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ADAMS, ALISON, STEPHEN RAWLES, and ALISON SAUNDERS. A Bibliography of Claude-François Menestrier Printed Editions, 1655-1765. Geneva: Droz, 2012.

Review: J. Loach in MLR 108.3 (2013), 971-973: Work focused on French Jesuit Claude-François Menestrier (1631-1705) known for his prolific writings on symbolic images and festivals in early modern culture: “This book is as important as an exemplar of bibliographical examination—especially useful in teaching the history of the book—as it is for revising the bibliography of a particular author. From this detailed case study issues arise of more general import, which in turn open up areas for research in printing and publishing: for instance, how unusual, even innovative, was Menestrier in his exploitation of a comparatively small number of privilèges for a large number of effectively separate works (16 privilèges cover 46 editions sufficiently different to count as separate catalogue entries)? All in all, this is a work of painstaking scholarship, which should be read carefully not only by those interested in Menestrier but by anyone working on seventeenth-century French culture, for whom it will offer a springboard for further research.”

BLAIR, ANN M. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010

Review: A. Nuovo in Ren Q 64.3 (2011), 893-894. Masterful retracing of “the history of the structures and methods that have permitted an orderly growth in collective knowledge” (893). B.’s “book-historical” approach allows her to focus on scholars’ organization. Five chapters lead the reader from Antiquity through the 17th c. as they survey “information management” techniques, investigate techniques of note-taking, examine categories of reference works, analyze motivations and methods of authors, and evaluate the impact of early printed books on readers. The rich bibliography of 50 pages may be supplemented by additional bibliography and quotations on B.’s website http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/blair.php

BOTTIGHEIMER, RUTH B. Fairy Tales Framed: Early Forewords, Afterwords, and Critical Words. Albany: SUNY Press, 2012.

Review: A. Maggi in M&T 28.1 (2014): 180-82. An anthology that seeks to highlight the literary (as opposed to oral) nature of tales by d’Aulnoy and others by re-placing them in their context as literature. This includes an analysis of forwards, afterwards, and author commentary, which are all too often omitted from translated anthologies of the tales, as well as a study of the origins and influences for various tales, with a focus on Giambattista Basile. Reviewer: “an original and necessary volume that raises important and timely questions.”

CHARNLEY, JOY . “Introduction: Representations of Age in European Literatures.” FMLS 47.2 (2011), 121-125.

Praiseworthy introduction to the issue which focuses on “Ageing” as it is represented in language and literature. The approach is wide-ranging and cross-cultural. Essays on theory complement others on specific genres and the sexes. Although the issue concentrates on the 20th and the 21st c., one essay treats the 17th c. (O’Brien).

FROMMEL, SABINE and FLAMINIA BARDATI, eds. La Réception de modèles cinquecenteschi dans la théorie et les arts français du XVIIe siècle. École pratique des hautes études: science historiques et philologiques 5. Hautes études médievales et modernes 96. Geneva: Droz, 2010.

Review: T. Senkevitch in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 196-198. Focusing on exchanges and the role of models between Italy and France in the Early Modern, the 17 essays here examine a variety of aspects of these exchanges including, for example, cross-fertilization. Interdisciplinary, essays may at times relate music to architecture, and painting to tapestry. Highly useful both for new understandings, even of the etymology of “modèles,” and for specific studies of artists in cultural intersections. Praiseworthy for the rigor of its research and stimulating examinations. Illustrations, bibliography.

MCLEOD, JANE. Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France. University Park, PA: Penn State UP, 2001.

Review: K. LaPorta in CdDS 15.1 (2013): 99-101. Whereas previous scholars have analyzed how printers operated outside and in opposition to the government, McLeod's Licensing Loyalty shows the existing relationship between royal officials and the provincial printers, and how the latter engaged in patronage networks. Printers positioned themselves as loyal subjects of the crown in order to get the limited number of licenses they needed, and they clamored for the regulation of their trade. McLeod's new approach centers primarily on printers in the French provinces, rather than focusing on the book trade in Paris. She also paints a more complete picture of the public sphere in France by turning to licensed printers, rather than the "underground" press.

PAIGE, NICHOLAS D. Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Review: J. G. Turner in MP 111.3 (February 2014), E346-E350. The reviewer is not convinced by Paige’s central argument that in the French nineteenth-century there was a shift to an “ontologically distinct ‘fictionality’” that replaced “a regime in which the characters in novels ostensibly portrayed actual people under a veil.” However, the reviewer sees strength in Paige’s “brilliant selection and dazzling interpretation of his test cases”: La Princesse de Clèves, the Fausse Clélie, Cébrillon fils’ Egarements du coeur et de l’esprit, Rousseau’s Nouvelle Héloïse, various contes by Diderot, and a protgothic novel by Jacques Cazotte.

POUEY-MOUNOU, ANNE-PASCALE. “Dictionnaires d’épithèthes et de synonymes aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Du lexique au manuel.” BHR 75.1 (2013), 47-65.

“Au sein du corpus lexicographique foisonnant que domine la recherche de l’ubertas et de la variatio stylistique aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, nous voudrions nous attacher ici aux modalities selon lesquelles épithétaires et dictionnaires de synonymes se croisent et se confondent au tournant des deux siècles.” L’article de P.-M. “reprend sur nouveaux frais une enquête sur la synonymie (journée d’études La Synonymie, org. M. Thorel, Paris, Atelier XVIe siècle, 24 mars 2007) et poursuit une réflexion sur le genre du dictionnaire d’ épithèthes déjà proposée dans plusieurs art.[icles].”

SCHOLAR, RICHARD AND ALEXIS TADIÉ, ed. Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500–1800. Burlington: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: J. Helgeson in FS 67.2 (2013): 257-58. A collection born of two workshops held in Oxford in 2007. Reviewer: “a useful compendium of recent approaches to the question of literary, legal, and philosophical ‘fictions.’” Focuses on France and Britain, with occasional reference to Italy or Germany. French dix-septièmistes will be particularly interested in Isabelle Moreau’s treatment of the different meanings and connotations for the term “fiction” and Wes Williams’s close reading of uses of the conditional in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

SCOTT, PAUL. Year’s Work in Modern language Studies. 74 (survey years 2011 and 2012), 45-71. London: Modern Humanities Research association, 2014.

Exhaustive list and brief summaries of books and articles covering topics of the French seventeenth century published in 2011 and 2012.

BIRNBAUM, PIERRE. A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2013.

Review: R. Parish in FS 67.4 (2013): 553-54. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer, this book describes in detail a disturbing case of child murder and the subsequent accusation, trial, and execution of a previously respected Jewish community figure in Metz in 1669. Explores questions of anti-Semitism, possible involvement (or lack thereof) by the king, and the occasional resurgence of interest in the case, notably during the Dreyfus affair. Although the reviewer regrets the lack of an index and the inaccuracy of some factual information, he praises the use of archival material and the quality and readability of the translation.

BOHANAN, DONNA J. Fashion beyond Versailles: Consumption and Design in Seventeenth-Century France. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2012.

Review: N. Hammond in FS 67.2 (2013): 250-51. Author studies post-mortem inventories to describe and analyze the increasing importance of various material goods in the seventeenth century. While Bonahan’s work is to be praised for looking beyond Paris and Versailles, the reviewer wishes that the author had referenced literary sources in addition to archives, and that she had included physical books in her catalog of objects of consumption.

CABANTOUS, ALAIN. Le Dimanche, une histoire. Europe occidentale (1660-1830). Paris : Éd. du Seuil, 2013.

Review : G. Rideau in QL 1085 (du 1er au 15 juin 2013), 24 : L’auteur souligne la lente construction du dimanche comme jour spécifique et ses remises en cause dès l’époque moderne, “de l’Écosse à Madrid et de la Bretagne aux principautés allemands.” “Ce dimanche est donc une invitation à étudier les heures dominicales et la manière dont les gens les ont remplies. Au-delà, il s’intègre à une lecture globale des sociétés modernes et de leurs rapports aux temps et aux autorités, qui fait heureusement écho aux réalités contemporaines !”

CANOVA-GREEN, MARIE-CLAUDE. “Le ‘grand dessein’ de Louis XIII: l’Arioste, le Tasse et le ballet de cour (1617-1619).” PSCFL XL.79 (2013), 323-35.

Examines various “ballets de cour” Louis XIII danced between 1617 and 1619 to show how the moral and political aims of the ballets combine with their Christian source material to paint the portrait of an ideal king.

CATTEEUW, LAURIE. Censures et raisons d’état. Une histoire de la modernité politique (XVIe-XVIIe siècle). Paris : Albin Michel, 2012.

Review : S. Haffemayer in QL 1086 (du 16 au 30 juin 2013), 24 : Catteeuw analyse la raison d’État en philosophe, “traquant son élaboration progressive dans l’exercice de la censure entre la fin du XVIe et le milieu du XVIIe siècle en France et à Rome. […] D’un côté, la censure ecclésiastique pourchassa les ouvrages faisant l’apologie de la raison d’État (censure du Prince de Machiavel en 1559), de l’autre, l’État mit en place une censure au service de celle-ci (Richelieu dans les années 1620).” L’ouvrage, issu d’une thèse de doctorat soutenue en 2008, “propose une réflexion dense, appuyée sur une solide base documentaire ; il constitue une contribution essentielle à la compréhension des rapports ambigus entre la consolidation de l’État et le développement de l’opinion publique”.

FICAT, CHARLES. “Il Fait Beau, Allons à Versailles.” RDM (juillet-août 2013), 120-23.

“… un détour par les Yvelines afin d’explorer à nouveau les méandres du roman national” -- des réflexions sur Versailles sur le plan esthéthique, politique, et religieux.

FROMMEL, SABINE and FLAMINIA BARDATI, eds. La Réception de modèles cinquecenteschi dans la théorie et les arts français du XVIIe siècle. École pratique des hautes études: science historiques et philologiques 5. Hautes études médievales et modernes 96. Geneva: Droz, 2010.

Review: T. Senkevitch in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 196-198. Focusing on exchanges and the role of models between Italy and France in the Early Modern, the 17 essays here examine a variety of aspects of these exchanges including, for example, cross-fertilization. Interdisciplinary, essays may at times relate music to architecture, and painting to tapestry. Highly useful both for new understandings, even of the etymology of “modèles,” and for specific studies of artists in cultural intersections. Praiseworthy for the rigor of its research and stimulating examinations. Illustrations, bibliography.

GURVIL, CLÉMENT. Les paysans de Paris du milieu du XVe au début du XVIIe siècle. Bibliothèque d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 33. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2010.

Review: M. Vester in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 633-634. Mixed review offers praise for G.’s lengthy (nearly 700 page) study which fills a significant gap, that of rural dimensions of early modern towns and town-country dimensions. Based on a wide selection of notarial records and meticulously researched, this highly useful reference work examines numerous aspects of various groups of Paris, both workers of all types and products. The cultural role of gardens offers a sidelight, but the reviewer would have appreciated “a discussion of kin relations—inheritance, marriage, family structures, property disputes, etc.—among this population, and perhaps a comparison of family patterns in Paris with those of peasants in more remote regions” (V. 634). Index, appendices, tables, bibliography.

HAMSCHER, ALBERT. The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789. Newark: U Delaware P, 2012.

Review: D. Parrott in FS 67.3 (2013): 407-08. Starting with the time of Colbert and ending with the 1789 Revolution, Hamscher asks how France paid for its judiciary system at every level, from smallest parish to the biggest city. Although the short answer is that they didn’t, the book is in fact a nuanced study based on extensive archival research. It reveals both an increase in allocated funds as time progressed and a significant degree of regional variation, illustrated in a helpful appendix.

HARRIGAN, MICHAEL. "Métissage and Crossing Boundaries in the Seventeenth-Century Travel Narrative to the Indian Ocean Bassin." CdDS 15.1 (2013): 19-45.

The article discusses intercultural encounters and, especially, the question of "métissage," of narrative hybridity and circuits of knowing, in the encounter of Europeans with other populations both East and West. Travel narratives "reflect the attempt to encapsulate difference in recognizable forms of text, and the interactions of contemporary—potentially widely disseminated—formulations of human difference with intertextual tradition."

HILLS, HELEN, ed. Rethinking the Baroque. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.

Review: I. Sapir in Ren Q 65.1 (2012), 212-214. Wide-ranging collection is to be welcomed by cultural critics as well as by literary and art historians. Its contributors reexamine the key concept, its “complex historical interaction between past and present, or between different pasts” (S. 212) and its stylistic elements. Reviewer does not specifically mention the French 17th c., but the serious quality of the essays recommends the volume to scholars of late Renaissance and early 17th c. France.

JEANNERET, MICHEL. Versailles, ordre et chaos. Paris: Gallimard, 2012.

Review: J. Prest in FS 67.4 (2013): 554-55. Prest actually critiques two works by Jeanneret in one review, the present title and also his critical edition of André Félibien’s Les Fêtes de Versailles, which takes the same theoretical approach toward the grand siècle. Jeanneret establishes a sort of dialectic between order and chaos, regular and irregular in order to show that classicism is a process, not merely a moment fixed in time or place. Reviewer regrets that only the first part of the first book describes Versailles, as promised in the title–the other two address literature and culture more broadly–as well as certain lacunae in the references and bibliography, but recommends the book all the same. No caveats are given for the edition of Félibien, which covers the court fêtes of 1668 and 1674.

KESSLER, HERBERT L. and DAVID NIRENBERG, eds., Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Review: Y. Even in Ren Q 64.3 (2011), 916-917. Highly valuable and diverse collection which demonstrates how Christians “used Jews and Judaism to construct their . . . claims about the material and sensual world” (K. and N. 74). Following a fine and compelling introduction by N., essays analyze by art-historical methods specific artworks and ideas from the late Roman period through Romanticism. Index, illustrations and tables.

LAHAISE, ROBERT. Nouvelle-France. English Colonies. L’impossible coexistence. 1606-1713. Québec : Septentrion, 2006.

Review : R. Le Huenen in UTZ, 82.3 (summer 2013), 746-749. “L’ouvrage est bien documenté. Robert Lahaise connaît parfaitement ses sources et en fait un usage judicieux. Il est aussi très bien écrit et de lecture agréable, facilitée par de nombreuses cartes, claires et précises, qui interviennent aux moments clefs de la relation de la chaîne événementielle et assurent une meilleure compréhension des enjeux. En somme, il s’agit là d’un heureux échantillon d’histoire narrative. Certes de nombreuses études ont déjà été consacrées aux conflits entre Français, Anglais et Amérindiens et l’ouvrage de Robert Lahaise ne renouvelle guère le sujet. Mais son mérite est d’en offrir une synthèse éclairante, succincte mais complète, présentée de manière vivante, voire savoureuse, et qui propose une vision simultanée des événements se passant en différents points du continent nord-américain, comme en Europe”.

KMEC, SONJA. Across the Channel: Noblewomen in Seventeenth-Century France and England. Trier: Kliomedia GmbH, 2010.

Review: S. E. Dinan in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 634-636. Praiseworthy examination focuses on an elite Huguenot family as it considers “issues of property management, marriage arrangements, and artistic patronage” (D. 634-635). The noble, bi-confessional family in question is that of Marie de La Tour and Charlotte de la Trémoïlle from western France. Valuable for its analysis of the authority exercised by these women and others of the family. Rich bibliography, appendices, bibliography, and index.

LEVACK, BRIAN P. The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West. New Haven: Yale UP, 2013.

Review: P. Marshall in TLS 5756 (July 26, 5756): 7-8. “The impression readers are likely to take away from this authoritative, though not quite definitive, study is that sometimes astute and sympathetic description is the best we can hope for.” Levack does not try to explain away accounts of possession and exorcism, but stresses that they were “encoded in particular religious cultures.” Sustained metaphor casts demoniacs and exorcists as “performers.” “Scripts” are supplied by their society. One of the major themes of the book is the effect of different material and confessional settings on the performances of possession.

LONG, KATHLEEN P., ed. Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010.

Review: A. Rankin in Ren Q 64.3 (2011), 936-937. Praiseworthy exploration of the “relationship of women and questions of gender to the scientific domain in early modern Europe” (L. 1). The collection of eleven essays examines gender and early modern science from diverse approaches and in diverse material, including, for example, manuscripts and emblems. Focus is on alchemy and obstetrics. French scholars will particularly appreciate Penny Bayer’s essay on women in the alchemical circle of Joseph du Chesne and Bridgette Sheridan’s account of “the relationship between gender, experiential knowledge, and authority at the seventeenth-century French court” (R. 937). Despite some conceptual and editing concerns, R. finds the volume a “rewarding” read and a “significant contribution” towards a “field desperately in need of new scholarship” (R. 937). Index, illustrations, tables, bibliography.

McCLARY, SUSAN. Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music. Berkeley: U of California P, 2012.

Review: T. Knighton in TLS 5743 (April 26, 2013): 17. Author gives most of her attention to French and Italian music. According to the reviewer, McClary’s goal is to make seventeenth-century music intelligible by helping the reader understand “the effects the musical syntax was intended to have within a framework of more general cultural notions of desire and pleasure in the period.” The author helps her readers grasp “the import of the overlapping of two different harmonic systems.” The more complex analyses may be difficult for a non-specialist, but this is a “brilliant musical mapping of the seventeenth century.”

McCLURE, ELLEN M. Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Review: C. Hogg in CdDS 14 (2012): 135-137. McClure seeks to reassess the "dominant discourse of [royal] legitimacy" and rethinks the relationship between state, subjects, and the divine. She distances herself from the theoretical model furnished by Louis Marin and privileges the term and concept of "mediation" over "representation." The reviewer welcomes this study that explores, through close readings combined with illuminating analysis, the issues of authority and delegation of the sovereign, and also pays attention to the role of the diplomat, the playwright, and the actor.

MELZER, SARAH E. Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania P, 2012.

Review: E. Welch in FS 67.3 (2013): 402-03. In an original approach to both subjects, Melzer juxtaposes the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns with the French colonization of the Americas. She identifies discourses that echo each other and intersect and connects them to issues of cultural identity and memory. According to the reviewer, the work lacks detail and close analysis in places, but is nonetheless a “groundbreaking study.”

MILLER, CHRISTOPHER. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2008.

Review: ANON in FMLS 47.1 (2011), 11. Filling an important lacuna, M.’s “facts-based overview of French slavery and the slave trade” examines literature and film from the mid-17th c. to our day. Despite high recommendations, the reviewer notes the paucity of references to secondary sources outside the US.

MURRAY, RUSSELL E., SUSAN FORSCHER WEISS, and CYNTHIA J. CYRUS, eds. Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Publications of the Early Music Institute. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010

Review by: P. Harris in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 612-614. These selected essays from the 2005 conference at Johns Hopkins, “Reading and Writing the Pedagogy of the Renaissance: Students, Teachers, and Materials of Music Learning, 1470-1650,” examine early music from perspectives of music history, theory, and performance. Impressive for its broad coverage geographically and temporally as well as for its excellent documentation, including archival materials. The collection is organized by “perspectives”: instructional manuals for both children and experienced musicians, places of learning and practices, and materials and contexts. Other emphases include the teacher and case studies of nuns’ music education. Index, appendices, illustrations, tables, and bibliography.

PARKER, GEOFFREY. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale UP, 2013.

Review: T. Rabb in TLS 5746 (May 17, 2013): 10-11. Author seeks to establish that the term “Age of General Crisis” applies to the entire globe in the seventeenth century. Argues that the Little Ice Age is essential background to the events he narrates. Recurrent low temperatures from 1610 to the second decade of the eighteenth century and the resulting hunger and despair contribute to Crisis. Makes clear that devotion to the military, the obduracy of political leaders and the indifference of those leaders to the suffering citizenry are responsible for much of the misery and tumult of the age. Reviewer notes some omissions but views this work as a “colossal” achievement. Reviewer also expresses hope that Parker will issue an abridged edition of this work, so that this “monumental statement about the nature of seventeenth-century history” will be more accessible to the non-specialist.

PETEY-GIRARD, BRUNO. Le sceptre et la plume: Images du prince protecteur des lettres de la Renaissance au Grand Siècle. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 466. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2010.

Review: N. Hochner in Ren Q 64.2 (2011), 630-631. Praiseworthy volume of over 600 pages with a rich bibliography and “invaluable” index, P.-G.’s study is organized in the following sections: “Quelles théories pour une protection royale des Lettres,” and “Deux siècles d’images royales.” Nuanced examination challenges the oft-cited “evolutionist narrative” as the carefully argued book dashes myths such as that of “a continuous tradition of French kings as exceptional patrons, but also the myth of the literary elite’s manipulation of one of their concerted propagandist ventures” (H. 631). Impressive for its erudition and “wealth of non-canonical sources” (H. 631). Highly useful to historians of the monarchy, political thought, and literary production. Index, bibliography.

RANDALL, CATHERINE, ed. Black Robes and Buckskin: A Selection from the Jesuit Relations. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.

Review: T. G. Pearson in Ren Q 64. 3 (2011), 983-984. R. has here updated selected Jesuit texts of the Relations from the Canadian missionary work, published in French (1632-1673) and in the 1898-1902 English edition of Reuben Gold Thwaites. R.’s volume includes a historiographical essay on the theology, work and relations with the aborigines, introductions to the chapters, and an essay on translation issues. R,’s translations/paraphrases are generally praised as a “welcome change to the Thwaites edition (P. 983), but the reviewer includes problematic examples and would have appreciated a critical analysis of the Jesuits’ inculturation. Illustrations, bibliography.

ROBERTS, HUGH. “Obscenity in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century France.” FS 67.4 (2013), 535-42.

A useful survey of recent scholarship on a topic that once received scant attention. Discusses the definition(s) of obscenity, the development of pornography, the question of misogyny, and the role obscenity plays in critiquing society and religion. Shows obscenity to be a field rich with possibilities for future study and provides many starting points for doing so.

ROWLANDS, GUY. The Financial Decline of a Great Power: War, Influence, and Money in Louis XIV's France. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.

Review: M. Hawcroft in FS 67.3 (2013), 405-06. An in-depth, and according to the reviewer, erudite study of Louis XIV’s military policy and spending, especially as they relate to the War of Spanish Succession. There are three sections, all based on extensive research using extant royal documents. The first describes the state of the military, the second the weaknesses inherent to the financial system, and the third the intersection of the two, namely the ways in which war was paid for… or not.

RUBLACK, ULINKA. Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Review by: Ann Rosalind Jones in Ren Q 64.3 (2011), 921-922. Although R.’s focus is dress in early modern Germany, she “includes thought-provoking material about Italian and French discourses on fashion, the treatment of clothing in literary texts [such as in travel literature]” (J. 922). Valuable socio-historical examination demonstrates how dress intersects with numerous aspects of life including religion and occupation. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

SANDBERG, BRIAN. Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflicts in Early Modern France. Studies in Historical and Political Science, 128th Series. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Review: P. J. Usher in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 262-263. Welcome and praiseworthy examination of provincial nobles of Guyenne and Languedoc and their pursuits of war between 1598 and 1635. S. focuses on the profession and its culture, bonds of nobility, and military aspects, including rituals of arming and religious convictions. Divisions between Catholics and Calvinists are attended to, but the reviewer would have appreciated more specificity as regards families and conflicts. However S.’s “solid study certainly complements the work of Arlette Jouanna and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie” (U. 263). Index, illustrations, maps, bibliography.

SEIFERT, LEWIS C. Manning the Margins: Masculinity & Writing in Seventeenth-Century France. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Review: J. Cherbuliez in CdDS 14 (2012): 142-144. "Seifert's project is to elucidate the ways in which masculinity, despite its constitutive pretense to dominion, instead is defined dialectically—between dominance and submission—and therefore appears “variable, multiple, and contingent” (2) in its meanings and forms. Seifert focuses on historical figures, selected texts, and the historical record. The first part analyzes elite construction of masculinity through the figure of the honnête gentleman and salon masculinity. The second section explores marginal sexuality practices, placing "the seventeenth century's own contestation of marginal sexualities in conversation with our own". This study is also a model of literary history that offers a thorough critique of concepts in regards to the Classical Age.

SIMMS, BRENDAN. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present. London: Allen Lane, 2013.

Review: N. Ferguson in TLS 5758 (August 9, 2013): 3-4. A sometimes contentious argument for the primacy of foreign affairs in shaping domestic politics. Views Denmark, Germany and the Low Countries as key to gaining supremacy. According to reviewer, Simms “lovingly restores” seventeenth- and eighteenth-century diplomatic history.

SÖDERLUND, INGA ELMQVIST. Taking Possession of Astronomy: Frontispieces and Illustrated Title Pages in 17th-Century Books on Astronomy. The Center for History of Science. Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2010.

Review: D. A. Brownstein in Ren Q 64.2 (2011), 584-587. Positive aspects of S.’s volume are noted such as the inclusion of “‘pictorial references to celestial phenomena’ in over 90% of the many frontispieces she has examined” (S. 105) plus the construction of a typology and conventions as she focuses on the intersection between science and art. Although the volume’s breadth is appreciated, its analyses could be more specific and questions such as “the artists’ interest in astronomical research (B. 586) or gender and science more deeply examined. Index, illustrations, and bibliography.

SPARY, E. C. Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012.

Review: W. Doyle in TLS 5729 (Jan 18, 2013): 3. Explores of new food stuffs on consumption habits and ways of thinking of nutrition. Chiefly concerned with the eighteenth century, but does look at Jesuit and Jansenist clashes on self-denial.

THOURET , CLOTILDE and LISE WAJEMAN, ed. Corps et interprétation (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013.

Review: T. Wynn in FS 67.3 (2013): 403-04. Nineteen articles on aesthetics that focus on the material body as object of interest in literature and the arts. Essays cover a variety of countries, periods, and art forms, and are organized thematically. Pieces of interest for readers of this bibliography include “a suggestive analysis of the grotesque body in seventeenth-century French writings” by Hélène Merlin-Kajman and Jean-Vincent Blanchard’s study of a guide to Saint-Cloud’s waterfalls. Reviewer suggests adding an index and general bibliography, but praises the editors’ work overall, especially the avant-propos and the generally high quality of the essays.

VITULLO, JULIANN and DIANE WOLFTHAL, eds. Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: S. Deng in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 625-626. While this volume’s breadth is impressive, in the subjects (disciplines of history, art history, literature and musicology are included), genres, and geography covered, the reviewer would have appreciated more attention to the “complex relations between economy and morality in this key transitional period of European history” (D. 626). French scholars will benefit from Kathleen Ashley’s essay on the motives of the French philanthropist Abigail Mathieu. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

WELCH, ELLEN R. “State Truths, Private Letters, and Images of Public Opinion in the Ancien Régime: Sévigné on Trials.” FS 67.2 (2013), 170-83.

Shows how Sévigné juxtaposes reports from the courts with gossip and other forms of socially acquired information in her epistolary accounts of two famous court cases: Nicolas Fouquet’s corruption trial and the prosecution of the Marquise de Brinvilliers in the Affaire des Poisons.

WOOD, ELLEN MEIKSINS. Liberty and Property: a social history of Western thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment. London, New York: Verso: 2012.

Review: J. Clark in TLS 5730 (Jan 25, 2013): 24. Chiefly treats France and England. Wood questions the idea of one “modernity” as she examines the different material conditions of different nations. Reviewer takes issue with many of her arguments but says she demonstrates that Marx still has much to offer when analyzing such questions as interaction between property and the state.

ABÉ, TAKAO. “The Missionary Réductions in New France: An Epistemological Problem with a Popular Historical Theory.” French Colonial History 15 (2014), 111-33.

Refutes the widespread notion that Jesuits in New France modeled their “réductions” (settlements for indigenous peoples) solely on the missions created by Jesuits in Paraguay. Posits instead a variety of influences including Europe as well as Paraguay and other non-Christian parts of the world.

ARBIB, DAN. “Note sur une maxime cartésienne: “A nosse ad esse valet consequentia, AT, VII, 520, 5.” RPL 111 (2013), 491-512.

“On se propose d’analyser ici une maxime cartésienne, Du connaître à l’être la conséquence est bonne. Rappelant les grandes interprétations de ce principe, on examine toutefois le cadre polémique où il s’insère, à savoir la discussion avec le jésuite Bourdin, auteur des Septièmes objections. Au moyen d’une analyse du concept de res cogitans entendue comme affirmation de l’immatérialité de l’âme, la critique de Bourdin prend pour cible le doute, accusé d’autoriser indûment le passage d’une négation mentale des étants matériels à leur négation dans l’être. Là-contre, Descartes développe les grandes lignes d’une option épistémologique idéaliste mais non réductionniste, option à laquelle il soustrait paradoxalement le casus belli, la res cogitans, par refus de toute objectivation de l’ego pour lui-même.”

BOUTEILLE-MEISTER, CHARLOTTE, AND KJERSTIN AUKRUST, eds. Corps sanglants, souffrants et macabres, XVIe-XVIIe siècle. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2010.

Review: S. Guyot in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 232-233. Wide-ranging, rich, and highly interdisciplinary, these analyses examine “the history of a visual fascination with violated bodies” (B-M. and A. 351). Additionally they call for a reconsideration of the baroque, its contours, both historically and conceptually. Sections include studies which consider the moral, the erotic, ethics, body metaphors, practices of devotion, judicial ruling, actual and theatrical scenes of horror, wounds as propaganda, and so forth. The 17th c. scholar will not want to miss Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard’s essay on the Anatomical Works of Riolan which demonstrates its relation not only to the spread of his medical practice but also to the “discipline” of feminine bodies (G. 232). Index, illustrations, bibliography.

BRAIDER, CHRISTOPHER. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Review: K. Smith in MLR 108.4 (2013), 1284-85: “Braider’s aim is to show that Descartes’s views, and in particular his mind–body dualism, which ushered in what is called the ‘modern subject’, had less of an influence on French intellectual culture during this ‘Age’ than scholars have traditionally claimed. Braider’s approach is more literary criticism or deconstructionism than philosophy or history of philosophy….”

CROPPER, CORRY. “Prosper Me´rime´e’s ‘Federigo,’ or How to Cheat God and Beat Pascal.” Neophil 95 (2011), 395-401.

C.’s study, instead of ignoring or dismissing the story as many past critics have done, argues that M.’s originality lies in attempting “to undermine Blaise Pascal and his famous celestial wager” (395). Helpful inclusion of brief literature review, references to similar elements in folk tales (including a Grimm version), and a synopsis of the story. Challenging and thought-provoking argument of ‘‘Federigo,’’ as a “Pascalian parody” (401).

DUGGAN, ANNE E. “Epicurean Cannibalism, or France Gone Savage.” FS 67.4 (2013), 463-77.

Examines the ways in which the Jesuit priest Garasse uses the image of the cannibal in his attack on Théophile de Viau. Author posits that the comparison of the “Epicureans” to cannibalistic animals in what they consume and how serves as a warning to the community of the dangers posed by heterodoxy of every sort.

GOLDSTEIN, CLAIRE. Vaux and Versailles: The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Review: Matthew Senior in CdDS 14.1 (2012): 145-147. Goldstein "revisits Fouquet’s arrest and the confiscation of his cultural and political vision by Louis XIV, in order to ascertain what aspects of what became known as classicism were derived from Vaux." Chapter one focuses on Molière's Facheux, performed at Vaux and is contrasted with the Plaisirs de l'île enchantée. "Subsequent chapters analyze Mme de Villedieu’s Favory, tapestries designed by Le Brun for Vaux and Versailles, literary visits to Versailles by Félibien, La Fontaine, and Mlle de Scudéry, Neptune’s Grotto at Vaux, explicated by La Fontaine in Le Songe de Vaux, the Grotte de Thétis and commentary by Félibien, and a concluding chapter on La Quintinie and horticulture."

GRELL, OLE PETER, ANDREW CUNNINGHAM and JON ARRIZABALAGA, eds. Centres of Medical Excellence? Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500-1789. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: G. Giglioni in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 227-228. Judged “engaging and insightful,” the collection of essays examines both famous medical schools, including those of Paris and Montpellier, and student responses to the education obtained there. Other aspects treated include patterns of mobility, prohibitory edicts, and the spread of the vernacular in instructions. Index, appendices, illustrations, and tables.

HUFF. TOBY E. Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Review: C. Nappi in Ren Q 64. 3 (Fall 2011), 938-939. Mixed review appreciates the breadth and comparative nature of the project and H.’s success in “bringing together major works in the history of the Scientific Revolution with secondary literature on many local traditions of early modern science” (N. 939). While outlining H.’s argument demonstrating the failure of Eastern civilization in understanding or developing scientific innovations of early modern Europe, N. refers readers to other articulations pointing out the insufficiency of this approach. Illustrations and bibliography.

JAMES, TONY. Le Songe et la raison: essai sur Descartes. Paris: Hermann, 2010.

Review: C. Belin in FS 67.3 (2013): 404. In a work that forms part of a larger effort to reevaluate the ensemble of Descartes’s work, James analyzes the three 1619 dreams of the young Descartes. The author closely reads both Latin and French versions of the texts and situates them in the context of Descartes’s life and other works. Author concludes that the dreams are a foundational experience for Descartes’s philosophy, and reviewer agrees that they merit this carefully constructed, thought-provoking second look.

JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER D. Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 52. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Review: C. Braider in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 234-236. Highly appreciative review notes that J.’s exploration of hyperbole extends far beyond the figure of speech to the very “nature of language, of imaginative conception and so of thought as a whole” (B. 234). Chapters on the theory of hyperbole from Antiquity to the baroque provide a rich backdrop against which well-informed close readings examine several relevant genres. For France, chapters on Descartes and on Pascal explore the figure in its relation to literature, doctrine, theology, and apologetics. Highly recommended for “as wide and enthusiastic readership as hyperbolic praise can give it” (B. 236).

KESSLER, HERBERT L. and DAVID NIRENBERG, eds., Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Review: Y. Even in Ren Q 64.3 (2011), 916-917. Highly valuable and diverse collection which demonstrates how Christians “used Jews and Judaism to construct their . . . claims about the material and sensual world” (K. and N. 74). Following a fine and compelling introduction by N., essays analyze by art-historical methods specific artworks and ideas from the late Roman period through Romanticism. Index, illustrations and tables.

KMEC, SONJA. Across the Channel: Noblewomen in Seventeenth-Century France and England. Trier: Kliomedia GmbH, 2010.

Review: S. E. Dinan in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 634-636. Praiseworthy examination focuses on an elite Huguenot family as it considers “issues of property management, marriage arrangements, and artistic patronage” (D. 634-635). The noble, bi-confessional family in question is that of Marie de La Tour and Charlotte de la Trémoïlle from western France. Valuable for its analysis of the authority exercised by these women and others of the family. Rich bibliography, appendices, bibliography, and index.

LONG, KATHLEEN P., ed. Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture. Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010.

Review: A. Rankin in Ren Q 64.3 (2011), 936-937. Praiseworthy exploration of the “relationship of women and questions of gender to the scientific domain in early modern Europe” (L. 1). The collection of eleven essays examines gender and early modern science from diverse approaches and in diverse material, including, for example, manuscripts and emblems. Focus is on alchemy and obstetrics. French scholars will particularly appreciate Penny Bayer’s essay on women in the alchemical circle of Joseph du Chesne and Bridgette Sheridan’s account of “the relationship between gender, experiential knowledge, and authority at the seventeenth-century French court” (R. 937). Despite some conceptual and editing concerns, R. finds the volume a “rewarding” read and a “significant contribution” towards a “field desperately in need of new scholarship” (R. 937). Index, illustrations, tables, bibliography.

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. “Grace, Predestination, and Jansenism.” SCFS 35.2 (2013), 148-168.

“Martin de Barcos’s posthumously published Exposition de la foy de l’Eglise romaine touchant la grâce et la prédestination is an important restatement of what he takes to be St Augustine’s doctrine on these matters. The first edition (1697) was condemned by the Archbishop of Paris, Louis-Antoine de Noailles, as a restatement of Jansenist doctrine, which, broken down into five key propositions, had been condemned by Innocent X in 1653. The ‘Remarques’ published with the second edition of 1700 argue that the Exposition by no means endorses the doctrines contained in the Five Propositions, and that the papal condemnation of these is thus irrelevant. This claim is assessed in a detailed analysis of the ‘Remarques’ and of the main text of the Exposition. In conclusion there is a brief discussion of the relationship of Barcos’s account of grace to Pascal’s and of the attempt to distinguish their views from those of the Calvinists.”

PARISH, RICHARD. Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: ‘Christianity is Strange’. Oxford: OUP, 2011.

Review: N. Hammond in MLR 108.1 (2013), 302-303: “Richard Parish examines the compatibility and incompatibility of thought contained in the work of a number of seventeenth-century French Catholic writers, showing the various ways in which ‘Christianity is unfamiliar, strange, and counter-intuitive’ (p. 5). In addition to Pascal himself, well-known figures such as Bossuet, St François de Sales, Fénelon, Pierre Corneille, and Madame Guyon loom large, but other less familiar names, such as Jean Rotrou, St Margaret-Mary Alacoque, Antoinette Bourignon, Jeanne des Anges, and Jean-Joseph Surin, make regular appearances over the course of the book.

PELLEGRIN, MARIE-FRÉDÉRIQUE. “Penser au féminin au XVIIe siècle.” RPFE n°3, 307-310.

Pellegrin présente le volume de la RPFE centré sur le thème “penser au féminin au XVIIe siècle. “Notre hypothèse est donc que les femmes philosophes sont importantes comme voix discordantes et minoritaires, comme porteuses de questions cruciales et impensées par la majorité des philosophes à l’âge moderne, questions qui touchent justement à la place intellectuelle des femmes dans la société et donc à la fois à la capacité de raisonner et d’agir des femmes et des hommes de toutes les catégories sociales.”

RANDALL, CATHERINE, ed. Black Robes and Buckskin: A Selection from the Jesuit Relations. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.

Review: T. G. Pearson in Ren Q 64. 3 (2011), 983-984. R. has here updated selected Jesuit texts of the Relations from the Canadian missionary work, published in French (1632-1673) and in the 1898-1902 English edition of Reuben Gold Thwaites. R.’s volume includes a historiographical essay on the theology, work and relations with the aborigines, introductions to the chapters, and an essay on translation issues. R,’s translations/paraphrases are generally praised as a “welcome change to the Thwaites edition (P. 983), but the reviewer includes problematic examples and would have appreciated a critical analysis of the Jesuits’ inculturation. Illustrations, bibliography.

SANTOS DASILVA, KAREN. "Pringy's Les Differens caracteres des femmes: The Difficult Case of Female Salvation." CdDS 15.1 (2013): 46-71.

The author proposes to study the meaning and importance of the Caracteres "given its complex integration of moralist, theological, and feminist influences." She revises previous feminist reading that turn the text into a form of female rebellion. Dasilva is more careful in her interpretation and argues for a more complex understanding of the text, which raises important interrogations of whether gender is tied to essence, as well as of the relationship between social self and interior self.

SÖDERLUND, INGA ELMQVIST. Taking Possession of Astronomy: Frontispieces and Illustrated Title Pages in 17th-Century Books on Astronomy. The Center for History of Science. Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2010.

Review: D. A. Brownstein in Ren Q 64.2 (2011), 584-587. Positive aspects of S.’s volume are noted such as the inclusion of “‘pictorial references to celestial phenomena’ in over 90% of the many frontispieces she has examined” (S. 105) plus the construction of a typology and conventions as she focuses on the intersection between science and art. Although the volume’s breadth is appreciated, its analyses could be more specific and questions such as “the artists’ interest in astronomical research (B. 586) or gender and science more deeply examined. Index, illustrations, and bibliography.

THIEL, UDO. The Early Modern Subject: Self-consciousness and personal identity from Descartes to Hume. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.

Review: D. Heller-Roazen in TLS 5757 (August 2, 2013): 24. Reviewer finds this a “learned and weighty book” which “reconstructs the steps” that led early modern thinkers “to offer innovative accounts of the relations between reflective awareness and identity across time.” Thiel argues that Descartes less innovative than some suppose since the doctrine of the cogito says little about “what makes each individual soul the thing it is” (Heller-Roazen). Cartesians “drew no close link between subjective awareness and the identity of the human person” (Heller-Roazen).

TUTINO, STEFANIA. “Nothing But the Truth? Hermeneutics and Morality in the Doctrines of Equivocation and Mental Reservation in Early Modern Europe.” Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 115-155.

Theology, morality, and hermeneutics are at the heart of this well-documented and convincingly argued essay on equivocation and its theories. 17th c. French scholars will appreciate T.’s “forward-looking perspective” as the essay moves from Augustine to Spanish theologians, notably Domingo de Soto and Martin de Azpilcueta (Doctor Navarrus) and on to the Louvain Jesuit Lessius, the French Jesuit Théophile Raynaud, and the Sorbonne theologians of the early 17th c. T. reminds us of the large and dangerous conflict “between certain sectors of the French church and the Roman Curia, whose relations were very delicate from the 1610s and in the aftermath of the murder of Henri of Navarre . . . and became dramatically tense after the publication of Cornelius Jansenius’s Augustinus in 1640” (148-149), and of the eventual condemnation of Raynaud in 1681. Rich bibliography includes archival and printed sources.

VERVILLE, BÉROALDE DE. Le Palais des curieux. Véronique Luzel, ed. Geneva : Droz, 2012.

Review: B. Renner in FS 67.4 (2013): 550-51. A well-executed critical edition of Verville’s 1612 oft-overlooked attempt at encyclopedic knowledge. This textual reflection of the chaos found in nature forms an important link between the humanism of the Renaissance and the neoclassicism that thrived during Louis XIV’s reign. The thought process that contributed to Verville’s treatment of various topics is revealed through Luzel’s extensive research of the author’s other writings, including a number of relatively inaccessible sources.

VITULLO, JULIANN and DIANE WOLFTHAL, eds. Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: S. Deng in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 625-626. While this volume’s breadth is impressive, in the subjects (disciplines of history, art history, literature and musicology are included), genres, and geography covered, the reviewer would have appreciated more attention to the “complex relations between economy and morality in this key transitional period of European history” (D. 626). French scholars will benefit from Kathleen Ashley’s essay on the motives of the French philanthropist Abigail Mathieu. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

VUILLEMIN, JEAN-CLAUDE. Épistémè baroque. Le mot et la chose. Paris : Hermann, 2013.

Review : C. Venner in QL1089 (du 1er au 31 août 2013), 18 : Vuillemin “entend montrer, par un biais non pas littéraire mais philosophique, comment la crise métaphysique qui préside au baroque, et qui implique un désenchantement du moi et du monde, conduit en réalité à la sacralisation de l’individu, annonçant l’ère moderne. Cette réflexion suppose de justifier la pertinence de l’approche foucaldienne et de réhabiliter le baroque, trop souvent occulté par le classicisme”.

WILKIN, REBECCA. Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008.

Review: B. Woshinsky in CdDS 14 (2012): 137-142. Woshinsky praises the originality of the structure of this erudite study that "traces a general movement in early modern French thought from hermeneutics to ethics to epistemology 'proper.'" Rather than starting with Descartes, Wilkin concludes with him, perceiving his work as “a confrontation of positive and skeptical modes of seeing." While she builds upon feminist studies, she also proposes her individual point of view, which is well-established, and argued convincingly through a wide variety of examples, including 17th-century witchcraft trials, philosophical thought, and medical thinking.

WOSHINSKY, BARBARA R. Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800. The Cloister Disclosed. Great Britain: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010.

Review: J. Perlmutter in CdDS 15.1 (2013): 105-107. Woshinsky turns to works that reference convents but were written outside the walls of the cloister. Her goal is “to illuminate the unique place the convent occupies in the early modern imaginary, in the context of space, gender and power." The first chapters are devoted to religious writings and offer a slightly different feel from the latter that turn to secular and feminocentric representations of thresholds, parlors, cells, and, finally, tombs. The reviewer particularly enjoyed the humorous tone of several passages and mentions the ample bibliography. There are very few criticisms, except for some errors of proofreading and some elements/authors that Woshinsky fails to mention.

ASSAF, FRANCIS. “Quel honneur y a-t-il en pédanterie?” PSCFL XL.79 (2013), 366-78.

A study of the character of the know-it-all in Première journée (Théophile de Viau, 1623), Francion (Sorel, 1623, 1626, 1633), and Les Avantures (Dassoucy, 1677). Although the pédant is the antithesis of the holder of true knowledge, he remains significant as a stock comic character.

BOEHRER, BRUCE THOMAS. Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Review: K. Steel in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 325-326. Wide-ranging study focuses more on English than on French literary representations of animals from 1400 to 1700. The parrot may be represented as an “emblematic papist,” for example, lacking spiritual understanding. S. would have appreciated more attention to animal satire and fables as well as more engagement with religious and philosophical teaching. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

BOTTIGHEIMER, RUTH B. Fairy Tales Framed: Early Forewords, Afterwords, and Critical Words. Albany: SUNY Press, 2012.

Review: A. Maggi in M&T 28.1 (2014): 180-82. An anthology that seeks to highlight the literary (as opposed to oral) nature of tales by d’Aulnoy and others by re-placing them in their context as literature. This includes an analysis of forwards, afterwards, and author commentary, which are all too often omitted from translated anthologies of the tales, as well as a study of the origins and influences for various tales, with a focus on Giambattista Basile. Reviewer: “an original and necessary volume that raises important and timely questions.”

BOUTEILLE-MEISTER, CHARLOTTE, AND KJERSTIN AUKRUST, eds. Corps sanglants, souffrants et macabres, XVIe-XVIIe siècle. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2010.

Review: S. Guyot in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 232-233. Wide-ranging, rich, and highly interdisciplinary, these analyses examine “the history of a visual fascination with violated bodies” (B-M. and A. 351). Additionally they call for a reconsideration of the baroque, its contours, both historically and conceptually. Sections include studies which consider the moral, the erotic, ethics, body metaphors, practices of devotion, judicial ruling, actual and theatrical scenes of horror, wounds as propaganda, and so forth. The 17th c. scholar will not want to miss Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard’s essay on the Anatomical Works of Riolan which demonstrates its relation not only to the spread of his medical practice but also to the “discipline” of feminine bodies (G. 232). Index, illustrations, bibliography.

CHARNLEY, JOY . “Introduction: Representations of Age in European Literatures.” FMLS 47.2 (2011), 121-125.

Praiseworthy introduction to the issue which focuses on “Ageing” as it is represented in language and literature. The approach is wide-ranging and cross-cultural. Essays on theory complement others on specific genres and the sexes. Although the issue concentrates on the 20th and the 21st c., one essay treats the 17th c. (O’Brien).

DELEHANTY, ANN. Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France: From Poetics to Aesthetics. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2013.

Review: C. Braider in CdDS 15.1 (2013): 96-99. Delehanty's study is to be considered a counter-narrative to the "myth" of the "era's near universal subscription to la doctrine classique." The author shows how the discourse of feeling becomes increasingly important with the inauguration of Louis XIV’s reign in 1661 and how "transcendence" is not a concept of the Enlightenment but reaches back into the Neoclassical Age. The reviewer praises that this study exposes, in a convincing way, the emergent role of transcendence in Boileau's L'Art Poétique. Furthermore, it skillfully and dynamically grounds Boileau's "transcendent" ideas on the writings of Pascal and Bouhours.

DESBLACHE, LUCILE. La Plume des bêtes: les animaux dans le roman. Paris: L’Harmattan, collection “Espaces Littéraires,” 2011.

Review: A. H. Puleo in E Cr 51.4 (2011), 116. Welcome contribution explores both English and French works, analyzing the various roles of animals and methods of presenting them. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, the investigation extends from the medieval bestiary to post colonial literature, not forgetting classicism.

DROUET, PASCALE et YAN BRAILOWSKY, éds. Le banissement et l’exil en Europe aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

Review: Y. Loskoutoff in BHR 75.1 (2013), 210-13: Recueil interdisciplinaire qui comprend quatorze études portant “par ordre décroissant de fréquence, sur la littérature anglaise, l’histoire, la littérature française, la philosophie politique.” Voir les articles de J. Tamas (“L’imaginaire de la clôture à travers le cloître et la maison close au XVIIe siècle: la femme et la mise au ban de la société française”); S. Houmard (“Bannis, exiles, migrants: la figure de l’expatrié dans le théâtre de Georges de Scudéry”); M. Lemoine (“Le banissement de la cour: caractères et enjeux de la disgrâce chez les mémorialistes de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle”); et P. Bonnet (sur deux ouvrages de Henri de Rohan, Le Parfait capitaine [1636] et De l’Intérêt des Princes [1638]).

FOULIGY, MARY-NELLY et MARIE ROIG MIRANDA, sous la direction de. Europe XVI-XVII, no. 13, Mémoires et découvertes: quels paradigmes? Actes du colloque national organisé à Nancy (15, 16 et 17 novembre 2007). Nancy: Université de Nancy II, 2009.

Review: M. Marin in BHR 75.2 (2013), 378-80: “Les auteurs des communications analysent ces termes paradigmatiques ‘mémoire’ et ‘découverte’ et mettent en évidence leur importance concernant la transmission des saviors et l’évolution du monde européen au XVIe et XVIIe siècles.” Des contributions portant sur la littérature française, italienne et espagnole de la période.

FROMMEL, SABINE and FLAMINIA BARDATI, eds. La Réception de modèles cinquecenteschi dans la théorie et les arts français du XVIIe siècle. École pratique des hautes études: science historiques et philologiques 5. Hautes études médievales et modernes 96. Geneva: Droz, 2010.

Review: T. Senkevitch in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 196-198. Focusing on exchanges and the role of models between Italy and France in the Early Modern, the 17 essays here examine a variety of aspects of these exchanges including, for example, cross-fertilization. Interdisciplinary, essays may at times relate music to architecture, and painting to tapestry. Highly useful both for new understandings, even of the etymology of “modèles,” and for specific studies of artists in cultural intersections. Praiseworthy for the rigor of its research and stimulating examinations. Illustrations, bibliography.

GILBY, EMMA. Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature. Oxford: Legenda, 2006.

Review: ANON in FMLS 47.1 (2011), 108. G.’s perspective on the sublime bases it as “rooted in the vagaries of ordinary human experience.” She reconsiders the concept, focusing on Corneille, Boileau, and Pascal. Her “close, nuanced readings” offer “greater insights into the century generally.”

GOULBOURNE, RUSSELL. “Conversations with the Dead in Early Modern France.” MLR 108.1 (2013), 90-108.

“It is the trajectory of that metaphor—reading as a conversation, and in particular a conversation with the dead, often the dead authors of classical antiquity—that I want to map out, at least partially, in the first part of this article.” Beginning with Montaigne’s Essais, the second part of the article explores “what the topos of reading as a conversation might actually mean in terms of textual practice” in selected 18th-century French texts.

GRÉLÉ, DENIS. “Les Mémoires de Madame de la Guette ou l’art de se reconstruire une vie.” Neophil 95 (2011), 165-175.

Thought-provoking and convincing examination focuses on what G. would suggest calling “autobiographie utopique” (166). Capably demonstrates the singular quality of the récit of the title since “il n’existe pas canoniquement parlant d’auteurs féminins d’utopie en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles” (166). G,’s article includes pertinent observations on Paul de Musset’s 19th c. short story Madame de La Guette and indicates helpfully for the interested reader the online location. G. points out various “mystifications” notably on money which is viewed as decisive and yet derided. It is finally a genuine pleasure to read this article which is at once erudite and accessible.

GRIFFITHS, KATE and DAVID EVANS, eds. Haunting Presences: Ghosts in French Literature and Culture. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009.

Review: T. Chesters in MLR 108.1 (2013), 306-08: In two-part volume (‘Ghostly Antecedents’ and ‘Modern Ghosts’), see article by Joseph Harris: “… penetrating analysis of Orestes’ madness in Andromaque ends by echoing Revel Elliott’s remark on ‘le caractère moderne’ de certaines parties d’Andromaque (quoted on p. 71). Here the perceived modernity again consists in Racine’s refusal to grant any ontological status to the ghosts of Pyrrhus and Hermione, whom Oreste thinks he sees. Harris echoes Zizekian conclusion (on the fetish character of modern ghost belief) when he writes of how Racine induces ‘a complex play of belief and unbelief’ (p. 72) in the spectators of the play.”

HARRIGAN, MICHAEL. "Métissage and Crossing Boundaries in the Seventeenth-Century Travel Narrative to the Indian Ocean Bassin." CdDS 15.1 (2013): 19-45.

The article discusses intercultural encounters and, especially, the question of "métissage," of narrative hybridity and circuits of knowing, in the encounter of Europeans with other populations both East and West. Travel narratives "reflect the attempt to encapsulate difference in recognizable forms of text, and the interactions of contemporary—potentially widely disseminated—formulations of human difference with intertextual tradition."

HARRISON, DAVID. “Comic Epitaphs: Lucian, Scudéry, and Boileau.” SCFS 35.1 (2013), 38-53.

“This article seeks to redefine the relationship between Boileau’s Dialogue des héros de roman and Madeleine de Scudéry’s Clélie. While Boileau wishes to use his text to erase Scudéry from memory, a close reading of the Dialogue and its Lucianic model reveals Scudéry’s influence on Boileau’s wit. Indeed, the character of Amilcar from Clélie embodies the spirit of Lucianic satire that Boileau hopes to use against Scudéry. Ultimately, Boileau is indebted to a form of enjouement that is inscribed within and popularized by Clélie, and it is this debt that Boileau tries unsuccessfully to make his reader forget in his Dialogue.”

HEIDMANN, UTE AND JEAN-MICHEL ADAM. Textualité et intertextualité des contes. Paris: Éd. Classiques Garnier, 2010.

Review: L. Seifert in M&T 28.1 (2014), 196-99. Each in a separate section, the authors take on certain idées reçues in Perrault scholarship without, unfortunately–according to the reviewer–, engaging those ideas directly. Heidmann concentrates on highlighting the literary and intertextual nature of the tales, drawing focus away from the oral tradition, while Adam uses a meticulous close reading to show that elements such as capitalization and punctuation contribute to the ways in which the text was meant to be read, and that these elements should be preserved in modern anthologies.

HILLS, HELEN, ed. Rethinking the Baroque. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.

Review: I. Sapir in Ren Q 65.1 (2012), 212-214. Wide-ranging collection is to be welcomed by cultural critics as well as by literary and art historians. Its contributors reexamine the key concept, its “complex historical interaction between past and present, or between different pasts” (S. 212) and its stylistic elements. Reviewer does not specifically mention the French 17th c., but the serious quality of the essays recommends the volume to scholars of late Renaissance and early 17th c. France.

HOLTZ, GRÉGOIRE. L’ombre de l’auteur: Pierre Bergeron et l’écriture du voyage au soir de la Renaissance. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 480. Geneva: Droz, 2011.

Review: N. Médevielle in Ren Q 65.1 (2012), 253-255. Praiseworthy, well-documented investigation into this “ghost writer” (editor, rewriter) of numerous French travelers’ accounts. H. organizes his study to include B.’s background and publishing, his role as a colonial propagandist and historian of French colonialization, his collaborations with Pyrard de Laval’s Voyages (1615 and 1619) and Moquet’s 1617 récit, as well as the less successful rewritings of Vincent Leblanc and Malherbe. H.’s conclusion presents B.’s rhetorical model of discourse such as his borrowing from the picaresque novel and invitations to the reader to reflect on his relationship to God.

JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER D. Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 52. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Review: C. Braider in Ren Q 64.1 (2011), 234-236. Highly appreciative review notes that J.’s exploration of hyperbole extends far beyond the figure of speech to the very “nature of language, of imaginative conception and so of thought as a whole” (B. 234). Chapters on the theory of hyperbole from Antiquity to the baroque provide a rich backdrop against which well-informed close readings examine several relevant genres. For France, chapters on Descartes and on Pascal explore the figure in its relation to literature, doctrine, theology, and apologetics. Highly recommended for “as wide and enthusiastic readership as hyperbolic praise can give it” (B. 236).

KARSENTI, TIPHAINE. Le Mythe de Troie dans le théâtre français (1562-1715). Paris : Champion, 2012.

Review: A. Riffaud in PSCFL XL.79 (2013): 398-401. Takes a hermeneutic approach to the evolution of the political, philosophical, and aesthetic treatment of Trojan myth in French theater of the late 16th to early 18th centuries. The inventio, dispositio, interpretations, and aesthetics of each play are systematically analyzed. Reviewer finds conclusions are clearly and effectively drawn and that the work is “[u]n excellent outil.”

KENNEDY, THERESA V. "Gender Performance in Seventeenth-Century Dramatic Dialogue: From the Salon to the Classroom." CdDS 15.1 (2013): 1-18.

Salon women, in particular Scudéry and her female predecessors found a fruitful ground for their writing in the genre of dramatic dialogue. They used dramatic dialogue to express a woman's point of view in their writings. Initially, dramatic dialogue was primarily used as a source of entertainment and pleasure. At the end of the century, with Durand and Maintenon's dialogues, there is a clear shift from the salon to the classroom: both female authors emphasize how women should conduct themselves and provide them with models of behavior. The use of dramatic dialogue in women's writing exposes shifting codes of behavior toward the turn of the century.

LA CHARITE, CLAUDE and ROXANE ROY, sous la direction de. Femmes, rhétorique et éloquence sous l’Ancien Régime. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2012.

Review: R. Reynolds-Cornell in BHR 75.1 (2013), 201-205: Twenty-eight contributions to this volume that is “part of l’école du genre, a collection of interdisciplinary studies directed by Eliane Viennot to promote the increasingly rich field of research in gender issues.” Three sections: “Pedagogy, Theories and Rhetorical models”; “Eloquence and Epistolary practices”; Pratiques rhétoriques, sociabilité et politique.” Extensive bibliography.

LYONS, JOHN D. The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012.

Review: K. Wine in MP 111.4 (2014): E411-E414. An examination of the question of chance, or fortune, in an era that strives for, as the reviewer says, “timeless intellect, order, and perfection of form.” Chapters are devoted to well-known as well as lesser-known works by Corneille, Pascal, Lafayette, La Bruyère, Bossuet, and Racine. Although the reviewer regrets the limitations imposed by restricting the authors and works studied, she finds the work still offers a valuable and innovative perspective on the grand siècle.

MARTIN, JEAN-PIERRE et CLAUDINE NEDELEC, eds. Traduire, trahir, travestir: études sur la réception de l’antiquité. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2012.

Review: E. Herdman in MLR 108.3 (2013), 144-148: Among the twenty-six contributions to this volume of conference proceedings “on the reception and interpretation of the classical heritage in European (but mainly French) literature from the Middle Ages to the present day” see J. Leclerc’s “presentation of a burlesque version of Homer in the seventeenth century [that] is thus usefully situated within the wider context of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes….”

MAXWELL, RICHARD. The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650–1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Review: ANON in FMLS 47.1 (2011), 113. Wide-ranging and erudite, M.’s work reconsiders the genre and its evolution “through a comparative analysis of French and Anglophone literary practice.”

MILLER, CHRISTOPHER. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2008.

Review: ANON in FMLS 47.1 (2011), 11. Filling an important lacuna, M.’s “facts-based overview of French slavery and the slave trade” examines literature and film from the mid-17th c. to our day. Despite high recommendations, the reviewer notes the paucity of references to secondary sources outside the US.

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. “Love and love of self in early modern French writing.” SCFS 35.1 (2013), 80-97.

“This is the text of a lecture given in March 2012 at Queen Mary, University of London, in honour of the late Malcolm Bowie. The lecture explores the portrayal of love in French writing (fiction, drama, and moral reflection) of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and especially the way in which love for another person is represented as stimulated and nourished by love of one’s self. The text has not been altered from the original lecture format. A list of works cited follows.”

PAIGE, NICHOLAS D. Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Review: M. Ganofsky in MLR108.4 (2013), 1285-86: “By mapping literary history as he does, Paige makes a major contribution to the scholarly endeavour to reveal early modern fiction as something other than the first faltering steps of the modern novel. Rather than writing another history of the ‘rise’ or ‘invention’ of the novel (p. xii), Paige presents late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century novels not as inferior to their modern counterparts but as intrinsically different, belonging to another ‘regime’ of fiction defined by its own aesthetics and conceptions of literature, and initiated in the 1670s by a transformation in Western poetics.”

PELLEGRIN, MARIE-FRÉDÉRIQUE. “La ‘Querelle des femmes’ est-elle une querelle? Philosophie et pseudo-linéarité dans l’histoire du féminisme.” SCFS 35.1 (2013), 69-79.

“Cet article part du constat selon lequel la catégorie de ‘querelle des femmes’ constitue un outil historiographique essentiel et pourtant problématique. Dès lors, il faut en retracer l’histoire pour voir comment cette catégorie s’est imposée. Cela amène à adopter un point de vue décalé, mobilisant la philosophie et non seulement la littérature, pour en éprouver la pertinence. Ce travail critique permet en définitive une autre lecture des rapports entre les querelles lettrées et la question des femmes jusqu’à la fin de l’Ancien Régime.”

PETEY-GIRARD, BRUNO. Le sceptre et la plume: Images du prince protecteur des lettres de la Renaissance au Grand Siècle. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 466. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2010.

Review: N. Hochner in Ren Q 64.2 (2011), 630-631. Praiseworthy volume of over 600 pages with a rich bibliography and “invaluable” index, P.-G.’s study is organized in the following sections: “Quelles théories pour une protection royale des Lettres,” and “Deux siècles d’images royales.” Nuanced examination challenges the oft-cited “evolutionist narrative” as the carefully argued book dashes myths such as that of “a continuous tradition of French kings as exceptional patrons, but also the myth of the literary elite’s manipulation of one of their concerted propagandist ventures” (H. 631). Impressive for its erudition and “wealth of non-canonical sources” (H. 631). Highly useful to historians of the monarchy, political thought, and literary production. Index, bibliography.

RANDALL, CATHERINE, ed. Black Robes and Buckskin: A Selection from the Jesuit Relations. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.

Review: T. G. Pearson in Ren Q 64. 3 (2011), 983-984. R. has here updated selected Jesuit texts of the Relations from the Canadian missionary work, published in French (1632-1673) and in the 1898-1902 English edition of Reuben Gold Thwaites. R.’s volume includes a historiographical essay on the theology, work and relations with the aborigines, introductions to the chapters, and an essay on translation issues. R,’s translations/paraphrases are generally praised as a “welcome change to the Thwaites edition (P. 983), but the reviewer includes problematic examples and would have appreciated a critical analysis of the Jesuits’ inculturation. Illustrations, bibliography.

ROCHE, BRUNO. Le Rire des libertins dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. Paris : Champion, 2011.

Review: J. Leclerc in PSCFL XL.79 (2013): 408-11. Combines research on the burlesque and comic novel with inquiries into literature by libertines to create a simultaneously formal and philosophical study of the texts in question. Shows that more unites than separates “le libertinage de mœurs et de pensée.” Reviewer points out some typographical errors, some unevenness in the treatment of different texts, and the absence of some studies–especially American-authored ones–from the bibliography, but nonetheless concludes this is a rigorous and relevant study.

RUBLACK, ULINKA. Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Review by: Ann Rosalind Jones in Ren Q 64.3 (2011), 921-922. Although R.’s focus is dress in early modern Germany, she “includes thought-provoking material about Italian and French discourses on fashion, the treatment of clothing in literary texts [such as in travel literature]” (J. 922). Valuable socio-historical examination demonstrates how dress intersects with numerous aspects of life including religion and occupation. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

SCHOLAR, RICHARD AND ALEXIS TADIÉ, ed. Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500–1800. Burlington: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: J. Helgeson in FS 67.2 (2013): 257-58. A collection born of two workshops held in Oxford in 2007. Reviewer: “a useful compendium of recent approaches to the question of literary, legal, and philosophical ‘fictions.’” Focuses on France and Britain, with occasional reference to Italy or Germany. French dix-septièmistes will be particularly interested in Isabelle Moreau’s treatment of the different meanings and connotations for the term “fiction” and Wes Williams’s close reading of uses of the conditional in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

SCOTT, VICTORIA. Women on Stage in Early Modern France: 1540-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.

Review: S. D. Nell in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 563-565. Praiseworthy examination both for the detailed information it provides on the subject and for the challenge it offers to stereotypes. After two chapters investigating negative images and how they arose, the volume is organized chronologically and includes material of personal and professional nature on individuals such as Du Parc and Champmeslé as well as discussions on the theatre itself. Index and bibliography. Recommended for both women’s history and theatre scholars.

Review: L. Imantoan in TDR 57.3 (2013): 182. Scott sets out to write a history of actresses that does not rely on stereotypes. She opens her study by exploring difficulty of undertaking this task when evidence consists primarily of anecdotes. In chapter two, she gives a history of social attitudes towards actresses, “particularly attitudes associating actresses with prostitution” (Imantoan). In chapter three, she looks at the lives of Paris actresses in 1629 and 1631. In chapters four and five, she studies the relationships between actresses and playwrights, fame and obscurity. The last two chapters critique evolving acting styles and approaches to theatre.

SEIFERT, LEWIS C. Manning the Margins: Masculinity & Writing in Seventeenth-Century France. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Review: J. Cherbuliez in CdDS 14 (2012): 142-144. "Seifert's project is to elucidate the ways in which masculinity, despite its constitutive pretense to dominion, instead is defined dialectically—between dominance and submission—and therefore appears “variable, multiple, and contingent” (2) in its meanings and forms. Seifert focuses on historical figures, selected texts, and the historical record. The first part analyzes elite construction of masculinity through the figure of the honnête gentleman and salon masculinity. The second section explores marginal sexuality practices, placing "the seventeenth century's own contestation of marginal sexualities in conversation with our own". This study is also a model of literary history that offers a thorough critique of concepts in regards to the Classical Age.

SEIFERT, LEWIS C. AND DOMNA C. STANTON (Eds. and trans.) Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century Women Writes. The Other Voices in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 9. Toronto: CRRS, 2010.

Review: C. Trinquet du Lys in CdDs 15.1 (2013). This English translation of selected fairy tales is dedicated to women writers of the 1690s: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Catherine Bernard, Charlotte-Rose Caumont de La Force, Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier de Villandon and Henriette-Julie de Murat. Biographical information, annotations, and clarifications help the reader to understand the background and thematic and narrative features of each fairy tale. In addition, the introduction provides useful background information on the genre and the reception theory.

Review: C. A. Jones in Ren Q 64. 3 (2011), 945-946. Highly appreciative review on many counts: for its welcome and useful filling of an important lacuna in pedagogical materials, for its survey of recent literary criticism, for its situation of the stories and their authors in accessible introductions for the uninitiated, and for the high quality of the translations and annotations. J. finds particularly noteworthy the inclusion of two opposed “contemporaneous views of the nascent genre . . . [thus] bringing the Republic of Letters to life” (J. 946). Index, appendix, illustrations, bibliography.

THOURET, CLOTILDE. Seul en scène: Le monologue dans le théâtre européen de la première modernité (1580–1640). Travaux du Grand Siècle 37. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2010.

Review: M. Meere in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 569-571. Judged authoritative and stimulating, T.’s study examines both theoretical and practical developments of the monologue. Focusing on English, French, and Spanish early modern theatre, T. discusses the monologue as a structural component, its role in the action, and its mimetic representation of the psyche. T. “argues . . . that the emergence of a modern subject concomitant with new political and social orders (e.g. absolute monarchy) leads to the crisis of these very subjects” (M. 570). Although the reviewer would have appreciated the inclusion of non-canonical authors, M. finds the study masterful and “a fructuous contribution to scholarship” (M. 570).

VITULLO, JULIANN and DIANE WOLFTHAL, eds. Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: S. Deng in Ren Q 64. 2 (2011), 625-626. While this volume’s breadth is impressive, in the subjects (disciplines of history, art history, literature and musicology are included), genres, and geography covered, the reviewer would have appreciated more attention to the “complex relations between economy and morality in this key transitional period of European history” (D. 626). French scholars will benefit from Kathleen Ashley’s essay on the motives of the French philanthropist Abigail Mathieu. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

Abiven, Karine

“‘Si vous n’aimez ces traits-là dites mieux’. Quelques outils pour l’analyse textuelle de l’anecdote chez Mme de Sévigné.” Information Grammaticale 136 (janvier 2013) : 3-6.

“Les impertinences de l’Histoire : une question d’aptum générique.” Impertinence générique et genres de l’impertinence. Actes du colloque international du GADGES. Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III (8-10 décembre 2010), I. Garnier-Mathez, V. Géraud et O. Leplâtre (eds.), Cahiers du GADGES, Genève, Droz, 2012, 281-292.

“La cristallisation narrative comme embrayeur de signification dans le récit anecdotique.” La Théorie subreptice. Usage de l’anecdote dans la théorie théâtrale de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Actes du colloque des 14-15 mars 2008, Université de Paris Sorbonne ; F. Lecercle, S. Marchand, Z. Schweitzer (dir.). Paris, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, coll. “Theatrum mundi”, 2012, 12-26.

“ L'Anecdote ou la fabrique du petit fait vrai. Un genre miniature de Tallemant de Réaux à Voltaire (1650-1756).” Paris, Classiques Garnier. A paraître en 2014.

Écritures de l’actualité, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles. Abiven, Karine et Laure Depretto (dir.), Littératures classiques 78 (sept. 2012).

Albanese, Ralph

“Le dynamisme spatio-temporel dans Athalie.” R. Tobin and A. Kennedy (eds.). Changing Perspectives : Studies on Racine in Honor of John Campbell, Charlottesville, VA., Rookwood Press, 2012.

“Misogynie et déshumanisation à travers le bestiaire moliéresque. “French Review 86.3 (2012).

Racine à l'Ecole républicaine, ou les enjeux socio-politiques de la tragédie classique (1800-1950). Paris : L’Harmattan, 2013.

Assaf, Francis

Houdar de La Motte, Antoine. Les Originaux, ou l’Italien (1693). Introduction, text, and notes. Tübingen : Gunter Narr (Biblio 17, 186), 2012.

“Lesage et le clergé”, book chapter in (Re)lire Lesage, Christelle Bahier-Porte (ed.), Saint-Etienne : Publications de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2012, 181-207.

“L’Orphelin infortuné,ou le portrait du bon frère : rester propre au milieu de la saleté.” Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal, 14 (2012) : 100-118.

“Singeries baroques.” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XL (78) 2013 : 7-18.

“Première journée : voir, dire et savoir.” Forthcoming in a festschrift honoring Jean Serroy (Grenoble-III).

“Le personnage de Nicodème dans Le Roman bourgeois : image et hypotypose.” Forthcoming in Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate.

*Works in progress : “La guerre selon Cyrano : du macrocosme au microcosme.” Joint critical edition of Antoine’s Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIII and of the Antoine brothers’ (sons of the precedent) in Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIV. “Quel honneur y a-t-il en pédanterie ?” Lettres galantes d’Aristénète (1695). Critical edition to appear in the complete works of A.-R. Lesage (Champion).

Beasley, Faith

*Work in progress :

Exotic Encounters : Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal, on salon culture, France, and India in the seventeenth century.

Bilis, Hélène

“Corneille’s Cinna, Clemency, and the Implausible Decision.” The Modern Language Review 108.1 (January 2013) : 68-89.

L’Eloquence du Silence : Dramaturgie du non-dit sur la scène théâtrale des 17e et 18e siècles. Hélène Bilis and Jennifer Tamas (eds.), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014.

“The Silence of Subjects Tragedy and the Refusal to Speak in Tristan’s La Mort de Sénèque.” L’Eloquence du Silence : Dramaturgie du non-dit sur la scène théâtrale des 17e et 18e siècles. Hélène Bilis and Jennifer Tamas (eds.), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014.

“Voir la Sorcière de Colchis d’un nouvel œil ou comment rendre visible la dignité.” Littératures Classiques 83 (Winter 2013).

*Work in progress “Passing Judgment : The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty on Stage in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine. “

Bjornstad, Hall

“The Marginalization of the Mémoires of Louis XIV.” The European Legacy. Forthcoming.

*Work in progress : Study on royal exemplarity, on royal glory, and on Pascal and failure.

Blanchard, Jean-Vincent

“De quoi donner une jaunisse à Richelieu. Autour d’une lettre de Descartes à Guez de Balzac.” (219-232). Publié dans L’Oeil classique. Littératures Classiques 82 (2013) sous la direction de Sylvaine Guyot et Tom Conley.

Bolduc, Benoit

“La fête de papier (1549-1679) : des ateliers parisiens au Cabinet du Roi.” XVIIème siècle. Sous presse.

Des Fêtes en puissance. Cinq livres de fête parisiens : 1459-1662. Paris, Garnier, 2013.

*Work in progress : Avec Hélène Visentin (dir.), Les Livres commémorant les entrées solennelles d’Henri II et de François II dans les villes de France.

** Dissertation defended : Katie Laporta : The Pamphlet’s Appeal : The Politics of Late Seventeenth-Century Anti-Monarchical Pamphlet Literature (1667-1714). Dissertation co-directed with Henriette Goldwyn and defended March 21, 2014.

Brodeur, Pierre-Olivier

“Une nouvelle traversée : le désert comme lieu de culture dans le roman édifiant” (265-274). Publié dans Lieux de Culture dans la France au XVIIème siècle. William Brooks, Christine McCall Probes et Rainer Zaiser (eds.). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2012.

“Les égarements de l’imagination, ou le roman raisonné de Philippe-Louis Gérard.” Publié dans Les lieux de la réflexion romanesque au XVIIIe siècle: de la poétique du genre à la culture du roman sous la direction de Michel Fournier et Ugo Dionne. Études Françaises, 2013.

“'Ma chère Julie n’a jamais lu de romans' : Madame Leprince de Beaumont et la recherche d’un romanesque nouveau.” Publié dans Marie Leprince de Beaumont: de l'éducation des filles à “La Belle et la Bête dans tous ses états sous la direction de Jeanne Chiron et de Catriona Seth. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2013.

Bruun, Mette

“Trembling in Time: Silence and Meaning between Barthes, Chateaubriand and Rancé. “On Religion and Memory, Babette Hellemans, Willemien Otten, and Burcht Pranger (eds.), New York, Fordham UP, 2013, 100-120

With Emilia Jamroziak, “Introduction : Withdrawal and Engagement. “Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order, Mette Birkedal Bruun (ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge U. P., 2012, 1-22.

*Work in progress : Project leader of the collective interdisciplinary research study entitled Solitudes. Withdrawal and Engagement in the long Seventeenth Century funded by the European Research Council (2013-17).

*Dissertation directed: Lars Nørgaard : St. Cyr between Withdrawal and Engagement in the long Seventeenth Century.

Bury, Emmanuel

“Guez de Balzac critique de l’éloquence sacrée, entre philologie et rhétorique.” Evocations of Eloquence. Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in Early Modern France. Essays in Honour of Peter Bayley, N. Hammond and M. Moriarty (eds.), Oxford, Frankfurt, New York : Peter Lang (“Medieval and Early Modern Studies”, 10), 2012, 263-284.

“Une discipline paradoxale : l’idée de naturel dans les doctrines sociales et littéraires de l’honnêteté au XVIIe siècle.” Pensées, pratiques et représentations de la discipline à l’âge moderne, Sarah Di Bella (ed.), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2012, 43-55.

“René Bordier, poète du Ballet des Fées de la forêt de Saint-Germain, un artisan du vers ‘classique’ au service de la musique ‘baroque’.” Les Fées des Forêts de Saint-Germain, 1625 : un ballet royal de “bouffonesque humeur”, Thomas Leconte (ed.), Turnhout, Brepols, 2012, CESR/CMBV, coll. “Epitome musical”, 249-264.

“Aspects juridiques de la pensée des moralistes classiques.” Ethique et droit du Moyen Âge au siècle des Lumières, études réunies par B. Boudou et B. Méniel, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2012, 287-299.

“Sens et portée du recueil des Œuvres diverses de 1674 : ‘un manifeste du classicisme’?” Œuvres et critiques, 37.1 (2012) : 75-86.

“Entre philologie et littérature : quelques aspects du Moyen Age dans le discours critique du XVIIe siècle.” Accès aux textes médiévaux de la fin du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle, M. Gueret-Lafarte et C. Poulouin (eds.), Paris, Champion, 2012, 235-249.

“Racine, ‘héros’ du classicisme français : les fondements philologiques d’un mythe littéraire (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles).” Changing Perspectives. Studies on Racine in Honor of John Campbell, R. W. Tobin and A. J. Kennedy (eds.), Charlottesville, Rookwood Press, 2012, 144-155.

“Doxographie, astronomie. La Lune au prisme des sources anciennes (XVIe-XVIIe siècles).” La Lune au XVIIe siècle, C. Grell (ed.), Travaux de l’Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, 89/52 (2012) : 41-48.

“L’Astrée et la tradition romanesque en France au XVIIe siècle”, Confronto Letterario, 58 (décembre 2012) : 293-306.

Carlin, Claire

“Les chagrins du mariage : réflexions sur une catégorie de topos au XVIIe siècle. “Le Mariage et la loi dans la fiction narrative avant 1800. Françoise Lavocat (ed.). Actes du XXIe colloque de la SATOR, Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, 27-30 juin 2007. Louvain, Editions Peeters, 2014, 399-416. Editions of La Veuve and La Suivante, Théâtre complet de Pierre Corneille, Classiques Garnier (à paraître 2014).

“La polémique misogame et le parasitage des savoirs renaissants.” Un autre dix-septième siècle, Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean Serroy. Christine Noille & Bernard Roukhomovsky (eds.). Paris, Honoré Champion, 2013, 135-146.

“La femme battant son mari : la mise en image d’un topos traditionnel.” Les figures du monde renversé de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Lucie Desjardins (ed.). Paris, Éditions Hermann, 2013, 297-311.

“L'épouse fugitive : Un topos romanesque renouvelé à l'âge de Louis XIV.” Rapport hommes/femmes dans l'Europe Moderne: Figures et paradoxes de l'enfermement, Institut de recherche sur la Renaissance, l'Age Classique, et les Lumières (IRCL), Université de Montpellier 3, Archives Ouvertes de HALSHS (Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société), 2013: http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00845474

“Une curiosité vaine et indiscrète : le mariage au carrefour de la vie privée et de l’intérêt public.” La médiatisation de la vie privée, XVe-XXe siècle. Agnès Walch (ed.). Presses de l’Université d’Artois, 2012, 152-162.

“L’épouse affamée. “L’image répétée : Imitation, copie, remploi, recyclage. Revue en ligne Textimage : Le conférencier (automne 2012).

Carr Jr., Thomas

*Work in progress : Biographies of Marie-André Duplessis and Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet, and an edition of their correspondence.

Cherbuliez, Juliette

*Direction of two dissertations: Rosensweig, Anna: Tragedy and the Ethics of Resistance Rights in Early Modern French Theater. Bowman, Melanie: The Spectacle of the Suffering Body: Seventeenth-Century Aesthetics of Violence.

Course, Didier

*Work in progress : Rédaction d’un article intitulé “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam : Painful Delights in Jesuit Writings” pour un volume collectif (dont il est l’éditeur et le coordinateur) sur les concepts de peine et de souffrance dans l’Europe chrétienne du Moyen Age aux débuts de la période moderne.

Duggan, Anne

“Ideology.” Marvelous Transformations : An Anthology of Tales and New Critical Perspectives. Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Shacker (eds.), Peterborough, ON, Broadview Press, 2012, 518-522.

“Epicurean Cannibalism, or France Gone Savage.” French Studies. Forthcoming.

“L’Adultère dans l’histoire tragique.” Le Mariage dans la littérature narrative avant 1800. Actes de la SATOR. Collection “La République des Lettres”, Peeters, 2014, 651-61.

“The Revolutionary Undoing of the Maiden Warrior in Riyoko Ikeda’s The Rose of Versailles and Jacques Demy’s Lady Oscar.” Marvels and Tales 27.1. Forthcoming 2013.

Ekstein, Nina

“La Pratique ironique de l’appel à l’autorité dans les péritextes du théâtre de Corneille.” Pratiques de Corneille. Myriam Dufour-Maître (ed.), Mont-Saint-Aignan, publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2012, 401-408.

“The Theatrical lieu de culture within Molière’s Plays.” Lieux de culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle, William Brooks, Christine Probes and Rainer Zaiser (eds.). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2012, 233-46.

“Sex in Rotrou’s Theater : Performance and Disorder.” Orbis Literarum 67.4 (2012) : 290-309.

Finn, Thomas

“Bookish Women : Female Readers and Women’s Education in Molière.” Women in French Studies. Special Issue (2012) : 36-55.

Gaines, James

“The Five-Factor Model in Fact and Fiction. “by Robert R. McCrae, James F. Gaines, and Marie A. Wellington, in Handbook of Psychology, Irving B. Weiner (ed.). Second Edition. New York: Wiley, 2012. Volume V: Personality and Social Psychology, 246-88.

“The Natchez Tribe of Louisiana.” KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana Culture (online).

“Comic Intimacy : The Case for Molière’s Lovers’ Quarrels.” Neophilologus, March 2013.

“The Triple Failure of Boileau’s Ode sur la prise de Namur. “L’Érudit Franco-Espagnol, December 2013.

“Les Faux Moscovites : ouverture intellectuelle ou quasi-turquerie ?” Seventeenth-Century French Studies. Forthcoming.

*Work in progress : Town and Court : Social Dimensions of Literature Under Louis XIV. “Dutch Parodic Corrections to Boileau’s Ode sur la prise de Namur. “ “A Parodic Scene From Le Cid Against Boileau.” “A 1695 Epigram Against Boileau.” “The Cantique à Mme de Maintenon : An Émigré Satire.” “The Second Cailloué Parody of Boileau’s Ode sur la prise de Namur.” “The First Cailloué Parody of Boileau’s Ode sur la prise de Namur.” “Pierre Motteux’s Parody of Boileau’s Ode sur la prise de Namur.”

Ganim, Russell

“Male Models : Galanterie and Libertinage in La Fayette and Laclos.” French Review 85.6 (2012) : 1124-1134.

“Autre temps, autres mœurs ; altérité et identité dans le Supplément au voyage de Bougainville.” Neohelicon 39.1 (2012) : 203-221.

Gethner, Perry

“Douceur et galanterie dans les tragédies lyriques de Quinault. “La Douceur en littérature de l’Antiquité au XVIIè siècle. Hélène Baby and Josiane Rieu (eds.). Paris, Classiques Garnier, 323-32.

“Lyon as a Theatrical Space : The Case of Françoise Pascal’s Tragicomedies.” Lieux de Culture dans la France au XVIIème siècle. William Brooks, Christine McCall Probes et Rainer Zaiser (eds.). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien : Peter Lang, 2012, 11-22.

“Le Proverbe dramatique, genre de l'impertinence.” Impertinence générique et genres de l'impertinence (XVI-XVIIIe siècles), Actes du colloque international du GADGES. Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III (8-10 décembre 2010), I. Garnier-Mathez, V. Géraud et O. Leplâtre (eds.) Cahiers du GADGES, Genève, Droz, 2012, 305-18.

“Depictions of War in the Plays of Rotrou.” Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal 14 (2012) : 119-34.

Madame de Maintenon : Proverbes dramatiques, co-authored with Theresa Kennedy. Annotated Critical Edition. Paris : Garnier (Coll. “Bibliothèque du XVIIème siècle). Forthcoming.

*Work in progress : Critical editions of - Rotrou’s L’Heureux naufrage and Dom Lope de Cardone, - Thomas Corneille’s Laodice and La Mort d’Annibal, and - Mme de Murat’s Voyage de campagne (with Allison Stedman). Volume II of an anthology of French women playwrights in English translation (1650-1700), accepted by Other Voices series. Volume III of an anthology of French women playwrights for which Professor Gethner is going to edit works by Sainctonge and Durand.

Goldsmith, Elizabeth

“Fanning the Judgment of Paris : The Early Modern Beauty Contest. “ Seventeenth-Century French Studies. Forthcoming June 2014.

“Galant Culture : Women Writers, Fiction, and Practice. “Cambridge Companion to French Literature. John Lyons (ed.). Cambridge, UK : Cambridge UP. Forthcoming 2014.

“Writing for the Elite : Molière, Marivaux, Beaumarchais. “Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’arte. Judith Chaffee and Olly Crick (eds.). New York : Routledge. Forthcoming, 2014.

The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna and her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin. New York : Public Affairs, 2012.

*Work in progress : Translation of Catherine Bédacier Durand's novel La Comtesse de Mortane.

Goldwyn, Henriette

*Work in progress : Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien Régime, XVIIIe siècle. Aurore Evain et Perry Gethner (eds.), vol IV.

*Dissertation directed: Laporta, Katie. The Pamphlet’s Appeal: The Politics of Late Seventeenth-Century Anti-Monarchical Pamphlet Literature (1667-1714). Thèse co-dirigée par Henriette Goldwyn et Benoit Bolduc et soutenue le 21 mars 2014.

Goulet, Anne-Madeleine

Avec Caroline Giron-Panel (éd.), La Musique à Rome au XVIIe siècle. Études et perspectives de recherche, Rome, Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2012.

“Il caso della Princesse des Ursins a Roma (1675-1701) : tra separatezza e integrazione culturale. “Recercare. Rivista per lo Studio e la pratica della musica antica (2012) : 175-187.

“Les Amants magnifiques o la vertigine del teatro nel teatro.” Il teatro allo specchio : il metateatro tra melodramma e prosa. Actes du Colloque de Naples (15-17 février 2007). Paologiovanni Maione et Francesco Cotticelli (eds.). Éditions du Centre de musique ancienne Pietà de Turchini, 2013.

“Les musiciens européens à Venise, Rome et Naples (1650-1750). Musique, échanges culturels et identité des nations. “Lettre de l’INSHS 21 (2013) : 10-11.

Avec Gesa Zur Nieden (éd.), Europäische Musiker in Venedig, Rom und Neapel (1650-1750), Analecta musicologica n° 52, Cassel, Bärenreiter. Sous presse.

“Costumes, décors et machines dans l’Arsate (1683) d’Alessandro Scarlatti. Contribution à l’histoire de l’opéra à Rome au XVIIe siècle “, dans XVIIe siècle, 262.1 (2014) : 139-166.

Notice “Flavio Orsini “pour le Dizionario biografico degli Italiani. Parution imminente.

“Les musiciens européens à Venise, à Rome et à Naples (1650-1750) : éléments pour une comparaison des mobilités musiciennes “, dans Anne-Madeleine Goulet et Gesa Zur Nieden (eds.), Europäische Musiker in Venedig, Rom und Neapel (1650-1750), Analecta musicologica n° 52, Cassel, Bärenreiter. Sous presse.

“Marie-Anne et Louise-Angélique de La Trémoille, princesses étrangères à Rome (1675-1701)”. Choix culturels, artistiques et politiques”, dans Anne-Madeleine Goulet et Gesa Zur Nieden (eds.), Europäische Musiker in Venedig, Rom und Neapel (1650-1750), Analecta musicologica n° 52, Cassel, Bärenreiter. Sous presse.

Grégoire, Vincent

“La représentation du Tartuffe n’aura pas lieu, ou pour une nouvelle ‘Affaire Tartuffe’ à Québec en 1694. “Lieux de Culture dans la France au XVIIème siècle. William Brooks, Christine McCall Probes et Rainer Zaiser (eds.), Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2012, 247-264.

“L'Iroquois est un loup pour l'homme, ou la difficulté de ‘convertir les loups en agneaux’ dans les écrits des missionnaires de Nouvelle-France au dix-septième siècle. “Québec Studies vol. 54 (Fall 2012-Winter 2013) : 17-30.

“Malentendus culturels et en particulier linguistiques rencontrés par les ursulines en Nouvelle-France au XVIIème siècle. “Seventeenth-Century French Studies. Forthcoming December 2014.

Grélé, Denis

“Entre l’argent et l’honneur : Réflexions sur la mauvaise foi de Madame de la Guette (1613-1676).” L’Erudit Franco-espagnol 1 (Spring 2012) : 47-57.

Harrigan, Michael

“Méchant Chretien ne sera jamais bon Turc. “Essays in French Literature, Thought and Visual Culture. A Kay and G. Adams (eds.). Oxford, NY : Peter Lang, 2012, 9-28.

“Mobility and Language in the Early Modern Antilles. “Seventeenth-Century French Studies 34.2 (2012) : 115-32.

“Métissage and Crossing Boundaries in the Seventeenth-Century Travel Narrative to the Indian Ocean Basin.” Cahiers du Dix-Septième 15.1 (2013) : 19-45.

“Seventeenth-Century French Travellers and the Encounter with Indian Histories.” French History 28.1 (March 2014), 1-22.

“The Navigations of Nicolas de Nicolay and the Economics of Ethnology in the Early Modern Mediterranean Basin.” Accepted in Anthropological Reformations – Anthropology in the Era of Reformation. Berlin : Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2014.

Book reviews: Modern Language Review 108.2 (April 2013) : 643-44. Brian Brazeau, Writing a New France (1604-1632) : Empire and Early Modern French Identity, Farnham : Ashgate, 2009. Modern Language Review 109.1 (January 2014) : 248-249. Sara E. Melzer, Colonizer and Colonized : The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

*Work in progress: Extensive study on the historiography of the early modern period, focusing on the function and reception of short narratives. Long term project on 17th-century textual representations of servitude and slavery.

Hoffmann, Kathryn

“Excursions to See ‘Monsters’ : Odd Bodies and Itineraries of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century.” Chapter 11 of Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth Century Cultural Expression., Susan McClary (ed.). Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013, 296-312.

“ Perrault’s ‘Cendrillon’ Among the Glass Tales : Crystal Fantasies and Glassworks in Seventeenth-Century France and Italy”. Forthcoming in Cinderella as a Text of Culture, Monika Wozniak, Gillian Lathey and Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère (eds.), Cambridge.

Horsley, Adam

“‘Ne l’as-tu point vu, mon garde ?’ Towards a Third Version of Cyrano de Bergerac’s Le Pedant joué. “ French Studies Bulletin (33) : 28-31.

Kennedy, Theresa

“Daring Female playwrights and their ‘filles rebelles’ in 17th Century France. “ Rebelles, vilaines et criminelles chez les écrivaines d’expression française ou la déviance au féminin. Colette Trout and Frederick Chevillot (eds.). Atlanta-Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, (Coll. “Faux Titre”), 2012.

“From ‘mauvaise mère’ to ‘bonne mère’: The Making of Republican Mothers in Women’s Pedagogical Theater. “Dalhousie French Studies 101 (2012).

“Gender Performance in Seventeenth-Century Dramatic Dialogue : From the salon to the Classroom.” Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal 15.21 (2013) : 1-18.

“Staging the Impossible ‘femme forte’ in Maintenon’s Conversations inédites. “Women’s Voices : Critical Essays on Francophone Women’s Theater. Eds. Cecilia Beach and Joyce Johnston (eds.). Spec. issue of Women in French Studies Journal. Forthcoming 2014.

Madame de Maintenon: Proverbes dramatiques, co-authored with Perry Gethner. Annotated Critical Edition. Paris, Garnier (Coll. “Bibliothèque du XVIIème siècle “). Forthcoming.

Koppisch, Michael

“Desire and Conversion in François de Sale’s Traité de l’amour de Dieu. “Contagion 19 (2012) : 23-37.

Leibacher, Lise

“Imaginaire anatomique, débordements tribadiques et excisions : le Discours sur les hermaphrodites (1614) de Jean Riolan fils. “L’Hermaphrodite, de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Marianne Closson (ed.), Paris, Garnier, 2013.

“Littératures du leurre et ‘Mœurs galantes aux colonies’ antillaises. Le Zombi du Grand Pérou (1697) entre Blessebois, Nodier et Montifaud. “Relire le Patrimoine lettré de l’Amérique française. Sébastien Côté et Charles Doutrelepont (eds.), Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2013. Forthcoming.

“‘Le Changement, c’est Maintenon’ : entre Sévigné, Fénelon et Saint-Simon.” Maîtresses et favorites dans les coulisses du pouvoir en occident (Moyen âge et époque moderne). Liège, Université de Liège, Société internationale pour l’étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR), 2014. Forthcoming.

*Work in progress: “Le Portrait de l'Equivoque (Michelet) : Maintenon et les enjeux de la différence (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)”. Book monograph on P.C. Blessebois.

Longino, Michèle

“Le Moment de la Séparation. “Mandez-moi des bagatelles. Première année de correspondance entre Mme de Sévigné et Mme de Grignan. Etudes réunies par Cécile Lignereux. “Correspondances et mémoires “– Série” Le Grand Siècle”. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2012, 29-44.

“Jean Thévenot, le Levant et le Récit de voyage. “XVIIème Siècle 258.1 (January-March, 2013) : 55-64.

“Portrait de Jean de Thévenot : voyageur et savant. “Mélanges en l’honneur de Pierre Ronzeaud. November 2013.

“Constantinople : The Telling and the Taking. “L’Esprit Créateur 53.4 (2013): 124-138.

“Le Voyageur, les Eunuques et le Sérail : l’Oculaire par Procuration. “L’Oeil classique : Regards croisées sur le XVIIème siècle. Sylvaine Guyot et Tom Conley (eds.), Littératures Classiques 82 (2013) 145-157.

*Work in progress : Travel, or the Benefits of Discontent : Marseilles to Constantinople (1650-1700).

** Thesis directed : Pound, Jacquie. Beyond Words : Language as Action in 17th and 18th-century (Re)Interpretations of Racine.

Lyons, John D.

“Racine’s Silent Places.” L’Eloquence du silence sur la scène théâtrale des 17e et 18e siècles, Hélène Bilis et Jennifer Tamas (eds.), Paris, Garnier, 2014, 217-237

“Poétique du personnage.” Le Nouveau Moliériste, 10 (2013) : 89-102

“Pascal et les frontières du visible.” L’Oeil classique. Sylvaine Guyot et Tom Conley (eds.), Littératures Classiques 82 (2013).

Manea, Ioana

“Le philosophe La Mothe Le Vayer : spectateur de la ‘comédie’ du monde et explorateur du ‘globe intellectuel’.” Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal, 14 (2012) : 88-99.

Mathieu, Francis

L’Art d’esthétiser le précepte. L’Exemplarité rhétorique dans le roman d’Ancien Régime. Tubingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2012.

Muratore, Mary J.

“The Poetics of Interdeterminacy : Corneille’s Le Cid. “ Romance Quarterly, 60.4 (2013) : 244-253.

Norman, Buford

*Work in progress : Website devoted to the works and life of Philippe Quinault: www.quinault.info. Database on Racine and Music, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

O’Brien, William P.

Claude La Colombière : Sermons. Volume I : Christian Conduct. Ed. William P. O’Brien, Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.

O’Hara, Stephanie

Trans., Louise Bourgeois’ Diverse Observations Concerning Sterility, Miscarriages, Fertility, Births, and Diseases of Women and Newborn Children (1626 edition). Trans. and ed. Stephanie O’Hara. Annotated and ed. Alison Klairmont Lingo. Published by the Toronto Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (“The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe “Series). Toronto : University of Toronto, 2013.

Paine, Skye

*Work in progress : Réflexion sur le thème de la centralisation, mais aussi, en matière pédagogique, sur la façon de contextualiser le 17ème siècle.

Palacios, Joy

“Public Acts of Private Devotion : From Silent Prayer to Ceremonies in France’s Early Seminaries.” Performing Religion in Public : Acts of Faith in the Public Sphere. Joshua Edelman, Claire Chambers, and Simon du Toit (eds.), New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 49-70.

Paschoud, Adrien

Penser l’ordre naturel (1680-1810). Adrien Paschoud et Nathalie Vuillemin (eds.), Oxford, SVEC, 2012.

“Aborder les Relations jésuites de la Nouvelle-France (1632-1672) : enjeux et perspectives.” Arborescences : revue d’études françaises 2 (2012) : 1-11.

“Non-savoir et savoir dans l’écriture mystique du XVIIe siècle : Jean-Joseph Surin ou l’épreuve du dessaisissement de soi”, La Pensée sans abri. Non-savoir et littérature, Muriel Pic, Barbara Selmici-Castioni et Jean-Pierre Van Eslande (eds.), Nantes, Editions Cécile Defaut, 2012, 161-172.

“Jean-Joseph Surin. Mystique et démonologie au XVIIe siècle.” La Vie spirituelle 799 (2012) : 173-180.

“Aspects et enjeux de l’écriture mémorialiste au lendemain des Guerres de religion : Sa vie à ses enfants d’Agrippa d’Aubigné. “Le Sens du passé. Pour une nouvelle approche des Mémoires. Marc Hersant, Jean-Louis Jeanelle et Damien Zanone (eds.), Rennes, PUR, 2013, 295-305.

“Les Antijésuites. Discours, figures et lieux de l’antijésuitisme à l’époque moderne. “Revue de l’histoire des religions 230.1 (2013) : 138-141.

Perlmutter, Jennifer

“Heritage, Bricolage and Free-play : Restructuring the Ana Genre.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, forthcoming June 2014.

“Knowledge, Authority and the Bewitching Jew in Early-Modern France.” Jewish Social Studies 19.1 (October 2013).

Prest, Julia.

Controversy in French Drama: Molière’s Tartuffe and the Struggle for Influence. New York: Palgrave, 2014.

“Where are the ‘vrais dévots’ and are they ‘véritables gens de bien’ ? Eloquent Slippage in the Tartuffe Controversey.” Neophilologus 96.3 (2012) [online] and 97.2 (2013) : 283-297 [in print].

*Work in progress : Dangerous Illusions and Unwelcome Truths : Tartuffe in an Age of Absolutism.

Probes, Christine

Contributing Editor. French 17 : Bibliography of French Seventeenth Century Studies. Vol. 60, 2012 (Bennington, VT : Bennington College).

Co-editor (with Bill Brooks and Rainer Zaiser). Lieux de Culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle, Collection “Medieval and Early Modern French Studies”, Bern : Peter Lang, 2012.

Co-authored introduction of volume Lieux de Culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle, Bern : Peter Lang, 2012, 1-8.

Co-editor (with Sabine Moedersheim), Emblems and Propaganda, Glasgow : Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2014.

“‘Le Roi me disait quelquefois : D’où vient donc, Madame, que vous aimez tant Fontainebleu’ Les lieux de la cour comme lieux de culture, les réflexions de Madame Palatine sur Fontainebleu, Marly, Saint-Cloud et Versailles.” Lieux de Culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle, Bern : Peter Lang, 2012.

“In Search of ‘l’amy’ and ‘l’amitié’: Early Seventeenth-Century Editions of Emblems from the Glasgow University Collection.” In honor of Amy Wygant. Seventeenth-Century French Studies 34.1 (2012) : 2-16.

“Lieux de la cour, lieux de culture : les réflexions de Madame Palatine sur Saint-Cloud, Marly, Versailles et Fontainebleau.” Lieux de culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle, Bern : Peter Lang, 2012, 39-55.

“La Mémoire et l’identité transmises par la femme antillaise : stratégies littéraires et cinématographiques.” Enjeux identitaires dans l’imaginaire francophone, Kanaté Dahouda and Sélom K. Gbanou (eds.), Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2012, 81-92.

With Martine Landis : “The Taste of Violence: Senses, Signs, Biblical and Theological Allusion in the Service of the Dramatization of History : Pierre Matthieu’s Guisiade.” Current Trends in Language and Culture Studies, Margit Grieb, Yves-Antoine Clemmen and Will Lehman (eds.), Boca Raton, FL: Brown Walker Press, 2013, 39-50.

“Hope Kindled by a Cinema in the Service of the People? Women and the Marginalized in Recent Francophone African Films.” Eastern and Indigenous Perspectives on Conflict Resolution, Yashwant Pathak (ed.), West Chester, PA: International Center for Cultural Studies USA, 2013, 61-73.

“‘Pource faire cognoistre ici bas en tout lieu’: Zealously Advancing God’s Truth through Key Theophanies and Anthropomorphisms in Georgette de Montenay’s Emblemes ou devises chrestiennes. “Refereed and accepted by Alison Adams for Vol. 1. Currently in press.

“La Vie selon les emblématistes : les sens et les significations.” in La Vie/Life, Holly Tucker and Jérôme Brillaud (eds.), Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal,. Forthcoming in Spring 2014.

“Au Cours de la route: un voyage incognito de Sophie de Hanovre à la cour de France.” Accepted for refereed volume edited by Richard Maber.

“‘There isn’t a novel that I haven’t read’ : Reading Fiction, Interpreting Scripture. Madame Palatine’s Letters, an ‘Exceptional Mirror’ of the Grand Siècle.” Accepted for refereed volume edited by Pierre Zobermann.

Book review : Jole Morgante, Quand les vers sont bien composés : Variation et finesse, l’art des ‘Contes et nouvelles en vers’ de Jean de La Fontaine. Bern : Peter Lang, 2013 ; for L’Érudit franco-espagnol, 2013.

Racevskis, Roland

“Abundance and Waste in Scarron's Le Roman comique : Early Modern Environments and Terrocentric Identity. “French Review 86.1 (October 2012) : 124-135.

“The Place of the Nonhuman in Madame de Sévigné's Letters : Toward a Transnational Early Modern Ecocriticism. “Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 19.1 (Winter 2012) : 142-161.

Ravel, Jeffrey S.

“Trois images de l’expulsion des comédiens italiens en 1697.” Littératures classiques 82 (December 2013) : 51-60.

Raynard-Leroy, Sophie

The Teller’s Tale. Ed. Raynard. Chap. 2 “Perrault and the Conteuses Précieuses--Seventeenth-Century France. “ New York : SUNY Press, 2012, 39-93.

Fairy Tales Framed. Raynard (co-ed). Chapter 3: “Fairy Tales and Fairyland fictions in France: Establishing the Canon. “New York : SUNY Press, 2012, 99-228.

Marvelous Transformations : An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Shacker (eds.). Part II : Contemporary Critical Approaches. Reception. Raynard : “Sexuality and the Women Fairy Tale Writers of the 1690s “. Broadview Press, 2012.

Régent-Susini, Anne

“Sauvage ou bon sauvage ? Le paysan chez Jean-Pierre Camus.” Littérature classiques 79, Roman et religion de Jean-Pierre Camus à Fénelon, dir. Franck Greiner, 2012.

“Religious Discourse and Legal Discourse in 17th-century France : the Example of Bossuet.” Evocations of Eloquence, Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in Early Modern France. Essays in Honour of Peter Bayley, N. Hammond and M. Moriarty (eds.), Bern, Peter Lang, 2012.

“De la pédagogie à l’apologétique : le Discours sur l’histoire universelle de Bossuet et ses récritures.” L’Apologétique chrétienne. Expressions de la pensée religieuse, de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Élisabeth Pinto-Mathieu et Didier Boisson (eds.). Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012, 289-312.

“Le débat Bossuet/Leibniz : deux éthiques de la controverse à l’âge classique.” Ethique et Discours, dir. Gilles Siouffi, Charles Guérin et Sandrine Sorlin, Bern, Peter Lang, 2012, 237-249.

*Work in progress : Le Centre et la Ligne. La pensée de l’autorité dans l’œuvre de Bossuet. Berlin, Lit Verlag, “Ars rhetorica”. Edition critique de textes concernant les imaginaires linguistiques respectivement associés au français et au latin au XVIIe siècle. Paris, Classiques Garnier. Bossuet, Discours sur l’histoire universelle. Paris, Honoré Champion. Bossuet, Œuvres oratoires. Paris, Editions du Cerf.

Reguig, Delphine

“Penser, écrire, adresser : Boileau poète de l’esprit. “Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) : divertissement et rayonnement de son œuvre, R. Zaizer (ed.). Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Biblio 17, “Œuvres et Critiques” 37.1 (2012) : 51-64.

“Du Port-Royal à la ‘maison de Port-Royal’ : l’Abrégé de l’histoire de Port-Royal de Racine, de l’inachèvement à l’édification. “Lieux de culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien : Peter Lang, 2012, 113-126.

“‘Vous êtes encore toute vive partout’ : présence des images dans les Lettres de Mme de Sévigné. “La première année de correspondance entre Mme de Sévigné et Mme de Grignan, dir. C. Lignereux, Paris : Garnier, 2012, 277-295.

“Les Réflexions critiques sur Longin : de la traduction à la poétique.” Les Écrivains de la querelle : de la polémique à la poétique (1687-1750). Revue Fontenelle 9 (2012) : 57-73.

“‘Le fils d’Ulysse ne pouvait goûter que ce qui était vrai’: Fénelon, entre Homère et Augustin. “Roman et religion de Jean-Pierre Camus à Fénelon, dir. F. Greiner, Littératures classiques 79 (2012) : 177-196.

“Impertinence et littérarité chez Boileau. “Impertinence générique et genres de l’impertinence du XVIème au XVIIIème siècle, I. Garnier, V. Géraud et O. Leplâtre (eds.). Actes du colloque international du GADGES. Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III, 8-10 décembre 2010, Cahiers du GADGES, Genève, Droz, 2012, 463-475.

Relire l’apologie pascalienne, dir. en collaboration avec A. de Chaisemartin. Actes du colloque international célébrant le 350ème anniversaire de la mort de Blaise Pascal, Chroniques de Port-Royal 63, 2013.

“L’auctorialité dans les Provinciales. “Illuminisme, sorcelleries et autres variations en hommage à Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre, dir. C. Martin, J.-C. Abramovici et Y. Séité, Paris, Presses Universitaires de Paris X-Nanterre, 2013.

“La fausseté de la métaphore dans la polémique port-royaliste anti-calviniste. “Port-Royal et les images, dir. T. Gheeraert. Actes de la journée d’études du C.E.R.E.D.I., Université de Rouen, 20 mai 2011, Paris, Champion, 2013.

“Boileau critique : un cas historiographique. “Les Discours critiques au XVIIe siècle, dir. P. Dandrey, Littératures classiques, 2013.

“Froideur et saveur de la rime chez Boileau. “L’Épithète, la rime et la raison, dir. A.-P. Pouey-Mounou et S. Hache. Actes de la journée d’études de l’Université Lille III, 2 décembre 2011, Paris, Garnier, 2013.

“Les raisons de l’autorité dans le traité De la foy humaine de P. Nicole et A. Arnauld. “A paraître dans la revue Astérion.

“ Quid Romae faciam ? : la satire comme lieu poétique chez Boileau. ““Rome n’est plus dans Rome “? Entre mythe et satire : la représentation de Rome en France au tournant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Actes du colloque organisé par le Centre d’Études italo-françaises, le Département de Littératures comparées de l’Université Rome 3 et le CELLF 17-18 de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne et du CNRS (UMR 8599), Rome, 8-10 mars 2012. A paraître chez Champion en 2013.

“L'Œil du maître : regarder les Fables de La Fontaine. “L’Œil classique en action. Regards croisés sur la vision au XVIIème siècle, dir. S. Guyot et T. Conley, Littératures classiques, 2013.

“Le Boileau des Modernes. “Écrire et penser en Moderne (1687-1750). Actes du colloque international organisé par le C.E.R.E.D.I. (Rouen) et l'Institut Claude Longeon (U.M.R. 5037, Saint-Étienne), E.N.S. Lyon - 20 et 21 novembre 2012. A paraître en 2014.

“Les Frères Perrault.” XVIIe siècle, 4 (2014).

*Works in progress Boileau, Bibliographie des Écrivains Français, Turnhout, Brepols, livraison prévue en 2015. Correspondance de Boileau, éd. critique en collaboration avec J. Lesaulnier, Paris, Champion, livraison prévue en 2015. Mélanges en l’honneur d’Antony McKenna, dir. en collaboration avec C. Bahier-Porte et P.-F. Moreau, Paris, Champion, 2017.

Requemora-Gros, Sylvie

Voguer vers la modernité : le voyage à travers les genres au XVII siècle. Paris : Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, coll. “Imago mundi “dirigée par François Moureau, 2012.

Image et Voyage, Loïc Guyon et Sylvie Requemora-Gros (dir.), Aix-en-Provence, PUP, coll. “Textuelles “, 2012.

Jean-François Regnard: éthique et esthétique d’un gai légataire. A paraître.

Transgressions, Aix, PUP, coll. “Textuelles “. A paraître.

Mélanges en l’honneur de Pierre Ronzeaud, Aix, PUP, coll. “Textuelles “. A paraître.

Actes du 43ème Colloque Annuel de la North-American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (NASSCFL) : “Voyages, échanges, rencontres au XVIIe siècle,” 5-8 juin 2013, Marseille et Aix-en-Provence, revue Littératures classiques/ Biblio 17. A paraître en 2014.

Edition critique de Jean-François Regnard, La Provençale, Voyages de Flandres, Hollande, Suède, Danemark, Laponie, Pologne et Allemagne. Voyages de Normandie et de Chaumont suivi de La Relation de l’esclavage des sieurs de Fercourt et Regnard pris sur mer par les corsaires d’Alger (1678-1679), Paris, Garnier. A paraître.

Edition critique de Jean-François Regnard, Le Légataire universel, dans Le Théâtre de Regnard, Charles Mazouer et Sabine Chaouche (dir.), Paris, Garnier. A paraître.

Edition critique des Voyages fameux du sieur Vincent Le Blanc (1648) en collaboration avec Grégoire Holtz, Paris, Garnier. A paraître.

“Des voyages aux pièces de théâtre de Jean-François Regnard: une esthétique de la bigarrure. “Jean-François Regnard, colloque du Tricentenaire, Dominique Quero et Charles Mazouer (dir.), Paris. A paraître.

“De l’usage de la pointe dans la comédie de la fin du siècle: J.-F. Regnard, ou le jeu des pointes.” Mélanges en l’honneur de François Moureau, G. Ferreyrolles (dir.), Paris, PUPS. A paraître.

“Le genre ‘metoyen’ en question: le cas de l’épisode algérien de Regnard. “ Actes du colloque international de l’ADIREL et du CRLV : Le Voyage dans tous ses états ; 16-17 mars 2012, Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris, PUPS. A paraître.

“Comment peut-on être Lapon? Singularités Nordiques. J.-F. Regnard en Europe du Nord, entre anomalie et ironie. “Colloque international, 27-29 mars 2012, Durham Castle, Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle (CIR 17), La France et l’Europe du Nord au XVIIe siècle : de l’Irlande à la Russie, Tubingen, Narr Verlag, Biblio 17. A paraître.

“Sophie de Hanovre, princesse ‘incognito’ à la cour ‘arche de Noé.’ “Voyageurs européens à la cour de France au temps des Bourbons (1594-1789) – regards croisés, Journée d’étude du 13 février 2012 organisée par Caroline zum Kolk et François Moureau intégrée au programme de recherche intitulé : “Les étrangers à la cour de France au temps des Bourbons (1594-1789). Intégration, apports, suspicions “, dirigé par J. F. Dubost (université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée) en commun avec le CRCV, prélude au colloque des 7-9 février 2013.

“Généalogie de la figure littéraire du pirate du XVIIè au XIXè siècle. “Piraterie au fil de l’Histoire: un défi pour l’Etat, Michèle Battesti (dir.), Institut de recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire, colloque international de La Rochelle, 9-12 mai 2012. A paraître.

Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber et Béatrice Didier (eds.). Editions des Femmes, responsable des 42 entrées de femmes écrivains français du XVIIème. A paraître.

Rousseau, Christine

“Le système superlatif dans les contes de fées du XVIIe siècle. “Colloque international “L'hyperbole rhétorique “, Université de Berne (Suisse), 5-6 septembre 2013. Actes du colloque à paraître en 2015.

“Les relais du discours. Le personnage-narrateur dans les contes de fées du XVIIème siècle.” Resolange, RUO, n. 8, 1er semestre 2012.

“Les topoï de l'imaginaire dans les contes de fées mondains du XVIIe siècle. “Université de Piteşti (Roumanie), Studii si cercetari filologice. Seria limbi romanice 14.1 (2013) : 123-138.

“Filiations et affiliations dans les contes de fées, un lourd héritage. “Massey University (Nouvelle Zélande), New Zealand Journal of French Studies 43.2 (2013) : 27-40.

“Conte et croyance : la démystification du merveilleux.” Féeries 10 (2013).

“Le pouvoir des mots dans les contes de fées du XVIIe siècle.” Pouvoir des mots-Mots du pouvoir, Université de Pecs, 21-23 mars 2013. Actes du colloque à paraître en 2014.

“Hommes et animaux dans les contes de fées classiques.” A paraître dans Cahiers du dix-septième siècle. An Interdisciplinary Journal.

“Le cheminement dans les contes de fées : l’éternel retour ?” Chemin, cheminement, ICT, Toulouse, 29-31 mars 2012. Actes du colloque sous presse.

“La parole-fée. Avoir voix au chapitre ou rester dans l’ombre.” Le silence et le verbe, Dalhousie University, Halifax 29-30 avril 2011. A paraître dans Initiales.

“Boire et manger dans les contes de fées du XVIIème siècle : Ma mère l’oye chez la Princesse de Montpensier.” Boire et manger, journées d’études doctorales, Université de Chambéry, 5-6 avril 2011. Actes du colloque à paraître.

Thèse soutenue : “Les Enchantements de l'éloquence” : contes de fées et stratégies hyperboliques au XVIIe siècle, sous la direction de Christine Noille-Clauzade, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, Ecole Doctorale : Langues, Littératures et Sciences humaines, laboratoire RARE, thèse soutenue le 19 octobre 2013.

Rubin, David

Changing Perspectives: Studies on Racine in Honor of John Campbell. R. Tobin and A. Kennedy (eds.). Charlottesville, VA. : Rookwood Press, 2012.

Schröder, Volker

“Classique par anticipation : Boileau et le fol espoir de l’immortalité.” Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711): diversité et rayonnement de son œuvre. Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Biblio 17, “Œuvres et Critiques”, 37.1 (2012), 125-141.

“Madame Deshoulières, ou la satire au féminin.” XVIIe siècle 258 (2013) : 95-106.

“Réduction de Bérénice.” Nach allen Regeln der Kunst, Festschrift Peter Kuon, Wien : LIT Verlag, 2013, 229-237.

“‘Midas, le Roi Midas’ : Perse, Boileau et la liberté du satirique.” Gueux, frondeurs, libertins, utopiens. Autres et ailleurs du XVIIème siècle. Mélanges en l’honneur de Pierre Ronzeaud. Philippe Chométy et Sylvie Requemora-Gros (eds.), Aix-Marseille : Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2013, 287-295.

“De l’allégorie au portrait : Boileau et les visages de la satire.” S’exprimer autrement : poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’époque classique. Actes du Colloque du CIR 17, Marie-Christine Pioffet (ed.). A paraître.

*Work in progress : Book on verbal violence in classical litterature (Boileau, Molière, Racine, moralists, conteuses). Exhibition : Versailles on Paper. Princeton University Library, February-July 2015.

*Dissertation directed : Hanna, Daniel. Carmelite Poetry in France and the Low Countries : The Tradition of Teresa of Avila. Completed 5/2012. Beytelmann, Sarah. Insulte et littérature dans la seconde moitié du XVIIème siècle. In progress. Worden, Daniel. Tales of Impostors: Exposing Belief in Fiction from the Baroque to the Early Enlightenment. In progress.

CIR 17 (CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RENCONTRES SUR LE 17e SIÈCLE). President : Buford Norman. Recent publication: Echos du grand siècle (1638-2011). Actes du colloque de Georgetown, Littératures classiques 76. Forthcoming : La France et l’Europe du Nord. Actes du colloque de Durham. Next colloquium : S’exprimer autrement : poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’époque classique, Toronto, May 8-10, 2014. See further details on website : http://www.cir17.info. Membership dues $35/year, payable to North American Treasurer : Volker Schröder, French & Italian, Princeton U., 303 East Pyne, Princeton, NJ 08544, email : volkers@princeton.edu .

Scott, Paul

*Dissertation directed : Gillian Weatherley. Avatars of Societal Constructs of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Contes de fées.

Sörman, Richard

*Work in progress : “Le Temps ne fait rien à l’affaire. Conscience de mort et stratégie de vie chez Molière” sera inclus dans la série “Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis” publiée par l’Université de Göteborg, Suède.

Stedman, Allison

Rococo Fiction in the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715 : Seditious Frivolity. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2012.

Trans. “‘The Savage’ by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat. “Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and New Critical Perspectives. Ed. Christine Jones and Jennifer Shaker. Ontario: Broadview, 2012, 201-18.

“Lafayette Rewrites History, Murat Rewrites Lafayette : The Novel and the Transfiguration of the Social Sphere in Old-Regime France. “Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal, 14 (2012) : 1-21.

Steinberger, Deborah

“Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles : Conversion Stories in the Mercure Galant ‘s Anti-Protestant Propaganda.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature vol. 40, n. 78 (2013) : 49-63.

*Work in progress : “Women’s Stories in Donneau de Visé’s Mercure Galant.”

Tamas, Jennifer

L’Eloquence du Silence : Dramaturgie du non-dit sur la scène théâtrale des 17e et 18e siècles. Hélène Bilis and Jennifer Tamas (eds.). Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014.

Tobin, Ronald

Changing Perspectives : Essay on Racine in Honor of John Campbell. Ronald W.Tobin and Angus J. Kennedy (eds.), Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2012.

“Stage and Off-Stage in Racine’s Early Plays.” Changing Perspectives, 11-20.

“La Scène et le hors-scène: les univers parallèles de L’Andromaque de Racine.” La Scène et la coulisse dans le théâtre du XVIIè Siècle. Forestier et Miche (eds.). Paris : PUPS, 2012, 41-53.

“Le Misanthrope revu et corrigé : Le Philinte de Fabre d’Eglantine.” Actes de Pézenas, 2012.

“French Studies : Plus de souvenirs que d’avenir?” French Review 86.6 (May 2013) : 1094-1100.

“Jean Racine. “Entrée mise à jour et élargie. Encyclopedia Britannica online.

*Work in progress : “Corneille et Molière convives? “ Stage and Off-Stage in Racine’s Tragedies. Hospitality in French Literature of the Seventeenth-Century.

Tonolo, Sophie.

“Du lieu de réel au lieu symbolique : le Paris des poètes burlesques. “ Lieux de Culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle. C. McProbe, B. Brooks and R. Zaiser (eds.). Collection “Medieval and Early Modern French Studies”, Bern : Peter Lang, 2012.

“A l’ombre du verre. Le sonnet de bamboche chez Saint-Amant : un nouveau genre de tableau méditatif.” Le Sonnet et les arts visuels : dialogues, interactions, visibilité, Bénédicte Mathos (dir.), Bern, Peter Lang, 2012, p. 209-227.

“Rhétorique du cœur et écriture intime : l’art épistolaire d’Antoinette Deshoulières.” Femmes, rhétorique et éloquence sous l’Ancien Régime, C. La Charité et R. Roy (dir.), Saint-Etienne : Publications de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, 2012, p. 205-217.

“La place de la fable dans la poétique de Boileau.” Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) : divertissement et rayonnement de son œuvre, R. Zaizer (ed.). Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Biblio 17, “Œuvres et Critiques” 37.1 (2012) : 39-51.

*Work in progress : “Les Métamorphoses d’Anacréon chez Madame Deshoulières. Effets d’une tradition philologique et philosophique sur son lyrisme pastoral.” La Pastorale à l’âge classique, P. Chométy et C. Poulouin (dir.). En collaboration avec M.-C. Chatelain, Héroïdes en prose du début du XVIIe siècle : les recueils de Croisilles et Malleville. “Bibliothèque du XVIIème siècle”, Classiques Garnier.

Trinquet, Charlotte

Le Conte de fée français (1690-1700). Traditions italiennes et origines aristocratiques. Biblio 17 n. 197, 2012.

True, Micah

“‘Un Remedde Contre Toutes Maladies’ : Travel Writing and the Scurvy Incident in Cartier’s Second Voyage.” Québec Studies 54 (2012/2013) : 3-16.

“Travel Writing, Ethnography, and the Colony-Centric Voyage of the Jesuit Relations from New France. “American Review of Canadian Studies 42.1 (2012) : 103-117.

“‘Une Hierusalem Bénite de Dieu’: Utopia and Travel in the Jesuit Relations from New France.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XXXIX, 76 (2012) : 175-189.

“The Jesuit Relations.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, Jackson R. Bryer and Paul Lauter (eds.). New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

“Strange Bedfellows: Turks, Gauls, and Amerindians in Lescarbot’s Histoire de la Nouvelle France. “French Review 87.4 (May 2014): 139-152.

*Work in progress : Master and Student : Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth Century New France. “‘Nous Avons Experimenté’: Jacques Cartier and Travel Writing. “

Turcat, Eric

“Ironie polyphonique ou polycentrique ? L’honnête homme et son habile alter ego dans les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld.” Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal 14 (2012) : 55-87. La Rochefoucauld par quatre chemins. Les Maximes et leurs ambivalences. Tubingen : Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17). A paraître.

Visentin, Hélène

“Mapping Paris, A Cultural Capital. “(In collaboration with Amherst College). An interactive, web-based platform of the city of Paris by using a hypermedia environment with the Geographic Information System (GIS).

“The Material Form and the Function of Printed Accounts of Henri II’s Triumphal Entries (1547-51). “Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe. Marie-Claude Canova-Green, Jean Andrews, and Marie-France Wagner (eds.). Early European Research, Brepols Publishers (2013) : 1-30.

“ The Status of the Printed Accounts of Henri II’s Royal Entries (1547-1552). “Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe. Eds M.-C. Canova-Green, J. Andrews and M.-F. Wagner : Early European Research, Brepols Publishers, 2012.

Vuillemin, Jean-Claude

“Réflexions sur l’épistémè foucaldienne.” Cahiers Philosophiques, 130 (2012) : 39-50.

“Pratique théorique et jouissance théâtrale.” Poétique, 174 (2013) : 189-213.

“Foucault et le ‘classicisme’: les œillères de l’histoire (littéraire).” Fabula-LHT (Littérature Histoire Théorie) 11 (décembre 2013).

Epistémè baroque : le mot et la chose. Paris, Hermann, coll. “Savoir Lettres”, 2013.

“Jean de Rotrou “, “Nicolas-François Blondel”,” Abraham Bosse”, “Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin”,” Jean Racine. “In Dictionnaire des philosophes français du XVIIe siècle. Ed. Luc Foisneau. Paris, Classiques Garnier. Forthcoming 2014.

*Work in progress : “Le ‘troisième temps’ du théâtre ?”. Jean de Rotrou (1609-1650). Bibliographie critique.

Vos-Camy, Jolene

*Work in progress : “Le repos de l’âme dans La Comtesse d’Isembourg d’Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès”. “Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès’ Spiritual Guide for Women”. “La vie agréable, honnête et commode : Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès”. “Une pauvre muse albigeoise”. “Trois perspectives de l’histoire de la comtesse d’Isembourg”.

Welch, Ellen

“Going Behind the Scenes with Le Bourgeois gentilhomme : Staging Critical Spectatorship at Louis XIV’s Court. “French Review 85.5 (2012) : 26-38.

“Of Flatterers and Fleas : Tristan l’Hermite’s Le Parasite and Baroque Theater’s Problem of Truth. “Symposium : A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 66.1 (2012) : 31-40.

“State Truths, Private Letters, and Images of Public Opinion in the Ancien Régime : Sévigné on Trials.” French Studies : A Quarterly Review 67.2 (April 2013) : 170-83.

“Dancing the Nation : Performing France in Seventeenth-Century Ballets des nations.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 13.2 (Spring 2013) : 1-23.

“From Aesthetic to Ethical Cosmopolitanism in Scudéry’s Le Grand Cyrus.” Cahiers du Dix-Septième. An Interdisciplinary Journal 14 (2012) : 37-54.

*Work in progress: “Spectacles of State: Diplomacy and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France. “ *Direction of two dissertations: Andrew Gard, The Coquette in 17th-Century French Theater. Adrianna Beaman, Mediterranean Romance in Pre-Classical French Drama.

Wikstrom, Toby

“Erotic Empire : the Glorification of ‘Ottoman’ Sexual and Legal Practices in Montfleury's Le Mary sans femme.” Special issue : “The Turk of Early Modern France.” L'Esprit créateur 55.4 (Winter 2013).

“The Ambivalence of European Conquest : Jacques Du Hamel's Acoubar ou la loyauté trahie (1603).” Les Nouveaux Mondes juridiques, dans la littérature et l'histoire (Moyen Âge-XVIIe siècle). Clotilde Jaquelard and Nicolas Lombart (eds.). Classiques Garnier, forthcoming 2014.

Book review: Larry Norman. The Shock of the Ancient: Literature & History in Early Modern France, in Romanic Review 103.3-4 (May-Nov 2012), 588-590.

*Work in progress: Law and cross-cultural contact (conquest, slavery) in theatre ; early Modern orientalism in theater and captivity narratives.

Woshinsky, Barbara

“Tropes at Play : Rhetoric and Concupiscence in Pascal’s Pensées. “Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (2012).

Zaiser, Rainer

“Dieu manifeste, dieu caché, Dieu absent : les ambiguïtés des concepts religieux d’Athalie de Racine.” Gueux, frondeurs, libertins, utopiens. Autres et ailleurs du XVIIème siècle. Mélanges en l’honneur de Pierre Ronzeaud. Philippe Chométy et Sylvie Requemora-Gros (eds.), Aix-Marseille : Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2013 (“Textuelles, Univers littéraires”), 183-192.

“Alexandre le Grand relu à la lumière de Cinna ou la clémence d’Auguste : la question de la magnanimité du souverain chez Racine et Corneille. “Changing Perspectives : Studies on Racine in Honor of John Campbell. Ronald W. Tobin and Angus Kennedy (eds.). Charlottesville : Rookwood Press, 2012.

“Autour de quelques méthodes de la recherche dix-septièmiste en Allemagne : le style de Spitzer, la mimésis d’Auerbach et l’anthropologie négative de Stierle. “XVIIème siècle 254.1 (janvier-mars 2012) : 7-27.

Ed. Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711): diversité et rayonnement de son œuvre. Papers on French Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Biblio 17, “Œuvres et Critiques”, 37.1 (2012).

Zoberman, Pierre

“Topoi of (the) Renaissance in Seventeenth-Century France : The Ambiguity of the Reference to the Past.” Evocations of Eloquence. Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in Early Modern France. Essays in Honour of Peter Bayley, N. Hammond and M. Moriarty (eds.), Oxford, Frankfurt, New York : Peter Lang (“Medieval and Early Modern Studies”, 10), 2012, 249-261.

“Sévigné à Naxos ou la nouvelle héroïde” Mander des bagatelles. Première année de correspondance entre Mme de Sévigné et Mme de Grignan, C. Lignereux (dir.). Paris, Garnier, coll. “Correspondances et mémoires – Le Grand Siècle”, 2012, 45-57.

“No Place for (a) Woman : The Generic Use of ‘l’homme/les hommes’ as a Gendered Discursive and Cultural Topos.” Lieux de culture dans la France du XVIIe siècle, William Brooks, Christine Probes and Rainer Zaiser (eds.). Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2012, 275-289.

Écritures du corps : Nouvelles perspectives, Anne Tomiche et William Spurlin (eds.), Paris : Garnier, 2013.

“Can ‘homme’ mean ‘femme’ ? Gender and Translation in Seventeenth-Century French Moral Literature.” The Gender and Politics of Translation, William Spurlin (éd.), numéro spécial de Comparative Literature Studies. Forthcoming 2014.

Dissertations : Beaman, Adrianna. Mediterranean Romance in Pre-Classical French Drama. Thèse dirigée par Ellen Welch. Beytelmann, Sarah. Insulte et littérature dans la seconde moitié du XVIIème siècle. Thèse dirigée par Volker Schröder. Bowman, Melanie: The Spectacle of the Suffering Body : Seventeenth-Century Aesthetics of Violence. Thèse dirigée par Juliette Cherbuliez. Gard, Andrew. The Coquette in 17th-Century French Theater. Thèse dirigée par Ellen Welch. Hanna, Daniel. Carmelite Poetry in France and the Low Countries : The Tradition of Teresa of Avila. Thèse dirigée par Volker Schröder et soutenue en mai 2012. Laporta, Katie. The Pamphlet’s Appeal : The Politics of Late Seventeenth-Century Anti-Monarchical Pamphlet Literature (1667-1714). Thèse co-dirigée par Henriette Goldwyn et Benoit Bolduc et soutenue le 21 mars 2014. Margolin, Arianne. L'Observation comme dispositif dans les œuvres d’expérience de pensée de l’Age classique aux Lumières. Thèse dirigée par Stéphane Lojkine. McShane, Myron. Thèse sur Dorat co-dirigée par Benoit Bolduc et Richard Sieburth. Nørgaard, Lars. St. Cyr between Withdrawal and Engagement in the Long Seventeenth Century. Thèse dirigée par Brunn Mette. Pound, Jacquie. Beyond Words : Language as Action in 17th and 18th-century (Re)Interpretations of Racine. Thèse dirigée par Michèle Longino. Rosensweig, Anna. Tragedy and the Ethics of Resistance Rights in Early Modern French Theater. Thèse dirigée par Juliette Cherbuliez. Townshend, Sarah. Gender Dynamics of Seventeenth-Century French Satirical Drama. A Comparison by Male and Female Playwrights. Thèse dirigée par Julia Prest. Weatherley, Gillian. Avatars of Societal Constructs of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Contes de fées. Thèse dirigée par Paul Scott. Worden, Daniel J. Tales of Imposters : Exposing Belief in Fiction from the Baroque to the Early Enlightenment. Thèse dirigée par Volker Schröder.