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BRILLAUD, JEROME. "La Jouissance de le vérité ou le plaisir tragique selon le Chancelier d'Aguesseau." FS 62.2 (2008), 150–61.
Brillaud's article carefully explores the context in which the Chancellier d'Aguesseau's Remarques on tragedy appear. He begins his article by noting that tragique was not, during the seventeenth century, a noun, but rather only an adjectif. This serves as a reminder that our ancestors thought quite differently and that we should still look for what tragic theater "cherche à nous dire" (151). Offering a discussion of d'Aguesseau's contemporaries such as Fontenelle and Dubos, Brillaud rightfully spends a good deal of time contextualizing words and ideas necessary to understanding the discussion of truth, illusion, pleasure and tragedy at the time. D'Aguesseau, interestingly, is fascinated by theater and yet "peu enclin à croire en [sa] fonction morale" (155). In opposing Aristotle, the playwright follows directly in the footsteps of Descartes all the while calling on Saint Augustine's concept of distanciation to explain his theories. In so doing, d'Aguesseau finds himself between the "mathematical" Fontenelle and the more Aristotelian Dubos. Brillaud navigates the subtleties inherent in any such discussion and avoids over-generalization with aplomb.
GUERN, MICHELE. Pascal et Arnauld. Paris: Champion, 2003.
Review: H. Michon in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 667–668. Study narrates the inedited friendship between Pascal and Arnauld, a friendship between two "personnalités" but also between the philosophy and theology of the era. A chronological part traces back the life of Pascal and his encounter with Arnauld. The author also attaches herself to describe the "opposition" between the two thinkers through a detailed study of their work and proposes her own answer to explain their divergence in thought.
LEMOINE, MATHIEU. "《 De pietate et religione, quid dicam ? 》 Enquête sur les sentiments religieux du maréchal de Bassompierre." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & 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, 339–350.
Reexamines Bassompierre's trial, his memoirs, and literary and historical traditions to seek the truth about his enigmatic life with regard to religion. Lemoine's conclusions are that nothing in Bassompierre's life or his texts can prove any of his reputation as a libertine and a Protestant.
LEMOINE, MATHIEU. "Dupleix, Aristarque et Philotime: une polémique à trois voix ou comment le maréchal de Bassompierre conçoit le métier d'historien." DSS 239 (2008), 195–221.
A close analysis of an important "querelle" between Dupleix and Bassompierre as to the role and method of the historian and the place of historiography. "La querelle qui [les] opposa est loin d'être une pure querelle décontexualisée d'érudits sur la conception que l'un et l'autre se font du métier d'historien. Bien au contraire, en ce premier XVIIe siècle, l'écriture de l'histoire devient un enjeu à double titre: tout d'abord parce que le métier d'historien est un métier en devenir, qui se théorise et formalise à coups de traités ou de querelles comme celle-ci, mais aussi parce que l'histoire a été instrumentalisée par le cardinal de Richelieu à son profit."
BOST, HUBERT. Pierre Bayle. Paris: Fayard, 2006.
Review: CHOICE. Mentioned in Choice 45 (2007) as a Significant European Scholarly Title for 2006.
LABROUSSE, ELISABETH, ANTHONY MCKENNA, LAURENCE BERGON, HUBERT BOST, WIEP VAN BUNGEN, EDWARD JAMES, ANNE LEROUX, CAROLINE VERDIER, eds. Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, Vol. 4, janvier 1684-juillet 1684. Lettres 242–308. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2005.
Review: F. Piva in S Fr 150 (2006), 605: This very welcome 4th volume of Bayle's correspondence is indispensable given a renewed interest in Bayle from multiple perspectives. This noteworthy edition due to its precise analyses, serious and careful documentation, permits a deeper understanding of Bayle along with that of the intellectual revolution of the times.
WHELAN, RUTH. "Le sourire du sage: représentations de l'écrivain dans la Critique générale de l'"Histoire du calvinisme" de Mr Maimbourg (1682) de Pierre Bayle." TL 20 (2007), 399–409.
Attentive examination of Bayle's controversial book which is representative of the genre: "Dans ce dialogisme universel [that of the writer as dialoguing reader], il n'est guère de genre littéraire plus discursif que le livre de controverse" (399). Focuses successively on "le jeu du préfacier. . . l'effacement apparent de l'écrivain intratextuel" (401), "l'écrivain intratexuel [qui] prend lui-même la parole" (401) in the second edition, "la figure du Père Maimbourg. . . présenté. . . sous des traits beaucoup moins flatteurs" (402), "les lecteurs complices du je-écrivain" (403) and the letter-writer as pedagogue and inspirer of laughter or "le sourire du sage" (405). Convincingly demonstrates that Bayle, following Pascal, develops a polemic which "laisse de côté l'invective pour devenir dialogue, échange intellectuel, relation," a highly political strategy "qui a pour but de rendre complice d'un écrivain protestant un lectorat majoritairement catholique" (407, 408).
LEGAULT, MARIANNE. "Iphis & Iante: traumatisme de l'incomplétude lesbienne au Grand Siècle." DFS 81 (2007), 83–93.
Legault fait une analyse de la comédie d'Isaac de Benserade, Iphis et Iante (1634), basée sur une fable des Métamorphoses d'Ovide et qui, selon Legault, 《 s'inscrit pleinement dans ce schéma de travestissement servant à exploiter le thème de l'érotisme entre femmes. 》
BUTTERWORTH, EMILY. "Subject to Dispute: Constructions of the Author in François Béroalde de Verville's Palais des curieux (1612)." Fr F 32.3 (2007), 23–37.
Explores Béroalde de Verville's Le Palais des curieux focusing on the following: subjective viewpoint and the authorial persona, disguise and doubling, obscure objects of desire and "steganographie" or hidden writing and the role of the reader. Butterworth demonstrates how Béroalde de Verville "manipulates the authorial persona to produce "a relationship between author, text and reader that often appears as a kind of game" (23).
MOREAU, HELENE & ANDRE TOURNON, éds, avec la collab. deJean-Luc Ristori. François Béroalde de Verville. Le Moyen de Parvenir. Vol. I: Transcription, notes et index; Vol. 2: Fascimile. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.
Review: D. Brancher in BHR 69.3 (2007), 818–20: ". . .une édition indispensable. Elle renouvelle, selon les mêmes principes éditoriaux, celle qu'ils [Moreau, Tournon] avaient proposée en 1984, désormais épuisée. L'apparat critique se trouve enrichi, en fin de volume, de commentaires révélant des intertextes majeurs, d'un répertoire thématique et d'un Index nominum, tout en précisant certaines données telles la date de la plus ancienne édition connue (probablement 1616) et celle de la mort de Verville (1626)."
Review: B. Méniel in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 656–657. "Le premier tome fournit une transcription qui tient compte des apports d'une longue tradition d'édition du texte, en modernisant l'orthographe et la typographie. En particulier, le texte est segmenté en paragraphes." Author adds notes, an index nominum, and a thematic repertoire.
Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 150 (2006), 597: Volume I of this welcome edition includes, in addition to a rich critical apparatus, a short biography of Béroalde de Verville, a bibliography, a thematic repertory and indices. Volume II reproduces Béroalde de Verville's edition in facsimile; this is particularly helpful as the previous one (1984) is "introuvable."
RENAUD, MICHEL, éd. Le Moyen de parvenir. By Béroalde de Verville. Intro. ByMichel Jeanneret. Paris: Gallimard, 2006.
Review: R. C. Tomlinson in MLR 103.1 (2008), 229: "What this welcome new edition offers is a scholarly but compact and orthographically modernized text, equipped with explanatory notes, index of proper names, bibliography, and page-by-page glossary." Very helpful introduction by Jeanneret.
TRONC, DOMINIQUE, ed. Jacques Bertot: directeur mystique. Toulouse: Editions du Carmel, 2005.
Review: R. Parish in FS 61.4 (2007), 512–13. Those with an interest in rhetoric, spirituality—in particular Quietism—or in Madame Guyon will find this collection of texts useful. "The presentation is clear and informative, the editing meticulous..." There are a good number of appendices. A very positive review.
LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE. "Visions coloniales et spectres barbares: Le Zombi (1697) guadeloupéen de Pierre Corneille Blessebois." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 501–514.
"Ce libelle facétieux importe avant tout pour ses fictions, et ce que leurs tensions entre dire et ne pas dire, voire dédire et inter-dire, révèlent de son inscription, rebelle mais ambiguë, dans la 《 dynamique impériale 》 [saïdienne] de son temps. La présence des Amérindiens et des Africains [. . .] a beau y être évanescente; elle hante bien la reprise ironique, au discours missionnaire entre autres, de la fiction du 《 Barbare imaginaire 》 qui soutiendra la colonisation pendant longtemps, et par laquelle Blessebois se distancie de l'《 illusion coloniale 》 tout en y participant."
L'Écriture de l'histoire chez Bossuet. Bulletin de l'association "Les amis de Bossuet", n. 33, 2006.
Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 151 (2007), These actes represent a "journée d'études" undertaken by "Les Amis de Bossuet" and the "Centre d'étude de la langue et de la littérature française des XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles" (Paris IV) and consider the relationship of Bossuet with history—rhetorical and poetic perspectives. Peter Bayley's "ouverture" and Gérard Ferreyrolles's conclusion frame the essays, which treat aspects of Bossuet's writings and activities relating to Protestantism, to judgment and a "pedagogy of life." Two comparative essays focus on Bossuet and Fénelon and Bossuet and Voltaire.
Review: T. Verjans in DSS 238 (2008), 170–172: Acts of a colloquium at the Sorbonne on Bossuet's writing of history. "En accordant une place de choix à l'Histoire des variations," this volume "n'en témoigne pas moins des enjeux épistémologiques qu'il est possible d'associer à l'oeuvre de l'évêque de Meaux, tout en ouvrant pour l'étude de l'historiographie classique de nouvelles perspectives."
MACE, STEPHANE. Bossuet. Dijon: L'Echelle de Jacob, 2004.
Review: T. Verjans in DSS 238 (2008), 169–170: A selection of articles artfully chosen "à témoigner de la revitalisation des études consacrées à l'évêque de Meaux, et insufflées par la date anniversaire du tricentenaire de son décès."
REGENT-SUSINI, ANNE. "'Voix devant la Parole': Bossuet et la rhétorique de l'autorité." IL 59.2 (2007), 48–51.
Studies the rhetoric of authority in Bossuet to show that there is not one posture of authority but that we can discover in his works multiple postures of authority (as priest, bishop, erudite, professor, etc.,) and the way the "I" appears/disappears in his discourse. Author examines Bossuet's specific markers of enunciation and concludes that his discourse is at times even authoritarian.
SPICA, ANNE-ELISABETH, éd. Bossuet à Metz (1652–1659), les années de formation et leurs prolongements. Actes du colloque international de Metz (21–22 mai 2004). Pieterlen, Suisse: Peter Lang, 2006.
Review: n.a. in BCLF 684 (2006), 64: Volume dont les contributions organisées en quatre parties se concentrent sur la période messine du prédicateur; à l'occasion du tricentenaire de sa mort.
GUTIERREZ-LAFFOND, AURORE. "Les débuts de Claude Boyer: Des affaires diocésaines d'Albi à une carrière d'auteur dramatique à Paris." RHLF 108.1 (2008), 37–50.
Detailed study on the biography and reception history of Claude Boyer's early works and life. Particular emphasis is given to Boyer's debuts in Paris and to his role within the diocese of Albi.
VENESOEN, CONSTANT, ed. Madame de Brégy. La Reflexion de la Lune sur les hommes (1654). Paris: Champion, 2006.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 153 (2007), 649: This welcome new edition includes a preface illuminating the author in the context of preciosity as well as in relation to her own classical culture. Judged "indubbiamente interessante nella storia del moralismo secentesco" (649).
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."
CREMIERE, CEDRICE. Buffon. Oeuvres. Pref. Michel Delon. Paris: Gallimard, 2007.
Review: F. Gevrey in RHLF 108.2 (2008), 453–454: This Bibliothèque de la Pléiade edition aims at a large audience and offers insight into the life, works, and the reception history of that writer. Points discussed are Buffon's style, the cultural and historical background of his writing, his election to the Académie Française, and his general ideas. The twenty-first century reader is surprised by the ethological dimension of Buffon's descriptions.
MORGAN, LUKE. Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006.
Review: T. L. Ehrlich in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 961–62: Judged "lucid and convincing," Morgan's examination demonstrates the centrality of de Caus's designs and treatises "to the dissemination throughout Europe of late sixteenth-century Italian garden motifs" (961). Includes chapters on 1) the historiography of De Caus scholarship, 2) his biography, 3) and 4) "the major contributions of De Caus as an hydraulic engineer and landscape designer in the courtly circles of Brussels, London and Paris," and 5) "the relationship between what De Caus read, what he wrote and what he built" (962). Morgan argues that theory and practice are strongly intertwined in De Caus and "debunks enticing myths. . . promulgated by such writers as Francis Yates, Umberto Eco and Simon Schama" (962). Recommended both to specialists in the history of landscapes and to cultural historians. Index, illustrations, bibliography
MAZOUER, CHARLES. "La Cour sainte du P. Caussin: de la cour au théâtre." 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. 141–153.
Mazouer takes on Caussin's hefty Cour sainte by analyzing its use of exempla, and in turn, how Tristan L'Hermite modified some of these exempla in his plays. While the Cour sainte was in part aimed at an elite Court readership who would set moral examples for the people, the work clearly had an influence on other types of readers, such as Tristan L'Hermite. Mazouer analyzes the disconnect between the exempla in Caussin's work and in Tristan's Mariane, La Mort de Sénèque, and La Mort de Chrispe. He concludes by explaining how this disconnect stems from the genre differences inherent to moral exemplum and tragedy.
ARTIGAS-MENANT, GENEVIEVE. "Spiritualité contre religion chez Robert Challe." TL 21 (2008), 173–189.
Masterful essay, interrogating Challe's numerous and varied works, discovers and defines key "évidences intérieures qui constituent sa spiritualité personnelle et en même temps la source de son effervescence critique" (185). Artigas-Menant finds Challe's "exigeante spiritualité" as evident in a journal written on a ship during military hostilities as in novels, memoirs, the Continuation de Don Quichotte and the Difficultés sur la religion. Convincingly demonstrates how Challe, who had in his youth read extensively and cited Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard, Idiota, Thomas à Kempis, Fra Paolo Sarpi, among others, continues as author his dialogue with them (173, 189).
BRAY, BERNARD, ed. Jean Chapelain, Les Lettres authentiques à Nicolas Heinsius (1649–1672), Une amitié érudite entre France et Hollande. Paris: Champion, 2005.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 390: Rich and interesting edition of letters discovered by Bray at the University of Leyde which testify to "un amicizia erudita tra Francia e Olanda in un momento di particolare interesse" (390). Rich introduction and precise annotation.
HUNTER, ALFRED C., éd., avec introd., rév. des textes et notes parAnne Duprat. Jean Chapelain. Opuscules critiques. Genève: Droz, 2007.
Review: n.a. in BCLF 695 (2007), 92093: "Opuscules critiques, excellente anthologie colligée par Alfred C. Hunter, et publiée en 1936 à la Société des textes français modernes, procurait un accès aisé à des textes dispersés. La présente réédition est donc bienvenue, d'autant plus qu'il ne s'agit d'une simple réimpression à l'identique. Les textes de Chapelain [1595–1673] sont précédés d'une copieuse introduction due à Anne Duprat, qui met à jour nos connaissances sur l'homme et le rôle qu'il sut jouer."
VISENTIN, HELENE, ed. La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers. Tragédie (1639). Presses Universitaires de Rennes: Collection "texts rares", 2004.
Review: M. Bombard in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 662–663. Visentin follows the 1648 re-edition of La Descente d'Orphée and presents a bibliographical description of the different editions of the work, as well as an annex on the Orpheus myth. Visentin moreover contextualizes the play and discusses questions that are related to its staging. Reviewer adds a few critical remarks and points in particular to the incoherence concerning notes and dates.
Review: E. Olivari in S Fr 149 (2006), 390: Visentin's welcome edition is based on the 1648 publication of de Chapoton and includes a table of versions of the Orphée myth dramatized and published in seventeenth-century France, an extract of the first French dramatic work featuring Orphée, l'Arimène (1597), the review from the "Gazette de France" of the famous Orfeo (1647), and the "Dessin," the libretto of de Chapoton's 1648 representation. The edition also includes chapters on de Chapoton's life, the fortunes of the Orphée myth in both Italian and French literature of the Renaissance and the seventeenth-century, and the mise en scène of de Chapoton's work.
RENDALL, STEVEN,trans. Choisy, L'Héritier, Perrault. The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004.
Review: C. Jumel in M&T (2007), 160–163: "The publication in 2004 of the French text Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville and its English translation, The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville, is another worthy contribution to the MLA Series Texts and Translations that has made accessible many early modern texts for the college classroom. This text and its translation will not only be useful to scholars and students of French literature, but will appeal as well to those in gender studies and fairy-tale studies." Of particular note is the assertion that this story was a collective effort by the three listed authors above rather than exclusively Choisy's as previously thought. 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.
SOLL, JACOB. The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert's Archives, Secret Histories, and the Affair of the Régale, 1663–1682. FHS 31.1 (Winter 2008), 3–28.
The author shows how Colbert and his ecclesiastical antiquarian archivists built a state administrative apparatus. Their "mixture of administrative, financial, and ecclesiastical learned culture developed into a state science of information-handling techniques necessary for collecting, filing, and retrieving up-to-date information in a massive state-policy archive to be used for rapid political response."
DEMEILLIEZ, MARIE. "Les airs instrumentaux de Pascal Collasse." DSS 238 (2008), 57–75.
A very close study of the music and choreography of Sigalion including many images of the instrumental arrangements — of particular interest to scholars of seventeenth-century music.
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 16th c. The second section examines the institution of French literary history in the seventeenth-century Important for understanding of the French "mythe classique." Rich bibliography.
ALBANESE, RALPH. "Corneille as a Cultural Icon in France from the Third Republic to Today." YFS 113 (2008), 97–114.
"As a foundational reference for French cultural identity, Cornelian tragedy served as a vehicle for the moral and ideological values of the Third Republic. . . In order to assess the formative value of Corneille's theater during this period and beyond, it will be necessary to demonstrate how his heroic discourse constituted a matrix for the political modalities of modern France. More specifically, by teaching Corneille's plays, republican schooling succeeded in creating a political mindset affecting generations of French men and women throughout the twentieth century."
BECKER, DANIÈLE. "Persée et Andromède de Lope de Vega à Calderón de la Barca, et de Corneille à Lully (1613–1682)." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008) 225–233.
Examination of the four treatments of the Persée and Andromède tale, set in the political context of the French and Spanish courts.
BLOCKER, DEBORAH & ELIE HADDAD. "Protections et statut d'auteur à l'époque moderne: Formes et enjeux des pratiques de patronage dans la querelle du Cid (1637)". FHS 31.3 (summer 2008), 381–416.
Les auteurs analysent "le rôle des écrits dans les échanges sociaux et sur la manière dont les compétences de certains scripteurs sont mobilisées dans l'espace social". En prenant comme exemple Le Cid de Corneille, les auteurs expliquent que "l'interrogation sur le patronage des gens de lettres invite en réalité à repenser l'ensemble de nos conceptions du fait "littéraire" à l'époque moderne."
BRAIDER, CHRISTOPHER. "The Witch from Colchis: Corneille's Médée, Chimène's Le Cid, and the Invention of Classical Genius." MLQ 69 (2008), 315–37.
Suggests that the energetic, autonomous heroines Chimène and Médée function for Corneille as muses, not as Others. More specifically, they help define and embody a specifically Cornelian genius, in particular, the "transcendent principle of creative Cornelian will" (340).
BURY, EMMANUEL. "Corneille et la République des lettres européennes." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008) 237–249.
Sets out to examine "dans quelle mesure le poète dramatique a suscité l'intérêt des citoyens de la République des Lettres, savants et érudits que la génération des 《 nouveaux doctes 》 à laquelle Corneille appartenait, avait contribué peu à peu à mettre à l'écart du discours critique."
CARLIN, CLAIRE. "Marc Fumaroli et la dramaturgie cornélienne." OeC 32.1 (2007), 49–56.
Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et critiques présenté par Roxanne Roy et consacré "à l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli. "L'influence de Marc Fumaroli sur la critique cornélienne des 35 dernières années est à la fois rétrospective et axée sur l'actualité et l'avenir des développements dans le domaine. Il cite dans Héros et orateurs la plupart d'entre les travaux les plus importants publiés jusqu'en 1991, ce qui s'avère extrêmement utile dans la mesure où M. Fumaroli enrichit les contributions de ses collègues en les situant par rapport à la mouvance jésuite et les débats philosophiques, théologiques et esthétiques dont il a pleinement révélé la pertinence pour le théâtre cornélien."
CHAUVEAU, JEAN-PIERRE. "De Corneille à Mozart à travers Métastase: une rencontre imaginaire à cent cinquante ans de distance, ou de Cinna (1641) à La Clémence de Titus (1791)." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 387–398.
Examination of points of convergence (in themes and treatment of character) between Corneille's play and Mozart's opera, for which Pietro Metastasio wrote the libretto.
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.
CLERICI-BALMAS, NERINA. "Giuseppe Baretti traducteur de Corneille." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 311–321.
Overview of the four volumes of Baretti's translation of twenty of Corneille's tragedies, published between 1747–1748.
COUDERC, CHRISTOPHE. "Corneille réécrit Lope de Vega: de Amar sin saber a quién à La suite du menteur." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 131–142.
Analysis of the adaptation of the Lope de Vega play by Corneille, focusing particularly on the changes to the valet character, Cliton.
DIDIER. BEATRICE. "Les tragédies de Pierre Corneille à l'Opéra (XVIIIe – XIXe siècle)." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 403–410.
Brief examination of the fates of Horace, Polyeucte, and Le Cid in nineteenth-century French opera, and brief examination of the types of transformations Corneille's plays underwent.
DOGLIO MAZZOCCHI, MARIANGELA. "Corneille et Alfieri: de la mythologie de l'histoire au volontarisme, en tant qu'esthétique et anthropologie." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 323–333.
Examination of heroism in Corneille, and a comparative analysis of heroism in the eighteenth-century Italian poet Vittorio Alfieri.
DOSMOND, SIMONE. "Clitandre, drame élisabéthain?" PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 191–198.
Examines the resonances of Elizabethan drama in Corneille's Clitandre.
DUMAS, CATHERINE. "Corneille, Le Cid et l'Espagne: des paradoxes après un 《 coup de maître 》." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 251–261.
"Au cours de cette enquête, nous examinerons quels aspects de l'œuvre de Corneille ont été transmis et soulignés, quelles pièces ont fait l'objet de traductions, et dans quelle mesure le dramaturge a pu être à son tour proposé comme 《 modèle 》 aux auteurs espagnols."
DUPRAT, ANNE. "L'art et le précepte: Corneille et l'aristotélisme européen." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 33–43.
Analysis of Corneille's dramatic theory in light of the principles upheld by Heinsius, Castelvetro et al.
EKSTEIN, NINA. Corneille's Irony. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2007.
Review: M. Douguet in Fabula (http://www.fabula.org). Citing the project as potentially "paradoxal," this review describes the book's plan in detail: an introduction that defines irony (based on Hutcheon); two major sections dedicated to evident irony and possible irony, for both of which Ekstein offers a developed typology. Extensive use of examples from throughout Corneille's oeuvre, while each chapter concludes with a more in-depth study of one play. Types of irony studied include: dramatic irony; verbal irony; situational irony; Ekstein studies as well "signs of irony," including repetition, exaggeration; incongruities; contradictions; and gaps ("écarts"). Ekstein also associates irony to Corneille's practice of surprise and the sublime. Douguet concludes, "L'ouvrage de Nina Ekstein est traversé, on le voit, par des questions fondamentales d'interprétation du texte littéraire, et théâtral en particulier. Il permet d'en cerner les enjeux et les conditions en même temps qu'il propose une étude exemplifiée de la notion d'ironie. Enfin, comprendre l'importance de l'interprétation dans le théâtre de Corneille, comprendre la place qu'y occupe l'ironie est une manière stimulante d'aborder les problématiques propres à son oeuvre."
FRANCO, BERNARD. "Corneille et les romantiques allemands: modèle classique et contre-modèle espagnol." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 353–360.
Examination of the ambivalent reception of Corneille by German Romantics: "la réception de Corneille dans le romantisme allemand a pu faire apparaître une frontière du classicisme, et conduire à l'envisager soit comme représentant de la dramaturgie classique, soit comme expression française d'une dramaturgie espagnole au travers du Cid." Argues that this ambivalence can be traced to an ambivalence in the very definition of the Cornelian model.
GAROFALO, ELENA. "Corneille et la Jérusalem délivrée." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 101–113.
"Loin de discuter l'importance de la Querelle du Cid marquant les premiers pas vers l'émulation des Discours et des Dialogues du Tasse, je voudrais montrer que le lien entre Corneille et le Tasse est aussi fondé sur l'imitation pratique de quelques épisodes de la Jérusalem délivrée. Je vais donc circonscrire mon étude aux débats concernant la justice que l'on trouve, et dans Le Cid, Horace et Cinna, et dans les chants V et II du poème italien."
GEORGES, ANDRE. "L'amour de Pauline pour Polyeucte." S Fr 152 (2007), 253–266.
Retraces the great diversity of interpretations regarding Pauline and her love for Polyeucte (or Sévère), from the abbé de Pure to actresses of the 18th and 19th c. and early 20th c. critics. Georges' detailed essays focuses on Corneille's play but offers complementary support from other texts such as l'Astrée, the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld, François de Sales's Introduction à la vie dévote, De arte amandi of André Le Chapelain, among others—to show "que Pauline aima Polyeucte, mais que son amour pour lui prend de plus en plus de possession d'elle au cours de l'action, de sorte qu'à la fin de celle-ci, il est plus fort, plus profond, plus intense, plus pur qu'au début" (254).
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.
GIRAUD, YVES. "Un admirateur de Corneille dans l'Allemagne baroque: Andreas Gryphius et son Horribilicribrifax." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 295–309.
Overview of Gryphius' work and examination of resonances of a French and Cornelian influence.
HÉNIN, EMMANUELLE. "Corneille et Castelvetro: une lecture polémique des portraits de la Poétique." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008) 45–65.
"Si Corneille est redevable à Castelvetro, c'est moins parce qu'il lui reprend certaines idées précises (sur le primat de la structure, ou du plaisir) que par sa position face à ses contemporains: en porte-à-faux pour ses positions théoriques, frondeur dans le concert des autorités établies, il livre finalement la quintessence de l'esprit aristotélicien. L'originalité de Corneille théoricien, tant de fois souligné, ne serait-elle pas d'avoir imité l'originalité de Castelvetro ?"
IBBETT, KATHERINE. "Heroes and History's Remainders: The Restes of Pierre Corneille." MLQ 69 (2008), 347–66.
A meditation on things left behind in Corneille: aged characters, overlooked actions, and the late plays themselves, "material that persists awkwardly past its prime" (350). Ibbett suggests that "[t]he reste provides a more troubling perspective on the grandiose heroism with which Corneille is too often associated. In attending to the language of the remainder, we see how he reworks history so as to reflect on the relation between the merely grandiose and the enduring presence that accompanies it and extends its promise" (364).
LASSERRE, FRANÇOIS. "Contacts de Corneille avec le théâtre anglais." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 175–185.
Examines the potential influence on Corneille of three English plays: Beaumont and Fletcher's Thierry et Théodoret, the comedy The Coronation by the same authors, and Philip Massinger's Le Rénégat.
LE ROUX, M. Performance review of Pierre Corneille, Le Cid. Mise en scène d'Alain Ollivier. Théâtre Gérard Philipe de Saint-Denis. Du 15 octobre au 15 novembre 2007. Tournée nationale jusqu'en février 2008. QL 956 (du 1er au 15 novembre 2007), 26:
La critique trouve que A. Ollivier met en scène la pièce 《 avec une radicalité artistique exempte de toute démagogie 》. Par exemple, 《 l'époque Louis XIII est évoquée... par les seuls costumes de Florence Sadaune. Les étoffes magnifiées par les superbes éclairages de Marie-Christine Soma, les postures subtilement inspirées de l'art baroque, donnent à de nombreuses scènes la beauté de tableaux vivants, inscrits sur la matérialité du bois, animés par la célébration de la langue et la parfaite maîtrise de l'alexandrin 》.
MAMCZARZ, IRÈNE. "L'adaptation polonaise du Cid de Pierre Corneille par Jean André Morsztyn et sa représentation à la cour royale (1662)." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 279–288.
Examines the diverse ways in which the Polish Baroque poet Morstyn adapted Le Cid, demonstrating how the adaptation reveals "une créativité originale. Le poète invente des expressions nuancées, introduit des néologismes destinés à enrichir la langue polonaise. Il introduit quelques changements stylistiques toute en restant fidèle à la pensée et au sens du chef-d'œuvre cornélien."
MARCHAL-WEYL, CATHERINE. "Corneille et la comedia: la comédie cornélienne à l'épreuve du modèle espagnol." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 119–129.
Analysis of the points of convergence between Corneille's understanding of drama as "illusion comique" and the Golden Age Spanish aesthetic which is "régie par une semblable liberté raisonnée dans l'art de représenter le réel."
MESNARD, JEAN. "Conclusion: Corneille l'Européen." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 429–451.
Closing paper of the 'Corneille et l'Europe' conference held in Paris in 2006. Broad overview of some of the principal concerns raised during the conference, and of Corneille's heritage throughout Europe as a whole.
MINEL, EMMANUEL. "Opéras haendeliens et tragédies de Corneille: à propos de Pertharite/Rodelinda, Théodore/Theodora, La mort de Pompée/Julio Cesare. L'opéra comme repreneur de l'idéalisme pastoral subsistant au cœur de la tragédie cornélienne." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 363–386.
Examination of the adaptation of Pertharite to Rodelinda, and a comparison between Théodore/Theodora and La mort de Pompée/Julio Cesare, although the librettos for these latter two operas were not directly inspired by Corneille's plays.
NIDERST, ALAIN. Pierre Corneille. Paris: Fayard, 2006.
Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 81 (2008), 775–76: A very solid and complete work addressing Corneille's life and literary production, the immediate reception of his work, and his continual desire for literary experimentation and novelty. Niderst also makes good use of fellow scholars' contributions, in particular those of Georges Couton and Marc Fumaroli. Heartily recommended for university libraries, teachers, and persons fond of theater.
PICCIOLA, LILIANE. "Corneille et l'esprit de Gracián, une dramaturgie de la pointe." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008) 159–169.
A reading of Corneille's drama in the light of the work of Spanish Jesuit Gracián, Le Héros (1637).
RIZZA, CELILIA. "A propos d'une récente mise en scène de L'Illusion comique." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 427–434.
Account of the production of L'Illusion comique in 2005 at Le Teatro stabile di Genova, and the very favourable reaction to it.
SAWECKA, HALINA. "De Corneille à Pirandello ou le théâtre du point de vue de l'imaginaire." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008) 417–425.
Examination of the dynamic between author / actor / spectator in Corneille, through an analysis of L'Illusion comique. Highlights points of convergence with Pirandello.
SCHMIDT, MARIE-FRANCE. "Le thème de l'amitié, sa mise en situation dramatique et son évolution des Noces aux deux maris de Lope de Vega à La Suite du Menteur de Corneille." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008) 143–151.
Analysis of theme of friendship. Argues that "Si la véritable amitié mutuelle subsiste dans La Suite du Menteur par égard pour Lope de Vega, elle perd une partie de sa réciprocité dans la Place Royale en même temps que son statut de thème privilégié."
SOARE, ANTOINE. "La tragédie morale de l'action: de l'Orazia aux Tegeaten en passant par Horace". PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 209–223.
Analysis of Corneille's Horace, situated within a trajectory of moral drama from Pietro Aretino's Orazia (1596) to Die Tegeaten (1769) by Swiss dramatist Johann Bodmer.
SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "Marc Fumaroli, interprète de Corneille, dramaturge et poète de l'humanisme chrétien." OeC 32.1 (2007), 39–47.
Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et critiques présenté par Roxanne Roy et consacré à l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli. "Ce rapide survol de l'immense panorama établi avec science, intelligence critique et enthousiasme pour son sujet par Marc Fumaroli a révélé aux lecteurs et amateurs de théâtre des dernières décennies un nouveau Corneille redécouvert et vivifié par une enquête approfondie et érudite sur la formation du poète, sur l'héritage commun et les rapports culturels et spirituels entre Rome et Paris."
VALENTIN, JEAN-MARIE and LAURE GAUTHIER, eds. Pierre Corneille de l'Allemagne: l'œuvre dramatique de Pierre Corneille dans le monde germanique (XVIIe–XIXe siècles). Paris, Editions Desjonquères, 2007.
Review: A. Niderst, PFSCL XXXV (69), 784–785. "Un fort volume comprenant vingt-trois articles qui semblent embrasser le sujet de manière exhaustive."
VALENTIN, JEAN-MARIE. "Lessing, critique de Corneille: de Rodogune à la théorie de la catharsis." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 339–351.
Analysis of the critical reception of Corneille by Aristotelian Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in the 1760s.
VIEGAS DOS SANTOS, ANA CLARA. "La fortune de Corneille au Portugal ou les répercussions de la querelle du Cid." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 267–277.
Examination of the eighteenth-century Portuguese querelle du Cid based on a number of texts by Francisco Paulo de Portugal e Castro and Alexandre de Gusmão.
ZAISER, RAINER. "Corneille héritier de Trissino: Sophonisbe et la naissance de la tragédie moderne." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 89–102.
Analysis of Trissino's Sofonisba (1524), Mairet's Sophonisbe (1634) and the influence of the Italian play on Corneille.
PAVESIO, MONICA, ed. Thomas Corneille. Les engagements du hasard. Rome: Aracne, 2006.
Review: D. Cecchetti in S Fr 151 (2007), 438: Welcome critical edition of Thomas Corneille's first theatrical work is lauded for its careful and precise documentation, its introduction focusing on préciosité, sources, stylistic unity, intertextuality, and reception of the play. Reviewer argues for an eventual critical edition of Thomas Corneille's entire corpus.
PREST, JULIA. "Silencing the Supernatural: La Devineresse and the Affair of the Poisons." FMLS 43.4 (2007), 397–409.
Focusing on the pièce d'actualité, Th. Corneille and Donneau de Visé's comedy, Prest attentively examines in addition accounts of related and illuminating contemporary events such as Madame de Sévigné's letters and the Mercure galant (edited by Th. Corneille and Donneau de Visé). Perspicacious in its demonstration of the play's ambiguity, public anxiety and efforts to dispel the same.
PREST, JULIA, ed. Thomas Corneille et Jean Donneau de Visé. La Devineresse ou les faux enchantements. Londres: MHRA, 2007.
Review: B. Höfer in DFS 83 (2008), 145–146: "Cette édition procurée par Julia Prest a le mérite de rendre accessible aux chercheurs et étudiants la comédie peu connue de Thomas Corneille et Jean Donneau de Visé, La Devineresse ou les faux enchantements, tout en éclaircissant le contexte théâtral et historique. Prest offre une étude de la pièce, de son contexte et des questions reliées à la condition de la femme au dix-septième siècle. Elle étudie en détail la relation ambiguë et paradoxale entre le contexte historique qu'on appelle 'L'Affaire des Poisons' [...] et la pièce qui, elle, minimise les événements de l'époque et offre 《 une version rassurante aussi bien pour le public que pour le gouvernement. 》
DARMON, JEAN-CHARLES, ed. Cyrano de Bergerac, La Mort d'Agrippine. Fougères: Encre marine, 2005.
Review: J.-M. Civardi in IL 59.1 (2007), 52–53. Reviewer welcomes this new edition of Cyrano de Bergerac's La Mort d'Agrippine and approves of its useful and ample introduction, the incorporation of two letters, and the choice of bibliographical references, even if he expresses a minor dissatisfaction with the introduction. Cyrano's confrontation with Corneille is left out, which the reviewer deplores. He wishes that the author had commented at least on the frontispiece.
HARRY, PATRICIA, ALAIN MOTHU & PHILIPPE SELLIER, eds. Dissidents, excentriques et marginaux de l'Age classique. Autour de Cyrano de Bergerac. Bouquet offert à Madeleine Alcover. Paris: Champion, 2006.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 153 (2007), 649–650: This volume of twenty-five articles is offered to a great Cyrano specialist, Madeleine Alcover, on the occasion of her retirement. Praiseworthy both by the quantity of thematics included and the rich perspectives and analyses; the collection is organized in the following sections: "Explorateurs des marges," "Monstres et sorciers," "Marges du langage," "Figures libertines," and "Comprendre Cyrano" (650).
BERTRAND, DOMINIQUE, ed. Avez-vous lu Dassoucy? Actes du colloque international du CERHAC, Clermont-Ferrand, 25–26 juin 2004. Clermont-Ferrand: P U Blaise Pascal, 2005.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 390–391: Judged particularly interesting and innovative, this collection of wide-ranging and numerous articles is as well a reevaluation of Dassoucy. These refereed proceedings of an international conference are organized in sections focusing on 1) the poetic and burlesque works, 2) autobiographical narratives, and 3) the rereading and rewriting of the Aventures. Annexes of biographical and bibliographical nature as well as a works cited section complement the pertinent analyses.
BABY, HELENE, ed. Abbé d'Aubignac. La Pratique du théâtre. Paris: Champion, 2001.
Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 661–662. Hélène Baby rectifies, modernizes, and adds to Pierre Martino's earlier edition on d'Aubignac's Pratique. She presents to her readers a captivating introduction that elegantly summarizes the seventeenth-century author's career and major works. The detailed notes that run throughout the main text are, however, almost too abundant, according to the reviewer, and so are the frequent observations following the text, even if they offer a large number of new ideas.
BANDERIER, GILLES, ed. François Hédelin, Abbé d'Aubignac. Des satyres brutes, monstres et démons, 1627. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2003.
Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 660–661. Pays tribute to the introduction written by Gilles Banderier and its rich documentation of Hédelin's early career, the controversies of his time, and the eloquence of speech of this future abbot.
BOURQUE, BERNARD. "Abbé d'Aubignac et les trois unités: théorie et pratique." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 589–601.
Examines the extent to which d'Aubignac largely fails to adhere to his own theoretical dramaturgical precepts in his three prose tragedies, La Pucelle d'Orléans (1642), La Cyminde (1642) and Zénobie (1647).
BOURQUE, BERNARD. "L'Adaptation de l'histoire dans la tragédie: théorie et pratique chez d'Aubignac." CdDS 11.2 (2007), 83–99.
The author starts out by examining d'Aubignac's doctrine of vraisemblance before turning to the application of that theory in the three historical tragedies. A particular emphasis is placed on the dénouements of Zénobie and La Pucelle d'Orléans where the theorist's own rules are not applied completely. Bourque argues that d'Aubignac does not fully fulfill the requirements of his own theory of vraisemblance.
BOURQUE, B. J. "La Notion dramatique de personnage: théorie et pratique chez d'Aubignac." EFL 44 (Nov. 2007), 37–49.
L'auteur fait l'analyse des sept observations faites sur la notion dramaturgique de personnage par d'Aubignac dans sa Pratique du théâtre et les compare avec sa pratique dans ses trois pièces en prose. Il constate 《 que les théories de notre auteur furent, en grande partie, le fruit de sa courte carrière de dramaturge, ses prescriptions exigeantes de la théâtralité provenant d'une évolution dans sa pensée. 》
SCHRENCK, GILBERT (ed.). Autour de l'Histoire universelle d'Agrippa d'Aubigné, Mélanges à la mémoire d'André Thierry.
Review: F. Higman in FS 62.1 (2008), 75–6. This "stimulating volume for d'Aubigné students," joins together seven articles by Thierry and and nine by former students, friends and colleagues. While some of the pieces are hommages or only partly connected to the title of the book, many others take a critical look at d'Aubigné's Histoire universelle and at historiography in general.
JASMIN, NADINE, ed. Madame d'Aulnoy: Contes des Fées, suivis des Contes nouveaux ou Les Fées à la Mode. Vol. 1. Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées. Paris: Champion, 2005.
Review: T. A. Jordan in Marvels & Tales 21.1 (2007), 153–57. As part of a series, La Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées, Jasmin and co-editor Raymonde Robert present extensive background to the period and context for each text presented that is invaluable to the new student of seventeenth-century French fairy tales. Part of a series eventually to include 20 volumes. Also contains a biography of Madame d'Aulnoy, and various ways of categorizing and analyzing tales.
TRINQUET, CHARLOTTE. "On the Literary Origins of Folkloric Fairy Tales: A Comparison between Madame d'Aulnoy's Finette Cendron and Frank Bourisaw's Belle Finette." M&T 21 (2007), 34–49.
(abstract) "Mme d'Aulnoy's Finette Cendron underlies an American oral telling, Belle Finette. Since no trace of the tale in this form exists in French oral tradition, the author speculates that still-undocumented chapbooks together with motifs familiar from other Western European fairy tales provided the raw material for its Missouri teller."
FRANCHETTI, ANNA LIA. L'ombre discourante de Marie de Gournay. Études Montaignistes 45. Paris: Champion, 2006.
Review: C. Clark-Evans in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 586–87: Marie de Gournay's Stoic ethics and aesthetics are the focus of Franchetti's volume which is organized in two sections: "Theatre of Writing" and "Discursive Romance and Discourse of Reason." Franchetti's thematically organized study contributes to the establishment of de Gournay's literary reputation as it demonstrates the development of her own writing and "her insistence on connecting social and aesthetic criticism" (586). Judged "a model. . . of how to approach the literary, historical and cultural significance of early modern writings in wider perspective," Franchetti's analysis applies Saussurian theories to de Gournay as she examines her "commitment to writing that retains the power and symbolic value of individual style" (587). Index and bibliography.
SCHOLZ WILLIAMS, GERHILD, ed. and trans. On the Inconstancy of Witches: Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612). Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 307. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006.
Review: E. Whitney in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1405–1406: First translation into English of this "length, lurid, and sensationalized account of Satanic practices among the population of the. . . Basque region of France" (1405). Includes detailed descriptions of food, legal questions, lycanthropy, along with parallel observations of geography, economy, and customs. Reflections on the magistrate, whose investigation was charged by Henri IV, includes personal comments and pornographic presentations. Although the reviewer would have appreciated a less literal translation, the volume is praised for making the text more widely accessible and is recommended to both students and scholars. Thoughtful introduction and useful bibliography.
AUCANTE, VINCENT. La philosophie médicale de Descartes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006.
Review: J. E. H. Smith in Isis 98 (September 2007), 623–625. Makes a powerful case for the importance of medicine in Descartes's work (the author estimates that approximately 20% of the work deals with medicine). Fascinating and authoritative, Aucante's work makes the case that "Descartes's medicine is both incomplete and exemplary."
BROWN, DEBORAH J. Descartes and the Passionate Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Review: L. Nauta in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1422–24: The self as agent "embodied and striving toward virtue" is the orientation of Brown's study which demonstrates the unity of Descartes' Passions of the Soul as well as key expressions such as "is referred to" (for Descartes "the passions. . . are 'referred' to the soul itself" (1427). Chapters also treat the roles of love, chance, fate, and générosité. Index, tables, and bibliography.
CLARKE, DESMOND M. Descartes: A Biography. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Review: G. Hatfield in Isis 99.1 (2008), 177–178. Well-researched and balanced, with attention paid to Descartes' philosophy and Descartes the man. Casts doubt on the view of Descartes as a conservative Catholic.
DAVENPORT, ANNE ASHLEY. Descartes's Theory of Action. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 142. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.
Review: D. Des Chene in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1426–28: Concentrating on "the philosophy of praxis" (1427), D. examines usefully agency and freedom and "places Descartes' theory into the context of the French school of spirituality" (1426). The self thus is seen as cooperating with God's will. Index and bibliography.
Review: P. Machamer in Isis 99 (March 2008), 178–179. One of the best books dealing with Descartes's religious convictions. Discusses the relation of the ego to the idea of God's infinity. Some reservations concerning the author's style and her discussion of divine infinity, but particularly convincing in its reading of the Meditations.
HALLYN, FERNAND. Descartes: dissimulation et ironie. Genève: Droz, 2006.
Review: G. Lana in S Fr 151 (2007), 173: Important and clear essay illuminates the complexity of Descartes' writing or as Hallyn explains "C'est la manière dont le langage donne accès au sens à travers une rhétorique, avec ses motivations dans la mission que Descartes s'assigne et dans le contexte où il le poursuit, qui constituera l'objet de cette enquête" (8). After an introduction on the general practice of dissimulation, at court and here, in philosophical and scientific discourse, the study is organized in two parts: "Parcours: les vicissitudes de l'art de la prudence" and "Analyses." The second section is structured according to types of discourse (physical, metaphysical, polemic). Includes a rich bibliography.
Review: n.a. in BCLF 697 (2007), 708: Etude sur les stratégies d'écriture de Descartes servant à contourner les multiples sources de censure. Hallyn "retrace avec minutie les différentes strates de cette prudence dans la diffusion de sa pensée, en convoquant les textes publiés et en les confrontant à la correspondance et aux notes de Descartes sur un même thème. Il montre ainsi combien cette stratégie est constamment adaptée aux circonstances et aux publics."
JACOVIDES, MICHAEL. "How is Descartes' Argument Against Scepticism Better Than Putnam's?" PhQ 57 (September 2007), 593–612.
Jacovides argues that Descartes' arguments for the existence of God in the Third Meditation are better than their reputation suggests, and that they resemble (more than has previously been noted, including by Putnam himself) Putnam's arguments that since thought has a causal condition, we are not brains in vats, and the external world exists.
JONES, MATTHEW L. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.
Review: J. Cottingham in Isis 98 (September 2007), 632–633. Cottingham characterizes the book's scholarship as "formidable," saying that Jones successfully (especially in the cases of Pascal and Leibniz) demonstrates that these thinkers' philosophies were not isolated academic exercises, but rather aimed at pointing out the link between science and ethics.
Review: K. Smith in Ren Q 60.2 (2007),643–44: Principally negative review disagrees with the positive assessments on the book's back cover by Daston and Gaukroger who term the work, respectively, as a "tour de force, offering a fundamental reassessment of what drives early modern philosophical thought" (644). Instead, Smith claims that Jones argues for the obvious and fails to connect his interesting and clear discussions (for example of the quadrature of the circle) to the cultivation of virtue.
KAMBOUCHNER, DENIS. "L'art d'écrire des classiques et la tâche de l'historien: Sur un exemple tiré de Descartes." RPL 106 (2008), 90–105.
Focusing on a 1647 letter from Descartes to Chanut on the subject of love, the author considers the importance of a Cartesian rhetoric in light of the theories of Leo Strauss on "l'art d'écrire". He finds the exercise particularly interesting because Strauss himself did not dwell on Descartes and because the Cartesian model has been greatly studied since Strauss' own work on the art of writing first appeared.
WATSON, RICHARD. Cogito Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes. Boston: David R. Godine, 2002.
Review: G. Hatfield in Isis 99 (March 2008), 177–178. Unlike Clarke, among others, Watson takes Descartes' theology seriously, rather than as a pragmatic foundation for his physics. Carefully researched, with some new details regarding Descartes' relationship to the mother of his daughter.
CHAINEAUX, CLAIRE, ed. Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Théâtre complet (1636–1643). Paris: Champion, 2005.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 391: Collection of all the theatrical production of Desmarets (seven works ranging from comedy to tragicomedy to heroic comedy). The volume's general introduction treats Desmarets, his esthetics, his theatre, posterity, as well as his work as editor and Richelieu's "politica culturale." Introductions specific to the plays focus on their creation, genres, characters, manuscripts, etc. An iconographic study by Catherine Guillot, as well as tables, a lexique and a bibliography round out this indispensable volume.
DE SMET, INGRID A. R. Thuanus: The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553–1617). Genève: Droz, 2006.
Review: N. Kenny in FS 62.2 (2008), 212–13. Thou was a crucial figure in the Wars of Religion. A Catholic with Protestant friends, he helped negotiate the Edict of Nantes. This "outstanding study" brings together a biography and wide-ranging investigation of de Thou's writings regarding history, poetry, chronicles and his private life. De Smet's strength, the reviewer observes, is moving between de Thou's many genres of writings on any given subject while presenting the material in an engaging and appropriate manner that does not decontextualize his works. De Smet's work goes beyond many of the sources she quotes and offers a "gripping portrait not just of one individual but of numerous others in troubled, violent times."
Review: P.-A. Mellet in BHR 70.1 (2008), 267–70: L'auteur "apporte finalement un nouveau regard sur Jacques-Auguste de Thou, dans la mesure où toute sa vie professionnelle et personnelle (poétique, juridique, amicale, conjugale, etc.) est considérée comme la réalisation d'un plan d'auto-promotion individuelle. Cette approche (la biographie comme expression de l'ambition) se distingue de celles qui appréhendent les familles dans leur ensemble, comme Philippe Hamon qui estime que la carrière de Jacques-Auguste marque le zénith d'un lignage robin influent, avant 'la chute de la maison de Thou' (p. 271, p. 278). C'est cette approche qui constitue l'originalité du livre d'Ingrid De Smet."
Review: C. Weiss in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 582–83: Judged an "exceptional work on de Thou's life and identity," De Smet's study includes "genealogies of his family, a useful index, thorough bibliography, [and] list of illustrations" (583). De Smet's examination of the highly influential, if often maligned, luminary of the early modern is an engaging, thematically arranged intellectual biography. Chapters focus on his poetry, his relationships, the women in his writing and his life, his scholarship (the Historia and his Memoires) and "role as a political voice at this moment in French history" (582). De Smet's analysis on de Thou's role at court and among church officials is particularly enlightening.
PREST, JULIA. "Silencing the Supernatural: La Devineresse and the Affair of the Poisons." FMLS 43.4 (2007), 397–409.
Focusing on the pièce d'actualité, Th. Corneille and Donneau de Visé's comedy, Prest attentively examines in addition accounts of related and illuminating contemporary events such as Madame de Sévigné's letters and the Mercure galant (edited by Th. Corneille and Donneau de Visé). Perspicacious in its demonstration of the play's ambiguity, public anxiety and efforts to dispel the same.
PREST, JULIA, ed. Thomas Corneille et Jean Donneau de Visé. La Devineresse ou les faux enchantements. Londres: MHRA, 2007.
Review: B. Höfer in DFS 83 (2008), 145–146: "Cette édition procurée par Julia Prest a le mérite de rendre accessible aux chercheurs et étudiants la comédie peu connue de Thomas Corneille et Jean Donneau de Visé, La Devineresse ou les faux enchantements, tout en éclaircissant le contexte théâtral et historique. Prest offre une étude de la pièce, de son contexte et des questions reliées à la condition de la femme au dix-septième siècle. Elle étudie en détail la relation ambiguë et paradoxale entre le contexte historique qu'on appelle 'L'Affaire des Poisons' [...] et la pièce qui, elle, minimise les événements de l'époque et offre 《 une version rassurante aussi bien pour le public que pour le gouvernement. 》
LEMOINE, MATHIEU. "Dupleix, Aristarque et Philotime: une polémique à trois voix ou comment le maréchal de Bassompierre conçoit le métier d'historien." DSS 239 (2008), 195–221.
A close analysis of an important "querelle" between Dupleix and Bassompierre as to the role and method of the historian and the place of historiography. "La querelle qui [les] opposa est loin d'être une pure querelle décontexualisée d'érudits sur la conception que l'un et l'autre se font du métier d'historien. Bien au contraire, en ce premier XVIIe siècle, l'écriture de l'histoire devient un enjeu à double titre: tout d'abord parce que le métier d'historien est un métier en devenir, qui se théorise et formalise à coups de traités ou de querelles comme celle-ci, mais aussi parce que l'histoire a été instrumentalisée par le cardinal de Richelieu à son profit."
DAUSSY, H. et V. FERRER, éds. Servir Dieu, le Roi et l'Etat. Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (1549–1623). Actes du colloque de Saumur (13–15 mai 2004). Albineana, Cahiers d'Aubigné 18. Niort, 2006.
Review: A. Minerbi Belgrado in BHR 70.1 (2008), 270–73: ". . .les différentes communications contenues dans ce volume visent à replacer le personnage de Duplessis-Mornay dans le cadre de son époque. . . et elles le font d'une manière presque toujours éfficace et convaincante. Si on voulait tout de même exprimer une réserve, on pourrait peut-être regretter qu'il manque une perspective sur l'avenir, au moins pour ce qui est de la production théologique et controversiste de Duplessis-Mornay."
POTON, DIDIER. Duplessis-Mornay. Le 《 pape des huguenots 》. Paris: Perrin, 2006.
Review: N. Le Roux in DSS 239 (2008), 372–373: Positively reviewed, this is a thorough biography of "l'un des grands acteurs du temps des troubles de religion."
WOLFE, KATHRYN WILLIS. "The Kinship among Men of the Republic of Letters: Christophe Dupuy and the Familial Paradigm for Scholarly Exchange." CdDS 11.2 (2007), 59–70.
The Dupuy brothers' correspondence and library are discussed to show how their gatherings and writings contributed to place them at the pinnacle of the intellectual life in Paris. Wolfe studies their letters, which address concerns of domestic nature but also discuss the political events of their times. She comments on their relation with their long-standing friend Naudé, as well as their disgraced cousin De Thou.
WOLFE, KATHRYN WILLIS & PHILLIP J., eds. Humanisme et politique. Lettres romaines de Christophe Dupuy à ses frères (1650–1654). Vol. III. Tübingen: Gunter Narr (Biblio 17, 160), 2005.
Review: A Amatuzzi in S Fr 150 (2006), 598: Praiseworthy third volume of 82 letters of Dupuy from the Fonds Dupuy ms. 732 (BNF) and representing January 1650-January 1654. Reveals Dupuy's thoughts and those of his brothers during the tumultuous years of the Fronde. Amatuzzi writes appreciatively of the bibliography and the notes, the latter particularly helpful on political and cultural points.
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."
WHITE, MICHELINE. "The Dedication and Prayers from Anne Gawdy Jenkinson's Translation of Guillaume Du Vair's Meditations upon The Lamentations of Ieremy [with text]." ELR 37 (2007), 34–46.
Focus is on an early-seventeenth-century English translation of two of Du Vair's devotional treatises. White points out that Jenkinson "overcomes educational and cultural barriers to engage in the vital work of translation, and she offers a provocative discussion of her status as a female translator in the dedication." Jenkinson's work is notable since it imports "a work from Catholic France into Protestant England" (36). Although White has had to work without a definitive edition of Du Vair's treatises, she has compared the translations with extant French editions and concludes that the translation "reveals additions, omissions, and adjustments that appear to have been motivated by confessional concerns" (37–38).
LE BRUN, JACQUES, BRUNO NEVEU AND IRENEE NOYE. Correspondance de Fénelon, vol. xviii, Suppléments et corrections. Geneva: Droz, 2007.
Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 153 (2007), 654: Praiseworthy concluding volume of the monumental collection begun in 1972. Papasogli draws particular attention to the universal resonance of this corpus of spiritual letters which demonstrates "la sottile variazione psicologica e spirituale con cui Fénelon accompagna la storia di un'anima" (654).
SECHET D'ANGLADE, BRIGITTE. "La stratégie de la citation dans Le Gnostique de Saint Clément d'Alexandrie." DSS 239 (2008), 261–272.
The author discusses Fénelon's complex use of reference and citation in his Gnostique where "[il] va puiser dans l'arsenal de citations qu'il a savamment et judicieusement sélectionnées, traduites et accumulées, autant d'armes offensives et défensives à la fois qui lui serviront à déployer toute une stratégie textuelle qui force l'admiration par sa puissance et sa subtilité."
KOPPISCH, MICHAEL S. "In God's Kitchen: Food and Devotion in François de Sales's Introduction à la vie dévote." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 529–541.
Examines the role of culinary and gastronomic imagery in de Sales's devotional work.
STOPP, ELISABETH. Adrien Gambart's Emblem Book: The Life of St. François de Sales in Symbols. Philadelphia: St. Joseph's UP, 2006.
Review: D. Russell in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 252–254: Welcomed and praiseworthy, Stopp's new edition of Gambart's Vie symbolique du bienheureux François de Sales includes Stopp's own essay relating Gambart's book to the tradition of Salesian spirituality and a second essay by well-known emblem scholar Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé who considers Gambart's work in the larger "context of seventeenth-century sacred emblematics." Russell's review gives helpful details on presentation and indicates the omission in this edition of Gambart's unillustrated meditations.
ROY-GABRIEL, MARINE. Le Parnasse et le Palais: L'Œuvre de Furetière et la genèse du premier dictionnaire encyclopédique en langue française. Paris: Champion, 2006.
Review: W. Ayres-Bennett in FS 62.3 (2008), 334–35. According to this enthusiastic review, Roy-Gabriel rehabilitates Furetière's mixed legacy by "demonstrating how the dictionary is rooted in its age," displaying a "normative stance." The book does a good job covering the many genres which attracted Furetière and developing the ties that bind them together.
BLACKWELL, RICHARD J. Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2006.
Review: W. R. Laird in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 1001–1003: Welcome volume which includes translations "of relevant extracts from the Jesuits' Ratio studiorum, the letters of the Jesuit General Claudio Aquaviva on adherence to Aristotle and Aquinas, and the opening chapter of [Christopher] Scheiner's Prodromus" (1003). Judged a "new, intriguing glimpse behind the scenes," Blackwell's study includes a useful critical apparatus: index, bibliography as well as appendices.
STOPP, ELISABETH. Adrien Gambart's Emblem Book: The Life of St. François de Sales in Symbols. Philadelphia: St. Joseph's UP, 2006.
Review: D. Russell in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 252–254: Welcomed and praiseworthy, Stopp's new edition of Gambart's Vie symbolique du bienheureux François de Sales includes Stopp's own essay relating Gambart's book to the tradition of Salesian spirituality and a second essay by well-known emblem scholar Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé who considers Gambart's work in the larger "context of seventeenth-century sacred emblematics." Russell's review gives helpful details on presentation and indicates the omission in this edition of Gambart's unillustrated meditations.
FISHER, SAUL. Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005.
Review: T. Castelão-Lawless in Isis 98 (June 2007), 385–386. Through his analysis of the shortcomings and contradictions of Gassendi's scientific theories, Fisher demonstrates that Gassendi's theories about hypotheses, observation, proof, causation, and ontology were unprecedented and contributed greatly to the philosophy of science. Although readers without a substantial background in the philosophy of science may find the work frustrating, the reviewer views the work as "thorough and convincing," indeed, indispensable.
Review: E. James in FS 62.1 (2008), 76–7. Fisher's work on the "epistemological and scientific element in Gassendi's thought and the relation between his empiricism and atomism" is an "exhaustive study," according to this positive review. Fisher pays close attention and "his commentary is close and acute." Those looking for a reading of Gassendi that is both contextual and contemporary will not be dissapointed by this "important contribution" to the field.
LOLORDO, ANTONIA. Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Review: S. Gaukroger in Isis 98 (December 2007), 837–838. Works with the content of Gassendi's natural philosophy. Gaukroger praises the author's approach as detailed and thoughtful, and an ideal place to look for comparisons of Gassendi's views with those of Descartes, Hobbes, and Boyle. Calls it "the standard treatment for some time to come."
TAUSSIG, SYLVIE. Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655). Introduction à la vie savante. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003.
Review: A. Pelletier in DSS 239 (2008), 373–375: "Ce volume n'est pas une biographie intellectuelle de Pierre Gassendi, mais une introduction aux Lettres latines qui l'accompagnent, et dont l'A. propose la première traduction française depuis leur publication dans le sixième et dernier volume de l'édition posthume des Opera omnia en 1658."
LACARDE, VÉRONIQUE. "Être protestant: un antidote aux passions gasconnes ? Le cas du maréchal Jean de Gassion (1609–1647)." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & 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, 351–367.
Looks at Gassion's life in order to understand in what way Protestantism is determinant in his actions. While she asserts that Gassion was a faithful Calvinist for himself, his actions were more guided by the prospect of money, military ethics and own conception of heroism than by his religion.
PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE. "L'alchimie du paysage dans l'œuvre romanesque de Marin Le Roy de Gomberville." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 543–564.
Examines the symbolic significance of imaginary, idealized places in Gomberville's work, suggesting "une lecture mystique, voire hermétique."
LEONIDE, SANDRINE, ed. Alexandre Hardy. Alceste ou La Fidélité (1624). Toulouse: Société de Littératures classiques, 2004.
Review: Ch. Mazouer in RHLF 107.4 (961–962), A modernized, correct reproduction of the text from 1624 with ample annotations and a useful glossary. The bibliography needs amendment. The 40-page long introduction presents major questions and topics.
WILKIN, REBECCA. "Renaissance Historiography and Novel Anthropology in Pierre-Daniel Huet's 'De l'Origine des romans' (1660)." S Fr 150 (2006), 466–477.
This intriguing and particularly well-documented article argues that Huet's work is "at the same time both and neither [a plea for the novel or a justification of history], depending on how one reads the treatise" (468). Wilkin analyzes the "three storylines that compete for the reader's attention" (468) and considers Huet's debt to La Popelinière and Bodin, terming Huet's work "a hybrid of La Popelinière's four stages of historiography and Bodin's 'histoire humaine et incertaine et confuse' [which] delivers a mixed message: the French novel represents the apotheosis of civility, but spells the apocalypse of civilization, for the primacy of fiction over history heralds a return to original ignorance" (473). Wilkin's essay includes pertinent discussion on vraisemblance, several women authors and concludes that Huet's work is "resolutely ambivalent" as it "assigns two incommensurable origins—the distant past and human nature—to the novel [and] poses as an example of unimpeachable history all the while deploying conventions that supposedly distinguish novels from history" (476).
BARBAFIERI, CARINE & LAURA NAUDEIX. "Polymestor à l'épreuve du secret: l'efficacité du regard." DSS 238 (2008), 27–39.
In the absence of an actual text for P. de Jouvancy's Polymestor, the authors attempt to understand "des choix dramaturgiques, et de les interroger pour tenter de proposer une interprétation de l'oeuvre. Quand le poème dramatique lui-même fait défaut, il semble qu'il y ait malgré tout une légitimité pour le critique à examiner le programme, pourvu qu'il ne se départisse pas d'une prudence certaine dans ses interprétations."
PARISH, RICHARD, ed. Jean de la Bruyère: Dialogues posthumes sur le quiétisme (1699). Grenoble: Jérôme Million (2005).
Review: E. Gilby in FS 61.4 (2007), 514. This very positive review lauds Parish for resurrecting these satirical vulgarizations of the debates surrounding Quietism. The preface, the état présent of research on the subject, and, of course, the often burlesque imagery of the text itself make for, according to the reviewer, an appealing whole. Those interested in the parodies of Pascal, Mme Guyon and Bossuet might also find this work interesting.
FASTRUP, ANNE. "Maîtrise esthétique de la passion féminine. Fonctionnement topique du pavillon dans la Princesse de Clèves." RevR 42.2 (2007), 297–314.
"Nous soutiendrons dans cette analyse que le pavillon et les scènes du pavillon doivent se lire comme des mises en scène topographiques de négociations politiques et sexuelles sur la relation entre la passion, le sexe et le pouvoir. Plus précisément, il s'agira de montrer que l'auteure cherche avec 'ce pavillon' à interroger comment la femme—la partie faible, exposée et dénuée de pouvoir de ce jeu érotique-peut accéder à une passion érotique sans pour autant être la victime de la nature infidèle et inconstante d'une telle relation."
GREGG, MELANIE E., ed. Madame de Lafayette. La Princesse de Clèves. Newark, Delaware: Molière & co., 2006.
Review: B. Höfer in DFS 80 (2007), 175–176: "Melanie E. Gregg's critical edition of Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, based on the 1678 Paris edition of the work, has been designed specifically to provide non-native speakers of French with the 'historical and linguistic background' (xi) they will need for a first reading of the novel. Her edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes, historical background information, appendix including contemporary reactions to the novel, and complete glossary. Gregg's goal in providing such tools is to leave 'the task of interpretive analyses entirely up to the reader' (xi)."
O'KEEFFE, CHARLES. "The Princess, Dido, Diana: Lunar Glimpses in La Princesse de Clèves." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 671–685.
An intertextual reading of Lafayette's novel in light of the story of Virgil's Dido.
PAIGE, NICHOLAS D., ed. and trans. Marie-Madeleine Lafayette. Zayde: A Spanish Romance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.
Review: F. E. Beasley in Fr F 32.3 (2007), 155–156: Completely praiseworthy for its lucidity, readability and elegance, Paige's translation makes more widely available "this original and intriguing work. . . to be incorporated into history and literature courses as well as women's and genre studies courses." Beasley singles out for praise Paige's explanations of lexical choices and his introduction which provides "an excellent overview of the novel's context."
Review: N. Hester in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 893–96: Appreciative review of Paige's "lively introduction [which] takes the reader into the rapidly evolving world of seventeenth-century French literary prose and convincingly argues that Zayde is both a relic of a faded genre and an innovative pastiche of romance" (895). Paige's translation is found "superb" and "judicious"; Hester singles out for praise his translations of litotes and his notes, in particular key terms such as "inclination, esprit, and humeur" (895). Welcoming as well two other translations (from Italian works) and from the "Other Voice" series, Hester remarks that "the quality, breadth, depth and accessibility of these volumes may well result in these works having a wider audience in the Anglo-American university context than in their countries and languages of origin" (896).
PHILLIPS, JOHN. "Mme de Chartres' Role in the Princesse de Clèves." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 687–705.
Argues that her mother's influence on the princess is "possibly misleading and harmful." "Her educational plan, her interventions to help, and her establishment of her daughter in the 'wrong' marriage show that she is not in sufficient control of herself nor her daughter, not sufficiently knowledgeable about virtue or marriage, and not sufficiently knowledgeable about how the Court functions, creating an impossible situation for the daughter." Useful bibliography.
RAMBAUD, ISABELLE. La princesse de Clèves et son château. Etrepilly: Les Presses du Village, 2006.
Review: N. Cazauran in BHR 69.3 (2007), 8200–21: "C'est plutôt avec la dernière partie-'Coulommiers et la princesse de Clèves: fiction et réalités'-qu'elle apporte du neuf: l'héroïne ne doit pas être identifiée, mais les lecteurs du XVIIe siècle pouvaient se souvenir confusément de plusieurs duchesses de Clèves, de leurs 'amours profanes' comme de leur 'renoncement au monde'; surtout, c'est la maison de Coulommiers, où la princesse se retire deux fois, qui se liait aisément pour eux à une image réelle, celle du château 'neuf' que Catherine de Gonzague de Clèves, première duchesse de Longueville, commença à faire bâtir vers 1612."
ADAMS, DAVID. Book Illustration, Taxes and Propaganda: the Fermiers-Généraux edition of La Fontaine's Contes et Nouvelles en vers of 1762. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2006.
Review: D. Williams in FS 62.1 (2008), 77–8. This book should be read by those interested in La Fontaine, the history of the book and seventeenth and eighteenth-century book illustration. Adam's "luminous interpretative study" contains detailed reproductions of the 1762 edition as well as those of earlier illustrated editions in 1732 and 1745 by Romeyn de Hooghe and Nicolas Cochin, respectively. Appealing to the generalist and specialist alike, this edition offers interesting and unexpected insights in the "aesthetic, moral, political and social mentality of mid-eighteenth-century France."
SHAPIRO, NORMAN,trans. Jean de La Fontaine. The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine. Tr. Norman R. Shapiro. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Review: C. Campbell in Choice 45 (2008), 1165: Non-literal verse translations which attempt to convey the fables' original spirit. The volume includes an introduction on the history of fables, extensive notes, and beautiful illustrations.
SOZZI, LIONELLO. Un inquieto sorriso. Lettura di cinque favole di La Fontaine. Pisa: Pacomo, 2004.
Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 153 (2007), 652–653: Rescia praises this study as she notes its organization according to a series of oxymorons: "leggerezza e profondità, gaieté e malinconia, illusione e realità" (652). Sozzi focuses on La Fontaine's ambiguity, especially as concerns his ethical-moral message. The rich introduction includes a useful biographical profile, a treatment of La Fontaine's reception and a selected bibliography. Chapters are devoted to five fables: "Les animaux malades de la peste", "Le paysan du Danube", "La laitière et le pot au lait", "Les compagnons d'Ulysse", and two other related fables from V, 8 and XII, 17.
SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon: un conte subversif ?" PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 489–499.
Argues that La Fontaine's Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon can be read as "un conte de fées implicitement tourné vers un humanisme moderne suggérant les droits de l'individu," and hence "se révèle [. . .] comme un conte philosophique avant la lettre."
CHERVET, CYRIL. "Lectures du sonnet de Molière à La Mothe Le Vayer: Pour une juste évaluation de la 'tonalité' de leur relation." RHLF 107.4 (2007), 865–885.
Scholars have often overlooked that a sonnet bearing the title "À M. La Mothe le Vayer sur la mort de son fils" closes Molière's Oeuvres complètes. The author attaches himself to study the two authors' (literary) relation and proposes "proximité amicable," in order to describe their relationship.
PLAZENET, LAURENCE, ed. La Rochefoucauld: Réflexions ou Sentences et Maximes morales et Réflexions diverses. Paris: Champion Classiques, 2005.
Review: J.-P. van Eslande in IL 59.1 (2007), 54–55. According to the reviewer, this edition is of remarkable quality and offers a complete dossier, discussing the successive state of each maxim, from its first appearance in the manuscript up to its final form. Other informative reading is very well chosen and the introduction offers a general insight into key issues, influences on La Rochefoucauld, and the reception history. Overall, the reviewer approves of this well-documented edition that comes with a useful critical dossier.
STACK, EDWARD,trans. La Rochefoucaud. Maximes. A New English Translation. New York: Vantage Press, 2005.
Review: D.J. Culpin in SCN (2007), 252–255: In this uncluttered translation, prefaced by the usual context, "two questions arise: which text is being offered? and, how well is it translated?" The reviewer finds the answers largely unsatisfactory and so recommends Tancocks translation from 1959 to be of more use.
HONER, ELS, ed. Anne de La Roche-Guilhen. Histoire des favorites, contenant ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable sous plusieurs règnes (1697). Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, collection "La cite des dames" no. 3, 2005.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 599: Welcome modern edition of this historical nouvelle, first published in 1697. Honer's introduction focuses on the author and work. The volume includes a short bibliography and glossary.
Review: E. Keller-Rahbé in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 969. "Dédiée aux écrits de femmes de l'Ancien Régime, La Cité des Dames se veut une collection de livres de poche facilitant l'accès à des textes importants, notamment du point de vue de l'histoire littéraire. Avec l'Histoire des favorites, cet objectif est pleinement atteint, tant il est vrai que ce recueil de dix nouvelles (en deux parties inégales avec préfaces) présentant des biographies galantes d'illustres 'femmes aimées,' de l'Antiquité au XVIè siècle, fut l'un des best-sellers de la fin du XVIIe siècle." The text is based on the original edition of 1697. Few historical annotations accompany the text. Yet those are precise.
BELIN, CHRISTIAN. "L'austérité en procès: la propagande dévote du Père Le Moyne." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & 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, 224–235.
Reexamines the position of "La dévotion aisée" taken by Le Moyne in order to reevaluate the problematic of devotion as an instrument of the elite's religious practices. Transforming devotion in Habitus, Le Moyne demystifies devotion in order to make it acceptable and lovable.
THIERRY, ERIC. Marc Lescarbot (vers 1570–1641). Un homme de plume au service de la Nouvelle France. Paris: Champion, 2001.
Review: S. Requemora-Gros in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 657–659. This is the first study dedicated entirely to Marc Lescarbot. It is mostly a biography that aims at a historical objective: "faire découvrir un 'pionnier de la colonisation française de l'Amérique,' un des pères fondateurs de l'histoire du Québec." Chronologically structured, it is divided into nine chapters. Overall a work of great erudition that has been built on the study of numerous manuscripts, inedited archives, and that offers great precision.
SERROY, JEAN, ed. Littérature et peinture au temps de Le Sueur, Actes du Colloque organisé par le musée de Grenoble et l'Université Stendhal, 12–13 mai 2000. Grenoble: Musée de Grenoble (Diffusion Ellug), 2003.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 391: This rich interdisciplinary volume with introduction by Alain Mérot records the first exposition devoted to Le Sueur and the colloque documenting the same. The work is organized in three sections, each with related illustrations: 1) "Théories littéraires et picturales," 2) "Écrits sur l'art, écrits d'artistes" and 3) "Formes littéraires et picturales."
RENDALL, STEVEN,trans. Choisy, L'Héritier, Perrault. The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004.
Review: C. Jumel in M&T (2007), 160–163: "The publication in 2004 of the French text Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville and its English translation, The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville, is another worthy contribution to the MLA Series Texts and Translations that has made accessible many early modern texts for the college classroom. This text and its translation will not only be useful to scholars and students of French literature, but will appeal as well to those in gender studies and fairy-tale studies." Of particular note is the assertion that this story was a collective effort by the three listed authors above rather than exclusively Choisy's as previously thought. 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.
MCCLURE, ELLEN. Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2006.
Review: C. Weiss in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 189–191: Praised for its "exhaustive erudition and keen perspicacity," McClure's study includes skillful analyses of early theoreticians of divine right, political and intellectual developments, the Mémoires of Louis XIV, his diplomats and their roles, and the "connection of sovereign power with theater." The latter, including insightful analyses of Andromaque and Surena, are judged the book's "most original. . . part."
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.
SMITH, WILLIAM. "Dom Jean Mabillon, 1632–1707, 'Most Learned and humble of men' — Part I." DownR 442 (2008), 1–20.
Divided into two parts, published in successive numbers of this journal, the author presents a history of Mabillon as philosopher, historiographer and theologian to whom both French and English intellectual history owe much.
SMITH, WILLIAM. "Dom Jean Mabillon, 1632–1707, 'Most Learned and humble of men' — Part II." DownR 443 (2008), 79–100.
In this second part of an article discussing Mabillon's life, times and contribution to theological and intellectual history, the author concentrates on Mabillon's celebrated "Traité des études monastiques" among other texts.
DUVERGÉ, CHRISTINE. "Madame de Maintenon's Image in Patricia Mazuy's Saint-Cyr: Teaching History through Film." FR 81 (2007), 302–10.
The article outlines an approach to teaching advanced undergraduates about early modern women's education through the writings of Madame de Maintenon and through Mazuy's film, Saint-Cyr. Duvergé suggests introducing students de Maintenon's writing on girls' education, discussing these, and then inviting students to see how their sense of de Maintenon's warmth and maternity holds up against Mazuy's portrayal of her as dictatorial and manipulative. While the exercise is thus primarily one of contrast, Duvergé notes that Mazuy's film nonetheless introduces students to relevant historical context such as social norms, period dress, and the power of the French language.
WIEL, VERONIQUE. Ecriture et philosophie chez Malebranche. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.
Review: O. Dubouclez in DSS 239 (2008), 375–376: With thorough analysis, the author brings together the unique style and philosophy of Malebranche. "Si la première partie de l'ouvrage revient sur la critique malebranchiste de l'écriture [...] la second partie donne une première expression de ce détournement sous la figure d'une 《 rhétorique de l'ébranlement 》."
VERCIANI, LAURA. Marie de l'Incarnation. Esperienza mistica e scrittura di sé. Firenze: Alinea Editrice, 2004.
Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 150 (2006), 597–598: Admirable treatment of Marie de l'Incarnation's writings, focusing on three areas, her relationship with her son Claude whom she abandoned to enter the convent, the question of identity and her spiritual calling. Verciani mentions linguistic particularities and in an appendix indicates Claude's editorial corrections to his mother's work. Detailed bibliography.
TREVOR-ROPER, HUGH. Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006.
Review: L. Kassell in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 996–97: This posthumous publication is a highly informative biography, charting medical disputes and political intrigues, and offers as well an engaging, witty read. Trevor-Roper traces Mayerne's life from his birth in Geneva (1573), his studies in Montpellier, and his practice in Paris with "the royal physicians Joseph du Chesne (Quercetanus) and Jean Ribit, sieur de la Rivière, forming a Huguenot and Hermetic triumvirate who defended chemical medicine against the jealous orthodoxy of the Paris Medical Faculty" (for religious reasons Mayerne moved to England and became the chief royal physician there) (996).
BERTIERE, SIMONE. Mazarin: le maître du jeu. Paris: Fallois, 2007.
Review: n.a. in BCLF 697 (2007), 97: "Mais sans doute le plus beau chapitre du livre est-il celui qui montre Mazarin unissant ses efforts à ceux d'Anne d'Autriche et réussissant à convaincre son filleul de ne pas se laisser dominer par son amour pour Marie Mancini et d'épouser l'Infante d'Espagne, conformément au traité. Mazarin a ainsi donné Louis XIV à la France."
ROUDAUT, FRANÇOIS, ed. Jean (c. 1525–1570) et Josias (c. 1560–1626) Mercier: L'amour de la philologie à la Renaissance et au début de l'âge classique. Actes du Colloque d'Uzès (2 et 3 mars 2001), Paris: Champion, 2006.
Review: M. L. Kuntz in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 578–80: Mercier, father and son, both notable humanists and philologues, are the subject of these ten essays and the avant-propos. Praised for its consistent "detailed analysis," the volume is important to scholars of Renaissance Hebraic studies, humanism and manuscript studies. For the seventeenth-century, Roger Zuber's study, "Le livre de famille de Josias Mercier," is particularly valuable, as are two others: "Josias Mercier, éditeur de Darès le Phrygien" (Louis Faivre d'Arcier) and "Josiah Mercier, commentateur des Annales de Tacite"(Olivier Devillers).
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.
BRADBY, DAVID and ANDREW CALDER, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Molière. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Review: R.W. Tobin in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 926–27: Highly appreciative assessment of this volume whose intended reader is the general literate public. The rich panoply of essays by remarkably authoritative critics and whose subjects range from topics on Molière's life, material conditions, genres, stagecraft, textual analysis, among others, also provides varied theoretical approaches (sociocriticism and feminism, for example). Tobin concludes that "the highest compliment that one can pay this well-written, appropriately illustrated book is that it spurs us on to revisit Molière" (927).
BROWN, HILARY. "Johanna Eleonora Petersen and the Reception of Molière in Germany." FMLS 43.1 (2007), 69–80.
Groundbreaking study of the often neglected or dismissed first important German edition of Molière. (1694). Carefully examines arguments on the identity of the translator, the quality of the translated text and its reception. Careful, fascinating and well-documented.
CHAPOUTOT, JOHANN. "Civilité et guerre civile: pour une lecture politique du Misanthrope de Molière." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 657–670.
Political reading of Le Misanthrope. "Il appert que le dramaturge, pensionné par le Roi, fait œuvre politique en livrant au rire du public l'exact contretype du sujet souhaité et fabriqué par la monarchie absolue. A travers Alceste, l'atrabilaire bourru et colérique, c'est bien de la Fronde que l'on rit, et c'est le spectre de la guerre civile et de la colère royale que l'on exorcise."
CHERVET, CYRIL. "Lectures du sonnet de Molière à La Mothe Le Vayer: Pour une juste évaluation de la 'tonalité' de leur relation." RHLF 107.4 (2007), 865–885.
Scholars have often overlooked that a sonnet bearing the title "À M. La Mothe le Vayer sur la mort de son fils" closes Molière's Oeuvres complètes. The author attaches himself to study the two authors' (literary) relation and proposes "proximité amicable," in order to describe their relationship.
CLARKE, JAN. "From the Palais-Royal to the Guénégaud: Life after Molière." CdDS 11.2 (2007), 27–41.
Starting with the competitive relationship between Molière, and Lully, the author examines the moment when "things began to go wrong" for Molière and follows Molière's career up to his death. Clarke then turns to discuss the difficult situation of the Palais-Royal troupe which had to prove that it was still in a position to perform, which struggled with performance rights, money, the search for a new theatre and had to fight for the occupation of the Guénégaud theatre. Clarke mentions the energy and vigor with which Molière's troupe fought back to impose itself once more.
DANDREY, PATRICK. "Molière auto-portraitiste: du masque au visage." TL 20 (2007), 107–119.
Perspicacious essay reminds us of both the idealized portrait of Molière "en César" by Mignard, the portrait of Molière "en habit de Sganarelle" engraved by Simonin and the portrait of Molière as Arnolphe among the other farceurs. Dandrey provides textual counterpoints, both in Molière's critics and the playwright's own response in L'Impromptu de Versailles ("l'image diffractée: un enjeu poétique"), La Critique de l'École des Femmes, Le Misanthrope ("l'image dédoublée: un enjeu étique") and Le Malade imaginaire ("l'image anamorphotique: un enjeu esthétique"). Dandrey sees the latter as operating a kind of synthesis of the two formes of the autoportrait as it offers a "portrait de soi en demi-teinte, diffracté et en porte-à-faux" (117).
FINN, THOMAS P. Molière's Spanish Connection: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theatrical Influence on Imaginary Identity in Molière. New York: Peter Lang (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures 81), 2001.
Review: n.a. in FMLS 43 (2007), 320: Focusing on Les Précieuses ridicules, l'École des maris, L'École des femmes, La Princesse d'Élide, Le Misanthrope, Dom Juan and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Finn examines them along with their Spanish counterparts, comparing not only plots but also characters, conflicts, projections of identities and receptions. Complements other evidence of Molière's "Spanish connection."
LE ROUX, M. Performance review of Molière, Dom Juan. Mise en scène par Yann-Joël Colin. Théâtre Gérard-Philipe de Saint Denis jusqu'au 11 octobre 2008. QL 977 (du 1er au 15 Octobre 2008), 27:
Après une description assez détaillée de la mise en scène le critique résume: 《 Cette mise en scène composite, par son jeu fréquent avec la salle, ses appels récurrent au public, vise à produire un spectacle populaire et manifestement y parvient, au détriment parfois d'une très grande pièce, méconnue ou inconnue pour une partie des spectateurs. "
LE ROUX, M. Performance review of Molière, L'École des femmes. Mise en scène de Jean-Pierre Vincent. Théâtre national de l'Odéon. Du 24 janvier au 29 mars 2008. Tournée en France: janvier-février 2009. QL 964 (du 1er au 15 mars 2008), 26:
Selon la critique, Jean-Pierre Vincent a souhaité renouer avec une conception de la virtualité comique du personnage d'Arnolphe comme Molière l'a décrit. Vincent 《 rompt ainsi avec une tradition de lectures et d'interprétations qui assombrit la pièce et voit déjà en Arnolphe un Alceste, qui correspond à une tendance dominante par rapport au répertoire comique. [...] En son ami Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Vincent a trouvé l'interprète idéal du rôle ainsi conçu. 》
LE ROUX, M. Performance review of Molière, Tartuffe. Mise en scène par Stéphane Braunschweig au Théâtre national de l'Odéon jusqu'au 25 octobre 2008. Tournée nationale jusqu'en décembre 2008. QL 977 (du 1er au 15 Octobre 2008), 27:
Le critique explique la pratique de l'actualisation de Braunschweig 《 comme manière de 'défendre le geste de la mise en scène', de rendre visible 'le geste de venir parler avec un texte d'époque à des spectateurs d'aujourd'hui' 》 et il décrit cette pratique dans la mise en scène de Tartuffe. Ensuite, le critique explique que 《 Stéphane Braunschweig ne dissocie pas son travail de metteur en scène de celui de scénographe, destiné dans 'un cadre non naturaliste' à révéler 'l'intériorité des personnages', qui s'impose parfois visuellement au risque de la redondance. 》
MAZOUER, CHARLES. Molière et ses comédies-ballets Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.
Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 153 (2007), 653–654: Pavesio notes that Mazouer has renewed here his 1993 essay on Molière's comédies-ballets updating the bibliography, in particular with regard to recent studies on the genre itself. Emphasis is on the union of the three arts (theatre, dance and music) and Mazouer hopes as indeed does the reviewer to see representations of Molière's comédies-ballets with intermèdes and original ornaments.
Review: n.a. in BCLF 695 (2007), 61–2: Réedition de l'ouvrage de Mazouer, "une étude essentielle qui, augmentée d'une postface et d'une bibliographie complémentaire, est de nouveau disponible. . ." Mazouer se proposait en 1993 "d'envisager les comédies-ballets de Molière 'selon une vision unifiée, oecuménique, où chaque art-la comédie, la musique et la danse-sera[it] pris au sérieux et examiné conjointement aux autres pour sa contribution au spectacle unique et au sense de celui-ci' (p. 17)."
MCBRIDE, ROBERT. Molière et son premier Tartuffe: genèse et évolution d'une pièce à scandale. University of Durham, 2005.
Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 668–669. A new and refined discussion of the premier Tartuffe, in which the author engages in a fine analysis of the characters of Mariane, Elmire, and Cléante. "De cette revue se dégage l'idée originale et féconde que cette comédie de l'hypocrisie aurait pu commencer par être conçue comme une farce et finir par s'infléchir vers le drame." McBride also makes an interesting comparison between Tartuffe and Garaby de La Luzerne's satire against Les Pharisiens du temps pour le dévot hypocrite.
Review: D. Harrison in FR 81 (2008), 580–81: Organized in three parts, the work posits how the original 1664 Tartuffe likely appeared, how Tartuffe as a character related to religious controversies of the day, and how the play evolved from 1664 to 1669. Although McBride does not draw on any new documents to arrive at his conclusions, the reviewer admires the concise, informative contextualization of the play's religious background. Recommended for undergraduates, graduate students, and dedicated Molière scholars.
MCKENNA, ANTONY. Molière dramaturge libertin. Paris: Champion, 2005.
Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 669–670. While the title may seem a bit anachronistic and defiant, this study delivers a fine and nuanced analysis of different plays in order show Molière's belief in tolerance. Molière attacks in particular Jesuitism and Jansenism but remains faithful to the "dévots de cœur," adopting a position between the religious rigor of Jansenism and the "lax" practices of the Jesuits. He adds, however, that Molière "se transforme en adversaire déterminé du christianisme contre lequel il milite." McKenna's work has two particularly innovative chapters: one on medicine and theology; the other one discussing Molière and philosophy. In Amphitryon, the denunciation of medical imposture serves the purpose to condemn religious imposture. The last chapter is devoted to the "honnête homme dans le théâtre de Molière" and his relation to the "libertin," with a renewed focus on the playwright's anti-Christian "philosophy."
Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 149 (2006), 389–390: Provides a rich critical apparatus including not only a bibliography of works cited and an index of names but also a bibliographical appendix on Epicurus and Epicureanism in France from the Renaissance through the Grand Siècle. McKenna demonstrates the extensiveness of Molière's libertinage, notably the audacious ideas, codified language, rhetorical strategies (especially irony) and the complicity between author and reader/spectator. Convincingly presents Molière as a master of the art of dissimulation.
MOURAD, FRANÇOIS-MARIE. "Mesure et démesure dans Dom Juan." IL 59.1 (2007), 27–29.
Identifies both traits (mesure and demésure) in Dom Juan's behavior, thinking, and character through concrete textual examples. Argues that this comedy merits to be placed alongside the corpus of Molières's "moralistic" plays.
RIGGS, LARRY. Molière and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births. Charlottesville, Virginia: Rookwood Press, 2005.
Review: J. Prest in HFrance: http://www.hfrance.net/vol8reviews/vol8no51prest.pdf: Calling this work "an anti-canonical account of one of France's most canonical authors," with a "commitment to plurivocality," Prest notes that "Riggs offers something new that is to be considered alongside all that has already been written about Molière." The book is "an intensely personal reading that reflects Riggs' own broad interests in literature, philosophy, and critical theories" that is "ultimately, about man and society." Prest speaks very positively about Riggs' readings of Dom Juan, L'école des femmes, L'Avare, Le Misanthrope, and Les Femmes savantes. Citing possible criticisms (anachronism of the approach, overstatement, taking comedy too seriously), Prest nevertheless concludes that "For all its idiosyncrasies, though, this is a bold and intelligent study: there is no doubt that Riggs has succeeded in his aim to provide an 'interesting and fruitful' reading of Molière. And much more besides."
SERVIN, MICHELINE B. "Tartuffe, Toller, des clasiques et des modernes." Temps modernes 649 (avril-juin 2008), 332–366.
Servin presents Stéphane Braunschweig's presentation of Molière's Tartuffe at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg in the beginning of this review of several recent plays (332–337). Hails Braunschweig's highly original and modernized mise en scène as a triumph of the TNS, providing careful scene by scene summary and commentary.
SMITH, GRETCHEN ELIZABETH. The Performance of Male Nobility in Molière's Comédies-Ballets: Staging the Courtier. Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.
Review: J.M. Smith in SCN (2007), 230–232: "The book casts new light on a performance genre whose structure and dynamics are conveyed only incompletely by extant sources, it highlights Molière's clever manipulation of the social stereotypes, and it analyzes these subjects in light of the critical first decade of Louis XIV's personal rule, when the royal court was being reconfigured as a site of representation and negotiation."
SOMMOVIGO, BARBARA, ed. De Molière à Marivaux, édition électronique. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2006.
Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 153 (2007), 654: Sommovigo and her collaborators have produced a CD-Rom with the principal French plays from the fruitful second half of the seventeenth-century century. Reviewer explains the system required in order to install the CD-Rom. This electronic edition is accompanied by an electronic glossary, book and manual. It is possible to interrogate a single text or a series of texts.
TOURRETTE, ERIC. "Le secret d'Agnès." IL 59.2 (2007), 33–37.
Undertaking the question of le naturel considered as ethos, the author focuses on its three attributes: simplicity, awkwardness ("maladresse") and spontaneity through a detailed analysis of Agnès's character. The question addressed is whether that female character is a "naturelle" in her speech, acts, and thinking, and thus exemplifies an esthetic and cultural ideal.
GARRIGUES, VÉRONIQUE. "Le comte, le cardinal et le libertin: la mauvaise réputation d'Adrien de Monluc." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & 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, 369–379.
Retraces the life and religion of the Comte de Monluc. While he has been labeled as libertine, there is little proof that he was, and it seems to have been only a way for Richelieu to evince him from politics. In conclusion, the author characterizes his religion as an "entre-deux," between Catholic reform and devout mysticism.
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."
GARAPON, JEAN. La culture d'une princesse. Ecriture et autoportrait dans l'oeuvre de la Grande Mademoiselle (1627–1693). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003.
Review: C.O. Stiker-Metral in DSS 238 (2008), 174–175: Reviewer finds this an important contribution to scholarship on the works of Mademoiselle in its examination of how they serve, like the Mémoires, as a reflection "d'une sensibilité, d'un goût, d'une conscience de soi[.]"
GARAPON, JEAN. "La religion de la Grande Mademoiselle, de la simple piété à l'inquiétude spirituelle." 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. 127–139.
Garapon traces how the Grande Mademoiselle's attitude towards religion developed over her lifetime, from her childhood frustration at mindlessly repeating Latin prayers without understanding them, and her falling asleep during long services, to her sense of the importance of religion in her dynastic heritage, her frequent contact with the Carmelite convent on the rue Saint-Jacques, and her charity work. Towards the end of her life, however, her shock at the death of those close to her, as well as her problems with Lauzun, forced her to think harder about her spiritual outlook, to the point that she wrote two short religious works. Garapon is particularly interested in analyzing the authenticity of her spirituality and the different forms in which it took shape.
QUILLIET, BERNARD, ed. Anne de Montpensier. Mémoires de la Grande Mademoiselle. Paris: Mercure de France, 2008.
Review: E. Pieiller in QL 976 (du 16 au 30 septembre 2008), 26: 《 Mademoiselle n'est pas Saint-Simon. Elle est bien moins perfide, et bien moins ample. Mais ses Mémoires, dont ce recueil propose des extraits, ont le charme entraînant de la vitalité propre à l'époque des Mousquetaire, un élan, une intrépidité qui évoquent Retz et Corneille, pur bonheur. (...) Mademoiselle se bat, pour ses idées, pour son goût, pour son homme, elle est flamboyante et naïve, elle est entière et effervescente, elle est, pour reprendre un terme du temps, formidablement généreuse, et c'est là ce qui attache, car c'est tout l'esprit d'une époque qui s'énonce ici... 》
PATARD, GENEVIÈVE, ed. Madame de Murat: Contes. Edition critique. Bibliothèque des génies et des fées. Vol. 3. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.
Review: U. Heidmann in Marvels & Tales 21.2 (2007), 280–83. Une nouvelle édition contenant des contes et d'autres écrits, y compris une lettre de dédicace de l'auteure. Heidmann souligne plusieurs problèmes avec l'édition. Pour ne citer que les plus importants: elle trouve la définition du conte insuffisante, les décisions en ce qui concerne l'édition déroutantes et la bibliographie incomplète. Ceci dit, l'œuvre présente aussi plusieurs textes peu connus et intéressants à découvrir. Au lecteur éventuel d'évaluer les pours et les contres.
AYME, OLIVIA. "《 J'aurai bientôt 'un petite religion apart moy' 》: la préservation de l'identité religieuse chez une convertie, Madame Palatine ." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & 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, 381–393.
Looks at Madame Palatine's correspondence to understand her religious beliefs. While specifying that despite her conversion, Madame still retained some Protestant practices, the author concludes that her original religion was one of tolerance aiming to reunite "honnêtes gens" across Europe and across the three religions. This freedom of conscience in a way announces the Enlightenment.
BEHRENS, RUDOLPH, ANDREAS GIPPER, VIVIANE MELLINGHOFF-BOURGERIE (dir.). Croisements d'anthropologie. Pascals Pensées im Geflecht der anthropologien. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2005.
Review: T. M. Harrington in RPFE 198.3 (2008), 381–383: 《 Le présent volume réunit les actes d'un colloque qui a eu lieu en mars 2002 à la Herzog August Bibliothek de Wolfenbüttel et dont le but était d'évaluer les multiples rapports discursifs que les Pensées entretiennent avec d'autres textes antérieurs et postérieurs. (...) Cet ouvrage, fort stimulant dans son ensemble, confirmera de nombreux lecteurs dans le sentiment que la réflexion scientifique, anthropologique et apologétique de Pascal forme un bloc indissociable et que ce sont les spécialistes historiens et praticiens de méthodes éprouvées qui continueront, à travers le monde et à travers les âges, à mettre au jour les profondes richesses de son œuvre magnifique. 》
GELDHOF, JORIS. "Pascal's Double Mistake or, the Desirability of Sound Metaphysics." DownR 445 (2008), 235–246.
The author explores why Pascal apparently escapes anti-ontotheologian criticism — "in this paper, I want to argue that Pascal indeed made mistakes, and that, in doing so, he did not escape from the processes that modern thought initiated and still pursues. Therefore, the reasons why Pascal is spared the criticism of the anti-ontotheologians are as telling as undeserved. All the more so are the reasons why Pascal is wholeheartedly welcomed by those who attempt to reconsider and revalue relgion in our age." The author concludes that, "what we need is not more of Pascal, but sound metaphysics."
GRASSET, BERNARD M.-J. "Le sens Pascalien du mot esprit et les trois ordres." RPFE 135.1 (2008), 3–30.
L'auteur examine les Pensées pour préciser la signification du mot esprit dans son acceptation spirituelle par rapport à la signification qu'il a dans l'expression "ordre de l'esprit ." Il en déduit que "dans la notion d'esprit cordial, jaillie d'une lecture ardente de l'Ecriture, se situe le principal apport de Pascal à l'histoire de la pensée de l'esprit."
GUERN, MICHELE. Pascal et Arnauld. Paris: Champion, 2003.
Review: H. Michon in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 667–668. Study narrates the inedited friendship between Pascal and Arnauld, a friendship between two "personnalités" but also between the philosophy and theology of the era. A chronological part traces back the life of Pascal and his encounter with Arnauld. The author also attaches herself to describe the "opposition" between the two thinkers through a detailed study of their work and proposes her own answer to explain their divergence in thought.
JONES, MATTHEW L. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.
Review: J. Cottingham in Isis 98 (September 2007), 632–633. Cottingham characterizes the book's scholarship as "formidable," saying that Jones successfully (especially in the cases of Pascal and Leibniz) demonstrates that these thinkers' philosophies were not isolated academic exercises, but rather aimed at pointing out the link between science and ethics.
Review: K. Smith in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 643–44: Principally negative review disagrees with the positive assessments on the book's back cover by Daston and Gaukroger who term the work, respectively, as a "tour de force, offering a fundamental reassessment of what drives early modern philosophical thought" (644). Instead, Smith claims that Jones argues for the obvious and fails to connect his interesting and clear discussions (for example of the quadrature of the circle) to the cultivation of virtue.
JORDAN, JEFF. Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Review: P. Bartha. PhQ 58 (July 2008), 571–574. Jordan proposes replacing the canonical interpretation of the wager, based on the possibility of infinite reward, with a Jamesian interpretation based instead on finite utilities, and arguing that religious belief accords higher utility than atheism whether or not God exists. Bartha finds that the argument is both targeted to a narrow audience (philosophers of religion and decision theorists) and relies on unacceptable refinements to decision theory. He concludes that the canonical interpretation remains the most convincing, even though it raises several contradictions and objections.
NATOLI, CHARLES. Fire in the Dark: Essays on Pascal's Pensées and Provinciales. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Review: S. Natan in FR 81 (2008), 777–78: Among three essays devoted to the Pensées, Natoli's best piece discusses Pascal's notion of "preuve"; two other essays discuss the philosopher's "notion du Dieu caché, alors que le dernier article s'attarde sur le fameux texte du 'Mémorial'" (778). The volume's work on Les Provinciales is most interesting in its discussion of Pascal's attitudes toward tradition and innovation, framed in an essay on "révélation" and "révolution" (778). The reviewer regrets the volume's lack of transitions between essays, and a failure to define certain terms. Evoking an unevenness of quality among the volume's eight essays, the reviewer praises the work's solid grounding in classical letters and philosophy.
SHIOKAWA, TETSUYA. "Le temps et l'éternité selon Pascal." DSS 239 (2008), 273–283.
"《 Peut-on vivre au présent? 》 Telle est la question que nous nous proposons de traiter dans le contexte de la pensée religieuse de l'âge classique français, et cela en suivant au plus près les réflexions de Pascal sur le temps et l'éternité. Disons tout de suite que l'éternité elle-même ne fait pas explicitement l'objet des méditations pascaliennes sur le temps. Mais on verra que la nostalgie de l'éternité les pénètre et les sous-tend, d'une façon qui met en relief la singularité du présent dans l'expérience de la temporalité."
THIROUIN, LAURENT. "Pascal et la superstition." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & 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, 237–256.
Explains Pascal's argument that credulity and incredulity are equally dangerous for faith, because the former leads to superstition through a blind submission to formalities, while the latter denies Christian humility by lack of submission. In order to avoid superstition, the real Christian has to balance submission with reason.
KING, MARGARET L. & ALBERT RABIL, JR., eds. Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in early Modern Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007.
Review: V. L. Mondelli in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1399–1401: This teaching volume complements the rich series "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe" as it commemorates the 10th anniversary of the first volume's publication. Wide-ranging and diverse, this study suggests "multidisciplinary teaching modules," presents "a concise overview of religious history," and introduces a multitude of surviving texts by women from 1350 to 1750, from trial records to letters, autobiographies and various forms of other literature. seventeenth-century scholars and students will appreciate in particular John J. Conley's "Convent and Doctrine. Teaching Jacqueline Pascal." Helpful appendix of teaching materials.
SANKEY, MARGARET, ed. L'Abbé Jean Paulmier. Mémoires touchant l'établissement d'une mission chrétienne dans le troisème monde. Paris: Champion, 2006.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 153 (2007), 650: Ground-breaking first re-publication since the seventeenth-century of Paulmier's text which is important for the history of Europe and suggestive for utopian imaginaries. Sankey's introduction is ample, focusing on Paulmier's life, his relations with La Terra australis, and a description of the Mémoires (manuscript and edition). Annexes.
Review: A. Frisch in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 946–48: Noteworthy as the first edition of Paulmier's Mémoires since the seventeenth-century and as a "rich and revealing picture of the early stages of the French colonial enterprise, caught between an evangelizing mission that inevitably involved Rome, and commercial and political initiatives that manifested a more overtly nationalistic posture" (947). Includes a "detailed and informative preface" touching on geographical knowledge of southern lands and over twenty helpful maps.
RENDALL, STEVEN,trans. Choisy, L'Héritier, Perrault. The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004.
Review: C. Jumel in M&T (2007), 160–163: "The publication in 2004 of the French text Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville and its English translation, The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville, is another worthy contribution to the MLA Series Texts and Translations that has made accessible many early modern texts for the college classroom. This text and its translation will not only be useful to scholars and students of French literature, but will appeal as well to those in gender studies and fairy-tale studies." Of particular note is the assertion that this story was a collective effort by the three listed authors above rather than exclusively Choisy's as previously thought. 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.
HEIDMANN, UTE. "La Barbe bleue palimpseste. Comment Perrault recourt à Virgile, Scarron, et Apulée en réponse à Boileau." POETIQUE 154 (2008), 161–82.
Rethinks Perrault's stance as a defender of the Moderns by making a detailed case for his use of classical intertexts in "La Barbe bleue." Heidmann points to similarities between Dido and the fairy tale's heroine, as well as between Barbe bleue and a blue-bearded, key-wielding Roman sea god depicted in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. The article concludes that Perrault defied Boileau in his approach to classical source material, as well as in his handling of gender.
HIPP, ELISABETH. Nicolas Poussin: "Die Pest von Asdod". Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2005.
Review: C. Dempsey in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 250–252: Judged "absorbing" and "exhaustive," Hipp's 400+ page study of "The Plague at Ashdod" takes into account numerous points of view and historical events, biblical sources, artistic antecedents, intertextuality, medicine and a contemporary plague. Highly interdisciplinary, with illustrations and bibliography.
ROSENBERG, PIERRE & KEITH CHRISTIANSEN, eds. Poussin and nature: Arcadian visions. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
Review: F. Robinson in Choice 45 (2008), 2142: A catalogue for an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, the volume provides an excellent introduction to Poussin via discussion of his landscapes. Particular attention is given to Poussin's use of source material and his ties with other artists. Praised for its lack of jargon. Recommended by the reviewer.
UNGLAUB, JONATHAN W. Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Review: C. Dempsey in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 250–252: This 1999 dissertation has been successfully revised and is a "welcome addition" to scholarship on both painting and poetics. Not limited to Tasso's poetics, Unglaub delves into Marino and the Tasso-Ariosto debates. Particularly skillful is Unglaub's demonstration of the utility of intertextuality for Poussin's work.
VERDI, PAUL. "Poussin and Nature." Burlington 1261 (2008), 284–45.
A review of the exhibition "Poussin and Nature," which is apparently one of the few to focus on Poussin's landscapes, though the reviewer laments that this was not made the sole focus. Instead, nature is explored as a theme across all Poussin's works, which "is likely to bewilder the general public" even as it interests scholars. Catalog by Pierre Rosenberg et al. available through the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
WRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER. Poussin. Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2007.
Review: F. Robinson in CHOICE 45 (2008), 1150: A second edition of Wright's original (1985) volume. Wright now takes stock of newly discovered Poussins, and revisions in the dating of his works. The volume is praised for its 200+ color reproductions. The text focuses on establishing the chronology of Poussin's work. Not recommended as an introduction to Poussin.
LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE & DANIEL MAHER, eds. Michel de Pure. Epigone, Histoire du siècle futur. Québec: Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2005.
Review: N. Grande in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 966. The two editors introduce us to a little-known work that is, however, very interesting for various reasons. Epigone can be placed in the literary and social context of "préciosité," "galanterie," and "coquetterie." Published the same year as the Précieuses ridicules, it can be seen as a parody of the roman héroïque. "Outre sa satire de la préciosité, Epigone met aussi en cause le Romanesque traditionnel en imaginant, pour la première fois selon les préfaciers, une utopie qui est aussi une uchronie."
CAMPION, EDMUND J. (ed.). Philippe Quinault: Pausanias, tragédie (1668). Geneva: Droz, 2004.
Review: A. Howe in FS 62.2 (2008), 213–14. This study, which "carefully reproduces the text of the one seventeenth-century edition to have appeared in France," could have had a more thoughtful modernization of the 1669 edition. This "useful edition" of an "hitherto inaccessible work" nonetheless contains an "informative" and detailed introduction by William Brooks which makes it worthwhile.
CRONK, NICOLAS & ALAIN VIALA, eds. La Réception de Racine à l'âge classique: de la scène au monument. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2005.
Review: R. Bochenek Franczakowa in S Fr 150 (2006), 600: "Reception" is interpreted broadly including reading, commentary, representation, teaching and edition. Rich and diverse collection of essays illustrates Viala's remark that "Racine est un bel exemple, avec une belle continuité historique jusqu'à nos jours, de réceptions différentes, constrastées, contradictoires et polémiques" (81). The volume is organized in four sections: "Les espaces de la réception de Racine à l'âge classique," "Aspects de la réception critique," "Métamorphoses créatrices," and "De l'âge classique à la seconde modernité."
FORESTIER, GEORGES. Jean Racine. Paris: Gallimard, coll. NRF, Biographies, 2006.
Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 108.1 (2008), Despite the sobriety of the title of this study, the overall work is excellent and complex, as it offers a varied and detailed portrait of that great playwright. Forestier manages to capture the various biographical traits in a magnificent way, and his major innovation is to show the connections between Racine's life and works. Forestier also skillfully broaches the question of Racine's relation with La Fontaine. No details are omitted in this revealing inquiry into Racine's life.
Review: C. Musio in S Fr 153 (2007), 653: Forestier's rich dossier in this welcome edition includes a chronology of Racine's life, a notice on the genesis of the play, reflections on les bienséances, notes on the text and a bibliography.
Review: H. Phillips in MLR 103.2 (2008), 536–37: "Having provided one monument to Racinian scholarship with his 'Pléiade' edition of the tragedian's collected works, Georges Forestier now comes along with another one in the form of Racine's biography. Overall, it is a fundamentally dispassionate but powerfully argued work which discreetly engages with past biographers." Forestier's work "reads at times like a compendium of literary debates and dramatic principles in which all aspects of Racine's career, understood as driven by vocation rather than ambition, are fully contextualized with detailed information on his relation with fellow playwrights, troupes, and the word of culture generally."
Review: R.W. Tobin in E Cr 47 (2007), 109–110: Praiseworthy biography is judged "passionnante" and essential both for Racinian studies and for a broader cultural understanding of the seventeenth-century Unlike Raymond Picard's 1956 biography (which, Tobin reminds us, was inspired by sociology, existentialism and "marxisme lite"), Forestier's is informed by more recent methods and research, notably "sur la civilité et la critique génétique" (109). For Forestier, Racine learned his eloquence and grace chez les Jansenists and later "a raffiné ces leçons chrétiennes en s'inspirant de la conduite des courtisans" (109). The biography succeeds point by point in Forestier's aim to "démythifier Racine" thanks to abundant and meticulous documentation. This magisterial treatment will prove highly useful to the educated general reader as well as to the specialist.
MARTIN, ISABELLE & ROBERT ELBAZ, eds. Jean Racine et l'Orient. Actes d'un colloque international tenu à l'Université de Haïfa, 14–16 avril 1999. Tübingen: Narr, 2003.
Review: V. Schröder in IL 59.4 (2007), 56–57. The 14 contributions mostly focus each on one particular play, among them Bérénice, Mithridate, Bajazet, Iphigénie, Esther, and Athalie. Reviewer classifies the conference proceedings as somehow heterogeneous and unequal, but also as stimulating and enriching, as they open up new a new way to study Racine and offer a new orientation.
PROBES, CHRISTINE MCCALL. "Dieu créateur et protecteur: lyrisme et spiritualité dans l'oeuvre poétique de Racine." TL 21 (2008), 159–171.
Focusing on Racine's non-dramatique poetry (odes, poésies latines, hymnes, etc.) as well as on the poetic expression of the choirs in Esther and Athalie, Probes explores the imagery of two key themes: nature and love. God's creation and Christ's sacrifice invites a personal response, for Racine, "étude, méditation, écriture": "Muse, c'est à ce doux Sauveur/ Que je dois consacrer mon coeur,/ Mes travaux et mes veilles" (Ode II). With special attention to "le sensoriel," Probes interrogates this corpus, indicating the multi-faceted transmission to Racine of the "concepts insignes qui. . . imprègnent ce lyrisme, la perception de Dieu créateur et protecteur ainsi que la réponse d'amour dans le coeur de l'homme" and situating his aesthetics in the great spiritual movements of the century, notably Augustinism (171).
RACEVSKIS, ROLAND. Tragic passages: Racine's art of the threshold. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2007.
Review: C. Kerr in CHOICE 45 (2008), 1543: Racevskis explains Racinian characters' tendency to "fail to do what they intend. . . and to leave unsaid what they intend to say" as an effect of Racine's focus on in-betweenness. "In this theoretically informed and insightful study. . . Racevskis draws from Heidegger and Derrida's conceptualization of the threshold to highlight what he considers a unique aspect of Racine's dramatic art: his sustained focus on questions of world limits and the difficulty of crossing borders" (1543). Recommended by the reviewer.
SAYER, JOHN. Jean Racine. Life and Legend. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006.
Review: J. Harris in FS 62.1, (2008), 79–80. This biography, in spite of being the first in English in over 50 years, receives a tepid welcome from the reviewer. While there is "ample reference to Racine's reception by English writers and audiences," the book suffers from superficiality. Many plays and styles are referenced, but Sayer injects few actual examples of his subject matter. The book "'does not... shed new light on Racine'" and, unlike the playwright, fails to turn "unoriginal sources" into "something striking."
Review: S. Natan in DFS 80 (2007), 177–178: 《 La biographie de John Sayer se compose de treize chapitres qui évoquent de manière chronologique la vie de Racine de sa naissance jusqu'après sa mort. (...) Somme toute, le lecteur possède des sentiments mitigés à propos de cet ouvrage: qualité incontestable de quelques chapitres, passages intéressants dans la plupart du livre (avec une majorité de pages qui s'éloignent du sujet), un style agréable, et la capacité de l'auteur à nous entraîner avec plaisir dans la Cour de France et de ses intrigues. Malheureusement, le livre n'atteint pas la qualité des nombreuses biographies en langue française qui existent à ce jour sur Racine et les différents aspects de sa vie, notamment celle de Jean Rohou.
SZUSZKIN, MARC. L'espace tragique dans le théâtre de Racine. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 151 (2007), 438–439: Focusing on an often neglected aspect of theatre criticism and in Racinian scholarship as well, the problematics of space, Szuszkin, explores intersections of space and action. From physical space to the entrances of personnages, to political space, passionate space, to "mise à mort," Szuszkin leads us through several key plays, with particular attention to Bajazet. Innovative and interesting.
TOBIN, RONALD W. "Le Secret dans les tragédies de Racine." RHLF 107.3 (2007), 887–902.
Studies the motive of the secret, as an important phenomenon in seventeenth-century society at the dawn of modernity, via Racine's plays. Tobin shows how secrets are omnipresent and significant throughout Racine's plays and turns to their meaning, as well as the differences and similarities among them.
DELON, JACQUES, ed. Cardinal de Retz. Oeuvres complètes. Avec introduction, notices, lexique des termes de rhétorique, bibliographie, reproductions de manuscrits, index des noms de personne. Vols. I–IV. Paris: Champion, "Sources classiques", 2005.
Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 151 (2007), 173–174: Welcome edition of Retz, these volumes demonstrate that "tutti gli scritti di Retz sono necessari a ridefinire la posizione del nostro autore al crocevia dei generi letterari, e al cuore della secentesca età dell'eloquenza" (174). The edition is organized as follows: Vol. I: "Oeuvres oratoires, politiques et religieuses," II: "Discours philosophiques, controverses avec Desgabets sur le cartésianisme", III–IV: "Correspondance." The whole is notably "rinnovato rispetto all'edizione ottocentesca [Les Grands Écrivains de la France] grazie alle ricerche erudite e fortunate che hanno permesso a Jacques Delon di fare 'trouvailles' importanti o di avvalersi di progressi della filologia e della critica" (174).
TSIMBIDY, MYRIAM. Le Cardinal de Retz polémiste. Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2005.
Review: Frédéric Briot in RSH 282.4 (2006), 202–203: Rich, precise, and well documented reworking of a doctoral thesis that brings essential insights to Retz studies. The work is original in not limiting itself to the Mémoires but looks at earlier texts attributable to Retz. Tsimbidy exams Retz's Fronde pamphlets, defining this corpus through careful analysis, enlarging it significantly. Next, she applies this method to the lettres épiscopales, redefining this corpus as a direct confrontation with Mazarin. Last, Tsimbidy reads the Mémoires not as an autobiography or a historical text but as an attack, the culmination of Retz's earlier pamphlets and letters. Briot highlights her demonstration of Retz's rewriting of the Journal du Parlement. Her rereading of the Mémoires and their critical reception is stimulating and insightful, a precious resource.
VANCE, SYLVIA P. The Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz. Tübingen: Gunter Narr (Biblio 17, 158), 2005.
Review: A. Amatuzzi in S Fr 150 (2006), 598: Vance reveals the great complexity of Retz's work. Adopting Genette's methodology concerning chronological time and textual space, Vance's analysis is organized accordingly revealing key historical themes. Two appendices and an exhaustive bibliography complement the volume.
MORGAIN, STEPHANE-MARIE & FRANÇOISE HILDESHEIMER, eds. Armand Jean Du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu. Œuvres théologiques: Tome 1: Traité de la perfection du chrétien. Paris: Champion, 2002.
Review: H. Michon in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 963–964. Richelieu's theological work, although not very well known, was intended for publication. The two authors hereby render this neglected aspect of his career accessible to the general public and allow us to understand this great political figure. The Traité de la perfection du Chrétien is preceded by L'Instruction du chrétien.
CIVARDI, JEAN-MARC. "Jean de Rotrou: Venceslas, Antigone, Le Véritable saint Genest." IL 59.3 (2007), 40–46:
A detailed bibliography on Rotrou's life, career, works, editions of his plays, selected topics, and esthetics.
CIVARDI, JEAN-MARC. "Rotrou et l'Antiquité." IL 59.3 (2007), 3–10.
Studies characters and themes in Rotrou's theatre, as related to Antiquity and mythology, and discusses the question whether he should be classified as a baroque author or a classical writer. Author perceives Rotrou within a movement in the seventeenth century, from tragedy to "tragédie à machines" and opera, "où l'Antiquité et la mythologie sont utilisées pour le clinquant, le dépaysement et le spectaculaire avant tout." A detailed bibliography is included.
PASQUIER, PIERRE, ed. Le théâtre de Rotrou. Littératures classiques, no. 63 (2007).
Review: L. Hochgeschwender, PFSCL XXXV (69), 778–781. "Par la mise en perspective unanime de la singularité de Rotrou ce recueil d'articles de spécialistes renommés offre en effet une nouvelle image de l'œuvre de Rotrou et il trouvera sa place parmi les ouvrages de référence sur Rotrou."
ROBERT, YANN. "De la moralité des tragédies: le Saint Genest de Rotrou et la Querelle du théâtre." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 573–588.
Analysis of the ambivalence inherent in Rotrou's play. Author concludes: "La singularité de la pièce de Rotrou provient [du] rapport paradoxal à la théâtralité, dont elle est à la fois une condamnation et un éloge au nom d'une même idéologie chrétienne: Rotrou soutient en définitive un théâtre sur la scène dans l'espoir de mettre fin au théâtre dans la salle."
SCHORDERET, ALAIN. "Saint-Amant, poète de l'hermétisme grotesque et du jeu." Études françaises 44.1 (2008), 121–45.
Works with the theme of what the author calls "l'hermétisme grotesque du jeu" in Saint-Amant, placing him in the tradition of Rutebeuf and Rabelais.
ZAISER, RAINER. "La modernité de Saint-Amant: une lecture métapoétique de l'ode La Solitude." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 477–488.
Sets out to demonstrate that it is "dans [la] coexistence d'éléments divers et contraires que réside la modernité du programme poétique de Saint-Amant, et ceci d'autant plus que ce programme est exposé, dans les derniers vers de son poème, par le je lyrique dans un discours métapoétique."
GARIDEL, DELPHINE DE. Poétique de Saint-Simon. Cours et détours du récit historique dans les Mémoires. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005.
Review: J. Nollez in DSS 238 (2008), 172–173: As an augmented version of the author's doctoral thesis, this work "s'inscrit dans la continuité du renouveau des études saint-simoniennes," wherein she successfully presents "un travail d'ensemble sur la narration dans les Mémoires de Saint-Simon."
SOLLERS, PHILIPPE. "Furieux Saint-Simon." Infini 103 (2008), 6–8.
Reflects on Saint-Simon as a razor-sharp wit who wrote quickly and delivered crushing, perfectly phrased descriptions of his contemporaries.
GENETIOT, ALAIN. "Le Parnasse satirique de Sarasin ou l'invention de l'auteur-honnête-homme." TL 20 (2007), 269–286.
Insightful essays traces the invention of "l'auteur-honnête homme" through the "témoin privilégié" of the formative years of "le statut de l'écrivain" (269). Génetiot leads the reader masterfully through Sarasin's production, in particular four works of satirical fiction "qui construisent la représentation de l'espace littéraire en pleine transformation" (270), thus furnishing "un modèle idéal de bon auteur" characterized as: "le repoussoir du pédant parasite," and "le refus de l'afféterie déraisonnable" (270, 275). Citing Ménage and Pellisson, Génetiot convincingly demonstrates that "le génie universel de Sarasin propose. . . en lui-même la synthèse harmonieuse du savoir solide du docte en évitant simultanément la misanthropie du savant austère et la frivolité vaine du mondain, dans un juste tempérament qui se révèle par l'enjouement de la conversation civile" (285).
LEPLATRE, OLIVIER. "'Foy d'autheur,' Ichnographie de l'écrivain comique (autour du Roman comique de Scarron). TL 20 (2007), 287–301.
Reminding us of Bakhtin's perspectives on the principal object and originality of the "genre romanesque" as "l'homme qui parle et sa parole" (289), Leplatre illustrates the relations of the writer with himself, his function and his acts. Taking Scarron's Roquebrune as an example among others (but also finding that Sorel and Furetière provide examples of "doubles et troubles d'identité"), Leplatre demonstrates amply the "processus pleinement ironique qui inscrit la critique du roman à l'intérieur du roman, dans un personnage transformé en matériau d'un imaginaire qui lui est contraire et qui pour rire le dénature" (290, 291). Insisting on the paradoxical quality of Scarron's "auteur-narrateur exhibitionniste," Leplatre paints a vision of the writer "en Protée" (294–296) and concludes that Sarasin's "l'écrivain comique" is "sans visage, sans nom,. . . dépourvu d'identité stable: il est un jeu. Il est le jeu intempestif des signes, suspendus au gai savoir d'une littérature consciente de soi et sans souci de fondation de l'écriture autrement que par elle-même" (301).
VOS-CAMY, JOLENE. "Les Folies du Roman comique: le caractère burlesque et Romanesque de Ragotin et Destin." CdDS 11.2 (2007), 43–57.
Examines changes of tone in the first and second parts of Scarron's novel through a close study of the characters of Ragotin and Destin. While Ragotin's burlesque adventures keep increasing throughout the novel, Destin's extravagances are modified and attenuated in order to adopt a Romanesque tone. Overall, Scarron creates a dynamics of laughter and love.
BOURQUI, CLAUDE & ALEXANDRE GREEN, eds. Madeleine et Georges de Scudéry. Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus. Paris: Flammarion, 2005.
Review: N. Grande in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 964–965. Study presents excerpts of this masterpiece and is completed by an Internet site (www.artamene.org). The latter reproduces the text in its integrality and adds numerous study tools. This new edition reveals coherence, is preceded by a great general introduction on the Grand Cyrus while each excerpt is annotated in itself. A selective bibliography is also included.
BOURQUI, CLAUDE & ALEXANDRE GREEN, eds. Madeleine et Georges de Scudéry. Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus. Paris: Flammarion, 2005.
Review: N. Grande in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 964–965. Study presents excerpts of this masterpiece and is completed by an Internet site (www.artamene.org). The latter reproduces the text in its integrality and adds numerous study tools. This new edition reveals coherence, is preceded by a great general introduction on the Grand Cyrus while each excerpt is annotated in itself. A selective bibliography is also included.
MORLET-CHANTALAT, CHANTAL, ed. Madeleine de Scudéry. Clélie. Histoire romaine, cinquième et dernière partie 1660. Paris: Champion, 2005.
Review: N. Grande in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 965–966. This is the last part of the five-volume edition that Honoré Champion re-edited, and it is preceded by an introduction that underlines the general problematic of the fifth part of the novel. This edition has ample notes, annotations, and references that make it easy for the reader to find a particular episode of the novel. "L'introduction de la cinquième partie met en évidence l'évolution de la pratique créatrice de la romancière, et en particulier comment le développement des descriptions de châteaux, de jardins, et la multiplication des portraits amènent une réflexion sur les rapports entre littérature et peinture."
JACQUENTIN-GAUDET, ALBERTE (ed.). Joannes Serreius [Jean Serrier]: Grammaire française (1623). Paris: Champion, 2005.
Review: G. Siouffi in FS 61.4 (2007), 510–11. This reedition of Serreius' work is "precious." "On peut," says the reviewer, "y voir l'un des derniers témoins de l'attachement au latin qui gouvernait la description des langues à usage pédagogique en Europe."
GUTWIRTH, MARCEL. Madame de Sévigné, classique à son insu. Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 2004.
Review: M. Hawcroft in MLR 101.3 (2008), 854: 《 This is an elegant and suggestive piece of impressionistic criticism, the work of an author who has read widely in seventeenth-century French literature, with great appreciation, and with a desire to share his enthusiasm. 》 Seven chapters, each focusing on a particular theme: "pleasure, health, tears, court, rigour/liberty, models, the natural; and in each Gutwirth typically begins by giving examples, of how Pascal, Boileau, La Fontaine, Bossuet, Racine, and Molière deal with the theme before then exploring its relevance to Sévigné."
Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 81 (2008), 776–77: Provides an excellent overview of Sévigné's personality as discerned through her letters. Gutwirth also situates Sévigné vis-à-vis other major writers of French classicism, particularly as concerns the notion and project of pleasurable writing. Additionally, Gutwirth's work brings out Sévigné's signature gaiety.
LIGNEREUX, CÉCILE. "Imaginaire augustinien et tendresse maternelle dans les lettres de Mme de Sévigné." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & 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, 258–271.
Examines the Augustinian intertextuality in Sévigné's letters to her daughter from a new point of view: by using a stylistic and rhetorical approach, Lignereux shows that Sévigné uses the theological themes of idolatry, human weakness and Providence to express the singularity of her love for her daughter.
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."
DALLA VALLE, DANIELA, ed. Charles Sorel, Les Nouvelles choisies. Où se trouvent divers incidents d'Amour et de Fortune. Paris: Champion, coll. "Sources classiques," 2005.
Review: F. D'Angelo in S Fr 150 (2006), 561–563: This welcome inaugural volume of Champion's reedition of Sorel's major works is supremely solid in Dalla Valle's critical apparatus which includes an introduction addressing among other subjects linguistic modifications, the title, libertine dimensions and variants. Two previously unpublished texts are found in the volume as well: "Les amours hors de saison" and "Les respects nuisibles." Copious and perceptive annotations throughout.
DEBAISIEUX, MARTINE. Charles Sorel. Description de l'île de Portraiture et de la ville des Portraits (1659). Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2006.
Review: V. Schröder in SCN (2007), 233–235: The reviewer describes this as a "superb edition" that "ensures perfect readability by modernizing the spelling and punctuation, adding paragraph breaks, and inserting section titles based on the marginalia of the original. She provides the reader with a comprehensive array of relevant background information and concise analysis: the text is framed by a 35-page introduction, 136 footnotes, eight illustrations, as well as a 50-page annex of annotated excerpts from the 1659 portrait collections and, especially, from six of Sorel's novels."
LEPAPE, PIERRE. La disparition de Sorel. Paris: Grasset, 2006.
Review: A.E. Spica in DSS 238 (2008), 175–176: Judged somewhat uneven by the reviewer, Lepape's work is directed at non-specialists in an effort to rehabilitate this "auteur inclassable," but is nevertheless somewhat lacking in documentary citations and relevant context.
ETIENNE, R. Jacob Spon. Voyage d'Italie de Dalmatie, de Grève et du Levant, 1678. Paris: Champion, 2004.
Review: S. Requemora-Gros in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 659–660. First critical edition of Jacob Spon's Voyage that was published in Lyon in 1678. A short introduction serves the purpose to introduce the historical and biographical context. Combined efforts of H. Duchêne, F.L. Lucarelli, and A. Rabot. Additional material (such as an index of place names, a lexical index, and a bibliography) is very helpful.
GOUJON, PATRICK. "Le Père Surin et les élites urbaines." In 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. Eds. Denis Lopez, Charles Mazouer, Eric Suire. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17 175 (2008), 199–210.
Argues that for Surin, spiritual perfection is not linked to rank in church or in society, but depends on an interior disposition. However, society is the place of verification where the secret interior work of grace and abnegation is exposed.
BACKUS, IRENA,sous la dir. de. Théodore de Bèze (1509–1605). Genève: Droz, 2007.
Review: n.a. in BCLF 697 (2007), 56: ". . .les actes d'un colloque international tenu à Genève en 2005 à l'occasion des quatre cents ans de sa mort, permettent de faire le point sur les recherches en cours, en témoignant de leur diversité. . . Les trente-cinq contributions qu'il recèle sont ainsi distribuées en quatre sections dont la dissociation matérielle n'empêche pas une confrontation intellectuelle très enrichissante." 1) "Bèze dans l'histoire de son temps"; 2) "Théologie, exégèse et philologie"; 3) "Littérature"; 4) "Droit et politique."
SABA, GUIDO. Bibliographie des écrivains français. Théophile de Viau. Paris: Memini, 2007.
Review: n.a. in BCLF 697 (2007), 4: "Collection de haute érudition, destinée aux spécialistes d'un auteur donné. . . On doit à un savant italien, Guido Saba, une bibliographie qui fera date, sur Théophile de Viau, poète baroque et maudit, victime de son franc-parler, de ses imprudences et, sans doute, bouc émissaire qui paya pour une école littéraire entière."
LABORIE, JEAN-CLAUDE & FRANK LESTINGANT, eds. André Thevet. Histoire d'Andre Thevet Angoumoisin, Cosmographe du Roy, de deuz voyages pay luy faits aux Indes Australes et Occidentales. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 416. Geneva: Droz, 2006.
Review: A. Frisch in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 946–48: Thevet's focus is Brazil and his work is seen by the editors as "un texte monstre" due to its borrowings of Thevet's other works. After an acknowledgment of their debt "to the groundbreaking work of Suzanne Lussagnet, the editors sum up the perspective of current scholarship on Thevet" (948). Highly useful and extensive notes, indices, appendices, reproductions of engravings, bibliography, glossaries [one of the Tupi vocabulary and another of Thevet's language itself].
BERREGARD, SANDRINE. "Diversité et unité dans Le Page disgracié de Tristan L'Hermite." IL 59.4 (2007), 14–18.
This article sheds new light on generic categories and on the originality of Tristan's work with focus on esthetic questions. The author fully discusses the discontinuity, the diversity, and the unfinished character of Le Page disgracié. Attention is also placed on the figure of the melancholic narrator.
BERREGARD, SANDRINE. Tristan l'Hermite, "héritier" et "précurseur." Imitation et innovation dans la carrière de Tristan l'Hermite. Tübingen: Narr, 2006.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 151 (2007), 435: Although since the late 19th c. Tristan has been richly studied, Berregard's work is the first dedicated to the entirety of the multifaceted Tristan and his theatre, poetry and prose. Berregard's volume is organized two sections: "La critique face à Tristan" and the second analyzes Tristan's position between tradition and innovation, as the subtitle of the work suggests (435). Berregard underscores the thematic of melancholy chez Tristan, affirming his singularity and innovative quality. Annexes and rich bibliography (though Dalla Valle does supply one crucial entry which was omitted).
Review: S. Tonolo in IL 59.1 (2007), 53–54: Instead of a monograph on Tristan, we encounter a historical and sociological work that studies the figure of the writer in the light of tradition and modernity. Reviewer welcomes this study, which reestablishes the veritable image of the writer within the context and the demands of his times. However, the reviewer finds fault with the binary structure of this study, which often gives the impression of compilation and re-edition. But overall, she praises the "archeological" quality of Berregard's work.
CHAUVEAU, JEAN-PIERRE, ed. Cahiers Tristan L'Hermite, revue annuelle publiée par l'Association des 《 Amis de Tristan l'Hermite 》, XXVVIII, 2006.
Review: M.-O. Sweetser: PFSCL XXXV (69), 760–762. "La mémoire de Jacques Morel a été bien servie par ses collègues et amis. L'œuvre de Tristan aussi, son époque et les circonstances dans lesquelles elle a été créée. Les lecteurs apprécieront la richesse et la ferveur tristanienne de cet hommage collectif."
CHAUVEAU, JEAN-PIERRE. "Une figure du poète au XVIIe siècle: Tristan L'Hermite (1601–1655). TL 20 (2007), 89–105.
Chauveau is quick to specify that he has no desire to make Tristan "une figure exemplaire" and that, while Tristan "n'est qu'un poète parmi d'autres," he is indeed representative of the conditions of the writer in the first half of the seventeenth-century Chauveau's masterful article provides a survey of the stages of Tristan's life, the character and reception of his diverse works, his numerous dédicataires and successive patrons, and his trials and tribulations reflected in his Lettres Mêlées as in his Épîtres. Richly documented, Chauveau's study provides an account of Tristan's reception from his day to our own, reminding us as well of other useful contributions on the subject, such as that of Amédée Carriat's "La Fortune de Tristan" and the volume Actualités de Tristan commemorating the 400th anniversary of the poet's birth.
KELLER-RAHBÉ, EDWIDGE, ed. Madame de Villedieu. Les Galanteries grenadines. Saint-Étienne: P de l'U de Saint-Étienne, 2006.
Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 599: Welcome re-publication—the first in modern times—includes a substantial introduction on the author and her work, annotations, annexes, and a bibliography that, while extensive, is missing important and relevant Italian language criticism. Reviewer supplies two particularly important ones.
KELLER-RAHBE, EDWIDGE, ed. Madame de Villedieu romancière: nouvelles perspectives de recherche. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2004.
Review: C. Nedelec in FS 61.4 (2007), 513–14. This review, outlining the varied contributions, paints a positive picture of the scholarly work in this collection of articles from varied authors such as Faith Beasley, Donna Kuizenga, René Démoris, and Roxanne Lalande. The reviewer suggests that the volume will be of use to those with an interest in Mme de Villedieu herself, her writing, or the "roman" more generally.
MUNARI, SIMONA, ed. Charles Vion d'Alibray. Le Soliman, Tragi-comédie. Rome: Aracne, 2004.
Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 153 (2007), 649: This critical edition compares Vion d'Alibray's work (the first French version) with its Italian sources and with the second French translation, Jean Mairet's Le grand dernier Solyman. Includes a brief bibliography.
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