Novelistic Narrative (Lafayette, Marivaux, Stendhal)." DAI 68/08 (2008),

Starting point is Michel Foucault's definition of ethics in order to study the shifts regarding modes of subjectivation that occur between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. The chapter on Lafayette examines the paradoxical self that emerges in the novel as "the result of a unique process of self-creation, based on a code of values that are radically different from the ones accepted in the courtly milieu."

COUTON, MARIE, ISABELLE FRENANDES, CHRISTIAN JEREMIE, & MONIQUE VENAUT, éds. Emprunt, plagiat, réécriture aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Actes des journées d'étude organisées par le Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Réforme et le Contre-Réforme les 15 novembre 2003, 12 juin 2004, 5 et 6 novembre 2004. Clermont-Ferrand: PU Blaise Pascal, 2006.

Review: C. Skenazi in BHR 69.3 (2007), 776–78: "Sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité, un projet de ce type entend avant tout stimuler le dialogue entre spécialistes de la période abordée. On regrettera à cet effet l'absence de toute réflexion théorique sur des phénomènes qui ont pourtant suscité de nombreux travaux critiques. A l'absence de toute discussion sur le concept d'imitation et sur les façons dont les auteurs du XVe au XVIIe siècles envisageaient les procédés rhétoriques qui lui sont apparentés, s'ajoute le manque de précision: des termes tels qu''emprunt' et 'réécriture' qui se trouvent au centre de tous les articles rassemblés dans ce volume, ne font l'objet ni de définitions ni d'analyses dans une perspective historique."

DALLA VALLE, DANIELA & MONICA PAVESIO, eds. Due storie inglesi, due miti europei: Maria Stuarda e il conte di Essex sulle scene teatrali. Atti del Convegno di studi comparati, Università degli Studi di Torino, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, 19–20 maggio 2005. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2007.

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 153 (2007), 646–647: These proceedings focus on the myth of two historical persons, the count of Essex and Marie Stuart, as well as on analogies and the circulation of European theatre. The volume is wide-ranging, the time period stretching from the first tragedies relating to the two myths and concluding with 20th c. texts and the literature examined coming from diverse countries (England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Russia). Musio's review focuses on the essays dealing with French authors and their plays (Antoine de Montchrestien, Charles Regnauld, Thomas Corneille and Claude Boyer.

DARMON, JEAN-CHARLES and GEORGES MOLINIÉ, eds. Libertinage et politique au temps de la monarchie absolue. Littératures classiques 55 (été 2005).

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 596: This number of LC explores connections between "libertinage" and "politique" and is arranged in sections as follows: "Thématiques et enjeux spécifiques de la critique libertine: entre conformisme apparent et subversion radicale," and "Modalités et effets de l'art d'écrire libertin: d'un genre à l'autre, d'un siècle à l'autre." Also includes introductions by Darmon and Molinié and an Annexe with a text of Gassendi.

DAUVOIS, NATHALIE & JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSPEVRIN. Songes et songeurs (XIIIe–XVIIIe siècle). Saint-Nicolas, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université de Laval, 2003.

Review: P.J. Carvalho Da Silva in DSS 239 (2008), 363–364: The culmination of a seminar at Toulouse from 1998 to 2000 on 《 Idées, thèmes et formes, 1550–1789 》. "Le but commun [...] est de montrer la richesse et la complexité des conceptions tout ensemble esthétiques, morales, politiques, philosophiques qui se dégagent de l'analyse des formes poétiques du songe du Moyen Âge aux Lumières." This volume is deemed a little too short to cover such a large period.

DE CAPITANI, PATRIZIA. Du spectaculaire à l'intime. Un siècle de commedia erudita en Italie et en France (début du XVIe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle). Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: M. Kramer in BHR 68.3, 634–36: Voir les trois parties du volume qui "s'occupent des trois facettes de la commedia erudita: comédie romanesque, comédie d'intrigue, comédie sérieuse et sentimentale, avec des juxtapositions de textes français et italiens. . . Ici, on trouve à la fois une véritable mine d'information concrète, factuelle, concernant la création de certaines comédies françaises de Bourgeois, La Taille, Larivey, Rotrou et d'autres auteurs français, et une analyse attentive de tous les aspects possibles des ouvrages examinés."

DERAMAIX, MARC & GINETTE VAGENHEIM, eds. L'Italie et la France dans l'Europe latine du XIVe au XVIIe siècle: Influence, émulation, traduction. Rouen: U de Rouen, 2006.

Review: D. Gilman in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1434–35: Despite reservations concerning thematic focus and some features of its critical apparatus, Gilman finds that the volume's essays "draw important attention to neglected texts and propose exciting possibilities for research in the défense of Latin and Neo-Latin texts and the illustration of their Renaissance representations" (1435). Included are treatments of Nicolas Caussin's homilies (Sophie Conte) and of Gabriel Naudé and libertinage (Laurence Boulègue).

DICKSON, JESSE. "L'après-midi théâtral sous Louis XIV: effacement et retour du corps." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 625–642.

Analyzes the representation of the corporeal, in the double-billing of tragedy and farce, "[qui] mettait en scène la relation pour ainsi dire schizophrène qu'a le théâtre classique avec le corps."

XVIIe siècle (226) January 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 388: Wide-ranging, this issue includes analyses of two "journées d'études" ("Chasse et foret au XVIIe siècle," Château de Compiègne, April 26, 2003 and another at the département de philosophie de l'U de Nancy 2 in 2003) and focuses on romance, poetry and philosophy. A study in the varia section analyzes an aspect of superstition and magic in the late seventeenth-century

XVIIe siècle (227) May 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 388: Issue includes analyses of theatre (including one on Molière as personnage-seventeenth-century through 20th c.), culture oratoire, Télémaque, epistolary discoveries, Louis XIV's power, Retz and P. de la Chaise.

XVIIe siècle (228) June 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 388: After a "ricordo" of Wolfgang Leiner, this number includes articles on the actuality of the "classics," dialogue as a genre, the Pensées, the "champ de bataille des belles lettres," as well as several historical analyses.

XVIIe siècle (229) October 2005.

Review: D. Dalle Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 388: Includes the proceedings of the "Journée d'étude" dedicated to the study of "Réalités et représentation des batailles dans les guerres du sud-est de l'Europe au XVIIe siècle" held at Vincennes on February 18, 2005 as well as analyses focusing on theatre, politics and philosophy.

DUGGAN, ANNE E. Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 2005.

Review: L. C. Seifert in E Cr 47 (2007), 107–108: Judged "a major contribution to work on seventeenth-century French women writers, the salon, the novel, and fairy tales" Duggan's work analyzes "how early modern writers interpreted and reacted to historical change" (108). The choice of focus (Scudéry in chapters 2 and 3 and d'Aulnoy in chapters 5 and 6) permits considerable discovery of contrasting socio- political perspectives. Another chapter examines the seeming anatagonism between Boileau and Perrault regarding their delegitimzation of 'mondain' women, concluding that, "contrary to many recent critics there is a fundamental agreement between the two antagonists." Although Seifert is not totally convinced, he believes that Duggan's discussion of oppositions between Perrault and d'Aulnoy is "a productive starting point for future exploration" (107).

DUMORA, FLORENCE. L'Oeuvre nocturne. Songe et représentation au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 597: Focus is on French culture although the expressed intent is to demonstrate tensions between two maxims: a European one, "la vita è sogno" and a French [Cartesian] one "penso, dunque sono." The volume is organized in two sections: 1) "Discours sur le songe. Le sens, l'expérience, l'image" and 2) "Récits de songes." Texts of authors examined are highly diverse, from those of Sorel to Bossuet among some six others. Copious notes and a rich bibliography.

Review: E. Keller-Rahbé in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 967–968. So far the most stimulating and the most coherent study dealing with the dream motif in the seventeenth century, according to the reviewer. Dumora shows that dreams were present throughout the century while her inquiry adopts a variety of perspectives (stylistic, topical, etc). The structure is twofold: "discours sur le songe" and the "récit de songes," both of which are equally dense and complex. The "dream" motif has been seized in its multiple appearances, as "songe-fable, songe éveillé, songe de vocation ou de conversion, songe-anamorphose, songe amoureux, songe-éloge funèbre, songe parnassien. . .."

EICHEL-LOJKINE, PATRICIA & CLAUDIE MARTIN-ULRICH, eds. De bonne vie s'ensuit bonne mort: Récits de mort, récits de vie en Europe (XVe–XVIIe siècle). Colloques, congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne, 53. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: B. Renner in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1431–32: Organized in three sections: "Narration, argumentation et organisation de la matière historique," "La 'thanatographie,' récit et interprétation de la mort," and "Présence de la mort dans l'autobiographie," the volume brings together successfully 18 essays reflecting a remarkable interdisciplinarity and focuses on the "dialogical relationship" (9) between life and death. Funeral orations, verse epistles, popular biographies of Protestant ministers (by Julien Goeury), press reports, autobiographical texts as exemplums, as well as other genres are skillfully examined in this diverse and rich collection.

FERRAND, NATAHLIE, ed. Locus in fabula—La topique de l'espace dans les fictions française d'Ancien Régime. Éditions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, 2004.

Review: Frédéric Briot in RSH 282.4 (2006), 201–202: Actes of the XVe colloque de la Société Internationale de la Topique Romanesque, held in Paris in 2001, consisting of 44 conference papers on seven major themes: ouvertures; des lieux et des genres; dépaysements (espaces d'Europe et d'ailleurs); mobilités (lieux de passage, lieux en mouvement); espaces naturels, espaces urbains, espaces d'artifice; quand les lieux parlent; sociologie et techniques. Rich collection with multiple responses and original contributions to the questions posed for the period of the Ancien Régime.

FERRER, VERONIQUE & ANNE MANTERO, eds., introduction byMICHEL JEANNERET. Les Paraphrases bibliques aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, 《 Actes du Colloque de Bordeaux des 22, 23 et 24 septembre 2004 》. Geneva: Droz (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, no. CDXV), 2006.

Review: P. Baillargeon in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 945–46: Praiseworthy for its coherence and its important contribution to the field of the history of the book as well as to the understanding and expression of the genre [see in particular, Jean-Michel de Noailly's presentation of the Bibliographie des psaumes imprimés en vers français, which includes over 3000 editions and nearly 1700 Psalters published between 1525 and 1900]. Arranged in four sections, the essays focus on 1) paraphrase and biblical exegesis, 2) various forms of paraphrase (poetry, prose, tragedy), 3) paraphrases of the Psalms, evolution of the genre and 4) the musical paraphrase (including both seventeenth-century Catholic ones as well as Protestant compositions). Should definitely encourage future studies. Index, illustrations, tables, bibliography.

Review: D. Cecchetti in S Fr 151 (2007), 432–433: Two of the greatest specialists of intertextuality regarding the Bible and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth century present these essays of rich and varied perspectives (religious and literary, historical, musical, etc.), treating several genres (translations, exegesis, sermons, poetry) and techniques. This collection "di straordinara ricchezza e profondità" is indispensable for its contribution to numerous and important aspects of the culture of the early modern and is organized in the following sections: "Paraphrase et exégèse", "Paraphrase et littérature", "La paraphrase de psaume", "Paraphrase et musique"(432).

FERREYROLLES, GERARD, ed. La Polémique au XVIIe siècle. Littératures classiques, no. 59 (été 2006).

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 433–434: Focused on a key theme for the study of the seventeenth-century, this issue of LC is organized in three sections: "Les formes de la polémique", "Les normes de la polémique", and "Les champs de la polémique". Ferreyrolles also furnishes, as introduction, an essay defining polemic discourse and delineating its principal functions and characteristics; he also supplies "un'ultissima bibliografia" (434).

Review: C. Barbafieri, PFSCL XXXV (69), 762–766: "Un recueil d'articles de grande qualité' which proposes 'une réflexion véritablement stimulante."

FORD, PHILIP & PAUL WHITE, eds. Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France. Proceedings of the Eighth French Renaissance Colloquium 5–7 July 2003. Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 2006.

Review: A. Klosowska in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 573–74: Praised for both its erudition and elegant writing, this edited collection demonstrates that "'the ambient [normative, heterosexual] masculinity' against which these different gender performances emerge, is often a matter of nostalgia (among others, for the chivalric knight)" (573). Focus is on authors who, for political, pedagogical or hermeneutical goals, "create or manipulate masculinity for a reason specific to their text" (573). Although as the title indicates, the study concentrates on the 16th c., studies do address some key seventeenth-century authors and figures: Cyrano, Théophile, and Tristan.

FURNO, MARTINE, ed. La collection Ad usum Delphini, vol. II. Grenoble: ELLUG, Université Stendhal, 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 598–599: This second and last volume (the first was edited by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger in 2000) is welcome as it treats some 39 authors in notices, which include biographical material as well as analyses. Praiseworthy for the "interessante prospettiva" it opens on the early modern.

GAMBELLI, DELIA & LETIZIA NORCI CAGIONO, eds. Le Théâtre en musique et son double (1600–1762). Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 81 (2008), 581–82: Assembles the proceedings of a conference in 2000 on Lully, opera parodies, and the French Academy of Music. The work includes treatment of the origins of opera in Italy, its arrival and development in France, and its gradual adaptation to a French public. Several papers which address parodies of opera and of Lully chart a means by which opera moved toward heightened naturalness and realism.

GARAPON, JEAN, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe Colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, Nantes, 18–20 mars, 2004. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 153 (2007), 647–648: These acts present the scholarship of twenty specialists and define a rich, multifaceted picture of war, not limited to literature, but including perspectives from all forms of the beaux arts. Presented in homage to Wolfgang Leiner, honorary president of CIR 17 (see Cecilia Rizza's "In memoriam"), the volume is organized in six sections as follows: "Guerres et sociétés," "Visions chrétiennes," "La guerre dans la fiction," "Guerre et existence," "La guerre et le théâtre musicale," "La glorification de la guerre."

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

Review: A. Teulade in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 663–665. This study's nature is typological: "elle dégage les éléments topiques des comédies dans lesquelles la question du double est centrale. Une première partie, introductive, est consacrée à l'évocation des structures linguistiques et littéraires du double, en distinguant le cas des jumeaux, doubles naturels et authentiques, de celui des sosies, doubles artificiels. Ces deux cas sont opposés à celui du double fonctionnel, personnage jouant le même rôle qu'un autre, mais ne présentant pas de similitude physique avec lui." The author provides us with ample examples: starting with Plato, she later turns to Shakespeare and discusses Molière, as well. A synthesis concludes this study.

GELY, VERONIQUE. L'Invention d'un mythe: Psyché. Allégorie et fiction du siècle de Platon au temps de La Fontaine. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: P. White in FS 62.1 (2008), 78–9. This dithyrambic review praises Gély for a readable, erudite and thorough survey of the figure of Psyché from the Greeks to La Fontaine. Gély is "a sharp reader," who provides lucid translations from Spanish, Latin, and Greek. Beyond being a systematic survey, this work contains an "extremely thought-provoking analysis" of a variety of texts. Gély's book is "essential reading" for "anyone interested in the 'invention' of myth."

GETHNER, PERRY. "Divine Right versus Divine Judgement in Two Early French Biblical Tragedies." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 469–476.

Examines the strategies by which Montchrestien's David (1601) and Du Ryer's Saül (1642) "managed to strike a sufficient balance between orthodoxy and subversion to have made them palatable to troupes and audiences."

GETHNER, PERRY. "The Endymion Myth in Early French Opera." CdDS 11.2 (2007), 71–82.

An in-depth analysis of the Endymion myth within the operatic genre during the second half of the seventeenth century in order to show why this story was so popular, the individual adaptations of the myth, and how these works contributed to the development of early French opera. Gethner also attaches himself to the question why, within the dramatic genres of pastoral and tragedy, all adaptations were part of the rubric of pastorales héroïques rather than tragedy. He argues that an idealized fantasy of love without the identification of class difference lent itself to happy court celebrations.

GHEERAERT, TONY, ed. Perrault, Fénelon, Mailly, Préchac, Choisy et anonymes. Contes merveilleux. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: A. Génetiot in DSS 238 (2008), 176–178: "Dans ce quatrième volume de la 《 Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées 》, Tony Gheeraert réunit uniquement des conteurs masculins qui écrivent pour les dames sur des thèmes galants, dans une sorte de 《 seconde préciosité 》.[...] Les conteurs masculins rassemblés ici explorent ainsi les caractéristiques et les frontières du genre dans des oeuvres-laboratoires, au carrefour d'esthétiques multiples qui témoignent des contradictions de la féerie 《 fin de siècle 》 entre jeu galant et pédagogie morale, panégyrique et pastiche, folklore populaire et exotisme."

Review: E. Keller-Rahbé in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 968–969. This is the fourth volume of the "Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées" and privileges anonymous and lesser-known storytellers. It is richly annotated and documented.

GIMARET, ANTOINETTE. "Poésie et militantisme: la poésie de la Passion et les élites au début du 17e siècle." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 185–197.

Gimaret analyzes and compares the religious poetry and politics of two members of the southern noblesse de robe, Gabrielle de Coignard in Toulouse and the magistrate Jean de la Ceppède from Aix-en-Provence. Both poets reject the pagan Muse in favor of establishing their identity as Christian poets, a move linked to the historical context of the Counter-Reformation, especially in the South of France. Their status as members of the noblesse de robe provided both with the education and spiritual formation necessary to their poetry, which they both saw in turn as participating in the larger sphere of the Counter Reformation. Gimaret concludes by discussing the potential conflicts between both poets' religious ideals and their civic duties.

GIORGI, GIORGETTI. "Les théoriciens italiens et les remarques de Corneille sur le roman et sur les différences entre le théâtre et le roman." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 73–83.

Examination of Corneille's remarks concerning the novel in his second Discours and examination of possible reasons (primarily his rhetorical education) as to why he preferred the dramatic medium.

GIORGI, GIORGETTO. Romanzo e poetiche del romanzo nel Seicento francese. Roma: Bulzoni, 2005.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 153 (2007), 650–651: This volume gathers a series of Giorgi's previously published studies, updates, and provides us with "un panorama esteso e dettagliato delle poetiche romanzesche del Seicento francese" (650). Wide-ranging, with perspectives and analyses relating to theory and practice, Giorgi reminds the reader of classical sources, Italian writers, French theorists such as Huet and Chapelain, as well as writers (who are often theorists as well) such as Sorel, Madeleine de Scudéry, Madame de Lafayette and Fénelon.

GIPPER, ANDREAS. Wundebare Wissenschaft. Literarische Strategien naturwissenschaftlicher Vulgarisierung in Frankreich. München: Wilhelm Fink, 2002.

Review: A. Keilhauer in Archiv 244 (2007), 222–224: Praiseworthy exploration of the vulgarization of scholarly knowledge in France in the early modern. Wide-ranging and well-documented examination fills an important lacuna. Seventeenth-century scholars will appreciate in particular sections on Cyrano, the vraisemblable, the bienséances, honnêteté, etc.

GOMEZ-GERAUD, MARIE-CHRISTINE. Le crépuscule du Grand Voyage. Les récits des pélerins à Jérusalem (1458–1612). Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: B. Méniel in RHLF 108.1 (2008), 207–209. Gomez-Geraud's study deals with 58 written accounts and 92 manuscripts that describe the spatial and spiritual dimensions of pilgrimage in the Renaissance. The author divides her book into four parts: part one focuses on the history of religion and the spiritual value attributed to pilgrimage. The second part examines the history of published editions during the sixteenth century up to 1610. The last two parts are more literary in nature. For they discuss topics, themes, and recurrent structures within those narratives, as well as the diverse nature of those books.

GORRIS, ROSANNA,dir. Les Montagnes de l'esprit. Imaginaire et histoire de la montagne à la Renaissance. Actes du Colloque International, Saint-Vincent, 22–23 november 2002. Aosta: Musumeci Editore, 2005.

Review: S. Arena in BHR 68.3 (2006), 620–22: Volume pluridisciplinaire en quatre parties: la première partie "est consacrée à la métaphore de la montée comme élévation intérieure, élan de l'âme vers Dieu et parcours personnel vers la connaissance et la purification"; la deuxième section est consacrée "à la représentation des montagnes dans les oeuvres artistiques et littéraires"; dans la troisième partie, "les montagnes de la Renaissance sont explorées sur la base des oeuvres des cosmographes et des progrès de la cartographie"; le volume "s'achève sur une quatrième partie de nature historique."

GOUJON, JEAN-PAUL. Anthologie de la poésie érotique. Paris: Fayard, 2004.

Review: M. Delon in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 632–633. The most monumental and original study so far devoted to erotic poetry in verse-form, but that also pays tribute to other forms (refrains, drinking songs, etc.). The sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century are identified as key periods that deserve our attention, for erotic poetry was flourishing. Preceding the anthology is a substantial essay, entitled: "Une histoire de la poésie érotique française." The reviewer points out that the author's choice of poems is predominantly masculine and deliberately misogynist and that not all readers will be inclined to share his point of view.

GOULET, ANNE-MADELEINE. Poésie, musique et sociabilité au XVIIè siècle. Les Livres d'airs de différents auteurs publiés chez Ballard de 1658–1694. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: L. Naudex in RHLF 108.2 (2008), 451–452. This study, an outgrowth of a dissertation, is divided into three excellent parts: a history of editions, a study on the rhetorical and poetical nature of the texts, as well as a historical, social, and literary analysis. "Le processus méthodologique est celui de l'enquête: animée par le scrupule et une exigence de précision scientifique, l'auteur multiplie les pièces à conviction avant de proposer des conclusions." Goulet provides us with "masses" of documentation. Her study is sometimes difficult to access; but overall, it is an indispensable study.

GOUPILLAUD, LUDIVINE. De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles Métamorphoses de l'épopée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIè siècle en France. Geneva: Droz, 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006) 389: Judged rich and fascinating, Goupillaud's welcome treatment of the epic includes sections on 1) "Les héritiers [of Virgil], 2) "Les fils prodigues," focusing on the French epic and 3) "Les affranchis" or the shipwreck of the epic [the epic in crisis].

Review: V. Schröder in MLR 103.2 (2008), 535–36: 《  What this book provides, then, is not a systematic account of seventeenth-century readings and rewritings of the Aeneid (Scarron's Virgile travesti, for example, although listed in the bibliography, is never discussed), but rather a rich and stimulating mosaic of case studies illustrating various ways in which the omnipresent Virgilian model informs French classical literature and culture."

Review: J.-C. Ternaux in IL 59.2 (2007), 57–59: The author looks at the importance of Virgil's Aeneid in the seventeenth century and its role for the intellectual and moral formation of the subject. She moreover studies generic transformations of the Aeneid, linking them to linguistic, historical, social, and political factors. Reviewer approves of this study, which offers a great synthesis and combines thorough research with convincing arguments.

GRAFTON, ANTHONY. What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge UP, 2007.

Review: M. L. Colish in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1293–95: Praiseworthy both for "illuminating the rise, development, and supersession of ars historica" and for calling for more breadth as well as nuance in our understanding of Renaissance humanism (1294–95). Time period covered is from 1550–1700. Grafton traces, explores, and illustrates "successive stages" of debates on reading history while offering helpful analyses of both well-known figures such as Jean Bodin (1530–96) and numerous lesser known ones which merit appreciation. Found "erudite and engagingly written" (1294). Illustrations and bibliography.

GREINER, FRANK. "La confrontation de l'histoire et du roman: Fancan, Sorel, Lenglet-Dufresnoy." DSS 239 (2008), 311–338.

Where seventeenth-century theatre was the battle ground for the great "querelles" of the day, Greiner suggests that the novel was not without controversy and he demonstrates that "le roman fut longtemps critiqué et évalué sur la base de sa controntation avec l'histoire," constituting a long standing "querelle" which he discusses with reference to Fancan, Sorel and Lenglet-Dufresnoy.

GRÉLÉ, DENIS D. "Relations économiques et rapports sociaux: établir une cohérence nationale au pays d'utopie." Neophil 91 (2007), 19–32.

Focusing on economy and politics, Grélé identifies and analyzes four archetypes at the base of many utopias of the Early Modern, in particular those of the seventeenth-century Grélé illustrates each archetype with an example: "société à esclaves" (Veiras), "société esclavagiste" (Fontenelle), "société républicaine" (Campanella) and "société monarchique" (Lesconvel).

GRIMM, JÜRGEN. Französische Klassik. Stuttgart, Weimer, Metzler, 2005.

Review: M. Chihaia, PFSCL XXXV (69), 766–768. '[Ouvrage] qui se situe au-delà de l'histoire de la littérature, dans une histoire des idées et des mœurs'. 'Une introduction stimulante qui propose aux étudiants assez de détails, de citations et de points de vue différents pour leur donner un accès privilégié à ce phénomène culturel unique qu'est le siècle 《  classique  》'.

GUILIANI, PIERRE. "Le sang classique entre histoire et littérature: hypothèses et propositions." DSS 239 (2008), 223–242.

"Au point de rencontre de la réalité historique — pour autant que celle-ci soit objectivement saisissable — et de la littérature, c'est à une représentation du sang que les classiques français nous introduisent, c'est-à-dire tout à la fois à une transformation et à une interprétation de ce que montrent la nature, les hommes et les événements."

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

Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 670–672. This study is divided into three parts: the first one deals with Guez de Balzac and looks at classicism under Louis XIII; the second one focuses on the relation between the sublime and the sacred, and the third one turns to Boileau and the era of Louis XIV. The author mentions a great number of artists and provides us with a very dense anthology. According to the reviewer there are, however, certain flaws despite the study's merit: "tous les écrivains mentionnés. . . sont mis dans le même sac et bénéficient tous d'un égal crédit. . . Certains, même, iront jusqu'à trouver répétitif à l'excès le recours aux trois registres d'écriture aristotéliciens."

HAQUETTE, JEAN-LOUIS & EMMANUELLE HENIN. La scène comme tableau. Poitiers: La Licorne, 2004.

Review: T. Karsenti in DSS 240 (2008), 563–565: A series of articles drawn from a colloquium at Paris VII dealing with "la profonde mutation qui, à partir du XVIe siècle, affecte progressivement le modèle scénographique européen avec la mise en place de la scène à l'italienne."

HERZEL, ROGER. "Theatre History and Seventeenth-Century France." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 3–16.

Very useful review of research carried out to date on C17 theatre history, the difficulties it has encountered as a discipline and the current trends being investigated.

HOWE, ALAIN. Écrivains de théâtre, 1600–1649. Documents du Minutier Central des notaires de Paris. Paris: Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2005.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 151 (2007), 172: This volume is a complement to Howe's 2000 Le Théâtre professionnel à Paris and gathers documents "grazie all'inventario realizzato da MADELAINE JURGENS, archivista che ha dedicato la propria vita all'archivio parigino" (172). The present volume focuses on acts relating to dramatists working in Paris from 1600–1649; Howe analyzes the acts and their larger meaning for the genre and for cultural history. Organized in two sections: "Notices et analyses" (173 acts such as marriage contracts, inventories of wealth, etc.) and "Documents transcrits" (the integral transcriptions of 24 particularly interesting documents). Includes introduction by Jean Mesnard, an analytical table, bibliography and index of names. Important for the educated public as well as for specialists.

ISSLER, ROLAND ALEXANDER. Metamorphosen des 'Raubs der Europa.' Der Mythos in der französischen Lyrik vom frühen 14. bis zum späten 19. Jahrhundert. Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 2006.

Review: F. Nies in RHLF 107.4 (959–960). Issler debunks Rémy Poignault's thesis: "l'histoire d'Europe ne constituerait pas 'un grand mythe littéraire' mais 'tout au plus un motif.'" To show us the opposite, he chooses about ten different examples (two from each century) that range from the 14th to the 19th centuries. In his study of myth in the seventeenth century, he turns to Tristan l'Hermite and Isaac de Benserade. Among the flaws of this study are certain errors in reading, as well as a disappointing conclusion. But the bibliography is of great value.

JEANNERET, JEAN. La Muse lascive: anthologie de la poésie érotique et pornographique française (1560–1660). Paris: José Corti, 2007.

Review: G. Peureux in MLR 103.2 (2008), 534–35: 《 . . .the volume includes a short but inspiring essay on early modern erotic and pornographic poetry in France (1560 to 1660). Michel Jeanneret sheds light on the origins of more than 1500 saucy poems, 'des proportions industrielles', he says (p. 19), taking up ideas from his latest book, Eros rebelle: littérature et dissidence à l'âge classique." Reviewer would have liked to see "an enquiry into the identity of the authors and publishers in question" that might have shed more light on "the social reality of this obscene phenomenon."

Review: n.a. in BCLF 695 (2007), 68–69: Ouvrage qui "forme le second volet d'un diptyque, l'autre étant La Muse sacrée: anthologie de la poésie française (1570–1630), et ainsi s'explique (à défaut de se justifier) l'opération qui consiste, avec cette Muse sacrée, à rééditer sans le dire un titre publié pour la première fois en 1972, Métamorphoses spirituelles: anthologie de la poésie religieuse française (1570–1630). Après l'appel à Dieu et l'élan mystique, Michel Jeanneret emmène son lecteur sur un autre versant des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, celui de la poésie dite 'satirique'. . . Les textes qu'il propose sont d'authentiques curiosités, au sens premier du mot, mais également sans l'acception que le terme reçoit en bibliophilie. Ils n'avaient plus été réimprimés depuis des décénnies."

JEANNERET, JEAN & JEAN STAROBINSKI, éds. L'Aventure baroque. Carouge-Genève: Suisse, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 684 (2006), 55–56: Présenté par Jeanneret et Starobinski, cet ouvrage en hommage à Jean Rousset comprend quatre études parues pour la première fois dans les années '40, '50, et '80, ainsi que des traductions en version bilingue longtemps inaccessibles. "C'est tout d'abord un choix de textes de Andreas Gryphius, poète protestant, humaniste et militant du XVIIe siècle, puis quelques extraits magnifiques du Voyageur chérubinique (1656) et de La Sainte Joie de l'âme (1657) d'Angelus Silesius."

JOURDE, MICHEL & JEAN-CHARLES MONFERRAN, éds. Le Lexique métalittéraire français (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance 77. Genève: Droz, 2006.

Review: M. Clément in BHR 69.3 (2007), 820–21: "De l'importance de repérer ce que nommer veut dire, tel est le sujet de ce recueil. Il ne s'agit pas ici d'un lexique comme le titre pourrait le laisser penser (pauvre lexique de douze entrées!) mais d'une réflexion à partir de douze cas précis sur ce que suppose une élaboration lexicale à un moment donnée." Les analyses du volume "s'emploient tantôt à montrer à l'oeuvre un 'processus de constitution du genre'. . .; tantôt à débusquer les raisons d'un échec de dénomination: 'translations' pour qualifier la métaphore ou 'diastole' pour qualifier la diérèse; tantôt à redéfinir ce que nous croyons connu, comme 'composition' chez Peletier, 'éloquence' chez Guez de Balzac, 'comique chez Des Autels, 'essai' chez certains poètes comme Mage de Fiefmélin ou "Vie" chez Colletet, mots tellement évidents qu'on les lit sans en comprendre les enjeux."

Review: M. Keller in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 923–24: Perspectives differ (from the synchronic to the diachronic) in these essays which "focus on 12 particular terminological issues" (924) and respond to questions such as the following: "What was the meaning of composition as a metapoetic term. . .? How did authors of early modern French travel narratives conceive of style nu and how did they practice it? Which conceptual changes did éloquence undergo during the seventeenth-century debate on rhetoric?" (923). Judged "an important contribution to the study of metaliterary discourse in early modern France [which also affords] precious insights into the animated debate about the delineation of literature as an object of critical inquiry" (924). seventeenth-century scholars will particularly appreciate essays on the semantics and evolution of terms such as personnage, acteur, essai, prosopopée, oraison directe, and éloquence. Bibliography, tables and a list of helpful online resources.

KAEMPFER, JEAN,SONYA FLOREY, &JEROME MEIZOZ,sous la dir. de. Formes de l'engagement littéraire (XVe–XXe siècles). Lausanne: Antipodes, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 696 (2007), 62–63: Recueil de dix-huit contributions d'un colloque organisé à l'université de Lausanne en 2005 à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Sartre. Le volume est organisé en quatre parties: "L'archéologie de l'engagement"; "Les engagements paradoxaux"; "Politiques littéraires"; "L'engagement aujourd'hui." La première partie montre "comment, sous l'Ancien Régime, 'la responsabilité politique, la fonction de dévoilement, l'incitation à agir' sont déjà présentes chez les écrivains. . ."

KAPP, VOLKER. "Le concept de baroque face aux doctrines oratoires du XVIIe siècle en Europe." OeC 32.2 (2007), 23–35.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. "Pour conclure, il faut constater que l'univers de la rhétorique regroupe largement le champ du concept de baroque qu'il permet de préciser. Le terme de rhétorique baroque se révèle peu pertinent pour décrire véritablement les doctrines oratoires. Il devrait donc être explusé du domaine des études rhétoriques voire même de celui de la critique littéraire. La prise en considération de l'histoire de la rhétorique a toutefois modifié le concept de baroque sans le rendre superfu."

KATRITZKY, M. A. The Art of 'Commedia': A Study in the 'Commedia dell'arte' 1560–1620 with Special Reference to the Visual Records. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.

Review: L. L. Carroll in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 180–181: Judged a "milestone in commedia dell'arte scholarship," Katritzky's extensive work (of over 600 pages) offers not only an important history of the commedia dell'arte but also "hundreds of visual images (many first identified by the author)." Although Carroll indicates a few "missed" opportunities, she praises Katritzky's work as "very important" as it uncovers a broader, richer and more innovative presence of the commedianti.

KRIEF, H. La Sapho des Lumières. Anthologie établie et présentée par H. Krief. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2006.

Review: I. Brouard-Arends in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 970. A chronological anthology that starts with Madeleine de Scudéry and concludes with Mme de Staël-Holstein. Diverse genres are included and historical information completes the literary texts. Recurrent topics are discussed.

LA CHARITE, CLAUDE. L'âge de l'éloquence et l'angle mort de l'histoire littéraire de la Renaissance." OeC 32.1 (2007), 57–71.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et critiques présenté par Roxanne Roy et consacré à l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli. "C'est d'ailleurs à la lumière de ce paradigme rhétorique que je voudrais tenter d'esquisser ici la filiation intellectuelle entre Fumaroli et la recherche sur la littérature de la Renaissance depuis 1980. L'on s'interrogera d'abord sur les raisons qui ont fait qu'avant L'âge de l'éloquence l'histoire littéraire et la rhétorique étaient mutuellement exclusives, même lorqu'il était question de l'Ancien Régime. Il s'agira ensuite de voir en quoi L'âge de l'éloquence constitue une sorte de discours de la méthode, ce qui explique en partie la richesse et l'ampleur de sa postérité. Enfin, je voudrais suggérer que l'un des points nodaux des travaux sur la littérature de la Renaissance depuis L'âge de l'éloquence est l''art Rhetoricale', sorte de de fil d'Ariane dans l'histoire des litterae humaniores."

LAROQUE, FRANÇOIS. "Le Misanthrope au théâtre (Ménandre, Shakespeare, Molière, Hofmannsthal)." IL 59.4 (2007), 34–47.

This study envisages a comparison between misanthropic characters on stage throughout history. In part one, the author engages in detailed readings, starting with Aristophanes, and the reappearance of this "type" in Molière, Rousseau, Fabre d'Eglantine, Courteline, Eugène Labiche, Ferdinand Raimund, Alexander Griboïévov, and Anouilh, among others. Part two is comprised of a detailed bibliography on studies and anthologies dealing with particular aspects of misanthropy in theater, as well as the historical, social, and political contexts of the plays discussed. A detailed bibliography on Molière's misanthrope is included, as well.

LECOMTE, NATHALIE. "Messieurs les 《 Acteurs dansans 》: essai pour percer les secrets d'une distribution." DSS 238 (2008), 77–83.

A brief study of the dancers who appeared in Sigalion, drawing on various sources including handbills and reviews.

LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE. "Divergences et Queeriosités: Ovide moralisé ou les mutations d'Iphis en garçon." FLS 34 (2007), 13–33.

Through a genealogical approach applied to fictional and theatrical adaptations of the fable of Iphis and Ianthe from the twelfth through the eighteenth century, the author examines the important role played by heteronormativity. The quiet homoeroticism of Ovid is replaced especially in the sixteenth century by a movement of heteronormative fixation.

LENTRICCHIA, FRANK & ANDREW DUBOIS, eds. Close Reading: The Reader. Durham & London: Duke UP, 2003.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 43 (2007), 96–97: Includes both a useful 40-page introduction (by Dubois) and 17 essays in two sections: "Formalism (Plus)" and "After Formalism." Continuity rather than the clash of critical schools is emphasized. Illustrative examples of critics include: John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brookes, Stanley Fish, Paul de Man, Frederic Jameson, Roland Barthes, Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt, Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick and Homi Bhabha.

LIMA, ROBERT. Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2005.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 43 (2007), 103: Judged highly useful and suggestive both for the synthesis it offers and its bibliography (of European and American Drama). Includes sections on the underworld, metamorphoses of gods, possession and exorcism, cauldron and cave. Found "both scholarly and highly readable."

LORIMER, EMMA. "Huguenot General Assemblies in France, 1579–1622: 'Public Opinion', Pamphlets and Political Memory." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 52–63.

Concludes: "Pamphlets written against Huguenot general assemblies were able to have an effect on a broad public by using the burlesque, by adopting a populist tone, and later by employing biblical and theological references. Ultimately, they gained credibility by reference to and sometimes direct quotation of the assembly records."

LUCCIONI, CARINE. "Les accents d'une nymphe plaintive: Echo, miroir du dire mélancolique dans la poésie de l'âge baroque (1580–1630)." DSS 239 (2008), 285–309.

Tracing the image of Echo throughout French baroque poetry, the author concludes that "la fable d'Écho définit le lyrisme baroque comme la plainte monotone, la monodie atone d'un poète réduit au vain ressassement du discours élégiaque, et traduit une profonde nostalgie du carmen poétique, qui allie chant et charme à travers les accents nombreux d'une voix forte et harmonieuse."

LYONS, JOHN D. Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005.

Review: S.W. Farquhar in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1353–55: Wide-ranging and priaseworthy, Lyons' "brilliant study fills a lacuna in our knowledge of early modern views of the imagination" (1353). After an introduction which focuses on "classical theories of the imagination, emphasizing Stoic self-cultivation," Lyons presents analyses of the inner life in chapters on 1) Montaigne and the 16th c. Stoic revival, 2) François de Sales, 3) Pascal's skepticism as regards "will-directed imagination" (1354), 4) Mme de Sévigné and the philosophical dimension of the letters, 5) the novel, Mme de Scudéry's which developed imagination and Mme de Lafayette's which is found "anti-imaginative" (F. 1354), 6) Boileau and Fénélon and "an emphasis on negative and passive attributes" (F. 1355), and 7) Rousseau's Emile where sensibility is valued over the imagination.

MANTERO, ANNE. "'Le commencement d'une Rose'. Les objets de ce monde dans la poésie spirituelle française de la fin du XVIe siècle et du XVIIe." TL 21 (2008), 97–115.

Detailed and masterful investigation of "une sorte de noeud d'interactions par lequel les choix poétiques renvoient à des postulats religieux" (98). Mantero's "cartographie" is sketched out, demonstrating oppositions or "pôles" such as "la dénonciation des vanités" and "[des] suites assertives d'une célébration, ou des existences singulières, suspendues au vouloir providentiel, ou de l'ordre universel méthodiquement déduit" (98). The quotation in Mantero's title is from Jean de Bussières' ode "La Rose" and appropriately illustrates the mystery of "l'accroissement de la vie. . . propre à nourrir une 'description poëtique'" (98). The rich corpus explored here, including, among others, works by Zacharie de Vitré, Claude Hopil, Gabrielle de Cognard, Louis de Grenade, Laurent Drelincourt, Jean Auvray, Jean-Baptiste Chassignet and Martial de Brive, demonstrates that although God is both "omninominable" and "innominable," life's totality even in seemingly "menus événements" is perceived "dans la gravité d'une lumière spirituelle" (99, 115)."

MARCHAL-WEYL, CATHERINE. Le Tailleur et le fripier. Transformations des personnages de la comedia sur la scène française (1630–1660). Geneva: Droz, 2007.

Review: R. Racevskis in SCN (2007), 235–239: "Catherine Marchal-Weyl is right to say that studies of seventeenth-century French theater have underestimated the significance of the Spanish comedia for early modern æsthetics. Le Tailleur et le fripier accomplishes the significant scholarly task of correcting this tendency while providing a wealth of information,both about the comedias themselves [...] and about their adaptations by French playwrights."

MAZOUER, CHARLES. Le Théâtre français de l'Age classique. 1. Le premier XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 108.1 (2008), 211–212. This is a prolongation of two previous studies on theatre: the first one dealing with the Middle Ages, the second one with the Renaissance. In this volume, Mazouer describes the first part of the transitions within the seventeenth century. He plans to publish a second part on the latter seventeenth century. "Mazouer se refuse à 'problématiser la période qui va de 1610 à 1650 sous le signe unique du baroque.' Il sait combien l'évolution du théâtre à cette date se révèle infiniment plus complexe, mais aussi beaucoup plus riche." Reviewer acclaims this varied and complete study that discusses the various genres within early seventeenth-century theatre.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 153 (2007), 649: This exceptional publication is by one of the greatest specialists of the French theatre who continues here his remarkable publications in that area. Dalla Valle reminds us of his 2002 volume Le théâtre français de la Renaissance. The present study, judged "estremamente utile, ricco documentato" (649), is organized in two sections, the first on the period of Alexandre Hardy (1610–1628) (with six chapters on theatrical life, farce, tragicomedy, pastoral, new tragedy and a study on Hardy) and the second on the "premier classicisme" (including sections on Richelieu, Mairet, Scudéry, La Calprenède, Du Ryer, Tristan, Thomas Corneille, Claude Boyer and Rotrou). Rich bibliography and index of theatrical works cited.

Review: J.-Cl. Vuillemin, PFSCL XXXV (69), 772–778: Favorable review of this 'magistrale étude'. Provides an overview of its findings, particularly with regard to Hardy and Rotrou. Suggests a number of small corrections.

Review: S. Berrégard, Cahiers Tristan l'Hermite (2008), 79–85:

MELLINGHOFF-BOURGERIE, VIVIANE. "L'Écrivain au service des âmes: tradition et avatars de l'épistolarité spirituelle." TL 21 (2008), 117–130.

Marked by careful attention to appropriate terminology ("épître spirituelle" ou "lettre spirituelle" or as André Ravier has suggested "lettres d'amitié spirituelle"—these terms are preferable to the anachronistic "lettres de direction" which became prevalent in the second half of the 19th c.) and by sensitivity to different communions, Mellinghoff-Bourgerie's article refers to a significant corpus in the early modern, including Calvin, Briçonnet, Fénelon and François de Sales. Mellinghoff-Bourgerie demonstrates that to establish confidence, the "pastors" reiterate the sincerity of their friendship with their correspondents, balance authority and friendship and "sans avoir en commun le même credo, [adoptent] la même attitude envers le destinataire qu'ils [désirent] mener à Dieu" (130).

MERCIER, ALAIN. Le Tombeau de la mélancolie. Littérature et facétie sous Louis XIII. Avec une bibliographie des éditions facétieuses parues de 1610 à 1643. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 392: Truly impressive treatment of the topic, along with "un'enorme quantità di testi identificati e analizzati." Volume I includes a study of the facétie in the medieval and Renaissance eras as well as the early seventeenth-century, analyses of specific aspects of the genre, authors, actors and history. Volume II contains "una straordinaria bibliografia critica" of all the texts that Mercier has recorded from 1610–1643 (over 1500 texts!) and a short conclusion. Of great importance in itself as well as rich and suggestive for future studies.

Review: Ch. Mazouer in RHLF 107.4 (962–963). This study can be seen as a monumental critical bibliography of the facetious editions that appeared between 1610–1643 in which Mercier also turns into a "historien des mœurs, des mentalités et de la littérature." Parts III and IV are more literary in nature. They present a typology of "litterérature facétieuse" and discuss particular authors.

Review: C. Nédélec in DSS 238 (2008), 165–167: In an augmented version of his earlier work, "cette bibliographie occupe tout le tome II, tandis que le tome I offre une analyse de ce vaste corpus de 《 monologues, dialogues, énumérations, nouvelles, anecdotes, parodies, allégories ou pastiches destinés à faire rire ou sourire. 》"

MISTACCO, VICKI. Les Femmes et la tradition littéraire. Anthologie du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Première partie: XIIe–XVIIIe siècles. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006.

Review: F. Orwat in DFS 83 (2008), 143–145: 《  Le premier tome [de cette anthologie], fort de 571 pages et étoffé de quatre chapitres en annexe conçus comme des lectures complémentaires sur la situation de la femme écrivain à un moment stratégique de l'histoire et comme un portrait de ses espoirs au moment de la Révolution, court du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle.  》 Selon la critique, 《  V. Mistacco propose aux spécialistes comme aux non-spécialistes un instrument de travail qui ne manque pas d'atouts: ampleur des textes retenus, bibliographie sélective..., copieuses notices biographiques, introduction stimulante qui autorise la mise en perspective ou la relecture de maints textes connus, saisis à la lumière d'une problématique resserrée et féconde.  》

MONCOND'HUY, DOMINIQUE. Histoire de la littérature française du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 81 (2008), 996–97: A useful, competent, and interesting introduction to seventeenth-century French literature and civilization. Contains a section on "literature and society" which addresses the Renaissance background to the era and its writings, the status of the French language in the era, and a certain amount of religious background. The second section, "univers littéraire," discusses particular writers and their contributions. A third section addresses literature and the arts. Recommended for university libraries and for those seeking an up-to-date understanding of the seventeenth century and its writings.

MORGAIN, STÉPHANE-MARIE. "Richelieu, un controversiste en quête d'unité: la rhétorique de la persuasion est-elle toujours efficace ?" In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 53–70.

From the standpoint of rhetoric, Morgain examines three key moments in Richelieu's career as a Catholic apologist: his speech to the close of the estates general of 1615; a 1617 treatise on the principles of the Catholic faith; and a posthumous work (1651) destined towards converting Huguenots. The author concludes that the relationship between reason and vraisemblance in this last work is of a pair with the rebirth of theater from 1630–1640, and that Richelieu wrote with this new cultural sensibility in mind.

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Review: T. Janke in SCN (2007), 242–246: In a sequel to Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion, "Moriarty aims to demonstrate that in the early modern period, French thinkers, including philosophers, theologians, poets, and playwrights, were developing what might be called a kind of proto-psychology — a study of human behavioral motivation with a pronounced focus on subjective interiority. He traces his theme from its roots in neo-Augustinian conceptions of original sin to the problematic nature of self-knowledge as explicated in the works of thinkers from Pascal to La Rochefoucauld."

MORTGAT-LONGUET, EMMANUELLE. Clio au Parnasse. Naissance de l'histoire littéraire française aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 153 (2007), 646: Guillaume Colletet is the focus of this study, especially part one, which places the birth of literary history in the sixteenth century. The second section examines the institution of French literary history in the seventeenth-century Important for understanding of the French "mythe classique." Rich bibliography.

MUNARI, SIMONA. "Teatro gesuita e tradizione pagana: due scenari di argomento polacco nella Francia di Mazarino." S Fr 150 (2006), 524–533.

Important article for its analysis of two plays, "La piété polonaise" ou "Venda Reine de Pologne" (1639) and "Vende, ou le Triomfe et le sacrifice de la chasteté"(1644). M. also considers the pedagogical activity of the Jesuits in France and in Poland, particularly as concerns languages, rhetoric, vraisemblance, moral edification, and the heroic dimension.

NAUDEIX, LAURA. "Le ballet de Sigalion: la tradition au service de la jeunesse." DSS 238 (2008), 41–55.

The author studies the choreographed sequences that took the stage between acts of Polymestor and she contends that "ce ballet n'est pourtant pas relié à la tragédie par un lien dramatique mais thématique, et constitue bien une oeuvre autonome, répondant à des critères de genre et d'esthétique spécifiques."

NEPOTE-DESMARRES, F, ed. Mythe et Histoire dans le théâtre classique. Hommage à Christian Delmas. Toulouse: Littératures classiques, 2002.

Review: G. Peureux in RHLF 108.1 (2008), 209–211. This book is comprised of fourteen contributions that offer new perspectives on Christian Delmas's study on the relation between theater, history, and myth. The contributions provide us both with a general discussion (dealing with the historical and social dimensions of theatre, its relation to myth); as well as a discussion of individual authors, among them Molière, d'Aubignac, du Ryer, Tristan l'Hermite, and Racine. According to the reviewer, this volume is indispensable to the scholar who studies seventeenth-century theatre and wants to keep up with recent research by French critics.

NIDERST, ALAIN. "Sur la circulation des livres et des spectacles en Europe." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 17–27.

Sets out to answer the question: "comment se faisait au XVIIe siècle la circulation des livres et des spectacles d'un pays à l'autre? Comment le poète rouennais a-t-il pu connaître ce qui se jouait et s'imprimait à Rome ou à Madrid, et comment ses tragédies ont-elles pu inspirer les poètes d'Amsterdam ou de Vienne?"

NOILLE-CLAUZADE, CHRISTINE. L'Éloquence du Sage. Platonisme et rhétorique dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: S. Lardon in S Fr 151 (2007), 436: Praiseworthy for its "développement rigoureux," its "cohérence" and "clarté," Noille-Clauzade's study contributes to the understanding of Plato's reception, influence and evolution during three stages of the second half of the seventeenth-century Thorough examination from the Renaissance renewal (including Europe as well as France) to the "recul doctrinal" and the influence of Saint Augustine, Noille-Clauzade's impressive volume also includes chapters on particular writers such as La Fontaine, La Bruyère and Fénelon (Télémaque). Bibliography and index of names.

NORMAN, BUFORD, ed. Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle. Actes du 37e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of South Carolina, Columbia, 14–16 April, 2005. Biblio 17, vol. 168 (2006). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 435–436: These selected essays focus on characteristic artistic and literary forms and formations (influence of authors and education of their public). After introductory essays by Norman and Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (the latter on women's voyages and letters), the volume is organized in seven sections: "Madame de Villedieu," "Héros face à eux-mêmes," "La tragédie en musique," "Stratégies narratives et poétiques," "Lyrisme et rhétorique," "Molière," "Sciènce et vérité" (435–436).

O'BRIEN. JOHN. "To the Ends of the Earth: Renaissance Journeys and Imagination's Sight." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 17–31.

Examination of the significance of the word échappée in a number of sixteenth-century texts. "From the fantastic, mythological journeys described by Ronsard and Aneau via the domestic settings of Marguerite de Navarre to the encounters of Léry and Montaigne with New World natives, the article analyzes the transformation of the space of exploration into the space of imaginative speculation, of risky engagement with the Other. Using the work of Quentin Skinner and Michel de Certeau, it proposes that we see échappée as providing an incremental narrative of a multi-layered phenomenon, a Skinnerian paradiastole opening out a series of re-descriptions of its own analytical endeavours."

Oeuvres et Critiques 32.1 (2007).

Ce numéro, L'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli, est présenté par Roxanne Roy et contient neuf contributions qui "s'articulent autour de quatre principaux volets" 1) l'influence italienne sur la France; 2) les études cornéliennes; 3) l'histoire, l'histoire littéraire et l'histoire de la rhétorique; 4) Chateaubriand mémorialiste et ami des arts." Voir les articles de M. Desrosiers/R. Roy (I); de J.-M Constant, A.-M. Lecoq, V. Kapp, et C. Rizza (II); de C. La Charité (IV); et de M.-O. Sweetser et C. Carlin (V- Corneille, Pierre).

Oeuvres et Critiques 32.2 (2007).

Ce numéro, La Question du baroque, est présenté par Dorothea Scholl et contient onze contributions organisées en trois parties: Concepts et significations; Ecriture et représentation; Entre modernité et postmodernité. Voir les articles de J.-C. Vuillemin et R. Zaiser (III); de F. Assaf, M. Brunel, V. Kapp, C. Rizza, D. Scholl, et A. Surgers (IV).

ORWAT, FLORENCE. L'Invention de la rêverie. Une conquête pacifique du Grand Siècle. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 960–961: Basing her observations on the etymology of the word "rêve" and, especially, "rêverie," the author makes the case that, starting from 1600, there has been a "revolution" in its significance. "La songerie, gagnant du terrain sur l'onirisme proprement dit, s'apprivoise, se civilise et conquiert progressivement ses lettres de noblesse." While the author makes use of a variety of examples, she sometimes leaves out the more universally well-known ones, which surprises the reviewer. Yet despite these lacunae, it is an intelligent, well-written, and meticulous that is also a pleasurable read.

PAIGE, NICHOLAS. "Proto-Aesthetics and the Theatrical Image." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 517–525.

Examination of seventeenth-century antitheatrical discourse in a wider context. Considers "its relation to earlier debates on idolatry and iconoclasm," and aims to "understand the place of the theater 'quarrel' in the history of Enlightenment aesthetic speculation."

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. "Entre méditation et contemplation: la voix dans l'écriture spirituelle au XVIIe siècle" TL 21 (2008), 147–158.

Papasogli responds in this pertinent and multi-faceted article to the question: "Qu'est-ce. . . que la voix dans l'écriture spirituelle si ce n'est le secret de l'écrivain et la trace vivante d'une spiritualité personnelle?" (147). Papasogli demonstrates that in the seventeenth-century, "la thématique de la voix a contribué à enrichir et à nuancer la représentation des deux modes ou des deux tempi de la vie intérieur, méditation et contemplation" (148). Papasogli gives particular attention to the metaphor and to the emblematic or the "symbolisme de la voix" (153), but also to dialogue and other linguistic and literary forms as she interrogates key texts of major authors such as Pascal and François de Sales but also those of François Malaval and le Père Crasset.

PARSONS, JOTHAM. "Money and Merit in French Renaissance Comedy." Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 852–82.

"Renaissance" here includes the seventeenth-century, in particular Corneille's Mélite as well as other writings of his, notably his "Excuse à Ariste" which Parsons contends is "a self-promotional assessment of the author's own career" rather than "an apology for failing to produce other lyric poetry" (878). Other playwrights discussed are from the sixteenth century. Rich documentation and a three-page bibliography which includes works by numerous seventeenth-century scholars.

PAVIS, PATRICE. Vers une théorie de la pratique théâtrale: voix et images de la scène. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 2007.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 696 (2007), 60–61: 4e réedition augmentée d'un ouvrage publié en 1982. "Divisé en quatre parties, sur le geste, l'espace, la production et la réception, puis sur la théorie et la pratique des études théâtrales. . ."

PERLMUTTER, JENNIFER R. "Ana and Commemorative 'Truth'." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 707–721.

Analytical comparison of two ana published in 1666 and 1667 with two published later in 1693 and 1697. Comparison "reveals the development of a more crafted and literate form suggesting that compilers eventually reevaluated the markers of orality that had defined the genre."

PERLMUTTER, JENNIFER, ed. Relations and Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Actes du 36e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth Century French Literature. Portland State U, 6–8 mai 2004. Biblio 17, 166. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 170: These selected proceedings underscore the diversity of seventeenth-century relations and relationships. After a tribute to Wolfgang Leiner by Buford Norman, the contributions focus on the relation between man and God, the relation of voyage as a forgotten genre, the playwright and the director, authority, Catholics and Protestants, books and illustrations, literary genres, travel relations, aesthetics and ethics, family matters and family messes.

PERRIN, JEAN-FRANÇOIS & PHILIP STEWART, eds. Du genre libertin au XVIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international "La Littérature libertine au XVIIIe siècle: existe-t- il un genre libertin? Définition, typologie, limites chronologiques, corpus" (Université Stendhal, Grenoble 3, 26–28 septembre 2002). Paris: Desjonquères, 2004.

Review: V. Ponzetto in S Fr 150 (2006), 601–603: Highly useful for seventeenth-century scholars as well as eighteenth-century specialists, in particular for specialists of libertinage, as it treats the evolution of the genre and indeed responds to the question of the colloque: "Existe-t-il un genre libertin." After some elaboration of the term itself in the first section ("Définir"), two other sections treat "le genre libertin" and various models ("Modéliser), and the genre in relation to other genres such as the roman moral or parody. Includes an examination by Jean-Christophe Abramovici that focuses on an analysis of Pierre Bayle's "Éclaircissement sur les obscénités" (1701).

PIEJUS, ANNE. "Un spectacle collectif." DSS 238 (2008), 9–17.

Seeing Polymestor et Sigalion as a unified production, the author explores how, "[n]ourri d'une pédagogie éprouvée, fort d'une réflexion aboutie sur sa dramaturgie composite, les auteurs devaient aussi proposer un spectacle qui tînt compte des contraintes et des limites de leurs jeunes interprètes, satisfaisant ainsi aux exigences d'un projet pédagogique et d'une célébration scolaire."

PIEJUS, ANNE & CHRISTINE BAYLE. "Le ballet de Sigalion, des sources à la création." DSS 238 (2008), 85–93.

As part of a colloquium on Sigalion et le secret, the authors discuss the problem of choreography drawing on various sources to try and determine what the progression of dance moves may have been. This is made all the more important for the wider study of the ballets of this time given that Sigalion "demeure l'un des rares ballets du collège dont on ait conservé une partition, certes lacunaire, mais néanmoins utilisable."

PIGEAUD, JACKIE, ed. Les grâces. Littératures classiques, no. 60 (2006).

Review: E. Hénin, PFSCL XXXV (69), 781–784. Favorable review which provides a brief overview of each of the articles in this collective volume. Laments the lack of "une cohérence globale" but acknowledges this is "preuve, s'il en est, du caractère insaississable de la grâce."

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE. "Voyages au royaume des lettres: Vers la cartographie d'un lieu commun." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 106–121.

Examines "les mutations de l'Empire des Lettres depuis Furetière jusqu'à Fontenelle en passant par les œuvres satiriques de Charles Sorel et de Gabriel Guéret" focusing on "les visées satiriques de la métaphore du Parnasse et de ses avatars" which are thrown into relief.

POIRSON, MARTIAL. "Une modernité inachevée: quand l'intérêt entre en scène." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 723–745.

Analysis of how comedy "s'affranchissant de la morale, se situe à l'avant-garde du discours économique." Focuses on twenty-seven plays, mainly from the last decades of the seventeenth century and early decades of the eighteenth century.

PREDA, ALESSANDRA. Ilarità e tristezza. Percorsi francesi del Candelaio di Giordano Bruno (1582–1665). Milano: Università degli studi. Pubbliczaioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia CCL, 2007.

Review: A. Tripet in BHR 70.2 (2008), 504–06: 《  On voit qu'à partir de la comédie atypique du Candelaio, les thèmes et les formes de la liberté trouvèrent en France de 1582 à 1665, une sorte de caisse de résonance, des appuis, des stimulations, des échos. Alessandra Preda le montre avec précision et avec une connaissance approfondie et transfrontalière de ce qu'il faut bien appeler une des formes innombrables qu'a pu prendre le rayonnement européen de Giordano Bruno.  》

PREST, JULIA. Theatre under Louis XIV: Cross-Casting and the Performance of Gender in Drama, Ballet, and Opera. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Review: M. Greenberg in FS 62.3 (2008), 336. The reviewer praises Prest's knowledge of music and musicology and the richness this brings to her work and a "good chapter on 'gender ambiguity.'" The reviewer seems disappointed and perhaps a little chastising, though, that Prest did not explore the gender-bending terrain à la Judith Butler, noting that Prest seems "unimpressed" by this line of thinking. "Perhaps this was not her intention," he writes, praising her all the same for a "well-informed but traditional discussion."

Review: CHOICE. Highlighted by Choice 45 (2008) as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007.

PREVOT, JACQUES, éd. avec la collaboration deLAURE JESTAZ etHELENE OSTROWIECKI-BAH. Les libertins au XVIIe siècle, II. Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2004.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 149 (2006), 392: Welcome second volume is of great interest and includes not only authors such as La Mothe le Vayer, Saint-Evremond, Bayle, and Fontenelle, but also Bussy-Rabutin and others. The ambiguity (or evolution during the century) of the notion of libertinage is clear, centering on the refusal of tradition in a variety of contexts (from love to the religious or political). The notices are particularly useful and the edition is remarkable for its methodological rigor and critical documentation—yet it is highly accessible to the non-specialist as it presents perspectives of seventeenth-century French culture.

PRIGENT, MICHEL,dir. Histoire de la France littéraire. Tome I: Naissances, renaissances (Moyen-Âge-XVIe siècle), dir. Frank Lestringant and Michel Zink. Tome II: Classicismes (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècle), dir. Jean-Charles Darmont and Michel Delon. Tome III: Modernités (XIXe–XXe siècle), dir. Patrick Berthier and Michel Jarrety. Paris: PUF, Quadrige, 2006.

Review: P. France in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 629–632. Volume one is probably the most novel one, as it incorporates new knowledge into the analysis of the relation between continuity and rupture from Antiquity to "modern" culture. Volume two, rather short, insists on the unity of the period discussed, and most of the authors are merely alluded to, if at all. The third volume, however, places the writers in the foreground while the cultural history only adopts a secondary place. Author points to the disparity of the three volumes, which share very little resemblance, and to the larger problem of structure, which reveals omission, lack of coordination, disproportions, and ruptures. Yet the reader can still profit from this study.

RACAULT, MICHEL, éd., avec la collab. deThéodore E. D. Braun,Pierre Purger, etErik Leborgne. Voyages badins, burlesques et parodiques du XVIIIe siècle. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 684 (2006), 67–68: "La plupart des textes réunis en ce volume appartiennent à une catégorie intermédiaire entre les récits (certes plus ou moins arrangés) de voyages authentiques et les constructions utopiques, nombreuses aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Campanella, Cyrano de Bergerac, Swift, Tiphaigne de La Roche, Foigny . . .). Cet ouvrage offre au lecteur de découvrir plusieurs textes rares et injustement méconnus, faisant pour la plupart alterner les vers et la prose."

RAYNARD, SOPHIE. "New Poetics versus Old Print: Fairy Tales, Animal Fables, and the Gaulois Past." Marvels & Tales 21.1 (2007), 93–106.

(Abstract:) "Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier's dedications and frame-tale discussions show her carefully crafting moral fairy tale texts as part of the Moderns' cultural agenda. Despite the degree to which her thinking, and to a certain extent, that of Mme d'Aulnoy, overlapped with that of the Abbé de Villiers, he excoriated all fairy tales except those of Charles Perrault. Underlying all three authors' arguments is a sense of fairy tales as literary texts rather than as cultural patrimony."

REGUIG-NAYA, DELPHINE. Le Corps des idées. Pensées et poétiques du langage dans l'augustinisme de Port-Royal. Arnauld, Nicole, Pascal, Mme de La Fayette, Racine. Paris: Champion, 2007. Lumières classiques.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 153 (2007), 651: Judged a volume "di dimensioni importanti e che fa il giro di una problematica davvero complessa" (651). Focus is on the second generation of Port-Royal and its productive influence on culture as Reguig-Naya takes generally accepted lieux communs relating to Port-Royal and amplifies, deepens and at times overturns them. The reviewer singles out for special praise the chapters on Pascal and La Fayette.

RIZZA, CECILIA. "Les études sur le baroque dans la revue Studi francesi." OeC 32.2 (2007), 37–44.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. L'auteur se propose d'explorer "la place que les études sur le Baroque littéraire français occupent dans Studi francesi et parcourir le chemin suivi par la critique au cours des cinquante dernières années."

ROBERT, RAYMONDE, ed. Contes: Mademoiselle L'Héritier, Mademoiselle Bernard, Mademoiselle de La Force, Madame Durand, and Madame d'Auneuil. Vol. 2. Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: T. A. Jordan in Marvels & Tales 21.1 (2007), 154–57. As part of a series, La Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées, Raymonde Robert presents extensive background to the period and context for each text presented that is invaluable to the new student of seventeenth-century French fairy tales. Jordan praises equally volumes 1 and 2 of this new series. Volume contains biographies of the conteuses, literary and social background, and newly edited tales.

ROBERTS, HUGH. " La tête de Bruscambille et les métaphores mentales au début du dix-septième siècle." RHLF 107.3 (2007), 541–557.

Bruscambille's "Prologue de la teste," spoken at L'Hôtel de Bourgogne, is the focus of this study, as the author intends to show us 1) the relation between scientific and bawdy language; 2) the attempt to ascribe a mental experience to a physical reality. He describes the anatomical language of the prologue, its place in the history of anatomy, and its mental metaphors. As an annex, the author attaches the full "Prologue de la teste."

ROHOU, JEAN. Le Classicisme (1660–1700). Collection "Didact français," Rennes: Presses Universitaires, 2004.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 150 (2006), 598: Rohou's republished work (the first appeared with Hachette in 1996) proposes a global vision rather than describing authors and works. Includes helpful definition of the term "classicisme" and examines models, genesis and evolution of the concept during Louis XIV's reign. The application of classical principles to key genres is made and an analysis is brought to the "visione pessimista di un uomo egocentrico" (598). Useful, selective bibliography.

ROLLA, CHIARA, ed. L'Apologie du Roman. A la recherche d'un statut du roman dans la France de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. Rome: Aracne, 2006.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 151 (2007), 434: This anthology includes some sixty paratexts arranged chronologically from those of d'Urfé's Astrée to Sorel's Polyandre. Each text is accompanied by a brief biography of the author and an indication of his/her principal narrative works. Rolla furnishes an impressive critical introduction with theoretical documentation from Aristotle's Poetics to recent exegetes and tackles important problems such as vraisemblance and the balance between divertissement and moral necessity. Ample bibliography.

ROUKHOMOVSKY, BERNARD, ed. L'Optique des moralistes. Actes du colloque international de Grenoble, Université Stendhal, 27–29 mars 2003. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: B. Teyssandier in DSS 239 (2008), 377–380: The agenda of this colloquium was to elucidate the unique relationship "que la science optique et le discours moral ont entretenu durant plus de deux siècles." The editor ably weaves together 25 articles from this rich and diverse meeting of scholars.

Review: Z. Zalloua in FR 81 (2008), 773–74: "Roukhomovsky conceives of optics as structuring the moralist's inquiry" (774); in this sense, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Pascal, Scudéry, Bossuet, and others can be thought to "educate or reform the perspective of the reader—that is, to transform the reader into an observer/judge of human behavior and merit" (774).

RUBELLIN, FRANCOISE, ed. Théâtre de la Foire, anthologie de pièces inédites (1712–1736). Montpellier: Espaces 34, 2005.

Review: A. Sakhnovskaia in RHLF 108.1 (2008), 214–215. This study, dedicated to David Trott, attempts to shed new light on the théâtre de la foire through a discussion of a variety of authors, genres, structures, and forms. The preface briefly turns to the history of the théâtre de la foire and provides us with new information, based on the prologues and manuscripts. The well-documented notes and information on the authors are also useful, as is the index on vaudevilles.

SAUNDERS, ALISON & PETER DAVIDSON, éds. Visual Words and Verbal Pictures. Essays in Honour of Michael Bath. Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2005.

Review: R. Stawarz-Luginbuhl in BHR 68.3 (2006), 612–17: "Ce volume de mélanges offerts à Michael Bath, professeur honoraire de l'Université de Strathclyde (Glasgow, Ecosse), réunit les contributions de onze spécialistes issus d'horizons divers ainsi qu'une mise au point bio-bibliographique de la carrière du dédicataire." Voir l'article d'Alison Adams, "une relecture des travaux de Josèph Jacquiot consacrés à la seconde édition de l'Histoire du Roi Louis le Grand de Claude-François Ménestrier. Partant d'une analyse minitieuse du texte, elle parvient à démontrer sans difficulté que cette édition émane d'un milieu proche de Guillaume III. C'est l'huguenot Nicolas Chevalier, contraint à l'exil 1n 1685, auteur d'une Histoire de Guillaume III (1692) et par ailleurs contrefacteur notoire, qui porrait être à l'origine de ce faux."

SCHOLL, DOROTHEA. "Introduction: Repenser le baroque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 3–9.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. Dans la première partie, "le baroque est repensé sous l'aspect de ses conceptualisations"; dans la deuxième partie, "le baroque est repensé à la lumière des écritures et modes de représentation caractéristiques du XVIIe siècle baroque en France"; dans la troisième partie, "le baroque est repensé à la lumière de sa réception dans la modernité et la postmodernité."

SCHOLL, DOROTHEA. "Baroque, arabesque, grotesque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 45–77.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. L'auteur se propose "de réviser le baroque à la lumière du grotesque et de l'arabesque pour examiner ces trois concepts en général dans leur valeur heuristique. Je voudrais le faire en tenant compte des oeuvres autant que des critiques. D'abord j'essayerai d'éclaircir ces trois notions à partir de la réception romantique du baroque, pour ensuite me tourner vers l'époque dite baroque elle-même afin de voir le rôle que les catégories de grotesque et d'arabesque jouent dans la création et la réception d'une esthétique baroque."

SERMAIN, JEAN-PAUL. Le conte de fées. Du classicisme aux Lumières. Paris: Desjonquères, 2005.

Review: P. Perazzolo in S Fr 150 (2006), 600–601: Impressive examination of the genre, Sermain's critical work takes into account several authors as well as any declarations they may have made, their choices (thematic, stylistic, etc.). The transformation of the genre is evident as the interested reader follows Sermain's investigation which is organized in three parts: 1) "Les ambitions des conteurs", 2) "Le conteur et son public" and 3) "Poétique de l'imaginaire."

SPICA, ANNE-ELISABETH, éd. Discours et enjeux de la Vanité. Littératures classiques 56 (automne 2005).

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 596–596: This issue includes contributions from the colloque "Discours et enjeux de la Vanité en Europe, de la Contre-Réforme à l'aube des Lumières" (Metz, 1999) and is organized in four sections: "Définir une absence", "Vanité et Société", "spectacles de la Vanité" and "Rhétorique et poétique." The volume also includes a rich essay by Spica: "La Vanité dans tous ses états."

STIKER-METRAL, CHARLES-OLIVIER. Narcisse contrarié. L'amour-propre dans le discours moral en France (1650–1715). Lumière classiques. Paris: Champion, 2007.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 153 (2007), 652: Stiker-Metral understands and explores "l'amour-propre" as a theme and a form, an object of reflection contributing to a vision of the world. This rich and interesting study includes sections on the "archeology" of "l'amour-propre", its systems, its valorization (for example chez Malebranche), its hermeneutics, its rhetoric and its reception.

SURGERS, ANNE. "Du théâtre au Théâtre du Monde: fragmentation et bigarrure. Contribution à une définition de l'espace de la représentation baroque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 109–120.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. "Nous nous appuierons ici sur une analyse des outils, du vocabulaire et de la grammaire mis en oeuvre pour construire le décor et l'espace de la représentation. Après avoir donné quelques précisions sémantiques préliminaires, nous partirons, dans un premier temps, d'un cas particulier: le décor et le lieu de la représentation théâtrale en France dans la première partie du XVIIe siècle. Dans un deuxième temps, nous verrons que les composants du décor et du lieu théâtral baroques se retrouvent dans d'autres spectacles, au-delà des apparentes disparités. Enfin nous proposerons quelques pistes d'interprétation, qui contribueront à éclairer le rôle et la fonction de la scénographie et du visible baroques."

TATEO, FRANCESCO. "Le forme del 'comico' nella letteratura umanistica." Archiv 244 (2007), 287–296.

Tateo helpfully reminds us of classical origins and understandings of the term "comique" before tracing its evolution in the early modern. Although the focus is on Italian authors such as Giovanni Pontano and Castiglione, Tateo's study offers useful perspectives for French aesthetics and oratory.

TRIPET, ARNAUD. Ecrivez-moi de Rome. . . Le mythe romain au fil du temps. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: A. Dufour in BHR 68.3 (2006), 639–40: "C'est plutôt une oeuvre littéraire, méditation d'un Romain d'adoption, qui va d'un texte à l'autre en nous livrant ses impressions d'historien éclairé, en même temps que d'un enthousiaste de la Ville éternelle. Tous les textes sont cités dans les meilleures éditions, éclairés par ce qu'en ont dit les meilleurs critiques. . ." La partie consacrée à Sponde ouvre "une nouvelle présence de Rome chez les poètes français, qui atteindra ses sommets chez Corneille et Racine: les 'ressources d'héroïsme'."

Review: W. J. Kennedy in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 160–161: Praised for its "fresh insights, arresting comparisons,. . . illuminating close readings [and] sometimes provocative view," Tripet's wide-ranging study of literary representations of Rome from antiquity to the present includes analyses of Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte, Britannicus and Bérénice.

VAN DELFT, LOUIS. Les spectateurs de la vie. Généalogie du regard moraliste. Les Presses de l'U. de Laval, 2005.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 151 (2007), 169–170: Praiseworthy addition to his numerous investigations on the moralists and generally to serious scholarship on the genre," Van Delft here "studia la visione dei moralisti in rapporto con l'ottica del loro tempo" (169). Themes, style and form are examined in Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère as Van Delft focuses on "teatro e ottica, economia e anatomia, memoria e fragmmento" (170). Papasogli singles out for special praise the chapter on La Rochefoucauld which she says "ha valore di un manifesto" (170).

VAN DELFT, LOUIS. Les Moralistes: une apologie. Paris: Gallimard, 2008.

Review: R. Tobin in L'Esprit Créateur 48.3 (2008), 130–131: "While the first four chapters cover familiar ground. . .they have been enriched. . .[by] contributions from different fields of inquiry and from different countries," thereby making them "models of interdisciplinarity." The conclusion offers "a plea for the modernity of the 200 years of the moraliste tradition" where Van Delft "notes the trace of the moralists in neuroscience, anthropology, the social sciences, phenomenology, and rhetoric." This book offers "the sum and the synthesis of his (Van Delft's) reflections on the moralists"and represents a capstone in the distinguished critic's career.

VERNET, THOMAS. "《  Le divertissement ne sçauroit manquer de plaire 》. Conditions d'exécution et réception de Sigalion ou le secret." DSS 238 (2008), 95–105.

While others have studied the specifics of the music and dance of Sigalion, Vernet places it in a wider context and studies its performance and reception within and beyond the Jesuit lycée Louis-le-Grand.

VERVACKE, SABRINA, ERIC VAN DER SCHUEREN e& THIERRY BELLEGUIC. Les songes de Clio. Fiction et Histoire sous l'Ancien Régime. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2006.

Review: M.-C. Pioffet in UTQ 77.1 (Winter 2008), 615–617: Trente et une contributions forment les Actes du colloque de Québec tenu en octobre 2003. 《  On aura compris que ces enquêtes et les autres qu'on trouvera dans ce recueil nous ont captivée. Traiter de la poétique de l'Histoire et de ses multiples ramifications génériques sur une période aussi diversifée était en soi une gageure. Sabrina Vervacke, Éric Van der Schueren et Thierry Belleguic l'ont relevée en nous proposant cette savoureuse lecture plurielle. Ce voyage onirique, à travers l'imaginaire historique de l'Ancien Régime, nous rappelle à quel point les frontières entre réalité et Histoire sont ténues. Sur les pistes de ces 'archivistes' de la littérature, le passé devient un songe délectable qu'on prend plaisir à voir renaître.  》

VIALLETON, JEAN-YVES. Poésie dramatique et prose du monde. Le comportement des personnages dans la tragédie en France au XVIIe siècle. Lumière classique 52. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: M.-F. Hilgar in FR 81 (2008), 579–80: A detailed reference work which repertories how characters in classical French tragedy behave. Vialleton provides meticulous categories and subcategories; as an example, the reviewer discusses the volume's treatment of "agenouillement," which considers and categorizes everything from Chimène's prosternation before the king to Andromaque's kneeling before Pyrrhus to George Dandin's submission to the wife who cuckolds him. The volume draws on some 225 plays as well as other period writings.

Review: Ch. Mazouer in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 665–667. "L'objet de cet important travail devrait s'imposer au jour: analyser les mœurs des personnages de la tragédie, c'est-à-dire leur comportement, leur savoir-vivre, leur conduite dans le rapport social, leur manière de se conduire dans leur commerce avec autrui. . . J.-Y. Vialleton s'appuie sur les manuels de civilité et autres textes qui touchent aux comportements des hommes dans le monde." The study is divided into three parts, each of which reveals great erudition and only contains minor flaws, according to the reviewer.

ZAISER, RAINER, ed. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, vol. XXXII, n. 63, 2005.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 149 (2006), 388–389: This first issue of PFSCL to be directed by Rainer Zaiser opens with an affectionate and nostalgic two-page "In memoriam Wolfgang Leiner" and is wide-ranging, with articles on topics as diverse as the following: influences of antiquity, medicine and literature, l'honnêteté, theatre, opera and ballet. The issue also includes the rich proceedings of the Salford Conference of 2003 on "Seventeenth Century Drama: Texts, Pre-text, Para-Text, Intertext, Hypertext."

ZIMMERMANN, MARGARETE. Salon der Autorinnen: Französische 'dames de lettres' vom Mittelalter bis zum 17. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2005.

Review: E. J. Benkov in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 194–196: Appreciated as "an invaluable tool to access French women writers from the medieval and early modern periods." Provides a "contextualization" of some 30 women, some familiar and others less so, "within a history of women and writing" as well as feminist criticism. Judged a "sophisticated assessment" which "debunks myths and revalorizes writers unjustly overlooked," Zimmermann's astute and highly useful volume includes numerous images, an appendix with quotations in the original languages and an extensive bibliography.

ZOBERMAN, PIERRE. "Représentation de l'écrivain et identités sexuelles." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 77–91.

"[Une] mise en évidence des enjeux et mécanismes idéologiques de la construction du Grand Siècle par une révision (normative) des rôles sociaux et culturels des hommes et des femmes."