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ARZOUMANOV, ANNA, ANNE REACH-NGO AND TRUNG TRAN, eds. Le Discours du livre. Mis en scène du texte et fabrique de l’oeuvre sous l’Ancien Régime. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011.

Review: M. Mastroianni in S Fr 168 (2012) 552-553. Wide-ranging collection of essays examines editing and re-editing, transformations and illustrations. Studies are organized in sections as follows: "Le texte en représentation", "Politiques de réédition, codifications et mutations génétiques", and "réactualisations idéologiques et usages du livre." 17th c. scholars will particularly appreciate Claire Fourquet-Gracieux’s study on Port-Royal's editing of psalms.

DENIS, DELPHINE, MIRELLE HUCHON, ANNA JAUBERT, MICHAEL RINN, and OLIVIER SOUTET, eds. Au corps du texte. Hommage à Georges Molinié. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 166 (2012) 143. This valuable Festschrift by forty friends and colleagues of M. is organized in sections corresponding to the latter's predominant research interests. The first section, "Langages de la première modernité" renders homage to M.'s seminal thesis published in 1982 and republished in 1995, Du Roman grec au roman baroque: un art majeur du genre narratif en France sous Louis XIII. Analyses focus on 17th c. stylistic and aesthetic concerns as present in authors as diverse as La Fontaine and Massillon. The second and third sections retain the philological, rhetorical and literary dimensions but focus on other periods. Includes a bibliography of M.'s criticism.

FINOLI, ANNA MARIA. “Dalle riflessioni sul tradurre ai ‘combats pour la langue française’.” S Fr 168 (2012) 389-413.

Praiseworthy examination of translation in the humanist tradition. Although the focus here is on Etienne Dolet and his contemporaries, this very well-documented study will be of interest and use to 17th c. scholars, in particular those of Port-Royal and the instructors of the “Petites Écoles” who developed guidelines for translation and to whom we are indebted for many translated works.

Le Français préclassique, 1500-1650, 13 (2011).

Review: M. Mastroianni in S Fr 168 (2012) 559. This issue of the review of the Centre d’Études lexicologiques et lexigraphiques des XVIe et XVIIe siècles of the Université Lumière-Lyon 2, focuses on diverse semantic fields of the era ranging from medicine to the history of the word “opinion.”

FREIDEL, NATHALIE. “L’autre langue de Mme de Sévigné: l’italien dans la ‘Correspondance’.” S Fr 168 (2012) 404-413.

Careful examination of S.’s admiration of “le clinquant du Tasse” (II, 499). F. situates S. among other admirers of champions of “italianisme” as “un medium essentiel d’accès à la culture” (404). Although her focus is S., F. indicates the wide use of and debt to Italian prevalent in the epistolary genre as well as in the theatre and other genres. Sections on the following organize this short but well-documented and convincing study: “Une voie privilégiée d’accès des femmes à la culture”, “L’apanage d’une culture mondaine” and “Une langue à soi.” F. finds that Italian for S. “donne accès à la réalité intérieure” (411) permitting her, for example, to express her upset at successive separations by borrowings from Pastor fido (412).

GREENE, ROLAND. Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes. Chicago: U Chicago P, 2013.

Review: T. Gregory in MP 112.3 (2015) E234-E237. Spans nations and languages, including France/French; reviewer finds sections on English and Spanish strongest. The five words of the title, each the topic of a chapter, are invention, blood, language, resistance, and world, chosen because they are ubiquitous in the early modern period, defined here as 1525-1675. Analysis based in etymology, semantics, and textual analysis.

JACQUETIN-GAUDET, ALBERTE and COLETTE DEMAIZIERE, eds. Daniel Cachedenier. Initiation à la langue française. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2010.

Review: S. Lardon in S Fr 168 (2012) 558-559. Monumental edition “de grande valeur” (559) presents this grammar in facsimile, then translated and annotated. After a rich introduction, the volume is organized in three books as follows: “Des lettres”, “De la variation des mots”, and “De la syntaxe.” Bibliography, annexes and indices.

LECLERC, JEAN, éd. L’Antiquité travestie: anthologie de poésie burlesque (1644-1658). Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2010.

Review: C. Carlin in DFS 101 (Spring 2014) 123-124. « Une anthologie et édition savant de textes exemplaires » du genre burlesque. « Chaque poème est précédé d’une notice, suivie d’un résumé de l’œuvre antique travestie et une analyse de son traitement en mode burlesque, y compris (parmi d’autres éléments) son inscription dans la société de l’époque. Un appareil critique complète [sic], avec tout ce qu’il faut pour comprendre la genèse du poème, est suivi d’un tableau récapitulatif montrant le plan de ses parties et de ses grandes articulations. […] Ces nombreux supports éditoriaux, y compris le commentaire bien développé sur la langue à la fin de l’introduction, permettraient même aux non-spécialistes d’apprécier ces documents fascinants, représentatifs de plusieurs dimensions de la vie socioculturelle et politique de l’époque. »

LEVESQUE, MATHILDE and OLIVIER PEDEFLOUS (dir). L’emphase: copia ou brevitas? (XVIe-XVIIe siècles). Paris: Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2010.

Review: A. Amatuzzi in S Fr 166 (2012) 136-137. The notion of emphasis is central to this collection of essays stemming from a 2009 journée d’étude on the subject. Perspectives include: the rhetorical, stylistic, semantic, and pragmatic. 17th c. foci take in love declarations in Racine, the epistolary (Mme de Sévigné) Cyrano’s expressivity and La Rochefoucauld’s concision.

MACLEAN, IAN. Scholarship, Commerce, Religion. The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560-1630. Cambridge (USA) et Londres: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Review: M. Engammare in BHR 75.3 (2013) 583-588. “L’auteur s’intéresse aux modes de transmission du savoir en choisissant l’un de ses vecteurs essentiels, le marché du livre érudit, ayant réuni les conférences qu’il donne à l’Université d’Oxford en mai 2010….”

SCHRÖDER, VOLKER. “Royal Prints for Princeton College: A Franco-American Exchange in 1886.” Princeton U Library Chronicle LXXVI, 1-2 (2014-2015) 12-50.

Looks at John Shaw Pierson’s role in the 1886 transaction between the BN and Princeton that led to the latter’s acquisition of a copy of hundreds of Cabinet du Roy engravings. Also investigates reception and use of the Cabinet at Princeton; includes exhibition “Versailles on Paper,” subject of this issue.

SCOTT, PAUL. Year’s Work in Modern language Studies. 75 (2015 [survey year 2013]) 42-59. London: Modern Humanities Research association, 2014.

Exhaustive list and brief summaries of books and articles covering topics of the French seventeenth century published in 2013.

STEDMAN, ALLISON. Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity. Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 2013.

Review: C. Carlin in DFS 101 (Spring 2014) 124-125. “These hybrid, experimental texts would not only influence the eighteenth-century novel; rococo’s rejection of universal, absolute truths, and its emphasis on individual uniqueness would support the dominant aesthetic of the Enlightenment in France across the arts. Stedman’s exploration of the phenomenon gives us a new lens for linking disparate texts across the seventeenth century. Although I have small quibbles (in ten pages on La Querelle du Cid, Stedman cites the 1898 Gasté compilation rather than Jean-Marc Civardi’s thorough critical edition published in 2004, and George Forestier’s name is misspelled throughout) Stedman’s impressive work represents an original contribution to the study of seventeenth-century French fiction.”

TRAN-GERVAT, YEN-MAI. Traduire en français à l’âge classique: génie national et génie des langues. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013.

Review: J.-A. Perras in FS 68.3 (2014) 392. Born of a 2011 conference on translation, this is a “prelude” to a work closely studies the practice of translation in the 17th-18th centuries. Looks at general questions surrounding literary translation into French in the context of the simultaneous rise of a national language and national identity. Divided into two parts, one on translating from ancient languages, the other from other European languages; shows that translation was the subject of considerable reflection and debate in the neoclassical age.

ADAMCAK, AUDREY. Alex Raiffe, trans. “Engraving Sculpture: Depictions of Versailles Statuary in the Cabinet du Roi.” Princeton U Library Chronicle LXXVI, 1-2 (2014-2015) 176-210.

Explores sculptures represented in the Cabinet du Roi, a collection of engravings glorifying key pieces in the royal art collection. Examines the engravings both in terms of their masterful technique and as a record of the statuary once held at Versailles.

AUGERON, MICKAEL and OLIVIER CAUDRON, eds. La Rochelle, l’Aunis et la Saintonge face à l’esclavage. Paris: Les Indes savants, 2012.

Review: R. Little in MLR 109.1 (2014) 252-253. Volume in four sections (“’L’infâme trafic” (Voltaire) routes, réseaux et acteurs’, ‘D’une rive à l’autre: la société esclavagiste et la métropole’, ‘La longue route vers les abolitions’, and ‘Les héritages contemporains: mémoires et commémorations pour ne pas oublier’”) includes some forty scholarly contributions on the triangular trade.

BOCH, JULIE. Apostat ou philosophe? La figure de l’empereur Julien dans la pensée française de Montaigne à Voltaire. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2013.

Review : C. Mervaud in FS 68.3 (2014) 391. An extensive volume that studies the depiction of Julian the Apostate (331-363) and the ways the emperor-philosopher serves as a “barometer” of French thought. Identifies two periods: 1580-1650, during which Julian is used in arguments concerning le libertinage and the Wars of Religion, and 1650-1710, when he figures in debates over Christian apologetics, and to a lesser extent, politics. Throughout both periods, the concern is less with historical accuracy and more with appropriating the emperor for moral, religious, and political ends.

BOLDUC, BENOÎT. “Fêtes on Paper: Graphic Representations of Louis XIV’s Festivals at Versailles.” Princeton U Library Chronicle LXXVI, 1-2 (2014-2015) 211-41.

Explores three royal festivals in light of Perrault’s (1664) and Félibien’s (1668, 1674) published accounts thereof, especially the plates, as manifestations of monarchical power in which art and nature are brought together in seemingly miraculous ways.

BOTS, HANS and EUGÉNIE BOTS-ESTOURGIE, eds. Madame de Maintenon. Lettres, vol. III (1698-1706). Paris: Champion, 2011.

Review : A. Amatuzzi in S Fr 167 (2012) 316. Welcome third volume (of seven planned) of M.’s correspondence includes over 800 letters. Principal themes are indicated in the introduction and include the following, among others: education, quietism, Jansenism, wars and politics. Modernization of orthography and useful annotations.

CASTOR, MARKUS A. “‘L’ange multimédia’. Saint Michel, Raphaël et Charles le Brun: un message politico-artistique entre texte, image et institutions.” PSCFL XLI.80 (2014) 165-90.

Non-linear, multi-directional approach to representations of Saint Michel, especially as they relate to the King and signs/symbols of royal power. Focuses on Le Brun’s 1667 lecture on Raphaël’s Saint Michel terrassant le dragon. Includes illustrations.

COJANNOT-LE BLANC, MARIANNE. “Mens agitat molem. André Félibien et la surintendance des Bâtiments du roi en 1666.” PSCFL XLI.80 (2014) 191-210.

Examines the engraved banner that heads Félibien’s Entretiens sur les vies et les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens (1666) and the paradox of the banner’s emphasis on architecture in a work devoted to painting. Also analyzes layers of meaning in the motto “Mens agitat molem.”

CONESA, GABRIEL. Le Pauvre homme! Molière et l’affaire du Tartuffe. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2012.

Review: J.F. Gaines in PSCFL XLI.80 (2014) 213-15. An account of the Tartuffe affair that focuses on 1664-1669, with more attention to the early part of the period. Develops, modifies, and in some cases completely revises representation of figures within the theater, the sociopolitical margins, or even the historical mainstream. Reviewer seems unable to decide whether work is historical fiction or “creative non-fiction,” but praises text for its readability and extensive research.

DICHKHAUT, KIRSTEN. “La Magie du Soleil et le Portrait du Roi: Sur la signification culturelle des effets spéculaires pour Vaux-le-Vicomte et Le Songe de Vaux de Jean de La Fontaine.” PSCFL XLI.80 (2014) 65-81.

Explores the ethical and aesthetic power of the arts as they compete for the rights to the King’s portrait in La Fontaine’s “Le Songe de Vaux, Avertissement.”

DICKHAUT, KIRSTEN and JÖRN STEIGERWALD. “Entre soleil et Lumières: les stratégies de la représentation et les arts du pouvoir” CdDS XLI.80 (2014) 7-18.

Volume introduction that presents themes of light and sun, their representation in the arts, and their role as natural phenomena, metaphors, and symbols of power.

DORNIER, CAROLE and CLAUDINE POULOUIN, eds. Les Projets de l’abbé Castel de Saint-Pierre (1658-1743). Pour le plus grand bonheur du plus grand nombre. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2011.

Review: A. Amatuzzi in S Fr 167 (2012) 315-316. A. notes that all of the works of St.-P. are available on line at the site of the Centre Régional des Lettres de Basse-Normandie. The volume reviewed here includes a rich interdisciplinary bibliography and a chronological list of St.-P.’s writings. Chapters are organized into sections as follows: “Rêves d’Europe” (reflexions on St.-P.’s visions for Europe) “Refonder ou aménager l’absolutisme”, “Education et formation morale,” and “Castel de St.- P., utopiste ou polémiste?”.

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI. La Beauté ou le salut du monde. Paris: Hermann Éditeurs, 2011.

Review: P. Adinolfi in S Fr (2012) 624. Beauty is here examined in all its aspects including ideas of happiness, architectural space, science, economics, etc. Beauty is seen as having a possible decisive role in the reconstruction of the world, individually and collectively. This wide-ranging volume begins with Plato’s Banquet and continues its parcours through the 20th c. Among 17th c. authors represented is Molière. Ample bibliography and index of names.

DURANT, STÉPHANE et al. Des États dans l’État: les états de Languedoc de la Fronde à la Révolution. Genève: Droz, 2014.

Review: M. Greengrass in FS 69.2 (2015) 244. This weighty tome, divided into 33 chapters and including tables, maps, and index, is a valuable contribution to the history of institutions. Reviewer: “The individuals, the politics, the dynamics, and the institutional culture of the Estates are all illuminated thoroughly in these pages…The volume is a triumphal tribute to the virtues of institutional history, properly understood, and to the collaborative role of this institution within the absolute monarchy.”

FERREYROLLES, GÉRARD. “Mourir avec Pascal.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 127-138.

Focusing on P.’s Lettre sur la mort written at his father’s death, on his Pensées, and on his Prière pour demander à Dieu le bon usage des maladies written two or three years before his death, F. discovers three perspectives and an evolution: “une perspective théologique, une perspective apologétique et une perspective spirituelle” (127). In the letter P. reminds us that man as created was not destined to die, but death is the result of original sin, and that the horror we feel for death was legitimate in the innocent state. Finally, according to the Christian vision, death marks “le couronnement de la béatitude de l’âme, et le commencement de la béatitude du corps” (Lettre sur la mort, 859). F. finds that in the Pensées, P.’s perspective necessarily must change as he seeks to persuade his “lecteurs libertins” with vivid, brutal and repugnant images of death “pour déchirer le voile d’oubli dont l’homme enveloppe sa fin” (F. 130). Death for P. does not illustrate our misery, but our vanity (liasse III, F. 130). Masterfully referring to numerous pertinent fragments, F. draws our attention to fragment 190 where the situation is resumed in an abrupt warning: “si vous mourez sans adorer le vrai principe, vous êtes perdu” (131). The spiritual dimension or perspective is developed in P.’s Prière pour demander à Dieu le bon usage des maladies where we have a reflection on death which all must face and a meditation on death which belongs to the Christian (132). Death is no longer a confrontation with the question of God’s existence but the experience of his presence in the person of Jesus-Christ (133). F.’s rich analysis also takes into account other writings of P. such as the Écrit sur la conversion du pécheur and letters to Mlle de Roannez as he underscores the Augustinian anthropology of P. and the Pauline understanding of the struggle between flesh and spirit. F. concludes that P.’s treatment of death has both a remarkable continuity and a progression. The three foci here correspond to three significations: “adoration,” “expiation”, and “libération” (138).

HAWCROFT, MICHAEL. “New Light on Candles on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage.” FS 68.2 (2014) 180-92.

Attempts to disprove commonly held assertions by showing that trimming (snuffing) candles was an effect, not a cause, of plays being divided into 20 or 30-minute acts. Instead, act length was a matter of engaging the audience and of literary and historical precedent.

HARRIS, JOSEPH. Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.

Review: J. Clarke in FS 69.2 (2015) 241-42. Covers various theoretical perspectives on the spectator. Organized thematically rather than chronologically, which reviewer finds both “illuminating” and occasionally confusing. Reviewer criticizes author’s style, some of his assertions, and failure to address material conditions in early modern theaters; praises linguistic examination and “dense and subtle analysis.”

HEDIN, THOMAS. “Facts, Sermons, and Riddles: The Curious Guidebook of Sieur Combes.” Princeton U Library Chronicle LXXVI, 1-2 (2014-2015) 84-144.

Aided by numerous illustrations, article follows Monsieur’s chaplain, Laurent Morellet, alias Sieur Combes, on a heavily embellished tour of Versailles and Saint Cloud. Shows text to be a blend of fact, fiction, and moralizing commentary, this last usually directed at La Dauphine, the text’s dedicatee.

HUCHARD, CECILE et MARIE ROIG MIRANDA, eds. Réalités et représentations de la richesse dans l’Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Nancy: Groupe XVIe et XVIIe siècles en Europe-Université de Nancy II, 2010.

Review: L. Mottu-Weber in BHR 76.1 (2014) 189-193. “A l’aide de sources nombreuses et fort diverses, les auteurs des sept contributions s’y efforcent de déterminer comment les représentations sous-jacentes à l’iconographie et au discours humaniste de cette époque reflètent les réalités nouvelles de son contexte économique profondément marqué par l’afflux des métaux précieux de l’Amérique, l’affirmation des classes bourgeoises et marchandes et le développement des activités manufacturières liées au grand négoce.”

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

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 109.3 (2014) 803-805. “Starting with an analysis of the early Versailles gardens with their Ovidian inspiration symptomatic of a fear of a return to primitive ages, he shows to what extent the lavish festivals of the 1660s–1670s, comédies-ballets, ballets, and operas included, both duplicated and clarified the message at the heart of the park’s design with its monsters and graceful mythological figures. He then goes on to consider the better-known authors of the period, La Fontaine, La Bruyère, La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Molière, Racine, as well as treatises of physiognomy and clandestine texts such as Theophrastus Redivivus, with a view to revealing how they all exposed the same unsettling kinship between man and animal.”

JEANNERET, MICHEL, éd. Les Fêtes de Versailles. By André Félibien. Paris: Gallimard, 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.”

JULIEN, BENOIT. Un Commerce pour gens ordinaires? La Rochelle et la traite négrière au XVIIIe siècle. (Exhibition catalogue). La Rochelle: Archives Départementales de la Charente-Maritime, 2010.

Review: R. Little in MLR 109.1 (2014) 252-253. Illustrated catalogue of one of several exhibitions created by La Rochelle in 2010 as an educational response to the “loi Taubira” (May 2001) to acknowledge slavery as a crime against humanity and to bear witness to the historical role of this port city in the triangular trade.

KIRCHNER, THOMAS. “L’espace du paysage comme moyen d’expression politique dans la peinture française du XVIIe siècle.” PSCFL XLI.80 (2014) 37-63.

History of landscape with political connotations in France. At first slow to catch on, it is eventually exemplified in the work of Jacques Fouquières and Adam François van der Meulen. Includes sixteen illustrations.

LEOPIZZI, MARCELLA. “Vanini en France: perspectives de recherche.” S Fr 168 (2012) 505-512.

Retraces V.’s French milieu with attention to his patrons and protectors, libertine literary circles, the discovery of America, and the wide diffusion of Greek and Latin works. L. notes both important findings on V.’s life and the lack of documentation--she mentions as of yet non-inventoried sacks (some 80,000) of the Archives Départementales de la Haute-Garonne de Toulouse which relate to judicial activity of the period. Other suggestions for future research are outlined, such as manuscript notes of the “fonds Baudouin” of the same archives which L. considers “une mine d’information” (508). The remainder of L.’s article offers tantalizing precisions relating to these documents, and an insistence on the influence of V. on the libertine current as well as the continuing presence of Italian culture in French culture of V.’s era “où se croisent des cultures diverses et des dialogues multiples” (512).

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

Review: P. Marshall in TLS (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.

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

Review: K. Wine in MP 111.4 (May 2014) E411-E414. “This searching and provocative study offers a compelling account of the cultural and intellectual currents that encouraged the increasing prominence of a “de-dramatized” hasard over the course of the seventeenth century. Whereas […] much writing about chance in the early modern period has focused on probability or on games of chance, Lyon’s wider emphasis offers an illuminating perspective on the grand siècle as a whole, demonstrating that the period’s preoccupation with regularity lead to new methods of dealing with the disordered, the random, and the formless. The book’s richest rewards, however, lie in its readings. Lyons states early on that much of the distinctiveness of individual writers lies in the ways they use their perception of chance’s ubiquity, a claim that the individual chapters fully bear out. At the same time, the individual analyses bring to light unexpected affinities, as in the cases of Pascal and the Jesuits or Joad and Athalie.”

MAGNIEN-SIMONIN, CATHERINE. “La Mort des grands dans les écrits historiques d’Étienne Pasquier.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 113-125.

Concentrating her analysis on P.’s Les Recherches de la France and on numerous letters where P. reveals a fascination with the death of “personnages illustres” such as the Guises, Coligny and Montaigne, among others, M.-S. examines how P. used the materials. She discovers P.’s originality in painting not only a “miroir du prince” but examples to avoid. P.’s récits distinguish between “la belle mort” and “la bonne mort,” and M.-S. discovers chez P. not only representation but also “signification au moment et dans les circonstances” (121). M.-S. has found surprising commentaries of P. such as the one reminding his readers of the condemnation of astrology by Christianity juxtaposed with an account of a death, complete with predictions and coincidences. History chez P. is, M.-S. concludes, a “réflexion sur l’histoire de la France, nourrie de la vie et de la geste des grands personnages et éclairée par leur mort”(125).

MC CLARY, 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.”

MC GOWAN, MARGARET M., ed. Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615: A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions.

Review by: D. Parrott in FS 68.2 (2014) 244. First book in a new series to be devoted to early modern festivals. Fourteen essays centering on the celebrations in Italy, Spain, and France in honor of the double marriage of Louis XIII of France and Philip IV of Spain. Reviewer praises both the essays and McGowan’s editorial skills.

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

Review: M. Harrington in MLR 109.1 (2014) 248-249. M. “offers a rich interrogation of the crossovers between early modern France’s views of itself as colonizer as well as other. This book constitutes an original contribution to the study of early modern aesthetics and colonial history, as well as inspiring reflection on France’s present-day cultural narrative.”

NOTTER, ANNICK, ERICK NOEL, OLIVIER CAUDRON, and BERNARD GAINOT. (Exhibition catalogue). La Rochelle: Musée du Nouveau Monde, 2010.

Review: R. Little in MLR 109.1 (2014) 252-253. Illustrated catalogue of one of several exhibitions created by La Rochelle in 2010 as an educational response to the “loi Taubira” (May 2001) to acknowledge slavery as a crime against humanity and to bear witness to the historical role of this port city in the triangular trade.

OY-MARRA, ELISABETH. “Phébus/Apollon – Le Bernin, Poussin et Carlo Maratta.” PSCFL XLI.80 (2014) 143-64.

Examines various artistic representations of Apollo’s failed seduction of Daphne. Explains how different media highlight diverse aspects of the myth and its relation to royal power. Includes illustrations.

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.

PLANCHE. MARIE-CLAIRE. De l’iconographie racinienne, dessiner et peindre les passions. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 167 (2012) 315. This important addition to R. scholarship contains a trove of nearly 100 images in black and white. The reviewer would have appreciated more solid scholarly analysis and a more comprehensive bibliography, however the discovery and presentation of the iconographic corpus covering the years 1668-1815 remains highly useful. Chapters include examinations of the following topics: the poetics of the image in R., the iconographic corpus and editorial history, criteria of selection, place, and expressions and attitudes.

PLANTAVIT DE LA PAUSE, JEAN DE. Mémoires de Messire Jean de Plantavit de La Pause, seigneur de Margon, chevalier de l’ordre de Saint-Louis, lieutenant de roy de la province de Languedoc, colonel d’un régiment de dragons et brigadier des armées de Sa Majesté. Ed. Hubert de Vergnette de Lamotte. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2013.

Review: M. Green in FS 69.1 (2015) 94-95. More than mere autobiography of an obscure nobleman, the writings of this contemporary of Saint-Simon provide insight into military campaigns, court politics, religion, music, literature, and the arts. Edition includes tables of contents and indexes for each chapter; spelling and punctuation are somewhat modernized.

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

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 166 (2012) 139-140. Heterogeneous methodologically and judged “intellettualmente vivace” (140) R.’s contribution to the widely examined topic of “le rire” is organized in sections which examine social and religious perspectives, strategies of creation such as dissimulation and irony, and libertine passions. R. finds that “le rire” may contribute to the founding of a new positive anthropology: “jouir-savoir-pouvoir.”

ROSACO, BETSY. “The Herms of Versailles in the 1680s.” Princeton U Library Chronicle LXXVI, 1-2 (2014-2015) 145-75.

Looks at the third set of herms to be installed at Versailles, starting in 1684. Argues that unlike the first two sets, which had gallant or Bacchic themes, the third set includes literary and philosophical figures intended to form part of the Duc de Bourgogne’s education.

ROUSSILLON, MARINE. “La visibilité du pouvoir dans les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée (1664) spectacle, textes et images.” PSCFL XLI.80 (2014) 103-17.

Studies the publications that accompany/follow each fête at Versailles to show how they bring together representations of power, an ethics of pleasure, and an aesthetically satisfying blend of various arts.

SCHRÖDER, VOLKER. “Royal Prints for Princeton College: A Franco-American Exchange in 1886.” PSCFL LXXVI, 1-2 (2014-2015) 12-50.

Looks at John Shaw Pierson’s role in the 1886 transaction between the BN and Princeton that led to the latter’s acquisition of a copy of hundreds of Cabinet du Roy engravings. Also investigates reception and use of the Cabinet at Princeton; includes exhibition “Versailles on Paper,” subject of this issue.

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

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.

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.

SONNINO, PAUL. “The Three Testaments of Cardinal Mazarin.” FHS 37.3 (Summer 2014) 421-436.

The author demonstrates that Cardinal Mazarin’s testament actually exists in three different versions. An analysis of these different versions, he argues, contributes to our knowledge of the close relationship between Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Cardinal Mazarin.

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.

SPICA, ANNE-E. “Représentation du pouvoir, pouvoir de la représentation: De l’Art de régner de Pierre Le Moyne (1665).” PSCFL XLI.80 (2014) 19-36.

Shows how Le Moyne intertwines the verbal and the visual in order to counter followers of Machiavelli and define the ideal Christian monarch as pious and merciful. Includes illustrations.

STAHL, ALAN M. “The Classical Program of the Medallic Series of Louis XIV.” PSCFL LXXVI, 1-2 (2014-2015) 266-87.

Studies series of medals commemorating major events of the Sun King’s reign, as well as Abbé Tallemant’s explanatory text. Places both text and medals in artistic and historical context surrounding their creation, especially the role of the “Petite Académie” and the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.

STEDMAN, GESA. Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.

Review: P. Hammond in FS FS 68.1 (2014) 102. Less about “exchange” than the influence of French culture on the English. Reviewer: more about “things” than about the history of ideas, and does not contribute much new knowledge, but “many readers will find much to interest and to amuse them in the materials that Stedman quotes,” even if the quotes themselves do not always come from the most scholarly or reliable sources.

TEYSSANDIER, BERNARD, ed. ‘Le Roi hors de page’ et autres textes: une anthologie. Reims: PU de Reims, 2012.

Review: M. Meere in FS FS 68.2 (2014) 244-45. A well-researched text containing original texts with notes, annotated bibliography, critical essays, and extensive index. Seven sections deal with Louis XIII’s 1617 decrees that exiled Marie de Medicis to Blois; ordered the assassination of her minister, Concini; and brought about the trial and execution of Concini’s wife and de Medicis’s favorite, Léonora Galligaï. Reviewer’s only regret is omission of La Victoire du Phébus français contre le Python de ce temps (1617); otherwise praises this contribution to research on early modern pamphlet culture.

TRIBOUT, BRUNO. Les Récits de conjuration sous Louis XIV. Éditions du CIERL, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2010.

Review: F. Corradi in S Fr 166 (2012) 141-142. Underlining the importance of T’s theme by referring to the large 17th c. semantic field of conjuration, C. finds T.’s study important as it focuses on a restricted corpus of true “récits de conjuration.” Wide-ranging ramifications of the theme are indicated for 17th c. literary aesthetics. T. finds certain constants in the conceptualizations and representations of conjuration including the important common element of “un discours épidictique ambigu” (condemnation and admiration). Convincing examination which discovers a rather homogeneous “formula” despite the great diversity of genres. Reminds of the authors’ overarching concern to please the reader.

VERGÉ-FRANCESCHI, MICHEL. Ninon de Lenclos, Libertine du Grand Siècle. Paris : Payot, 2014.

Review: J. M. Goulemot in NQL 1113 (du 1er au 15 octobre 2014) 22-23. « Cette biographie foisonnante ne va pas sans poser à propos du genre qu’elle illustre quelques interrogations. » Le critique trouve que l’œuvre de Vergé-Franceschi démontre que Ninon de Lenclos fut libertine de mœurs mais il trouve qu’elle est moins convaincante pour démontrer un libertinage de l’esprit. En conclusion, le critique trouve que « des questions à poser demeurent, de fait, en suspens. Comment expliquer l’importance que lui ont reconnue ses contemporains et un certain imaginaire du siècle de Louis XIV, dont Voltaire s’est fait l’historien scrupuleux et admiratif ? Pourquoi n’a-t-elle pas survécu, le XVIIIe siècle achevé, que dans les manuels d’histoire littéraire, d’ordinaire si pudiques ? C’est l’un des mérites de cette biographie que de nous conduire à nous poser ces questions. »

DE WAELE, MICHEL. “Conflit civil et relations interétatiques dans la France d’Ancien Régime: La révolte de Gaston d’Orléans, 1631-1632.” FHS 37.4 (Fall 2014) 565-598.

« Après avoir présenté le parcours de Gaston d’Orléans, le texte analyse ensuite en quoi sa révolte de 1631-32 peut intéresser les autres puissances européennes et examine leurs interventions dans cette affaire qui, en bout de ligne aura contribué au renforcement de la France, et du cardinal de Richelieu, sur les plans intérieur et extérieur ».

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.

YERKES, CAROLYN. “The Grand Escalier at the Château de Versailles: The Monumental Staircase and its Edges.” Princeton U Library Chronicle LXXVI, 1-2 (2014-2015) 51-83.

Uses prints of the short-lived Grand Escalier (completed in 1679, removed in 1752) to examine the staircase as an innovative architectural achievement that combines technical and decorative mastery with functionality in terms of planning and design.

BAYLE, ARIANE, ed. La Contagion: enjeux croisés des discours médicaux et littéraires (XVIe-XIXe siècle). Dijon: Éditions universitaires de Dijon, 2013.

Review: H. Roberts in FS 68.2 (2014) 243. A collection of articles that combines the history of medicine and literary studies to show how medical discourse, especially that of contagion, infiltrated literary and artistic criticism. Includes postface, bibliography, and index. Reviewer notes that sections on the 16th and 17th centuries are especially strong.

BUSSAT-ENEVOLDSEN, MARIE-CLAIRE. Le voile et la plume. Jeanne Chantal et François de Sales, l’étonnant récit de leur rencontre. Montrouge: Bayard, 2010.

Review: J. Morgante in S Fr (2012) 137. This volume offers a biography which focuses on the first part of J de C.’s life, although the interested reader will also discover an account of her later life and a rapid reconstruction of that of F. de Sales. M. notes lacunae but remarks that the picture of Jeanne from the biography highlights her intelligence and independance.

CAGNAT-DEBOEUF, CONSTANCE. “‘Ce triomphe d’amour’: la mort des Solitaires dans les mémoires de Port-Royal.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 139-154.

Rich and fascinating examination of memorial texts by C.-D. demonstrates not only their great importance and variety but also their diverse strategies. C.-D. finds the originality of the “récit de mort port-royaliste” to be in the tension that exists when adversaries attempt to transform edifying récits into “morts des réprouvés” (139). Important stylistic characteristics, language and salient examples of the hagiographic récit are presented and analyzed. Particularly appealing is C.-D.’s examination of several “hymnes à l’amitié” included in the récits, modeled after S. Augustine and demonstrating affinities with Montaigne. C.-D. asks, rightly so in our eyes, if we cannot apply to the Solitaires’ “récit de mort” the phrase from one (by Nicolas Fontaine) “ce triomphe d’amour qui surmonte tout”? (154).

CHÉDOZEAU, BERNARD, ed. L’Univers biblique catholique au siècle de Louis XIV: ‘La Bible de Port-Royal,’ I: Les Préfaces de l’Ancien Testament: une théologie scripturaire (1672 –1693); II: Les Préfaces du Nouveau Testament (1696 –1708 ). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2013.

Review: R. Parish in FS 68.1 (2014) 102-03. A 2-volume edition of the Port-Royal translation of the Bible. Contains all prefaces and approbations, including those of dubious attribution or “mediocre quality.” Analysis of these introductory texts, along with opening and closing essays, contextualize the material presented.

COUSSON, AGNÈS. L’Écriture de soi: lettres et récits autobiographiques des religieuses de Port-Royal. Angélique et Agnès Arnauld, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly, Jacqueline Pascal. Paris: Honoré Champion 2013.

Review: J. Conley in FS 68.1 (2014) 101-02. Explores the writings of Port-Royal’s three most important abbesses and the tensions between private and public exhibited therein. Highlights the contradiction between the need for withdrawal and self-denial and the impact of external influences such as family or the call to preach salvation to the world.

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI. La Beauté ou le salut du monde. Paris: Hermann Éditeurs, 2011.

Review: P. Adinolfi in S Fr 168 (2012) 624. Beauty is here examined in all its aspects including ideas of happiness, architectural space, science, economics, etc. Beauty is seen as having a possible decisive role in the reconstruction of the world, individually and collectively. This wide-ranging volume begins with Plato’s Banquet and continues its parcours through the 20th c. Among 17th c. authors represented is Molière. Ample bibliography and index of names.

DUFOURCET, M.B., CH. MAZOUER, and A. SURGERS, eds. Spectacles et pouvoirs dans l’Europe de l’Ancien Régime (XVIe –XVIIIe siècles). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2011.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 168 (2012) 564. Drawn from presentations at a colloque of the Centre de recherches sur l’Europe classique and from the Centre Artes, the essays of this volume analyze the role of civil and ecclesiastical power in the organization and realization of spectacle. 17th c. scholars will find of particular interest essays on the following subjects: royal and political munificence, the prince in attendance at spectacles, the relations between music and power, and representations of peace.

DURU, AUDREY. Essais de soi: poésie spirituelle et rapport à soi, entre Montaigne et Descartes. Genève: Droz, 2012.

Review: E. Herdman in FS 68.2 (2014) 242-43. Explores literary and cultural impact of devotional poetry by lesser-known poets of late 16th-early 17th centuries. Shows that poets’ self-expression is more about religious and political autonomy than a quest for self as a modern reader might understand the term. Reviewer: “detailed and well-informed.”

FERREYROLLES, GÉRARD. “Mourir avec Pascal.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 127-138.

Focusing on P.’s Lettre sur la mort written at his father’s death, on his Pensées, and on his Prière pour demander à Dieu le bon usage des maladies written two or three years before his death, F. discovers three perspectives and an evolution: “une perspective théologique, une perspective apologétique et une perspective spirituelle” (127). In the letter P. reminds us that man as created was not destined to die, but death is the result of original sin, and that the horror we feel for death was legitimate in the innocent state. Finally, according to the Christian vision, death marks “le couronnement de la béatitude de l’âme, et le commencement de la béatitude du corps” (Lettre sur la mort, 859). F. finds that in the Pensées, P.’s perspective necessarily must change as he seeks to persuade his “lecteurs libertins” with vivid, brutal and repugnant images of death “pour déchirer le voile d’oubli dont l’homme enveloppe sa fin” (F. 130). Death for P. does not illustrate our misery, but our vanity (liasse III, F. 130). Masterfully referring to numerous pertinent fragments, F. draws our attention to fragment 190 where the situation is resumed in an abrupt warning: “si vous mourez sans adorer le vrai principe, vous êtes perdu” (131). The spiritual dimension or perspective is developed in P.’s Prière pour demander à Dieu le bon usage des maladies where we have a reflection on death which all must face and a meditation on death which belongs to the Christian (132). Death is no longer a confrontation with the question of God’s existence but the experience of his presence in the person of Jesus-Christ (133). F.’s rich analysis also takes into account other writings of P. such as the Écrit sur la conversion du pécheur and letters to Mlle de Roannez as he underscores the Augustinian anthropology of P. and the Pauline understanding of the struggle between flesh and spirit. F. concludes that P.’s treatment of death has both a remarkable continuity and a progression. The three foci here correspond to three significations: “adoration,” “expiation”, and “libération” (138).

GENGOUX, NICOLE. Un athéisme philosophique à l’âge classique: le ‘Theophrastus redivivus,’ 1659. 2 vols. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014.

Review: M. Benitez in FS 69.2 (2015) 242-43. Attempts to use a close reading of the text, or more accurately, a 1981 French translation created from a composite of extant manuscripts, to prove that it contains a “‘philosophie athée’ complète.” Contains bibliography and index, but does not cite the Latin original and some quoted passages lack references. Reviewer suggests author forces the text to fit her argument, which itself is full of contradictions.

GUION, BEATRICE. “‘Ces grands mots de temps et de mort’: la mort dans les Oeuvres oratoires de Bossuet.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 169-180.

Careful and convincing demonstration presents solid and engaging arguments against both the romantic confessional appreciation and the baroque interpretation of B. Considering the demands of both doctrine and preaching, G. correctly reminds us that “la mort est d’abord présente pour inciter l’auditeur à la conversion” (169) and that our body is corruptible. Moral and theological lessons result from B.’s images and biblical references. G. underscores the role of the senses, antithesis, metaphoric assimilations and other key stylistic features such as repetition, all in the service of “l’exhortation au contemptus mundi et à la pénitence” (180).

LEOPIZZI, MARCELLA. “Vanini en France: perspectives de recherche.” S Fr 168 (2012) 505-512.

Retraces V.’s French milieu with attention to his patrons and protectors, libertine literary circles, the discovery of America, and the wide diffusion of Greek and Latin works. L. notes both important findings on V.’s life and the lack of documentation--she mentions as of yet non-inventoried sacks (some 80,000) of the Archives Départementales de la Haute-Garonne de Toulouse which relate to judicial activity of the period. Other suggestions for future research are outlined, such as manuscript notes of the “fonds Baudouin” of the same archives which L. considers “une mine d’information” (508). The remainder of L.’s article offers tantalizing precisions relating to these documents, and an insistence on the influence of V. on the libertine current as well as the continuing presence of Italian culture in French culture of V.’s era “où se croisent des cultures diverses et des dialogues multiples” (512).

LE ROUX, NICOLAS. Les guerres de religion, 1559-1629. Paris: Belin, 2009.

Review: H. Daussy in BHR 75.3 (2013) 667-668. Ouvrage qui “s’adresse avant tout aux étudiants et aux amateurs d’histoire désireux de découvrir les guerres de religion à la lumière des acquis les plus récentes…. ”

LESTRINGANT, FRANK. Une sainte horreur ou Le voyage en Eucharistie (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) préface de PIERRE CHAUNU. Genève: Droz, 2012.

Review: D. Cecchetti in S Fr 168 (2012) 555. Praiseworthy and economically accessible second edition of L.’s important earlier study by the same title. Highly useful for students of religion and anthropology as well as for those of literature of the imaginary (Cyrano, for example).

LEVESQUE, MATHILDE and OLIVIER PEDEFLOUS (dir). L’emphase: copia ou brevitas? (XVIe-XVIIe siècles). Paris: Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2010.

Review: A. Amatuzzi in S Fr 166 (2012) 136-137. The notion of emphasis is central to this collection of essays stemming from a 2009 journée d’étude on the subject. Perspectives include: the rhetorical, stylistic, semantic, and pragmatic. 17th c. foci take in love declarations in Racine, the epistolary (Mme de Sévigné) Cyrano’s expressivity and La Rochefoucauld’s concision.

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

Review: K. Wine in MP 111.4 (May 2014) E411-E414. “This searching and provocative study offers a compelling account of the cultural and intellectual currents that encouraged the increasing prominence of a “de-dramatized” hasard over the course of the seventeenth century. Whereas […] much writing about chance in the early modern period has focused on probability or on games of chance, Lyon’s wider emphasis offers an illuminating perspective on the grand siècle as a whole, demonstrating that the period’s preoccupation with regularity lead to new methods of dealing with the disordered, the random, and the formless. The book’s richest rewards, however, lie in its readings. Lyons states early on that much of the distinctiveness of individual writers lies in the ways they use their perception of chance’s ubiquity, a claim that the individual chapters fully bear out. At the same time, the individual analyses bring to light unexpected affinities, as in the cases of Pascal and the Jesuits or Joad and Athalie.”

MACLEAN, IAN. Scholarship, Commerce, Religion. The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560-1630. Cambridge (USA) et Londres: Harvard University Press, n°3, 2012.

Review: M. Engammare in BHR 75.3 (2013) 583-588. “L’auteur s’intéresse aux modes de transmission du savoir en choisissant l’un de ses vecteurs essentiels, le marché du livre érudit, ayant réuni les conférences qu’il donne à l’Université d’Oxford en mai 2010….”

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. “La Bruyère: Virtue and Disinterestedness.” FS 68.2 (2014) 164-79.

Explains two of the principles underlying La Bruyère’s Caractères. Virtue is Aristotelian, motivated by doing good for its own sake; any glory or pleasure must be a byproduct, not a motive. Disinterestedness can go in two directions, self-sacrifice or detachment from the world, but is always a moral value, potential source of personal well-being, and social ideal.

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. “Rileggendo Sainte-Beuve: è il ‘Port-Royal’ ad aver ‘fatto’ la grandezza sei Solitari?” S Fr 166 (2012) 79-83.

P’s useful article includes reminders of previous editions of Port-Royal, the French editions of 1955 and 2004, the Italian translation of 1964 and the recent 2011 one. Focuses on the iconographic apparatus and its dialogue with the literary portraits. Notes the introduction by Mario Richter which allows us to experience anew S.-B.’s rich intellectual and spiritual dimensions. Underscores the excellence of the edition and the collaborative work of five translators (80). The remainder of the article offers insights into the question “Come rileggere oggi il Port-Royal?” as it reviews various perspectives and their critics such as Jean Molino, Philippe Sellier, Louis Marin, Tony Gheeraert, among others. P.advises that those who would immerse themselves in Port-Royal would do well first to read Fontaine’s Mémoires.

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. “Les leçons de la mort dans Les Aventures de Télémaque.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 181-191.

Praiseworthy parcours from the first to the last book of F.’s novel examines conversations, narration, action, mise en scène, spiritual signs, the dialectic between exterior and interior, and, to be sure, “peinture moral” and pedagogy. P. carefully and convincingly analyzes F.’s “ecphrases de la mort”, beauty and ugliness in the novel, finding that “les contraires ne s’excluent pas” (191) (the Platonician Fénelon has given a body to Mentor) and that Télémaque “se prête à une lecture ouverte” (190).

PASCHOUD, ADRIEN and NATHALIE VUILLEMIN, éds. Penser l’ordre naturel, 1680-1810. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012.

Review: N. Treuherz in MLR 109.1 (2014) 250-251. Collection of essays taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing “on scientific/philosophical and literary/aesthetic subjects, to the exclusion of economic/political aspects of natural order.” Reviewer finds that “the usefulness of this volume lies in the individual contributions on their specific themes rather than as a comprehensive introduction to the theme of natural order in the period.”

PLAZENET, LAURENCE, dir. Port-Royal. Paris: Flammarion, 2012.

Review: C. Ficat in 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.

RANDALL, CATHARINE. The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality. Notre Dame: U Notre Dame P, 2014.

Review: R. Parish in FS 68.4 (2014) 543-44. A promotion of animal rights in a worthwhile scholarly monograph. Covers four main figures from sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Michel de Montaigne, Guillaume du Bartas, François de Sales, and Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant. Reviewer criticizes inconsistencies in bibliography and in transcription of French words, but overall finds work readable and accessible, with a “compelling” conclusion.

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

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 166 (2012) 139-140. Heterogeneous methodologically and judged “intellettualmente vivace” (140) R.’s contribution to the widely examined topic of “le rire” is organized in sections which examine social and religious perspectives, strategies of creation such as dissimulation and irony, and libertine passions. R. finds that “le rire” may contribute to the founding of a new positive anthropology: “jouir-savoir-pouvoir.”

SCHOLAR, RICHARD and ALEXIS TADIE, eds. Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: S. Pierse in MLR XLI.80 (2014) 215-18. “The nebulous interface between fiction and early modern philosophy, science, medicine, or law will never look quite the same after this collection of erudite essays….” Essay by W. Williams linking Ronsard, Montaigne, Corneille, and Pascal “masterfully combines close linguistic analysis with subtle criticism of literature, philosophical thought, politics, self-exploration, and early modern historicity.” I. Moreau “probes philosophical, scientific, and fictional models from Descartes and Gassendi to Bernier, through exploration of the epistemological and moral dimensions encompassed within the term fiction. She traces legal and theatrical fiction and perceived planetary movements, and ultimately examines the collision of truth, reality, and rules, against hypotheses, constructs, and falsehoods.”

SHIOKAWA, TETSUYA. Entre foi et raison: l’autorité. Études pascaliennes. Paris: Champion, 2012.

Review: H. Bjornstad in PSCFL 14 (2012): 137-142. A collection of texts by eminent Pascal scholar Shiokawa, written over four decades and revised and/or translated into French for the present volume. Three sections of five essays each: themes and concepts, apologetics, and politics. Reviewer finds second the strongest. Essays are clear and hold together both individually and as a collection, thanks in large part to author’s problem-driven approach. A valuable contribution to Pascal studies.

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.

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).

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.

Les Amériques des écrivains français, in Travaux de Littérature 24 (2011).

Review: P. Adinolfi in S Fr 168 (2012) 624-625. Wide-ranging issue examines in 31 essays the American mythology in French works. Certain types are distinguished such as “la belle américaine” and “le sauvage brésilien.” The collection includes studies of particular interest to 17th c. scholars—on discoveries, philosophical ideas, récits de voyage, Challe, and utopias.

ARZOUMANOV, ANNA, ANNE REACH-NGO AND TRUNG TRAN, eds. Le Discours du livre. Mise en scène du texte et fabrique de l’oeuvre sous l’Ancien Régime. Paris: Classiques Garnier (Études et essais sur la Renaissance”, 93) 2011.

Review: M. Mastroianni in S Fr 168 (2012) 552-553. Wide-ranging collection of essays examines editing and re-editing, transformations and illustrations. Studies are organized in sections as follows: “Le texte en représentation”, “Politiques de réédition, codifications et mutations génétiques”, and “réactualisations idéologiques et usages du livre.” 17th c. scholars will particularly appreciate Claire Fourquet-Gracieux’s study on Port-Royal’s editing of psalms.

BAYLE, ARIANE, ed. La Contagion: enjeux croisés des discours médicaux et littéraires (XVIe-XIXe siècle). Dijon: Éditions universitaires de Dijon, 2013.

Review: H. Roberts in FS 68.2 (2014) 243. A collection of articles that combines the history of medicine and literary studies to show how medical discourse, especially that of contagion, infiltrated literary and artistic criticism. Includes postface, bibliography, and index. Reviewer notes that sections on the 16th and 17th centuries are especially strong.

BOILLET, DANIELLE, MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD et HELENE TRAPE, éds. Ecrire des vies. Espagne, France, Italie, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne nouvelle, 2012.

Review: P. Eichel-Lojkine in BHR 75.3 (2013) 593-595. Voir les articles de F. Wild (“à propos de deux biographies françaises du XVIIe siècle”) et d’A. Cantillon (“à propos des biographies de Pascal”).

BROCHARD, CÉCILE and ESTHER PINON, eds. La Folie—Création ou destruction?, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

Review: F. Forcolin in S Fr 166 (2012) 200-201. The result of a 2010 journée d’étude at Nantes, this collective volume focuses on the multifaceted theme of madness and includes the “versant noir” and “le visage bouffon.” The essays are organized into four sections. The first part, “La folie et ses mythes: pérennité et subversions,” analyzes “la nef des fous” and the myth of Orlando including rewritings such as that of Quinault. Other sections may include references to the 17th c. but center on 19th and 20th c. as well as on Francophone authors and a few from other geographic areas, Márquez, for example.

CAMPANINI, MAGDA. In forma di lettere. La finzione epistolare in Francia dal Rinascimento al Classicismo. Venezia: Supernova, 2011.

Review: P. Adinolfi in S Fr 168 (2012) 624. C.’s corpus includes epistolary works from 1555 to 1700. She examines reflections on the era, on the epistolary genre itself, its material aspects, authors, editors, and reception. Other sections focus on the letter of love and its relation to romance, paratexts, dialogic tension, and the narrative, among others.

CAMPBELL, JOHN. “Mort et dramaturgie dans les tragédies de Racine.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 155-167.

Welcome investigation reveals the remarkable particularity of the place occupied by death in R.’s tragedies. Avoiding the trap of imposing anachronistic notions on R,’s theatre, C.’s analysis focuses on “la praxis du théâtre” (157) disclosing death as “un outil dramatique parmi d’autres” (160) and “surtout, une question de plaisir” (167).

COLLINET, JEAN-PIERRE. Visages de La Fontaine. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2010.

Review: J. Morgante in S Fr 167 (2012) 314. Praiseworthy volume brings together 28 studies, some revised from 1991-2010, by an eminent critic of La F. Organized in sections as follows: “Généralités” (including emphasis on La F.’s duality and diversity) “Les Fables”, and “Les Amours de Psyché et Cupidon.”

CORRADI, FEDERICO, ed and trans. Madame de Lafayette. La Princesse de Montpensier. Rome: Portaparole, 2011.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 167 (2012) 314. Welcome translation of this nouvelle of L, usefully annotated and furnished with a pertinent introduction which is attentive to recent discussions of the nouvelle and 17th c. French narrative. Text is reprised from that of Micheline Cuénin (1979) and the translation takes into account the 1980 one of Gesualdo Bufalino and Paola Masino.

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

Review: J. Phillips in FS 69.2 (2015) 243-44. Does not study the grand siècle as focused on rules; instead highlights role of sentiment and the possibility of transcendental experience through art. Authors discussed include Blaise Pascal, Dominique Bouhours, Nicolas Boileau, René Rapin, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, and John Dennis. Reviewer finds arguments convincing, supported by extensive notes and complete bibliography.

DENIS, DELPHINE, dir. Honoré d’Urfé, L’Astrée. Première partie. Paris: Champion, 2011.

Review: J. Morgante in S Fr 166 (2012) 137-139. Welcome scholarly edition of the first part of L’Astrée. Hailed as trustworthy, the critical apparatus includes variants which are judged to merit commentary. M. includes discussion of the 17th c. editions and remarks on editorial decisions of this edition. Of particular interest in the introduction are linguistic observations and the ideal of the social elite of the time. Similarly enlightening are discussions of early modern editorial practice. It is possible to consult electronically the site of the équipe attached to the C.E.L.L.F. directed by D. and Alexandre Gefen: http://astree.paris-sorbonne.fr

DENIS, DELPHINE, MIRELLE HUCHON, ANNA JAUBERT, MICHAEL RINN, and OLIVIER SOUTET, eds. Au corps du texte. Hommage à Georges Molinié. Paris: Champion, 2010.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 166 (2012) 143. This valuable Festschrift by forty friends and colleagues of M. is organized in sections corresponding to the latter’s predominant research interests. The first section, “Langages de la première modernité” renders homage to M.’s seminal thesis published in 1982 and republished in 1995, Du Roman grec au roman baroque: un art majeur du genre narratif en France sous Louis XIII. Analyses focus on 17th c. stylistic and aesthetic concerns as present in authors as diverse as La Fontaine and Massillon. The second and third sections retain the philological, rhetorical and literary dimensions but focus on other periods. Includes a bibliography of M.’s criticism.

DUFOURCET, M.B., CH. MAZOUER, and A. SURGERS, eds. Spectacles et pouvoirs dans l’Europe de l’Ancien Régime (XVIe –XVIIIe siècles). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2011.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 168 (2012) 564. Drawn from presentations at a colloque of the Centre de recherches sur l’Europe classique and from the Centre Artes, the essays of this volume analyze the role of civil and ecclesiastical power in the organization and realization of spectacle. 17th c. scholars will find of particular interest essays on the following subjects: royal and political munificence, the prince in attendance at spectacles, the relations between music and power, and representations of peace.

DURU, AUDREY. Essais de soi: poésie spirituelle et rapport à soi, entre Montaigne et Descartes. Genève: Droz, 2012.

Review: E. Herdman in FS 68.2 (2014) 242-43. Explores literary and cultural impact of devotional poetry by lesser-known poets of late 16th-early 17th centuries. Shows that poets’ self-expression is more about religious and political autonomy than a quest for self as a modern reader might understand the term. Reviewer: “detailed and well-informed.”

EICHEL-LOJKINE, PATRICIA. Contes en réseaux: l’émergence du conte sur la scène littéraire européenne. Geneva: Droz, 2013.

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 109.3 (2014) 779-780. “Contes en réseaux is a clear, well-thought-out, and deeply learned book. Both scholarly and accessible to a wider public interested in fairy tales, who will find the innovative readings of the tales offered by Eichel-Lojkine particularly appealing, it leads the reader to reconsider the genesis of the European literary fairy tale, notably in bringing to light the circulation of narratives between Jewish and Christian cultures. It should definitively alter the common perception of the fairy tale as a timeless object and help to counterbalance the excesses of universalist theories of the genre.”

EDMUNDS, JOHN, trans. Intro. by Joseph Harris. Corneille, Molière, Racine: Four French Plays: ‘Cinna’, ‘The Misanthrope’, ‘Andromaque’, ‘Phaedra’. London: Penguin, 2013.

Review: T. Chilcott in MLR 109.3 (2014) 802-803. Superb new verse translations of four major plays in the French classical canon. Preface by Harris provides valuable theatrical and cultural context. “…the inclusion of Corneille’s Critique and Racine’s Prefaces, as well as sections on Chronology and Further Reading, a genealogical table, and a guide to pronunciation, enhances the sense of comprehensive treatment.”

FÉERIES: ÉTUDES SUR LE CONTE MERVEILLEUX XVIIE –XIXE SIÈCLE. 7 (2010). Le Conte et la Fable. 8 (2011). Le merveilleux français à travers les siècles, les langues, les continents.

Review: M. Kaplanoglou in M&T 29.1 (2015) 163-65. Journal, begun in 2004. According to website, “devoted to the study of the French language fantasy tale from the 17th to the 19th century. Each issue is organised around a theme and presents an overview of the critical literature of the genre. The journal has a resolutely literary approach.” Volume 7, edited by Aurélia Gaillard and Jean-Paul Sermain, includes articles on La Fontaine, Perrault, “anthropological parameters,” “narrative motivation,” imagination, memory, morality, and the recurring motif of the key. Volume 8, edited by Jean Mainil, explores “how a corpus of texts specific to France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had such a lasting influence in different linguistic, cultural, and geographic contexts” and includes articles on Perrault and d’Aulnoy, among others.

FLOWER, JOHN. Historical Dictionary of French Literature. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013.

Review: J. Hammond in MLR 109.4 (2014) 1080. “It is only in the bibliography that the reader is informed that ‘the historical dictionary focuses on imaginative prose works and poetry only’ which might explain why no single play by Corneille, Molière, or Racine is mentioned the information on the latter three is not only sketchy but at times inaccurate or misleading decision to ignore a number of what are commonly agreed to be major writers, such as Montaigne and Pascal, and to focus instead on an array of less-known authors ….” Reviewer nonetheless finds valuable insights in the “mini-essays” in this volume.

GILBY, EMMA and PAUL WHITE, ed. Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought. Oxford: Legenda, 2013.

Review: A. Stedman in FS 68.4 (2014) 542-43. Looks at how narrative and thought intersect within and across genres in a collection of eight essays, organized chronologically by author(s) treated, starting with Montaigne and ending with Lafayette. Reviewer: “add(s) critical understanding to the complex articulation of fable, history, and argument in the early modern period.”

GRANDE, NATHALIE. Le Rire galant. Usages du comique dans les fictions narratives de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2011.

Review: C. Mainardi in S Fr 166 (2012) 140-141. Praiseworthy exploration allows G. to contribute to the definition of the galant aesthetic, thereby offering a corrective to the “classical” image of the Grand Siècle in which ridicule, satire, laughter, the smile, irony and intellectual diversion play an important role. Authors examined include the following: Bussy, Villedieu, Préchac, and Lafayette. Segrais’s Nouvelles françaises (1656) is chosen as the terminus a quo and Perrault’s Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697) as terminus ad quem. Although M. does note an important omission, she praises G.’s bibliography which includes sections of both primary and secondary works.

GREENE, ROLAND. Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes. Chicago: U Chicago P, 2013.

Review: T. Gregory in MP 112.3 (2015) E234-E237. Spans nations and languages, including France/French; reviewer finds sections on English and Spanish strongest. The five words of the title, each the topic of a chapter, are invention, blood, language, resistance, and world, chosen because they are ubiquitous in the early modern period, defined here as 1525-1675. Analysis based in etymology, semantics, and textual analysis.

GUION, BEATRICE. “‘Ces grands mots de temps et de mort’: la mort dans les Oeuvres oratoires de Bossuet.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 169-180.

Careful and convincing demonstration presents solid and engaging arguments against both the romantic confessional appreciation and the baroque interpretation of B. Considering the demands of both doctrine and preaching, G. correctly reminds us that “la mort est d’abord présente pour inciter l’auditeur à la conversion” (169) and that our body is corruptible. Moral and theological lessons result from B.’s images and biblical references. G. underscores the role of the senses, antithesis, metaphoric assimilations and other key stylistic features such as repetition, all in the service of “l’exhortation au contemptus mundi et à la pénitence” (180).

HAWCROFT, MICHAEL. “New Light on Candles on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage.” FS 68.2 (2014) 180-92.

Attempts to disprove commonly held assertions by showing that trimming (snuffing) candles was an effect, not a cause, of plays being divided into 20 or 30-minute acts. Instead, act length was a matter of engaging the audience and of literary and historical precedent.

KARSENTI, TIPHAINE. Le Mythe de Troie dans le théâtre français (1562-1715). Paris: Champion, 2012. “Lumière Classiques, 90).

Review: D. Cecchetti in S Fr 168 (2012) 560. Monumental doctoral dissertation focuses on this key myth and examines 35 plays. Organization is chronological and according to genres. Exceptionally useful reference volume for students and scholars of myth and of the theatre. Includes minor as well as major authors.

KULESZA, MONIKA. L’Amour de la morale, la morale de l’amour. Les romans de Catherine Bernard. Warszawa: Unywerytet Warszawsky, Wydzial Neofilolog, 2010.

Review: F. Piva in S Fr 166 (2012) 142-143. Welcome study for the seriousness and competence it demonstrates as well as for the lucidity of its analyses of B.’s works, K.’s exploration will take its rightful place among others focusing on neglected women authors of the Grand Siècle. Despite outlining several problems that remain to be solved such as the relationship between B. and the world of letters and society in general as well as certain attributions such as that of Le Commerce galant, P. praises K.’s attentive and clear reading of B. alongside her confrontation of B.’s novels with the works of moralists such as La Rochefoucauld and Fontenelle.

LECLERC, JEAN, éd. L’Antiquité travestie: anthologie de poésie burlesque (1644-1658). Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2010.

Review: C. Carlin in DFS 101 (Spring 2014) 123-124. « Une anthologie et édition savant de textes exemplaires » du genre burlesque. « Chaque poème est précédé d’une notice, suivie d’un résumé de l’œuvre antique travestie et une analyse de son traitement en mode burlesque, y compris (parmi d’autres éléments) son inscription dans la société de l’époque. Un appareil critique complète [sic], avec tout ce qu’il faut pour comprendre la genèse du poème, est suivi d’un tableau récapitulatif montrant le plan de ses parties et de ses grandes articulations. […] Ces nombreux supports éditoriaux, y compris le commentaire bien développé sur la langue à la fin de l’introduction, permettraient même aux non-spécialistes d’apprécier ces documents fascinants, représentatifs de plusieurs dimensions de la vie socioculturelle et politique de l’époque. »

LEE, CHRISTINE. “The Meanings of Romance: Rethinking Early Modern Fiction.” MP 112.2 (2014) 287-311.

Contends that “Romance” was not understood the way it is today; its meaning shifted substantially from 1550 to 1670. By comparing usage across languages, especially French and English, suggests that “romance” is not only a genre, but also a “cultural keyword” reflective of sociocultural change.

LEGAULT, MARIANNE. Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.

Review: P. Zoberman in FS 68.2 (2014) 245-46. Monograph that, reviewer says, seeks “to restore the genealogy of female friendship and lesbian relationships in seventeenth-century French literature.” Uneven writing quality, errors in French, questionable text selection, and other issues mean that work “raises interesting issues but fails to address them satisfactorily.”

Review: E. Wilton-Godberfforde in MLR 109.4 (2014) 1083-1084. Revised and translated version of Narrations déviantes: l’intimité entre femmes dans l’imaginaire français du dix-septième siècle (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008). Monograph “examines several genres and sources, including dictionary treatise, moral reflection, maxim, novel, comedy, fairy tale, harangue, and excerpts from Madeleine de Scudéry’s private correspondence.” Readings are divided between male and female literary discourses: “the ‘male imagination’ is presented through Honoré d’Urfé’s novel L’Astrée and Isaac de Benserade’s comedy Iphiset Iante. Legault seeks to underscore these writers’ sexual fascination in evoking female encounters, combined with a distinct apprehension over such closeness and a determined effort to reject and ridicule female intimacy. In contrast, the chapter on ‘women’s imagination’, illustrated through Scudéry’s novel Mathilde (D’Aguilar) and Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force’s fairy tale Plus belle que Fée, emphasizes how these writers stand out by daring to privilege the erotic ties between women and by resisting heteronormative expectations, either openly or obliquely. Although structurally very neat, the divisions between the male and the female perspectives seem rather too binary.”

LESTRINGANT, FRANK. Une sainte horreur ou Le voyage en Eucharistie (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) préface de PIERRE CHAUNU. Genève: Droz, 2012.

Review: D. Cecchetti in S Fr 168 (2012) 555. Praiseworthy and economically accessible second edition of L.’s important earlier study by the same title. Highly useful for students of religion and anthropology as well as for those of literature of the imaginary (Cyrano, for example).

LOCHERT, VERONIQUE and ZOE SCHWEITZER, éds. Philologie et théâtre: traduire, commenter, interpréter le théâtre antique en Europe (XVe-XVIIIe siècle). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012.

Review: E. Forman in MLR 109.4 (2014) 1052-1053. “The fifteen essays contained in this volume explore various aspects of the reception of ancient theatrical texts by the European Renaissance and Classical periods. The overarching emphasis is on the rediscovery of the texts’ dramatic potential, and the particular focus is on the role of translator in both interpreting them and recreating them as performance blueprints for the early modern stage.” Reviewer finds that an index and enhanced cumulative bibliography would make this volume an even more useful research tool.

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

Review: K. Wine in MP 111.4 (May 2014) E411-E414. “This searching and provocative study offers a compelling account of the cultural and intellectual currents that encouraged the increasing prominence of a “de-dramatized” hasard over the course of the seventeenth century. Whereas […] much writing about chance in the early modern period has focused on probability or on games of chance, Lyon’s wider emphasis offers an illuminating perspective on the grand siècle as a whole, demonstrating that the period’s preoccupation with regularity lead to new methods of dealing with the disordered, the random, and the formless. The book’s richest rewards, however, lie in its readings. Lyons states early on that much of the distinctiveness of individual writers lies in the ways they use their perception of chance’s ubiquity, a claim that the individual chapters fully bear out. At the same time, the individual analyses bring to light unexpected affinities, as in the cases of Pascal and the Jesuits or Joad and Athalie.”

MASTROIANNI, MICHELE. L’officina poetica di Jean-Baptiste Chassignet. Vercelli: Edizioni Mercurio, 2010.

Review: S. Lardon in S Fr 168 (2012) 557-558. Welcome recueil of M.’s articles, revised and augmented. The studies are grouped thematically in three sections relating to 1) biblical paraphrase, 2) religious poetry, and 3) emblematic and iconographic dimension. L. underscores the remarkable unity of the collection and its essential quality, not only for scholars of C. but also for those of 16th and 17th c. religious poetry. Index of names.

NISSIM, LIANA and ALESSANDRA PREDA. La Figure de Jacob dans les lettres françaises. Milano: Cisalpino, coll. “ Quarderni di Acme,” 119, 2010.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 166 (2012) 199-200. This collective volume, the result of the 2009 Seminario Balmas, focuses on the figure of Jacob from literature of the 1400s to today’s contemporary poetry and demonstrates the figure’s fascination and contradictions. 17th c. scholars will appreciate essays on Jacob and Pierre Charron, the French theatre and poetry, fable and rhetoric, Saint-Amant, and on Jacob’s ladder and finance in 17th c. and 18th c. theatre. Tables and illustrations.

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. “Les leçons de la mort dans Les Aventures de Télémaque.” Tr Lit 25 (2012) 181-191.

Praiseworthy parcours from the first to the last book of F.’s novel examines conversations, narration, action, mise en scène, spiritual signs, the dialectic between exterior and interior, and, to be sure, “peinture moral” and pedagogy. P. carefully and convincingly analyzes F.’s “ecphrases de la mort”, beauty and ugliness in the novel, finding that “les contraires ne s’excluent pas” (191) (the Platonician Fénelon has given a body to Mentor) and that Télémaque “se prête à une lecture ouverte” (190).

PLANCHE. MARIE-CLAIRE. De l’iconographie racinienne, dessiner et peindre les passions. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 167 (2012) 315. This important addition to R. scholarship contains a trove of nearly 100 images in black and white. The reviewer would have appreciated more solid scholarly analysis and a more comprehensive bibliography, however the discovery and presentation of the iconographic corpus covering the years 1668-1815 remains highly useful. Chapters include examinations of the following topics: the poetics of the image in R., the iconographic corpus and editorial history, criteria of selection, place, and expressions and attitudes.

POIRSON, MARTIAL and JEAN-FRANÇOIS PERRIN, eds. Les scènes de l’enchantement, Arts du spectacle, théâtricalité et conte merveilleux (XVIIe-XIXe siècles). Paris: Éditions Desjonquères, 2011.

Review: P. Martinuzzi in S Fr 167 (2012) 320-321. Welcome highly interdisciplinary collection of studies focusing on the theatricality of the “conte merveilleux” and developing a possible poetics of the latter. Also considered are significant interactions between dramaturgy and specific conditions and reception.

PREVOT, JACQUES. Cyrano de Bergerac. L’écrivain de la crise. Paris: Ellipses, 2011. Collection “Bibliographies et Mythes historiques.”

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 167 (2012) 313. C. is placed in a rich, erudite, and well-articulated historical-cultural context. After a biographical chapter which includes C.’s literary and libertine adventures, his contacts with the Fronde, etc., successive chapters analyze his works from the Entretiens pointus and letters, to his theatre and fiction. Useful chronology and well-oriented bibliography.

REID, MARTINE, ed. Les femmes dans la critique et l’histoire littéraire. Paris: Champion, 2011.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 167 (2012) 380-381. Praiseworthy investigation into the treatment of women authors by literary history and criticism. R. formulates the thesis of the volume thus: “Que les femmes auteurs aient été maltraitées par la critique et l’histoire littéraire, que leur présence se soit assez généralement trouvée condamnée sous des prétextes divers et leur travail minoré, contesté puis oublié, n’est désormais plus ignoré de personne” (7). These essays focus on the number of women authors as well as on the quality of their work. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the study by Myriam Dufour-Maître, “Oublier les ‘Précieuses’? Critique d’une catégorie critique (1999-2009)” pages 43-54, resuming the recent work on the subject, including hers, which has led to a redefinition of “préciosité.”

ROBERTS, HUGH. “Obscenity and the Politics of Authorship in Early Seventeenth-Century France: Guillaume Colletet and Le Parnasse des poètes satyriques (1622).” FS 68.1 (2014) 18-33.

Explores Colletet’s path from exile to immortel. Banished for “obscenity,” his use of forbidden words was less about libertinage than about establishing his credentials as a poet.

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

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 166 (2012) 139-140. Heterogeneous methodologically and judged “intellettualmente vivace” (140) R.’s contribution to the widely examined topic of “le rire” is organized in sections which examine social and religious perspectives, strategies of creation such as dissimulation and irony, and libertine passions. R. finds that “le rire” may contribute to the founding of a new positive anthropology: “jouir-savoir-pouvoir.”

SCHOLAR, RICHARD and ALEXIS TADIE, eds. Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

Review: S. Pierse in MLR 109.2 (2014) 511-512. “The nebulous interface between fiction and early modern philosophy, science, medicine, or law will never look quite the same after this collection of erudite essays….” Essay by W. Williams linking Ronsard, Montaigne, Corneille, and Pascal “masterfully combines close linguistic analysis with subtle criticism of literature, philosophical thought, politics, self-exploration, and early modern historicity.” I. Moreau “probes philosophical, scientific, and fictional models from Descartes and Gassendi to Bernier, through exploration of the epistemological and moral dimensions encompassed within the term fiction. She traces legal and theatrical fiction and perceived planetary movements, and ultimately examines the collision of truth, reality, and rules, against hypotheses, constructs, and falsehoods.”

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

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.

STEDMAN, ALLISON. Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity. Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 2013.

Review: C. Carlin in DFS 101 (Spring 2014) 124-125. “These hybrid, experimental texts would not only influence the eighteenth-century novel; rococo’s rejection of universal, absolute truths, and its emphasis on individual uniqueness would support the dominant aesthetic of the Enlightenment in France across the arts. Stedman’s exploration of the phenomenon gives us a new lens for linking disparate texts across the seventeenth century. Although I have small quibbles (in ten pages on La Querelle du Cid, Stedman cites the 1898 Gasté compilation rather than Jean-Marc Civardi’s thorough critical edition published in 2004, and George Forestier’s name is misspelled throughout) Stedman’s impressive work represents an original contribution to the study of seventeenth-century French fiction.”

TEYSSANDIER, BERNARD, ed. ‘Le Roi hors de page’ et autres textes: une anthologie. Reims: PU de Reims, 2012.

Review: M. Meere in FS 68.2 (2014) 244-45. A well-researched text containing original texts with notes, annotated bibliography, critical essays, and extensive index. Seven sections deal with Louis XIII’s 1617 decrees that exiled Marie de Medicis to Blois; ordered the assassination of her minister, Concini; and brought about the trial and execution of Concini’s wife and de Medicis’s favorite, Léonora Galligaï. Reviewer’s only regret is omission of La Victoire du Phébus français contre le Python de ce temps (1617); otherwise praises this contribution to research on early modern pamphlet culture.

TEYSSANDIER, BERNARD, ed. Les Fables d’Esope Phrygien. Reims: Epure, 2011. “Héritages critiques” 2011/1.

Review: A Bertolino in S Fr 167 (2012) 312-313. Welcome rediscovery and rehabilitation of B.’s 1645 useful and agreeable work dedicated to the “métier du roi” (Louis XIV). Reproduces the rare copy of the Bibliothèque Carnegie de Reims and includes dédicaces to both prince and queen, a “vie d’Esope” and 128 fables, each followed by an explanatory maxim. The second half of the volume contains essays of criticism on the work, its editorial process, its author, its genesis, and the political use of the fable in the 17th c. The bibliography includes Greek and Latin “fabliers,” modern transmissions, and principal secondary criticism.

THOURET, CLOTILDE. Seul en scène. Le Monologue dans le théâtre européen de la première modernité (1580-1640). Genève: Droz, 2010.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 168 (2012) 560-561. Examines numerous aspects of the European monologue of the time indicated: poetic, historical, and anthropological. Focuses on dramatic practices of Italian, English, French and Spanish authors. Important analyses for the representation of thought and passion.

TONOLO, SOPHIE, ed. Madame Deshoulière. Poésies. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2010.

Review: J. Morgante in S Fr 167 (2012) 313-314. Highly useful edition for its pertinent introduction and annotations of texts. T.’s work highlights the value of D.’s poetry and its literary historic interest. Four appendices feature relevant texts such as the querelle of Phèdre (1677) in which D. participated.

TRAN-GERVAT, YEN-MAI. Traduire en français à l’âge classique: génie national et génie des langues. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013.

Review: J.-A. Perras in FS 68.3 (2014) 392. Born of a 2011 conference on translation, this is a “prelude” to a work closely studies the practice of translation in the 17th-18th centuries. Looks at general questions surrounding literary translation into French in the context of the simultaneous rise of a national language and national identity. Divided into two parts, one on translating from ancient languages, the other from other European languages; shows that translation was the subject of considerable reflection and debate in the neoclassical age.

TRIBOUT, BRUNO. Les Récits de conjuration sous Louis XIV. Éditions du CIERL, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2010.

Review: F. Corradi in S Fr 166 (2012) 141-142. Underlining the importance of T’s theme by referring to the large 17th c. semantic field of conjuration, C. finds T.’s study important as it focuses on a restricted corpus of true “récits de conjuration.” Wide-ranging ramifications of the theme are indicated for 17th c. literary aesthetics. T. finds certain constants in the conceptualizations and representations of conjuration including the important common element of “un discours épidictique ambigu” (condemnation and admiration). Convincing examination which discovers a rather homogeneous “formula” despite the great diversity of genres. Reminds of the authors’ overarching concern to please the reader.

VAN DELFT, LOUIS. Les Moralistes. Une apologie. Paris: Gallimard, “Folio essais”, 2008.

Review: S. Lardon in S Fr 168 (2012) 559-560. Wide-ranging parcours of moralists illustrates this “apologie,” from the Ancients such as Cicero to figures representative of today’s reception. Admirable pluridisciplinary approach. L. characterizes Van D.’s essay as a voyage “à travers le temps, l’espace et les disciplines” (560). The volume is organized in five chapters: 1) “Définir, ma non troppo”, 2) “Toile de fond”, 3) L’homme en son théâtre”, 4) “Anthropologie”, and 5) “Moralia revisitée: modernités.”

YOSHIKAWA, KAZUYOSHI and NORIKO TAGUCHI, eds. Comment naît une oeuvre littéraire? Brouillons, contextes culturelles, évolutions thématiques. Paris: Champion, 2011.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 166 (2012) 202-204. This wide-ranging volume is the result of the 2007 Franco-Japanese Colloque organized by the Department of French Language and Literature of the University of Kyoto and the French-Japanese Institute of Kansai. Questions of inspiration and genesis of literary works are at the heart of this highly diverse subject which scholars have organized around principles including genesis and influence, intertextuality and thematic variation, among others. 17th c. scholars will appreciate examinations of “la génétique” chez Pascal and Racine’s “étapes de composition.” Other contributions focus on later authors.

ZIPES, JACK. The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012.

REVIEW: J.T. Rudy in M&T 28.2 (2014) 402-04. “A cultural evolutionary approach to the fairy tale” that references everything from memes to collectors and collections. Includes audiovisual and digital media without losing sight of tales’ origins and studies centered on orality and folklore. Chapters on Perrault and d’Aulnoy will be of particular interest to dix-septièmistes.

ZONZA, CHRISTIAN, ed. L’île au XVIIe siècle: jeux et enjeux. Tübingen: Narr, 2010.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 167 (2012) 316-317. These essays drawn from the 10th Colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, held in Ajaccio, April 3-5, 2008, examine the theme of the island chronologically, generically and geographically, with the philosophical approach predominating. The studies are organized in the following sections: “Iles réelles,” “L’île et l’odyssée romanesque,” “L’île, parcours spirituel et moral,” “Iles et constructions utopiques,” “Iles et jeux.” Critical bibliography on the theme examined.

D’AUBIGNÉ

MATTON, SYLVAIN. “Agrippa est-il l’auteur du De arte chimica pseudo-ficinien?” BHR 75.3 (2013) 499-514.

Author presents five points supporting his argument in favor of D’Aubigné’s authorship of De arte chimica: “Assurément, pris à part, aucun d’eux n’est décisif; mais réunis, ils forment un faisceau d’indices probant.” influence in terms of how best to create variety in the plot without sacrificing unity.

Abiven, Karine

« Un genre de discours miniature : pour un modèle de l’anecdote. » Revue pratique (2013) : 119-132.

« ‘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.

« Objets textuels non identifiés : quelle approche pour les corpus marginaux d’Ancien Régime ? », co-auteur A. Arzoumanov, dans C. Badiou-Monferran (dir.) La Littérarité des Belles-Lettres. Un défi pour les sciences du texte ?, Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. « Investigations stylistiques », 2013, 119-130.

« Avatars de l’apophtegme au XVIIe siècle : bons mots et liberté de parole dans la culture mondaine. » Usages et enjeux de l’apophtegme dans les littératures européennes des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, O. Guerrier, F. Népote et B. Basset (dir.). Littératures classiques, 84.2 (2014) : 143-159.

Co-auteur avec Valérie Raby « Au risque des figures. Bon mot et double jeu énonciatif dans les Historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux. » La Figure et la norme, C. Reggiani, C. Narjoux et N. Laurent (dir.). Dijon, Éditions universitaires de Dijon, 2014, pp. 179-188.

L’Anecdote ou la fabrique du petit fait vrai. De Tallemant des Réaux à Voltaire (1650-1750). Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015.

« Le critique mis en œuvre : question de l’autorité dans les Ana. » Formes et enjeux de la critique au XVIIe siècle, P. Dandrey (dir.). Littératures classiques, 86 (2015) : 37-55.’

« ‘Rien de plus triste qu’un recueil d’anecdotes’, ou de la difficulté d’écrire un récit oral. » L’Anecdote entre littérature et histoire, C. Esmein, G. Haroche-Bouzinac et G. Rideau (dir.). Rennes, PUR, 2015.

Albanese, Ralph

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

Assaf, Francis

« Singeries baroques. » Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XL, 78 (2013) : 7-18.

« Abraham de Vermeil, poète maniériste ». Maniérisme et littérature (Didier Souiller, ed.) Série « Comparaisons ». Paris : Orizons, 2013 (ISBN: 978-2-296-08850-4) : 219-236.

« Les Paratextes du Francion, ou la mise en fiction de l’écriture. » Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLI, 81 (2014) : 302-314.

« La Pompe funèbre de Louis XIV à Madrid : 1716 » Chapitre 4, Fascination des images, images de la fascination. (Gilles Declercq & Stella Spriet, eds) pp. 83-96. Paris : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2014.

« Louis XIV: sa propre allégorie. » Actes du colloque du CIR-17 (Biblio 17) York University, mai 2014, North York, Ontario (Canada). A paraître.

« 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.

« Les Horreurs du Grand Siècle : un échantillonnage du crime sous les deux premiers Bourbons. » Forthcoming in Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate.

« Oraisons funèbres et pamphlets à la mort de Louis XIV ». Forthcoming in Funérailles princières hors de France. Éditions Tallandier, Paris.

« La Mort de Louis XIV commémorée par le premier Bourbon d’Espagne : Madrid 1716 ». Forthcoming in Funérailles princières hors de France. Éditions Tallandier, Paris.

*Work 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).

*Book review:

Craig Moyes. Furetière’s ‘Roman bourgeois’ and the Problem of Exchange. Titular Economics (Oxford [Research Monographs in French Studies 34], Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2013). Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLI, 81 (2014) : 440-442.

*Dissertation directed

Polly T. Mangerson. Sovereignty and Theatricality in French 17th Century Theatre.

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 XVIIème et XVIIIème 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 XVIIème et XVIIIème 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. Regards croisés sur le XVIIème siècle, Sylvaine Guyot et Tom Conley (eds.). Littératures classiques 82 (2013).

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

« 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 Sven R. Havsteen, Kristian Mejrup, Eelco Nagelsmit and Lars Nørgaard. « General Introduction ». Journal of Early Modern Christianity 1.2 (2014) : 195-205.

*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).

Monograph about Armand-Jean de Rancé and his reform of La Trappe at the intersection between monastic tradition and contemporary cultural and religious norms.

** Dissertation defended :

Lars Nørgaard : Political Space and the Dynamics of Religious Reform at St. Cyr.

Call, Michael

« Alceste at the Print Shop: Publication and Authorship in Molière’s Le Misanthrope. » Romanic Review 104 (January-March 2013) : 65-82.

« L’École des auteurs ? Le mariage, la publication et le risque dans les premières pièces de Molière. » Penser le risque à l’âge classique, Dominique Bertrand, ed. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2014 : 233-49.

The Would-Be Author. Molière and the Comedy of Print. Purdue University Press (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 63) April 2015.

« Fortuna Goes to the Theater : Lottery Comedies in Seventeenth-Century France. Accepted for publication by French Forum.

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude

Ballets burlesques pour Louis XIII. Danse et jeux de transgression (1610-1643) in collaboration with Claudine Nédelec (Toulouse : SLC, 2013).

Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe, in collaboration with Jean Andrews. Turnhout : Brepols, 2013.

« Lepanto Revisited: Water-fights and the Turkish Threat in Early Modern Europe (1571-1656). » Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance, ed. Margaret Shewring. Farnham : Ashgate, 2013, 177-198.

« Ambivalent Fictions : the Bordeaux Celebrations of the Wedding of Louis XIII and Anna of Austria (1615). » Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615. A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions, ed. Margaret M. McGowan. Farnham : Ashgate, 2013, 179-199.

« L’Histoire du Roy Louis le Grand du père Ménestrier: médailles, devises, armoiries et philosophie des images. » Héraldique et Numismatique 1, ed. Yvan Loskoutoff. Mont-Saint-Aignan : Presses de l’Université de Rouen et du Havre, 2013, 219-230.

« Peuple et entrée royale sous Louis XIII. » Gueux, frondeurs, libertins, utopiens. Autres et ailleurs du XVIIe siècle, Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Pierre Ronzeaud. Philippe Chométy & Sylvie Requemora-Gros, eds. Aix-en-Provence : Presses de l’Université de Aix-Marseille, 2013.

« ‘Particularitez des Resjoyssances Publiques et Cérémonyes du Mariage de la Princesse’: An Ambassadorial Account of the Palatine Wedding », in The Palatine Wedding of 1613. Protestant Alliance and Court Festival, ed. Sara Smart & Mara Wade. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag (2013) 353-369.

« Le ‘grand dessein’ de Louis XIII. L’Arioste, le Tasse et le ballet de cour (1617-1619). » Special issue of Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XL, 79 (2013) : 323-335.

Jean-François Regnard, Le Carnaval de Venise, in Théâtre français de Jean-François Regnard, vol. 1, ed. Sabine Chaouche. Paris : Garnier, 2014.

« On ne naît pas roi, on le devient : Louis XIV au miroir de ses Mémoires. » ,Louis XIV, l’image et le mythe, ed. Mathieu da Vinha, Alexandre Maraval & Nicolas Milanovic. Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014, 33-44.

« Le don du roi, ou les vingt ans du Grand Dauphin. » Seventeenth-Century French Studies 36.1 (2014) : 28-37.

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.

Ed., La Veuve and La Suivante, Théâtre complet de Pierre Corneille, Classiques Garnier (à paraître).

Ed., Théâtre, Tome I. by Pierre Corneille. With Jean de Guardia, Liliane Picciola and Marc Vuillermoz. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 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'Âge 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

Carr Jr., Thomas

« Une ‘histoire véritable’ littéraire à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec : l' Histoire de Ruma (1711) de Marie-André Duplessis et de Marie-Élisabeth Le Moyne de Longueuil. » Accepted for publication by Quebec Studies

Cherbuliez, Juliette

*Direction of two dissertations:

Bowman, Melanie: The Spectacle of the Suffering Body: Seventeenth-Century Aesthetics of Violence.

Rosensweig, Anna: Tragedy and the Ethics of Resistance Rights in Early Modern French Theater.

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-Âge aux débuts de la période moderne.

Court, Marc

*Work in progress :

« Michel Le Nobletz et ses réseaux », Politica Hermetica.

« Les Voyantes Bretonnes entre orthodoxie et politique de la mystique, 1635-1662 » (titre provisoire).

Cousson, Agnès

« L’autoportrait dans la Relation de captivité d’Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly », Actes du colloque de Nantes : L’Autoportrait dans la littérature française du Moyen-Âge au XVIIème siècle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013, coll. « Interférences, » dir. J. Garapon et É. Gaucher-Rémond.

« Confessions chuchotées », Le Magazine littéraire, avril 2013, dossier spécial « L’écriture de soi ».

« Port-Royal dans les réseaux littéraires : les Mémoires du père Rapin et les écrits des religieuses de la communauté, » communication présentée au colloque de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (NASSCFL) : « Les réseaux, la connectivité, l’inter-connectivité, » 15-17 mai 2014, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill et Duke University. À paraître dans les actes du colloque aux éditions G. Narr.

« Modalités et enjeux du récit personnel dans les Mémoires de Port-Royal : la Relation de la mère Arnauld et les récits de souvenirs des sœurs », communication présentée à la Journée d’Étude du 6 juin 2013, La Mémoire à Port-Royal : connaître et penser l’œuvre des religieuses, dir. Laurence Plazenet, Université Paris-Sorbonne. À paraître dans les actes de la Journée, chez Garnier.

« La notion de genre à Port-Royal », communication présentée au colloque Écrire, dit-elle, écrire, dit-il, 21-22 octobre 2013, dir. P. Caraffi, R. Jalabert, J.F. Plamondon, Université de Bologne. À paraître dans la publication des actes du colloque.

« Disparition et fin dans les écrits des religieuses de Port-Royal », communication présentée au 33e colloque de la Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies (SE 17) 16-18 octobre 2014, Western University, London, Ontario. À paraître dans les actes du colloque aux éditions G. Narr.

« Madame de Sablé moraliste : une mondaine ‘entourée de tous côtés par Port-Royal’. » The French Review 88.3 (March 2015).

« La Rochefoucauld », Dictionnaire des Écritures de soi, dir. F. Simonet-Tenant et P. Lejeune. À paraître chez Champion.

« L’autobiographie au XVIIe siècle », Dictionnaire des Écritures de soi, dir. F. Simonet-Tenant et P. Lejeune. À paraître chez Champion.

Delehanty, Ann

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France : From Poetics to Aesthetics. Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, 2013.

« Textual Engagement with the Other in Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde. » Co-written with Tyler Blakeney. French Studies 68.3 (2014) : 313-327

Duggan, Anne

« Epicurean Cannibalism, or France Gone Savage. » French Studies.

« 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 (2013).

Ekstein, Nina

« Dramatic Point of View. L’École des femmes and Le Misanthrope ». Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLI, 81 (2014) : 315-41.

« With What Arms Do We Fight? The Network of Possible Worlds in Corneille’s Nicomède ». Forthcoming in Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity in Seventeenth-Century France, Ed. Michèle Longino & Ellen Welch. Gunter Narr, 2015.

Gaines, James

« The Natchez Tribe of Louisiana. » KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana Culture (online).

« Comic Intimacy : The Case for Molière’s Lovers’ Quarrels. » Neophilologus, 98.1 (2014) : 13-21.

« 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? » forthcoming in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLII, 83 (juin 2015).

*Book reviews :

Bury, Emmanuel and Carsten Meiner, eds. La Clarté à l’âge classique, forthcoming in French Review.

Conesa, Gabriel. Le Pauvre homme! Molière et l’affaire du Tartuffe, forthcoming in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature.

**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

« The Great Chain of Being : Life and Literature in Paul Contant's Jardin et Cabinet Poétique. » Special issue La Vie/Life edited by Jérôme Brillaud and Holly Tucker in collaboration with the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French. Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal Cahiers 17.org, 15.2 (2014) 63-81.

*Book review :

Jean-Eudes Girot, ed. La Poésie à la cour de François 1er (Paris : PUF 2012). French Review 88.1 (2014) : 228-29.

Gethner, Perry

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

Madame de Maintenon : Proverbes dramatiques, co-authored with Theresa Kennedy. Annotated Critical Edition. Paris : Garnier (Coll. « Bibliothèque du XVIIème siècle ») December 2014.

*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 for publication 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 36.1 (June 2014) : 37-50.

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

*Work in progress :

Translation of Catherine Bédacier Durand's novel La Comtesse de Mortane.

Goldwyn, Henriette

Théâtre de femmes de l'Ancien Régime, XVIe siècle, vol. 1, Re-edited Classiques Garnier (2014).

« Strange Language and Practices of Disorder : The Prophetic Crisis in France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. » Women Telling Nations. Eds. Amelia Sanz and Suzan Van Dyke, Rodopi (Amsterdam) 2014.

« Madame Du Noyer Presenting and Re-presenting the Peace of Utrecht. » Performances of Peace : Utrecht 1713. Eds. Renger de Bruin, Lotte Jensen and David Onnekink, Leiden, Brill. Forthcoming in 2015.

*Work in progress :

Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien Régime, XVIIIème siècle. Aurore Evain et Perry Gethner (eds.) vol IV.

**Dissertation directed:

Kathrina 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.

Goulet, Anne-Madeleine

« 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.

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

Notice « Flavio Orsini » pour le Dizionario biografico degli Italiani.

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

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

Grégoire, Vincent

« 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 XVIIème 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, 36.2 (December 2014) : 109-124.

Guyot, Sylvaine

« En contrechamp : le héros sous le regard des personnages. Éléments pour une réflexion sur les scénographies de l’éblouissement chez Corneille. » Héros ou personnages? Le personnel du théâtre de Pierre Corneille, dir. Myriam Dufour-Maître, Rouen, PURH, 2013, 950-109.

« Entre éblouissement et ‘véritables grâces.’ Racine, ou les tensions de l’œil classique. » Littératures classiques, 83 (2013) : 127-142.

L’Œil classique, special issue, co-directed with Tom Conley, Littératures classiques, 83 (2013).

Jean Racine, Théâtre complet, co-edited with Alain Viala. Paris: Classiques Garnier, coll. « Bibliothèque du théâtre français », 2013.

« ‘Un silence d’étonnement et d’admiration.’ Racine, ou la discrète réticence du théâtre encomiastique. » L’Éloquence du silence. Dramaturgie du non-dit sur la scène théâtrale des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, dir. Hélène Bilis et Jennifer Tamas. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014, 239-258.

Racine et le corps tragique. Paris: PUF, coll. « Les Littéraires », 2014.

*Work in progress :

« La Palatine, ou l’ennui à la Cour. Visions interstitielles du Grand siècle. »

« The Opacity of Theater. Rereading Racine, with and against Louis Marin. »

Book on early modern « theatricalities » and éblouissement.

**Dissertations directed :

Gann, Amanda. Leading Ladies. Creation and Interpretation of the Tragic Heroine (17th-20th century). In progress.

Menu, Grégoire. Trafiquer le passé : élaboration et usages des figures exemplaires au XVIIe siècle. In progress.

Harrigan, Michael

« Métissage and Crossing Boundaries in the Seventeenth-Century Travel Narrative to the Indian Ocean Basin. » Cahiers du Dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal 15.1 (2013) : 19-45.

« The African Slave Trade in the French Caribbean through the eyes of Jean-Baptiste Labat (1663-1738) – Dominican Clergyman, Missionary, Sugar Manufacturer and Slave Driver ». Online article for University of Warwick Knowledge Centre, August 2013.

« 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. » Anthropological Reformations – Anthropology in the Era of Reformation. Berlin : Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2014.

« French Early Modern Atlantic Crossings ». Accepted for volume entitled Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1500-Present ed. by C. Mathieson.

« Traduire l’inconnu à l’époque prémoderne: un corsaire à Madagascar ». Accepted for volume edited by F. de Souza.

« De Rebus Turcarum (Christophe Richer) », online entry for Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, ed. by David Thomas, for early 2015.

*Book reviews:

Brian Brazeau. Writing a New France (1604-1632). Empire and Early Modern French Identity (Farnham : Ashgate, 2009). Modern Language Review 108.2 (April 2013) : 643-44.

Sara E. Melzer. Colonizer and Colonized. The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Modern Language Review 109.1 (January 2014) : 248-249

Judith Still. Enlightenment Hospitality: Cannibals, Harems and Adoption (Oxford : SVEC, 2011). Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 36.1 (March 2013) : 156-157.

**Work in progress:

Monograph : Corporeal Representations of Servitude in Early Modern France (summary: an exploration of narrative representations of colonial servitude as a space in which inherent tensions were played out, evoked, or harnessed). Draft due for submission in early 2015.

Extensive study on the historiography of the early modern period, focusing on the function and reception of short narratives.

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 Pédant joué. » French Studies Bulletin (33) : 28-31.

Kennedy, Theresa

« 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, 2014.

Madame de Maintenon: Proverbes dramatiques, co-authored with Perry Gethner. Annotated Critical Edition. Paris, Garnier (Coll. « Bibliothèque du XVIIème siècle ») December 2014.

Kozhanova, Tatiana

« Le dénouement de La Princesse de Clèves comme réponse au dilemme pastoral. » A paraître en juin 2015 dans les Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature.

*Work in progress :

Edition critique en russe des Historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux.

Travail sur un article provisoirement intitulé « La violence dans les relations amoureuses conjugale dans l’Histoire amoureuse des Gaules. »

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.

« Benserade, Iphis et Iante, Pièce d’hier, question d’aujourd’hui. » Special edition of L’Avant-Scène Théâtre (dedicated to Benserade, Iphis et Iante) no 1341, 1er avril 2013. In collaboration with Anne Verdier, 81-85. Pièce recensée par Odile Quirot dans Le Nouvel Observateur 16/04/2013.

« Littératures du leurre et ‘Mœurs galantes aux colonies’ antillaises. Le Zombi du Grand Pérou entre Blessebois (1697) Nodier (1829) et Montifaud (1877). » Relire le Patrimoine lettré de l’Amérique française. Sébastien Côté et Charles Doutrelepont (ed.). Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2013[2014], 143-160.

« ‘Le Changement, c’est Maintenon’ : Sévigné, Fénelon, Saint-Simon. » Forthcoming in Maîtresses et favorites dans les coulisses du pouvoir en occident (Moyen-Âge et époque moderne). Juliette Dor, Marie-Elisabeth Henneau et Alain Marchandisse (dir.) Saint-Etienne : Presses de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2015.

Pure, Michel de. Epigone, histoire du siècle futur (1659). Revised and augmented edition (not a reprint of Québec : Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2005). Paris : Editions Hermann, forthcoming in Spring 2015. In collaboration with Daniel Maher, University of Calgary.

« Maintenon et les matrices de sa légende noire : La Palatine, Saint-Simon. » Forthcoming in Légendes noires, légendes dorées. Comment la littérature fabrique l’histoire (XVIIème-XIXème siècles). Nathalie Grande et Chantal Pierre (ed.). Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015.

*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

French Travel Writing and the Ottoman Empire : Marseilles to Constantinople (1650-1700). Routledge Press, 2015.

« Jean Thévenot, le Levant et le Récit de voyage. » XVIIème siècle 258.1 (janvier-mars 2013) : 55-64.

« Portrait de Jean de Thévenot : voyageur et savant. » Gueux, frondeurs, libertins, utopiens. Autres et ailleurs du XVIIe siècle. Mélanges en l’honneur de Pierre Ronzeaud. P. Chométy et S. Requemora-Gros, eds. Aix en Provence, PUP coll. « Textuelles », 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 croisés sur le XVIIème siècle, Sylvaine Guyot et Tom Conley (eds.). Littératures classiques 82 (2013) : 145-157.

« Au miroir de Pierre Ronzeaud. Le portrait de Jean de Thévenot par Philippe de Champaigne. » Gueux, frondeurs, libertins, utopiens. Autres et ailleurs du XVIIème siècle, P. Chométy et S. Requemora-Gros, eds. Aix en Provence, PUP coll. « Textuelles », 2013, 273-276.

Co-editor with Ellen Welch of Interconnections, Inter-connectivity. Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature (Spring 2015).

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. Regards croisés sur le XVIIème siècle, Sylvaine Guyot et Tom Conley (eds.). Littératures classiques 82 (2013).

Mathieu, Francis

« ‘Louanges empoisonnées’ » : feinte, persuasion et éducation dans La Princesse de Clèves. » Forthcoming in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature (Charlotte Trinquet,ed.) XLII, 83 (2015).

« Mme de Clèves modèle de bienséances : Lecture de La Princesse de Clèves à la lumière d’un traité de civilité. » Women in French Studies. Selected essays from the Women in French International Conference held in 2012. Ed. Mark Cruse (2015) : 42-58.

Meere, Michael

« Violence, Revenge, and the Stakes of Writing during the French Civil Wars : Simon Belyard’s Le Guysien. » Romanic Review 104.1-2 (Jan-March 2013) : 45-64.

« La violence sur la scène classique : une question de (dé)goût? » L’invention du mauvais goût à l’âge classique, ed. by Jean-Christophe Abramovici and Carine Barbafieri. Leuven : Peeters (2013) 123-40 (2014 Malcolm Bowie Prize runner-up).

Editor, French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory. Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, 2015.

« Theatres of Torture : Martyrs, Pagans and the Politics of Conversion in Early Seventeenth-Century France. » forthcoming in Early Modern French Studies (formerly Seventeenth-Century French Studies) December 2015.

« From the Catholic Mystery Play to Calvinist Tragedy, or the Reinvention of French Religious Drama. » The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe : Traditions, Texts and Performance, ed. by T. F. Earle and Catarina Fouto. Oxford : Legenda, 2015.

« Farce, Community, and the Performativity of Violence in Rabelais’s Quart Livre : The Chiquanous Episode », with Caroline Gates, in French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory, ed. by Michael Meere. Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, 2015.

« Les enjeux du prologue : le cas de Bourges, 1607. » Le dramaturge sur un plateau. Le personnage de l'auteur dramatique au théâtre (XVIe-XXIe siècles) ed. by Clotilde Thouret. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2015.

Translator, Fabien Cavaillé : « From the Politics of Performance to the Anthropology of Festivals: Montaigne’s ‘Of the Education of Children’ (I.26) and ‘Of Coaches’ (III.6). » French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory, ed. by Michael Meere. Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, 2015.

Translator, Sybile Chevallier-Micki, « Stage Design of Cruelty: The Case of Rouen » in French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory, ed. by Michael Meere. Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, 2015.

*Book Review :

Le Roi hors de page et autres textes. Une anthologie. Ed. Bernard Teyssandier, with Delphine Amstutz, Jean-François Dubost, and Jean-Raymond Fanlo (Reims : Épure. 2012). French Studies, 68.2 (2014) : 244-45.

Joseph Harris Inventing the Spectator. Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France. (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014) » Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming.

Montoya, Alicia

Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cambridge : Boydell & Brewer (2013).

« ’Zie hier een vreemde oorlog’ : Constructies van emotie in Madame de Sévignés brieven over de Frans-Nederlandse oorlog (1672-1678). » Lotte Jensen en Nina Geerdink (eds.) Oorlogsliteratuur in de vroegmoderne tijd : Verbeelding, herinnering en identiteit, Hilversum, Verloren, 2013, 87-104.

Muratore, Mary J.

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

« The Sanctioning Power of Theatricality in Horace. » was republished (original date of publication 1989) in Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, ed. Lawrence Trudeau, New York : Gale Publishing Group (2013) 306-310.

« Difference De-Frocked : The Triumph of Tradition in Bernardin de St.-Pierre's Paul et Virginie. » Neohelicon, Vol 40, 1-2 (2013) : 261-74.

*Work in progress :

Book length study of Molière : The Semiotics of Reflexive Discourse : Subversion and Subterfuge in Molière’s Comic Universe. Book-length study on Molière’s meta-textual strategies (in final stages of completion).

*Dissertation directed :

Alwawdeh, Nabil. Aspirer au pluriel : la quête de l¹impossible dans l’oeuvre comique de Molière.

Natoli, Charles

*Book review :

Graeme Hunter. Pascal the Philosopher : An Introduction, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013). Forthcoming in American Theological Inquiry 8 (Summer 2015).

Nelson, Laura

Diabolic Deeds : Transgression and Corporeality in the Histoire Tragiques. Dissertation directed by Professor Lynn Ramey (Vanderbilt University) and defended in 2013.

Norman, Buford

« Un ‘aliment durable’. Racine et le Concours musical de 1845-1846. » Gueux, frondeurs, libertins, utopiens. Autres et ailleurs du XVIIe siècle. Mélanges en l’honneur du professeur Pierre Ronzeaud. Ed. Philippe Chométy et Sylvie Requemore-Gros. Aix-en-Provence, Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2013, 193-202.

*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.

Norman, Larry

Editing and introduction. La Recherche dix-septiémiste aux Etats-Unis. (Special issue on the state of 17th-century French studies in the United States.) XVIIème siècle 65.1 (janvier 2013).

« La pensée esthétique de Charles Perrault. » XVIIème siècle, 66.3 (2014) : 481-92.

« Antiquité ou modernité des Précieuses. Molière avant la Querelle. » Le Nouveau Moliériste, 10 (2013) : 121-136.

« Contre l’interprétation: courants anti-herméneutiques au XVIIème siècle. » XVIIème siècle, 65.1 (janvier 2013) : 75-83.

« The Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. » Chapter-essay in A History of Modern French Literature. Ed. C. Prendergast. Princeton : Princeton University Press, forthcoming, 2015.

« Le théâtre renaissant vu de l’âge classique : élaboration d’une distinction critique. » Le Texte en scène. Littérature et Théâtralisation à la Renaissance. Ed. C. Cavallini. Paris : Classiques Garnier, forthcoming, 2015.

« Un autoportrait ironique. Pour une lecture comique de L’Impromptu de Versailles. » Le dramaturge sur un plateau. Le personnage de l’auteur dramatique au théâtre (XVIème-XXIème siècles). Ed. C. Thouret. Paris : Classiques Garnier, forthcoming, 2015.

« Molière and the Scandal of the Quarrel. » Le Nouveau Moliériste 11, 2014.

« Classicisme et herméneutique : un paradoxe? » Fabula-Lht, 2014.

« La Critique entre rationalisme et empirisme : le cas de la querelle des anciens et des modernes. » Littératures classiques, 2014.

« Allégorie, fiction et sublime dans la querelle des anciens et des modernes. » Allégorie et Fiction : XVIème-XVIIIème siècles. Ed. F. Lavocat. Paris/Leuven: Peeters, 2014.

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.

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

« 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 (June 2014).

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

Prest, Julia

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

“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.

« 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. No. 61, 2013 (Bennington, VT. Bennington College).

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

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.

« ‘Pour ce 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. » Currently in press.

« La Vie selon les emblématistes : les sens et les significations. » Special issue La Vie/Life edited by Jérôme Brillaud and Holly Tucker in collaboration with the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French. Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal Cahiers 17.org, 15.2 (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 Zoberman.

« Woman at the Margins : Her Strength and Diversity in a Representative Emblematic Album of the Early Modern, the Sonnets franc-comtois. » Accepted for publication in Contemporary Approaches to World Languages and Cultures, eds. Margit Grieb, Yves-Antoine Clemmen, and Will Lehman in Brown Walker Press, Boca Raton, FL. Forthcoming.

« La Sainte-Baume et la Madeleine chez les poètes du cénacle aixois d’Henri d’Angoulême: vers une rhétorique du paysage et de ‘heureuse pécheresse.’ » Submitted for refereed volume to be edited by Sylvie Requemora-Gros.

« ‘Vita virtutis expers morte peior’ : Le fonctionnement de l’allégorie dans l’emblématique chez Jean-Baptiste Chassignet et Jean-Jacques Boissard. » Submitted for refereed volume to be edited by Marie-Christine Pioffet and Anne-Elisabeth Spica.

« Un réseau d’amitié, de plaisir, et de nouvelles : quelques aspects de la correspondance volumineuse d’Élisabeth-Charlotte de Bavière, princesse Palatine, duchesse d’Orléans. » delivered at the international conference of NASSCFL in 2014. Submitted to editors of the refereed volume, Michèle Longino and Ellen Welch.

« ’Plaire’ et/ou ‘instruire’? The Landry Edition of Otto van Veen’s Amoris divini emblemata. » Invited paper delivered at the 10th International Conference of the Society of Emblem Studies, held at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany) in 2014. Submitted to Dr. Ingrid Hoepel, organizer of the conference for refereed volume.

*Work in progress

Co-editor (with Catherine Montfort) Voyages de femmes. Volume is in progress for publication with Women in French Studies. Articles planned will range from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century.

Work on an article to be entitled « A Princess’s Compulsory Voyages of Childhood and Voluntary Voyages of Adulthood : The Mémoires et lettres de Voyage de Sophie de Hanovre. » Will be submitted to Women in French Studies. Work on French poetry in various editions of Otto Van Veen’s sacred emblems.

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). L’Érudit franco-espagnol, 2013.

Ravel, Jeffrey S.

« Trois images de l’expulsion des comédiens italiens en 1697. » Littératures classiques 82 (décembre 2013) : 51-60.

Régent-Susini, Anne

Pour un Boileau. À paraître chez Garnier (coll. « Lire le XVIIème siècle », série « Voix poétiques ») en 2015.

*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, Éditions du Cerf.

Reguig, Delphine

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 XVIIème et XVIIIème 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. Actes publiés 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. Actes publiés en 2014.

« Les Frères Perrault. » XVIIe siècle, 4 (2014).

*Work in progress

Boileau. Bibliographie des Écrivains Français, Turnhout, Brepols, publication en 2015.

Correspondance de Boileau, éd. critique en collaboration avec J. Lesaulnier, Paris, Champion, publication 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

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

Publié en collaboration avec Philippe Chométy, Transgression(s). Malice 4, journal en ligne du Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Étude des Littératures, Aix-Marseille (CIELAM) (Aix-en-Provence : CIELAM, April 2014).

Publié en collaboration avec Philippe Chométy, Gueux, frondeurs, libertins, utopiens. Autres et ailleurs du XVIIème siècle. Mélanges en l'honneur du professeur Pierre Ronzeaud. Publications de l'Université de Provence (coll. Textuelles) 2013.

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. Littératures classiques/ Biblio 17, 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. » Publié dans des 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.

« Généalogie de la figure littéraire du pirate du XVIIème 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. À paraître.

Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber et Béatrice Didier (eds.). Responsable des 42 entrées de femmes écrivains français du XVIIème. Editions des femmes, 2013.

Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices. Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber et Béatrice Didier (eds.). Editions des femmes, 2013.

Romanovski, Sylvie

« Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: ‘Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions’ ». With an afterword by Ishbel Addyman. Vintage Visions : Essays on Early Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans. Middletown, CT : Middlebury UP (2014) 1-24.

Rousseau, Christine

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

« 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.

« La parole-fée. Avoir voix au chapitre ou rester dans l'ombre », Le silence et le verbe, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada) 29-30 avril 2011, Initiales 23 (2013).

« Le cheminement dans les contes de fées : l'éternel retour ? », Chemin, cheminement, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Toulouse, 29-31 mars 2012, paru dans Inter-Lignes, chemin, cheminement, numéro spécial (janvier 2013).

« Le pouvoir des mots dans les contes de fées du XVIIème siècle. » Pouvoir des mots-Mots du pouvoir, Université de Pécs (Hongrie) 21-23 mars 2013. Actes du colloque à paraître.

« Tout est bien qui ne finit pas (toujours) bien. Violences et déceptions dans les contes de Madame de Murat », conférence à l'Université de Nantes, séminaire Master 1 : Littérature du XVIIe siècle, 3 avril 2014, Loxias, septembre 2014.

« Hommes et animaux dans les contes de fées classiques. » Actes de la conférence intitulée La Vie/Life organisée par la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French ; numéro publié par Jérôme Brillaud et Holly Tucker en collaboration avec les Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal Cahiers 17.org, 15.2 (2014).

« 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.

Schröder, Volker

« 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 :

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. La France et l’Europe du Nord. Actes du colloque de Durham. Forthcoming.

Next conference: May 19-2, 2016 at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) on the theme : Mineurs, Minorités, Marginalités.

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

« Le Temps fait tout à l'affaire. Conscience de mort et stratégie de vie chez Molière. » Göteborg : University of Gothenborg (Acta Universitats Gothoburgensis) 2014. Accès en ligne gratuit : <http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37088>

Spielmann, Guy

Entrées « Comédiennes classiques », « Béjart, Armande-Grésinde-Claire-Élisabeth », « Béjart Madeleine », « La Champmeslé », « Mlle Du Parc », « Vrondebeck, Catherine ». Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices. Sous la direction de Antoinette Fouque, Béatrice Didier et Mireille Calle-Gruber. Paris, Éditions des femmes, 2013.

« La Femme au pouvoir sous l'Ancien Régime, du carnaval à la comédie. » Figures du monde renversé, de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Éd. Lucie Desjardins. Montréal, Centre International d'Études sur la République des Lettres, 2013, 231-246.

Entrée « Comédie Italienne. » Dictionnaire raisonné sur la caducité des formes et des genres littéraires. Sous la direction d'Alain Montandon et Saulo Neiva. Genève, Droz, 2013.

« Le mariage sous l'Ancien Régime entre fiction dramatique et réalités : une liminarité problématique. » Jus & Litterae (février 2013) « Discours juridique et amours littéraires», 239-254.

« L’ ‘Événement-spectacle’: Pertinence du concept et de la théorie de la performance. » Communications 92 (2013) : 193-204.

« Pouvoir et pouvoirs dans Les Précieuses ridicules: une approche événementielle. » Le Nouveau Moliériste 10 (2013) : 103-118.

« Investigations sur les traces de l’événement spectaculaire: texte et iconographie de la parade. » De la conversation au conservatoire: scénographie des genres mineurs (1680-1780). Éd. Aurélie Zygel-Basso. Paris, Hartmann, 2014, 271-298.

« Exubérance baroque de la comédie classique. » Textes et Documents pour la Classe, numéro 10991 (2014) : 16-17.

« (Re)Penser le costume dans l'événement-spectacle. » Le Costume de scène, objet de recherche. Éds. Anne Verdier et Didier Doumergue, Paris, Lampsaque, coll. « Le Studiolo Essais », 2014, 217-226.

« Vaudeville, de la chanson au théâtre (XIVe - XVIIIe siècles) ». Le Vaudeville à la scène, Éds. Violaine Heyraud et Ariane Martinez. Grenoble, Presses Universitaires. À paraître.

Théâtre français de Charles Dufresny. Eds. Guy Spielmann et Martial Poirson. Paris, Garnier, coll. « Classiques Garnier », 2015. (3 volumes) (À paraître).

Stefanovska, Malina

« La mémoire vive de l’ami (Pontis, Retz, Saint-Simon). » XVIIe Siècle 258.1 (janvier 2013) : 117-129.

« The Theatre of Friendship in Early Modern French Memoirs : The Case of Pontis. » Studies in the Renaissance and Reformation [University of Toronto Press] (2014) : 71-95.

« The Fashion Run Seen From The Back Stage : Saint-Simon’s Memoirs of Louis XIV’s Court. » Fashion And Fashion Prints In The Age Of Louis XIV, Editor Kathryn Norberg (Texas Tech University Press) 117-134.

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 XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles. Hélène Bilis and Jennifer Tamas (eds.). Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014.

Tobin, Ronald

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

« From Lviv to Lille : The Odyssey of a Gastronaught. » [Memoir] Cerise (online) Fall 2013.

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

« L’Evolution du personnage principal dans le théâtre de Molière ». Hommage à Giovanni Dotoli. L’Ordre et l’aventure (2014) 194-198.

« Molière gastronome. » Interview published in Cuisine d’histoire (2014).

« Jean Racine. » Entrée mise à jour et développée. Encyclopedia Britannica online (2014).

« Corneille et Molière convives ? » Forthcoming in Orbis Litterarum (2015).

*Book reviews :

E. C. Spary. Eating the Enlightenment (Chicago : U. of Chicago P., 2012). French Studies 67.3 (2013) : 406-407.

W. Rex. Molière’s Strategies : Timely Reflections on Molière (Oxford […], Peter Lang [Medieval and Early Modern French Studies, vol. 12], 2013). H-France (July 2014).

P. Dandrey, La Guerre comique : Molière et la Querelle de L’Ecole des femmes (Paris : Hermann, 2014). Forthcoming in French Review (2016).

**Work in progress :

Stage and Off-Stage in Racine’s Tragedies.

Hospitality in French Literature of the Seventeenth Century.

Tonolo, Sophie

« Les métamorphoses d’Anacréon chez Mme Deshoulières : effets d’une tradition philologique et philosophique sur son lyrisme pastoral », dans Philippe Chométy et Claudine Poulouin, Revue Fontenelle 10, « Le Siècle pastoral », Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2013, 181-197.

« Balzac aux confins de la vie : le recueil épistolaire de 1647 ». Special volume La Vie/Life edited by Jérôme Brillaud and Holly Tucker in collaboration with the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal Cahiers 17.org, 15.2 (2014) : 33-44.

« La Lyre de Tristan : une oraison funèbre de la noblesse ? » Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite, 35 (2014) : 111-126.

« L’allégorie, en image et en texte, dans les Almanachs royaux conservés à la Bibliothèque de l’Institut (1645-1690) », Actes du colloque du CIR 17 (Toronto, mai 2014) intitulé S’exprimer autrement. Poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’époque classique, Biblio 17. À paraître.

*Work in progress :

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.

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.

« 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.

Masters and Students : Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth Century New France. Montreal : McGill-Queens UP, 2015.

*Work in progress :

« ‘Nous Avons Experimenté’ : Jacques Cartier and Travel Writing. »

Turcat, Eric

La Rochefoucauld par quatre chemins. Les Maximes et leurs ambivalences. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag (coll. Biblio 17, vol. 206) 2013.

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.

« La pratique des tableaux vivants dans les entrées royales à la Renaissance ». Le Tableau vivant ou l’image performée. Ed. Julie Ramos et Léonard Pouy. Paris : Mare & Martin, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2014, 53-68.

« ‘Ce grand bastiment neuf et vieux’ : The Louvre towards Political, Social and Urban Transformations in the Grand Siècle ». Building the Louvre : Architectures of Politics and Art. Eds Patrick Bray and Phillip John Usher. L’Esprit Créateur 54, No. 2 (Summer 2014) : 45-62.

*Work in progress :

Andromède. In Théâtre complet de Pierre Corneille. Vol. 4. Dir. Liliane Picciola. Paris : Classiques Garnier. (Manuscript to be submitted in Spring 2015) Visentin, Hélène and Benoît Bolduc. Corpus des entrées solennelles sous les règnes de Henri II et de François II. Paris : Honoré Champion.

« La conception du spectacle dans le théâtre de Balthazar Baro (1630-1650). » In Balthazar Baro. Bénédicte Louvat and Dominique Moncond’huy, eds. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes. In press.

Vuillemin, Jean-Claude

« 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 (novembre 2013).

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

« Abraham Bosse (c. 1603-1676) », « Nicolas-François Blondel (1618-1686) », « Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (c. 1595-1676) », « Jean de Rotrou (1609-50) », « Jean Racine (1639-99) », in Luc Foisneau, ed., Dictionnaire des philosophes français du XVIIe siècle. Acteurs et réseaux du savoir. Paris : Classiques Garnier. Forthcoming, June 2015.

*Work in progress :

Jean de Rotrou (1609-1650). Bibliographie critique. Forthcoming.

Michel Foucault et l'éternel retour du sujet.

« Le jeu et la jouissance : pour un ‘troisième temps’ du théâtre. »

« Theatrum mundi : le pari baroque sur le monde. »

« Tableaux de ‘Vanités’ : ars moriendi ou ars vivendi? »

**Dissertations directed :

Siméon, Sandrine. « Le ‘film-théâtre’ : pratique (aporétique) du filmage de la scène. » Defended May 2013.

Brock, Theresa. « Resisting Power, Subverting Discourse : Women and Subjectivation in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron. »

Hargrave, Kathryn. « Rationalizing Emotions : Lyric Tragedy and Aesthetic Ideologies of Enlightenment France (1687-1764). »

Navrotskaya, Anna. « Art as a Form of Thinking and Performance : ‘Mythical Function’ of the Performing Arts. »

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 » (histoire d’A. de Salvan de Saliès).

« Trois perspectives de l’histoire de La Comtesse d’Isembourg. »

Welch, Ellen

« 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.

« The Specter of the Turk in Early Modern French Court Entertainments. » Esprit Créateur. Spec. Issue: The Turk of Early Modern France. Ed. Marcus Keller. (Winter 2013) : 84-97.

« Risking Life and Limb : Commerce and the Value of Life in Caribbean Adventure Narratives ». Cahiers du Dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal, Special volume La Vie/Life edited by Jérôme Brillaud and Holly Tucker in collaboration with the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal Cahiers 17.org, 15.2 (2014) : 121-39.

« Rethinking the Politics of Court Spectacle : Performance and Diplomacy Under the Valois ». French Renaissance and Baroque Drama : Text, Performance, Theory. Ed. Michael Meere. Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2015.

« Constructing Universality in Early Modern French Treatises on Music and Dance. » Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present. Eds. Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, and Damien Mahiet. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.

« Cervantes and the Domestication of Romance on Seventeenth-Century French Drama : Jean Rotrou’s Les deux pucelles, tragi-comédie. » Republics of Letters. Forthcoming.

*Work in progress:

« Spectacles of State : Diplomacy and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France. »

**Dissertations directed :

Gard, Andrew. The Rise of the Coquette in Seventeenth-Century French Theater.

Beaman, Adrianna. Gateway to the Orient: Staging the Mediterranean in Pre-Classical French Tragicomedy.

Viano, Catherine. Theater of Machines, Theater as Machine.

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 – XVIIeème siècle). Clotilde Jaquelard et Nicolas Lombart (eds.). Classiques Garnier, forthcoming 2015.

« Was There a Pan-European Orientalism ? Icelandic and Flemish Perspectives on Captivity in Muslim North Africa (1628-1656) », The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe, eds. Marcus Keller and Javier Irigoyen, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2015.

*Work in progress:

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

Woshinsky, Barbara

*Book review :

Marianne Legault. Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Trans. Ramine Adl. (Farnham, UK : Ashgate, 2012). Early Modern Women Journal 9.1 (Fall 2014) : 216.

**Work in progress :

Current research on the presence of “ordinary people” in the 17th century French novel.

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.

« Le sacré et le profane de l’allégorie biblique dans Esther de Racine. » XIIIème colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle (CIR 17) sur S’exprimer autrement : poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’époque classique, Toronto, York University, 8-10 mai 2014.

« Von der Tragödie zum Tragischen : Phèdre und die Modernität von Racines tragischem Denken. » International Conference on Das Tragische : Dichten als Denken, University of Bonn, 2-4 octobre 2014.

« La découverte du langage de la vie quotidienne dans les romans comiques du XVIIe siècle. » International Conference on The Lower Classes, Scripturality, and the History of Language. An Interdisciplinary Balance, University of Kiel, 6-7 novembre 2014.

*Work in progress:

« Racine et le tragique du monde sans dieu(x) : La tragédie de l’homme moderne au théâtre classique. »

Zoberman, Pierre

Écritures du corps. Nouvelles perspectives, sous la direction de P. Zoberman, A. Tomiche et W. Spurlin. Paris : Garnier, 2013.

« Un recyclage haut en couleurs : crédibilité et intertextualité dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Proust. » Recyclage et décalage. Esthétique de la reprise dans les littératures française et francophone ; études réunies et présentées par Renata Jakubzcuk et Anna Maziarczyk. Lublin, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, 2013, 97-109.

Interpretation in/of the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2015).

« 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 52.2 (2014) : 232-252.

« Scarron’s Taming of the Shrew. » Seventeenth-Century French Studies 36.2 (December 2014).

« Étranges solécismes en conduite : les femmes entre transgression et disqualification dans le théâtre de Molière. » Conférence plénière au colloque international : L’infraction stylistique et ses usages théoriques de l’Antiquité à nos jours, Paris, 24-26 janvier 2013. À paraître dans les actes en 2015.