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BRITTON, DENNIS AUSTIN. “Recent Studies in English Renaissance Literature.” ELR 45.3 (2015), 459-478.

As to be expected, the focus of this very useful article and bibliography is English. However, several books and essays referenced include the continent and the early modern stage, the making of early modern identity, cross-cultural encounters and race in the early modern, Finally, there is an entire section of the bibliography devoted to “Work in Related Fields” which contains some thirty references.

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

Review: M. Mastroianni in S Fr 172 (2014), 135-136. Wide-ranging and heterogenous volume analyzes texts relevant to eloquence, “lettres d’amour” and “lettres galantes.” The analysis demonstrates that the letter is “una forma già matura e completa nei suoi elementi costitutivi che sono gli stesse che continueranno ad animarla nel Settecento.” Careful attention to cultural influences is evident throughout this solid and useful examination.

DEMETRIOU, TANIA and ROWAN TOMLINSON, eds. The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Review: P. Hammond in FS 70.2 (2016), 258-259. An essay that demonstrates how translation can never be truly or fully separated from interpretation and what this signifies in the early modern era. Largely addresses canonical texts translated from French into English, and most pieces are by scholars in the UK. Reviewer suggests a second volume to include a greater diversity of scholars and to study texts translated from English to French.

DION, NICHOLAS, STÉPHANIE MASSÉ and ANDRÉE-ANNE PLOURDE, eds. Le Cosmopolitisme: influences, voyages, échanges dans la République des Lettres (XVe-XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Hermann, 2014.

Review: A. Mattana in S Fr 174 (2014), 651-652. Understanding “cosmopolite” as “citoyen de l’univers,” these acts of a conference of CIERL examine the subject with esssays focusing on the stated period. Organized into four sections: “D’une cour à l’autre,” “L’ailleurs. Entre perceptions et voyages,” “Portée et enjeux des voyages” and “Périples du texte et de la langue.” The volume includes essays on a 17th c. diplomat, on Fénelon, on the comédiens italiens, and on language.

GROS, GÉRARD, ed. Les Raisons du livre: du statut de l’œuvre écrite à la figuration du symbole (XIIe–XVIIe siècles). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015.

Review: A. Spencer-Hall in FS 70.3 (2016), 436-437. Examines book descriptions, images in and of books to show that the book as object has almost limitless meanings and symbolic potential. Covering a span of some 500 years, the book is divided into two equal halves: pre- and post-Gutenberg. Reviewer finds collection “stimulating and valuable,” even if quality of essays is uneven.

HOLTZ, GRÉGOIRE ed. Nouveaux aspects de la culture de l’imprimé: Questions et perspectives (XVe–XVIIe siècles). Geneva: Droz, 2014.

Review: K. D. Peebles in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1100-1102. This collection, the result of a 2010 conference in Toronto, evaluates the current state of the scholarship in question: book trade, shaping of forms, circulation between manuscript and print. Highly useful for diverse disciplines such as cultural studies and reception studies, among others. Laudable presentation.

Review: D. McKitterick in FS 69.3 (2015), 384-385. A collection of essays born of a 2010 conference that seeks to address the specifically French questions of writing, publishing, authorship, and circulation/selling of texts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Addresses mostly literary texts, including Ronsard, Montaigne, and La Fontaine; includes an essay on medical publishing as well.

KESSLER-MESGUICH, SOPHIE. Les études hébraïques en France: De François Tissard à Richard Simon (1508–1680). Geneva: Droz, 213.

Review: M.-L. Demonet in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1472-1474. Welcome praiseworthy reexamination of the study of Hebrew in the early modern. The corpus of the study is well chosen and includes materials from authors, printers and clergymen including Counter-Reformation Jesuits and educators such as Nicolas Clenard whose method was language immersion. Chapter 9 focuses on the 17th c. and includes both Protestant and Catholic Hebraists.

KJØRHOLT, INGVILD HAGEN, “Appropriations of the Cosmopolitan in Early Modern French Literature.” FMLS 51.3 (2015), 287-303.

Focuses on the origins of the Greek term and its transformations in early modern France. After a careful consideration of kosmopolites as illustrated by Diogenes, K. turns to 16th and 17th c. French texts to demonstrate the term’s appropriation. Although K. has a section entitled “The 16th and 17th centuries: the cosmopolitan as author,” and several 16th c. examples are given, the only 17th c. one is that of a Polish alchemist, philosopher and medical doctor. Yet before turning to the next section, “The 18th century: the cosmopolitan philosopher,” K. remarks that the term in 16th and 17th c. French “is usually employed as a pseudonym or sobriquet.” While appreciative of this article’s attentiveness to 16th and 18th c. uses of the concept under study, we would concur with K. that, at least as regards the 17th c., “further research” is merited.

DE LESCLACHE, LOUIS. La Rhétorique ou l’éloquence française by Louis de Lesclache. LE GUERN, MICHEL, ed. Paris: Garnier, 2012.

Review: A. Sort-Jacotot in DSS 265 (2014), 743-744. Critical edition featuring an introduction with details on the attribution of the work to Lesclache and on the years of the treatise’s composition (c. 1652 -1660), as well as situating Lesclache’s place in the history of rhetoric. A glossary and two indices supplement the critical apparatus.

PERRAS, JEAN-ALEXANDRE. “Genius as Commonplace in Early Modern France.” E Cr 55.2 (2015), 20-33.

P.’s article is the introductory one for this issue of E Cr which focuses on the concept of genius: “Thinking Genius, Using Genius / Penser le génie à travers ses usages,” directed by Ann Jefferson and Jean-Alexandre Perras. P’s exploration of the opposition “between genius and the commonality” begins with attention to definitions, the first being that of 1606 in Jean Nicot’s Thrésor de la langue françoise tant ancienne que moderne which focuses on the individual, in contrast with that of Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s 1801 Néologie: “Genius: A mind superior to that of other men: but by how much? That is the question?” P.’s study includes consideration of “the authority of ethical and esthetic models inherited from antiquity” and the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. Other important contributors to the development and use of the notion examined here include Perrault and Boileau, as well as several key figures of the 18th c. Well documented and with illustrations including examples of Roman and French coinage representing the concept.

SCOTT, PAUL. Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies. 76 (2016), 35-53.

London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2016. Exhaustive list and brief summaries of books and articles covering topics of the French seventeenth century published in 2014.

SIOUFFI, GILLES. “Le ‘génie de la langue’ au XVII et au XVIIIe siècle: Modalités d’utilisation d’une notion.” E Cr 55.2 (2015), 62-72.

S.’s fascinating essay retraces from its first attestation (1635 in a discourse by Amable de Bourzeis) the notion on through significant usages such as Bernard Lamy’s (1688) and others. S. analyzes each stage and its contexts, more and more international and “rationalist” until today when the notion is hardly used. S. then proceeds to analyze the modalities (technical, instrumental, epistemological and cultural) of the term’s use and posits several interpretations.

VERSELLE, VINCENT. Faire dire, pour décrire. Caractérisation langagière des personnages et poétique du récit dans la littérature comique et satirique (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle). Metz: U de Lorraine, 2012.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 173 (2014), 360. Interdisciplinary approach, privileging the linguistic-semiotic aspect provides literary exegesis of a large corpus of works by Sorel, Scarron, Furetière, Marivaux and Diderot. First part of the volume concentrates on the theoretical confronting Aristotelian theory with modern semiotics while the second section applies theoretical apparatus to a novella of Sorel.

VOLPILHAC, AUDE. ‘Le Secret de bien lire’: Lecture et herméneutique de soi en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015.

Review: I. Maclean in FS 70.2 (2016), 257-258. An in-depth study of intensified efforts to restrict the availability of reading materials considered to be morally, politically, or religiously suspect during the Fronde and surrounding period. Although reviewer finds index incomplete and suggests that author’s analysis would benefit from streamlining, he praises the work for its thorough inclusion and documentation of primary sources and its “rich and varied” conclusions.

WEST, WILLIAM N. “Encircling Knowledge.” Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1327-1340.

Analyzes the concept of “encyclopedia” as it asks its relation to early modern scholarship. Discusses attempts at definition, formal features and scope. As W. examines the notion and history of encyclopedism, he creates a kind of bibliography, indicating recent books which illustrate ideals of Renaissance encyclopedism. The article includes a bibliography of some thirty sources from the 20th and 21st centuries which have tackled the subject, such as Alain Rey’s 2007 Miroirs du monde. Une histoire de l’encyclopédisme.

AKKERMAN, NADINE and BIRGIT HOUBEN, eds. The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Review: J. Van Der Steen in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 313-314. Welcome volume brings new light to early modern court politics as it focuses on princesses. The collection is organized geographically and includes “lucid” essays on the French court of Anne d’Autriche which reveals that “gender differences did not necessarily disadvantage women in patronage networks.”

ASSAF, FRANCIS. “Louis XIV, sa propre allégorie?” in Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2016. 199-214.

“Qu’est-ce qui n’a pas été écrit sur Louis XIV, de son vivant et pendant des siècles après; et jusqu’aujourd’hui? Peut-être la notion qu’il est devenu – même de son vivant –sa propre allégorie. S’il existe de nombreuses figures allégoriques de la gloire, de la grandeur, de la magnanimité, de la victoire, Louis XIV est la synthèse de toutes. Les gravures L’Admiration des Nations et Temple de la Gloire (dont il est à la fois l’idole et le Grand-Prêtre) le montrent bien.”

BERETTA, MARCO and MARIA CONFORTI, eds. Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits, and Deception in Early Modern Science. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, 2014.

Review : S. J. Rabin in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1376-1377. Lauded as a beginning, the collection investigates fake gems, astronomers, etc. and includes an examination of the early modern culture of curiosity such as the 17th c. French physician Pierre Borel’s curiosity cabinet.

BERNIER, MARC-ANDRÉ et al., eds. Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas: Intercultural Transfers, Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2014.

Review: M. Harrigan in FS 69.4 (2015), 525-526. Studies two centuries’ worth of letters, histories, and missionary documents across nations and languages, with a heavy focus on French and Spanish. Divided into three sections: ‘Intercultural Transfers,’ ‘Intellectual Disputes,’ and ‘Textualities,’ all of which remind the reader of the Jesuits’ key role in disseminating information about the Americas.

BIEN, DAVID. Interpreting the Ancien Régime. Rafe Blaufarb, Michael S. Christofferson, and Darrin M. McMahon, eds. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014.

Review : C. Pichichero in FS 70.1 (2016), 104-105. A collection of Bien’s nine most important English-language essays, of which only three are readily available elsewhere. Also includes an interview transcript and heretofore unpublished article. The anthology highlights Bien’s resolutely empirical methodology, his contributions to a revisionist understanding of the French Revolution, and his insights as to what distinguishes the French nobility from that of other European nation-states.

BLUM, ANNA. La Diplomatie de la France en Italie du nord au temps de Richelieu et de Mazarin. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014.

Review: M. K. Williams in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1408-1409. Praiseworthy study offers “many useful insights into the era’s diplomatic practices.” Highly readable account is organized into two sections, one on political intrigues of the mid-17th c. and one on diplomatic practice and networks.

CALABRITTO, MONICA and PETER DALY, eds. Emblems of Death in the Early Modern Period. Geneva: Droz, 2014.

Review: D. Graham in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1369-1370. Includes much new materials but is found disappointing for its lack of specificity and unevenness as concerns any consistent understanding of what an emblem of death is.

CAVAILLÉ, JEAN-PIERRE. Les Déniaisés: Irréligion et libertinage au début de l’époque moderne. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013.

Review: R. Ganim in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1475-1477. Judged “enormously insightful,” C.’s is praised for its “exhaustive analysis of the sources of libertinism.” Wide-ranging, chapters investigate and illustrate moral, political, religious and critical subversion. 17th c. scholars will appreciate sections on Théophile de Viau, François de Maynard, Claude Le Petit and Christine de Suède. Missing is a conclusion and a comprehensive bibliography.

DIDIER, BÉATRICE and MENG HUA, eds. Miroirs croisés Chine-France (XVIIe-XXIe siècles). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2014.

Review: S. Menant in FS 70.1 (2016), 105. A collaborative effort, involving approximately ten contributors from each country, that explores the mutual effect the Chinese and French cultures have had on each other from the seventeenth century to the present. Divided chronologically into four sections, each with its own introduction that provides historical and cultural context. Acknowledges the difficulty inherent in achieving true intercultural understanding, while also taking a significant step toward achieving this goal.

DU BOSC, JACQUES. L’Honnête Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women. Eds. Sharon Diane Nell and Aurora Wolfgang. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014.

Review: R. Wilkin in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1067-1068. Important volume for translation of Du B.’s 1658 and 1642 editions of the two works in the title. They counsel women’s education, particularly moral philosophy. Includes a highly readable, well-documented introduction, notes, index, and wide-ranging bibliography.

BOULERIE, F., ed. La Médiatisation du littéraire dans l’Europe des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Tübingen: Narr, 2013 (Biblio 17, 205).

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 172 (2014), 138. The seeming anachronism of the title is well justified by Ch. Mazouer whose contribution focuses on the reevaluation of the place of literature in the public and social life of the Early Modern. The volume is organized in the following sections: “Stratégies publicitaires,” “Débats esthétiques,” “Instrumentalisations politiques,” and “Consécrations auctoriales.”

CANOVA-GREEN, MARIE-CLAUDE and JEAN ANDREWS, eds. Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

Review: L. M. Bryant in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 291-292. The twenty articles in this collection, originally presented at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies in London in December 2007, aim “to explore an hitherto little-studied aspect of the subject, namely not only the status of the printed text as a record of the entry, but also the nature and the uses of its appropriations by a variety of literary and polemic works.” Masterful demonstrations of the multipurpose entries and their evolution includes notes, bibliographies and index. Highly useful and authoritative.

CHAOUCHE, SABINE. La Mise em scène du répertoire à la Comédie-Française (1680-1815). Paris: Champion, 2013. 2 vols.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 174 (2014), 593-594. Wide-ranging study of the Comédie-Française’s staging from its inception to the early 19th c. Praiseworthy attention to previously unpublished documents of the 17th c. Involves examination of the concept of mise en scène itself, the position of actors on stage, costumes and other features of the aesthetic. Includes an iconographic apparatus, annexes, tables of productions, a glossary, an extensive bibliography and an index of names.

CHAOUCHE, SABINE. “Stratégies économiques et politiques de programmation à la fin du XVIIe siècle. Les spectacles à l’heure des barbouilleurs et des amuseurs.” DSS 265 (2014), 677-690.

Studies the economic foundations of the theater in the Old Regime, too often overlooked according to the author (although C. notes the Registres de la Comédie-Française project currently in progress). Combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyze the interdependence between commercial strategies and dramatic productions to understand the increasing commercialization of the theater from the end of the 17th century.

COHEN, HENRY. "Racine’s Esther: In Praise of Historiographers and Historians." CdDs XVI, 1 (2015), 77–92.

Racine represents Esther as a historian of sorts, in that she offers up narratives of events for use by those who have ordered them to be chronicled. Assuérus thus becomes a student of history, and historiography rather than divine intervention becomes the agent of liberation of the Jews of Persia. Racine's own experience as a royal historiographer adds an additional layer to his contemplation of the importance of history for governing the state.

CONSTANT, JEAN-MARIE. Gaston d’Orléans, prince de la liberté. Paris: Perrin, 2013.

Review: S. Duc in DSS 265 (2014), 744-745. “Une synthèse approfondie […] visant à réévaluer la vie du fils cadet d’Henri IV.” Paradoxically admired in his lifetime and misunderstood or forgotten by history, Gaston d’Orléans nevertheless merits our attention, among other reasons because of his interactions with important political figures from his time. The reviewer praises in particular the careful archival research undertaken in this biography.

CORBO, CLAUDE, ed. Monuments intellectuels de la Nouvelle-France et du Québec ancien: aux origines d’une tradition culturelle. Montreal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014.

Review: R. Chapman in MLR 111.1 (2016), 250-251. An edited volume featuring 27 works representing the intellectual life of La Nouvelle-France and early Quebec between 1609 and 1898, the study features 14-page contributions from a variety of disciplinary fields: geography/ethnology; history; literature and culture; the social sciences; scientific works on entomology; geology; medicine; and philosophy and theology. Each entry offers information on the author, the text (argument and style), and on its reception. The reviewer finds the volume somewhat lacking as work of intellectual history but potentially useful as a reference book.

DION, NICHOLAS, STÉPHANIE MASSÉ and ANDRÉE-ANNE PLOURDE, eds. Le Cosmopolitisme: influences, voyages, échanges dans la République des Lettres (XVe-XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Hermann, 2014.

Review: A. Mattana in S Fr 174 (2014), 651-652. Understanding “cosmopolite” as “citoyen de l’univers,” these acts of a conference of CIERL examine the subject with esssays focusing on the stated period. Organized into four sections: “D’une cour à l’autre,” “L’ailleurs. Entre perceptions et voyages,” “Portée et enjeux des voyages” and “Périples du texte et de la langue.” The volume includes essays on a 17th c. diplomat, on Fénelon, on the comédiens italiens, and on language.

DOOLEY, BRENDAN ed. A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Review: S. J. Rabin in Ren Q 68.2 (2015), 659-661. Wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary essays relate astrology to science, literature, art and music. R. reminds us that acceptance of astrology only began to decline in the mid-17th c.

ENGLEBERT, ROBERT and GUILLAUME TEASDALE, eds. French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815. Winnipeg: U of Manitoba Press, 2013.

Review: R. S. Sheffield in UTQ 84.3 (Summer 2015), 293-294. “Taken as a whole, Englebert and Teasdale’s collection is intended to examine the complexity and multiplicity of the French-Indian encounter in ways that move beyond the paradigms of métissage and the middle ground. This edited book largely succeeds in its purpose because of the generally high quality of the contributions, despite their quite diverse nature. The eight essays range across a broad temporal, geographical, and cultural expanse, organized in loosely chronological order.”

FAURE-CARRICABURU, EMMANUEL. “La domination de l’allégorie en peinture : les ambivalences d’un mode de représentation transgénérique” in Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2016. 29-48.

“En contrepoint au discours officiel énoncé dans la préface aux conférences, l’étude des ambivalences du grand décor de la galerie des Glaces permet d’identifier une résistance de l’œuvre aux attendus sous-tendus par l’institutionnalisation de la hiérarchie des genres. Cette classification élaborée par Félibien en 1667, qui s’inscrivait dans le cadre d’un projet au service de la célébration du roi, est ici doublement ébranlée; d’une part, parce que ce décor éblouit mais qu’il peine à remplir l’autre aspect de sa mission politique qui consistait à faire comprendre au plus grand nombre les conquêtes royales ; d’autre part, parce que l’allégorie mêlée à l’histoire contemporaine brouille les limites d’un cadre que Félibien proposait d’officialiser comme genre ; enfin, parce que les personnifications occupent une place anecdotique dans le compositions, ce qui contrebalance la supériorité conférée à ce langue placé au sommet de l’édifice présenté dans la préface.”

FERREYROLLES, GÉRARD, et al., eds. Traités sur l’histoire (1638-1677). La Mothe Le Vayer, Le Moyne, Saint-Réal, Rapin. Paris : Champion, 2013.

Review: V. Kapp in PFSCL XLVIII, 84 (2016), 118-122. Anthology of 17th c. historical treatises, arguing that history in the period be considered not only with respect to historiographes, but also historiologues, “notion par laquelle il [Ferreyrolles] désigne les ‘auteurs des traités sur l’histoire’ dont ce volume réunit quatre des plus importants de l’époque.” Although reviewer notes that the editors seem to feel compelled to make arguments “sans pouvoir toujours prouver leur pertinence,” he applauds Ferreyrolles’s 100-page introduction which assess: 1) “les enjeux de la charge d’historiographe du roi de France,” 2) the porous border “entre érudition profane et érudition ecclésiastique,” 3) “les affinités et les conflits entre la codification de l’historiographie et les préceptes rhétoriques du style" (119). Reviewer concludes that “Aucun critique qui s’occupe de le poétique du XVIIe siècle, ne pourra plus contourner la problématique littéraire de ce genre.”

FUMAROLI, MARC. La république des lettres. Paris: Gallimard, 2016.

Review: J. Rogister in TLS 5875 (Nov 6 2015), 27. This “stimulating and allusive book” examines the République des lettres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. Fumaroli shows how Amsterdam, London and Paris became three great centers of this republic. He pays much attention to Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and the brothers Dupuy, then traces the origins of a new République as French replaces Latin.

GARGAM, ADÉLINE. Les Femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées dams la littérature française des Lumières ou la conquête d’une légitmité (1690-1804). Paris: Champion, 2013. 2 vols.

Review: R. Bochenek-Franczakowa in S Fr 174 (2014), 594-595. Important for its contribution to the understanding of the place and role of women in the (late) 17th and 18th centuries’ literary and intellectual history. Includes documentation of over 500 women, real and fictive, literary and scientific. Of major importance for our grasp of the access of women to knowledge and the obstacles they faced. G. has organized her study into three parts: “Les femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées: approches littéraires, historique et sociologique,” “Femmes et savoirs dans les débats scientifiques et littéraires” and “Les femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées dans les fictions narratives et théâtrales.” Rich voluminous examination includes imposing and precise bibliography.

GIANNINI, MASSIMO CARLO ed. Papacy, Religious Orders, and International Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Rome: Viella, 2013.

Review: C. Schneider in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 332-334. Found uneven yet useful in its case studies, the collection focuses on members of religious orders and power politics. The editor’s essay on the Dominican order and Franco-Spanish enmity of the 1640s is judged “one of the best” in the volume. S. particularly appreciates its attention to primary sources.

GIRAULT-FRUET, ARLETTE. “Promenades sur le tillac dans les navigations d’autrefois (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles).” Tr L 28 (2015), 63-73.

“La promenade sur le pont du navire” is explored here and the dock itself as “l’unique lieu de divertissement à bord.” G.-F. notes the several types of entertainment from sea animals such as flying fish to sharks, the ship itself, stars, socialization and conversation with other travelers. Fascinating excerpts from accounts include some by 17th c. writers such as Thomas Herbert, François de l’Estra, François Pyrard de Laval and Jean Mocquet, personal doctor of Henri IV.

HADDAD, ELIE. “Kinship and Transmission within the French Nobility, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Case of the Vassé.” Trans. William A. S. Brown. FHS 38.4 (October 2015), 567-591.

Haddad uses a case study of the Vassé family to show that “money, power, rights, and symbolic and material goods circulated through women as well as men and, together, helped to structure families by providing their essence, which they endeavored (for the most part) to transmit.” Haddad cautions that historians must not “retroject” on the nobility of the sixteenth century the constructed representation of ancienneté and patrilineage that the nobility of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries adopted.

HARAI, DÉNES. Gabriel Bethlen Prince de Transylvanie et roi de Hongrie, 1580-1629. Coll. Histoire Hongroise. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2013.

Review by: J. Bérenger in DSS 265 (2014), 746-747. Biographical study of a prince whose importance in Central Europe has perhaps been overlooked, H.’s work blends archival research and offers syntheses of studies previously published in Hungarian.

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

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 172 (2014), 140-141. Highly engaging itinerary demonstrates the rich, multifaceted and diverse esthetics of Versailles and the Grand Siècle. Visual arts, music, theatre and other literary productions are included in this highly readable and well-illustrated examination.

LAPORTA, KATHRINA. “Diverting the Reader: Novel Strategies in the Conseil privé de Louis le Grand (1696).” EMFS 37.2 (2015), 135-146.

“The anonymous pamphlet Conseil privé de Louis le Grand (1696) subjects French monarch Louis XIV to scathing ridicule and denunciation. Interestingly, however, the pamphleteer frames his critique of absolutist politics within an entertaining narrative that deploys tropes from contemporary literary genres such as the historical novella and the historico-satirical novel. A poetics of diversion subtends the work, readable at the level of the plot as well as in the satirical mechanism employed in the text: not only does the Conseil privé de Louis le Grand incorporate scenes focusing on courtly diversions, but it also diverts readers in a more literal way by transforming the monarch into a source of amusement. Absolutism becomes grist to the mill of pamphleteering, and the king a product of authorial fantasy. The pamphleteer figures Louis the Great's privy council as a harem — a world of corruption, weakness, and ineptitude where the monarchy is painted in its imagined and unimaginable excesses. Studying this text through the lens of diversion offers a case study affirming the power of fiction as a weapon in the pamphleteer's arsenal.”

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. ed. Le Mariage et la loi dans la fiction narrative avant 1800. Louvain: Peeters, 2014.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 51.2 (2015), 235. Welcome volume examines links (“ethical, aesthetic and existential”) between the topic and “each literary production and its context.” Organized into sections on “the relation between marriage and the law,” “texts which reject marriage” and “the poetics of the topos of marriage,” the collection also demonstrates convincingly the “power of fiction by exploring the nature of its relation to the real world.”

LECONTE, THOMAS, ed. Les Fées des forêts de Saint-Germain, 1625. Un ballet royal de ‘bouffonesque humeur.’ Turnhout: Brepols, 2012.

Review: M. Demeilliez in DSS 265 (2014), 737-739. An edited volume offering a comprehensive analysis of the 1625 performance of Les Fées des forêts de Saint-Germain at Louis XIII’s court from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Contributions include studies of the sociocultural context for the performance (section 1), of the costumes and related material historical inquiries (section 2), analyses of the mise-en-scène (section 3), and of the dances, poetry, and music (section 4). The final sections present representations of the costume design and a “reconstitution musicale et poétique du ballet.” The reviewer praises the beauty of the book-object itself.

LEMERLE, FRÉDÉRIQUE and YVES PAUWELS. Architectures de papier: La France et l’Europe (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

Review: S. Galletti in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 256-258. Welcome volume focusing on 16th and 17th c. architectural treatises. the authors also curated an online database including image and text hosted by the CESR. Filling a definite lacuna, the volume includes two bibliographies and an index complementing eight chapters on various pertinent aspects including reception, editions and prints, among others.

LE ROUX, NICOLAS. Le roi, la cour, l’état: De la Renaissance à l’Absolutisme. Époques. Seyssel: Champ Vallon Editions, 2013.

Review: M. P. Breen in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 304-305. Although B. is “frustrated by Le R.’s reluctance to explain some of the changes he describes,” he finds the study both a fine introduction and an impressive synthesis, if not innovative. Organized in three sections focusing on the Valois court, its “aristocratic factionalism and confessional divides” and the early days of Louis XII’s reign, the study offers several reevaluations such as the Colloque de Poissy and Henri IV’s accession.

LOSKOUTOFF, YVAN, ed. Héraldique et numismatique I: Moyen Âge—Temps Modernes. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2013.

Review: J. Cunnally in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 262-263. Wide-ranging first volume focuses on coins (second planned on the use of heraldry in seals. Studies on coats of arms on coins, medals, royal iconography, medallic history, including that of imaginary medals, round out this useful and diverse collection. 6 color plates.

LUCIANI, ISABELLE. “Ordering Words, Ordering the Self: Keeping a Livre de Raison in Early Modern Provence, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries.” Trans. Lukas Ovrom. FHS 38.4 (October 2015), 529-548.

With her analysis of 87 livres de raison written by both men and women Luciani examines the “specific written and textual procedures that enabled the appropriation of the social world and the self through domestic writings.” She concludes that in early modern livres de raison “the ordering of the real via language not only is an increasingly familiar tool in the rational organization of quotidian life but also represents a space in which writers define their social interactions.”

MCCLARY, SUSAN. Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2013.

Review: M. Reeves in UTQ 84.3 (Summer 2015), 193-195. This collection of thirteen essays addresses “a remarkably diverse array of primary sources, including treatises, travel writing, letters, prophecy, visual art, poetry, and various musical forms. What ties these essays together is their common interest in tracing structures of feeling in written, visual, and performative art produced within various cultures across western Europe and the Americas during the seventeenth century.” The critic notes that this is a scholarly work, not an introductory text, which succeeds in promoting the seventeenth century as a period worthy of study in its own right.

MCCLIVE, CATHY. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.

Review: V. Worth-Stylianou in FS 70.2 (2016), 260-261. A thorough study of “references to a bodily function that in early modern France was less private than we might have assumed.” Reviewer recommends reading in conjunction with Sara Read’s 2013 Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England, as Read’s work focuses more on literary works, while McClive’s is more medical, legal, and theological in emphasis. Together, they form a detailed picture of the understanding and representation of the female reproductive body in the early modern period.

MC GOWAN, MARGARET M. ed. Dynastic Marriages, 1612/1615: A Celebration of the Hapsburg and Bourbon Unions. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.

Review: J. Todorovic in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 290-291. Praiseworthy for its originality, its interdisciplinarity, its rich bibliography of both print and digitized primary sources, and the fourteen detailed analyses it provides. Stage and costume design, festival books, chivalric tradition, these and other aspects are lauded, all gathered here, thanks “to the credit of [the volume’s] prudent editor.”

MONTOYA, ALICIA C. Medievalist Enlightenment from Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013.

Review: M. Roussillon in DSS 265 (2014), 739-740. A study inscribed in a body of research examining the ways in which the medieval period was imagined or “constructed” in subsequent periods, the author examines the reception of the Middle Ages in the 17th and 18th centuries (during the “Crisis of the European Mind”). “A. C. Montoya montre que le médiéval n’est pas tant utilisé comme une catégorie historique que comme une catégorie morale et esthétique.” Divided into three sections (Conceptualizing the Medieval, Reimagining the Medieval, and Studying the Medieval), the study analyzes both aesthetic and fictional works, concluding that the medieval period reveals contradictions and tensions that are perhaps intrinsic to the development of modernity.

Review: J.-P. De Nola in S Fr 172 (2014), 143. Wide-ranging and particularly attentive to areas that earlier critics on the subject (Gustave Cohen, Nathan Edelman, Lionel Gossman, and others) had left largely untreated, M.’s work focuses on the chronological lacune of 1690-1740. Praiseworthy for its careful examination of texts and theories such as contrasting views of “le bon vieux temps” and chronological perfectibility.

MORRIS, HERBERT. "The Absent and Present Serpent in Nicolas Poussin’s Spring." CdDs XVI, 1 (2015), 63–76.

Poussin's decision not to include an image of a serpent in Spring's representation of Adam and Eve in Eden is unusual, especially considering the symbolic importance of serpents in his work, especially in Winter, a companion piece to Spring in his cycle of the four seasons. The author argues that Poussin "gains something from non-representation of the Serpent," and that the serpent is indeed present "in the Tree of Life, offering a deceptively appealing illusion." Finally, he concludes that Poussin in Spring offers "a radical and illuminating revision of the biblical tale of Adam and Eve from a Stoic perspective on life."

MOTSCH, ANDREAS. “De l’allégorie ethnographique à l’ethnographie allégorique: le cas de l’Amérique” in Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2016. 271-301.

Seeks to develop James Clifford’s observations on the function of allegory in the discourse of anthropology as a point of departure for reading textual and visual representations of the new world. The article argues that allegory played a constitutive role in early accounts of the indigenous peoples of North America. This observation is evidenced by the reoccurring themes in the frontispieces and engravings of the travelogues of Samuel de Champlain, Gabriel Sagard, and Thomas Harriot among others.

MUNS, JESSICA et al., eds. Aspiration, Representation and Memory: The Guise in Europe, 1506-1688. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.

Review: D. Parrott in FS 70.3 (2016), 433-434. Explores the influence of one of Europe’s most (in)famous dynasties. Surveys the history of the Guise family and its ancestors from the Middle Ages on. Focuses on the seventeenth century, with a particular emphasis on Henri II, the fifth duc de Guise, whose grandiose visions and failures are studied in considerable detail.

NANCY, SARAH. La Voix féminine et le plaisir de l’écoute en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 172 (2014), 141. Informed by theories of the pleasure of listening, this examination focuses on relationships between feminine voices, music, word and spectacle. Impressive both for its engagement with primary sources and today’s critics, N.’s study is well documented, an example of interdisciplinarity imbued with serious scholarship.

NEVILE, JENNIFER. “Decorum and Desire in Renaissance Europe and the Maturation of a Discipline.” Ren Q 68.2 (2015), 597-612.

Dedicated to the memory of Barbara Sparti who “contributed so much to the development of early dance, and who never stopped questioning the boundaries of the discipline,” this comprehensive review essay includes ramifications for other disciplines: “music, theater, festivals, visual arts, costume, gesture, literature, garden design, political processes, and intellectual movements as well as questions of identity, order and moral virtue.” N. reminds us of numerous important contributions such as Margaret Mc Gowan’s monograph on dancing, Dance in the Renaissance (2008) and her La dance à la Renaissance (2012), the latter extremely useful for 16th and early 17th c. sources. N. also singles out for its “complexity and sophistication” the 1630 analysis of movement in Thibault’s Académie de l’espée. N.’s essay icludes a useful bibliography of several pages.

PROBES, CHRISTINE. " 'La Vie' selon les emblématistes : les sens et les significations." CdDs XV, 2 (2014), 18–32.

A comparative study of "la vie" that focuses on the role of the senses in the work of Jean-Jacques Boissard (Emblemes, 1584, 1593, 1595 ; and Theatrum vitae humanae, 1596) and Jean-Baptiste Chassignet (Sonnets franc-comtois, c. 1615). In addition to their consistent application of the senses, the two emblematists also evoke a tension between the senses and reason. By appealing to the eyes, the intellect, and the memory, their work "réunit l'utile à l'agréable, visant à plaire et à instruire."

REEVES, EILEEN. Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Review: W. Rothman in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1017-1018. Impressive for its range of primary sources, including a sonnet by a teenage Descartes and for his comparing of sensory impressions to engravings which are “the most successful, and best suggest an object when they resemble it less.”

RESIDORI, MATTEO, HÉLÈNE TROPÉ, DANIELLE BOILLET, and MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD, eds. Vies d’écrivains, vies d’artistes: Espagne, France, Italie, XVIe–XVIIe siècles. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2014.

Review: E. Guerra in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1489-1490. This result of two research projects, “Formes et idées de la Renaissance au Lumières” and “Les Cultures de l’Europe méditerranéenne occidentale,” analyzes biographies, their writing processes and relation to societies including readers. Wide-ranging, the project also addresses the pedagogical role of biographies and confirms that “the biography is a precious instrument that . . . helps us further understand Renaissance societies.”

REYNAUD, CÉCILE and HERBERT SCHNEIDER, eds. Noter, annoter, éditer la musique – Mélanges offerts à Catherine Massip. École Pratique des Hautes Études: Sciences historiques et philologiques. Genève: Droz, 2002.

Review: M.-C. Schang in DSS 264 (2014), 575-576. The 44 articles presented in homage to the longtime fixture in the Department of Music at the BN are united only by their variety on several counts: linguistic (articles written in French, Italian, German, and English), methodological (contributions from researchers, musicians, archivists) and temporal (extending from the Middle Ages to the 20th century). While the volume may have benefited from thematic organization, the reviewer praises the diversity of approaches applied to source material that are presented.

SABATIER, GÉRARD. Le Prince et les arts. Stratégies figuratives de la monarchie française de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2010.

Review: J.-M. Civardi in DSS 265 (2014), 735-737. A comprehensive study of the monarchy’s politicization of the arts from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment, including comparative analyses with other European countries. Divided into four sections, Part 1 treats the “Stratégies de la représentation,” Part 2 the “Résidences royales et énonciation,” Part 3 the “L’icône royale,” and Part 4 the “Cérémonial et culte monarchique.” The reviewer praises the subtlety of S.’s analyses and notes in particular the very valuable bibliography.

SCHUWEY, CHRISTOPHE. "Le Mercure galant: un recueil interactif." CdDs XVI, 1 (2015), 48–62.

This article looks at the Mercure as a "livre perpetuel"––a book constantly being written and rewritten––and shows how modern concepts of journalism are foreign to the seventeenth-century understanding of its editorial practice which considered the Mercure a "receuil." The author concludes that "Il constitue ainsi une plateforme à la plasticité maximale, idéale pour imprimer, diffuser, et surtout, conserver une série de contenus qui ne pourraient trouver place ailleurs : en cela, il participe à l’immense entreprise d’écriture de l’histoire du siècle de Louis le Grand. Mais la pérennité de sa republication lui permet en outre de susciter des productions, et de les imprimer ensuite, en une sorte de mouvement perpétuel: le Mercure galant est interactif."

SEIFERT, LEWIS C. and REBECCA M. WILKIN, eds. Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.

Review: L.J. Burch in FS 70.4 (2016), 594-595. A collection of essays that explores friendship in a variety of guises, both as practiced in the world and as a source of creativity. Addresses gender, sexuality, and power relations “across multiple geographical, political, social, and religious spaces.” Reviewer finds collection both rigorous in its scholarship and accessible to a variety of readers. Suggests too that the collection not only teaches us about past notions of friendship, but also points to inspiring possibilities for relationships in our own present and future.

SENKEVITCH, TATIANA. “The Portrait of the King’s Minister and the State of Collaboration.” EMFS 37.1 (2015), 29-48.

“The essay examines The Allegorical Portrait of Minister Colbert, engraved by Van Schuppen after Le Brun’s design, in 1664, the year of Colbert’s appointment as the Chief Administrator of Buildings, Arts, and Manufactures in France. It locates the print’s programme within the context of the new administrative system for the arts in France implemented by the Minister and interprets it as an inventive conjuncture of pictorial genres. Either as a frontispiece or as an impresa, Le Brun’s design for the print linked Colbert’s political virtues with the new, collective forms of artistic enterprises. The theme of the collaborative relationship among the arts exemplified by Colbert’s institutional reforms calls attention to the emerging variance between the individual and the institutional in the creation of the national style urged by Colbert’s administration. The print demonstrates how the distillation of collective authorship can be achieved through the remediation of the specific arts — painting and tapestry in this case — based on the unifying role of disegno and the efficiency of print in translating ad vivum the generic characteristics of different media.”

SOUNAC, FRÉDÉRIC, ed. La Mélophobie littéraire. Toulouse: PU de Mirail, 2012.

Review: R. Sapino in S Fr 173 (2014), 424-425. This volume of Littératures contributes to the understanding of literary melophobia through ten articles of wide generic, chronological and geographical variety. 17 th c. scholars will appreciate Michèle Rosellini’s “Les singes de La Fontaine” which focuses on the symbol of the irrational cruelty and stupidity which is yet “portatrice di una forma di sagezza paradossale.” The volume includes a section of comptes-rendus.

STANTON, DOMNA C. The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing. Farnham: Ashgate. 2014

Review: S. Genieys-Kirk in MLR 111.1 (2016), 251-252. By analyzing cultural and literary representations of women, S. engages with Butler and Foucault to argue that gender norms constitute “sites of contested meaning” in 17th-century France. The first part of the book (“Women Writ”) studies works penned by male authors, engaging with recent scholarship that analyzes notions such as “classicism” as semi-mythical constructs. Part Two (“Writing Women”) turns to works by female authors, revealing the complex subversion of gender norms that figure in female literary production from the period. A “rich study” combining “literary and gender theories, psychoanalysis, and feminist epistemology,” the reviewer finds that the work sheds “new light on the complex ‘dynamics’ of the ‘Querelle des femmes et des hommes.’”

STERNBERG, GIORA. Status Interaction During the Reign of Louis XIV. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.

Review: P. Scott in FS 70.1 (2016), 103-104. Provides a nuanced view that enhances modern understandings of individual status at the court of Louis XIV. The study covers everything from who handles a signatory plume, to clothing –for example the mantle–, to correspondence, and much more. Notes that status interactions did not always take place in the presence of the monarch and were not necessarily uniform and unchanging, but rather the product of precedent and custom.

TESSIER, ALEXANDRE. Réseaux diplomatiques et République des lettres: les correspondants de Sir Joseph Williamson (1660-1680). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015.

Review: R. Maber in FS 70.3 (2016), 432-433. A weighty volume (800 pages) of extensive research into the possible connections between scholarly and political correspondence. Concludes, based on Williamson’s letters, that the overwhelming tendency was to keep the two spheres separate. Although Williamson is British, he traveled to France and many of his correspondents were French, rendering the work of interest to French seventeenth-century scholars.

THOMAS, DANIEL. “The Final Years of the Constable of France, 1593-1627.” FHS 39.1 (2016), 73-103.

The author demonstrates that the actual power held by the person in the role of constable depended on royal favor, the administrative duties of the role, and nobles’ high regard for the office. However, the office was weakened by the changing realities of European warfare during the time of study. The author concludes that at the time of its abolition the office of constable had outlived its usefulness to the crown and its leading ministers.

TIKANOJA, TUOMAS. Transgressing Boundaries: Worldly Conversation, Politeness and Sociability in Ancien Régime France, 1660-1789. Helsinki: Unigrafia, 2013.

Review: C. Crowston in MLR 111.1 (2016), 253-254. An “ambitious” study tracing the emergence of the terms sociabilité and social in the eighteenth century, T.’s book examines a wide range of primary texts (works by salonnières, court manuals, treatises) to set out the argument that a “new high society constituted itself in the late seventeenth century as a self-conscious alternative to the absolutist court.” Arguing against recent works by Antoine Lilti and Steven Kale, T. defends Dena Goodman’s thesis that the salons “played a central role in the development of an autonomous public sphere.” The reviewer congratulates the author for “weaving together a rich and fascinating set of reflections” on the topics, but criticizes T.’s methodology for taking primary sources at face value.

TREZISE, SIMON, ed. The Cambridge Companion to French Music. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015

Review: M. Downes in TLS 5906 (June 10 2016), 22: A recurring theme in this volume is the contested status of French music, which tends to define itself in opposition to musical traditions that are seen as more coherent or more culturally dominant. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the musical “Other” is Italy. The volume also treats the influence of social institutions and of monarchs, including Louis XIV, on French music.

TRIBOUT, BRUNO. Les récits de conjuration sous Louis XIV. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Lanval, 2010.

Review: K. Laporta in RR 104.3/4 (2013), 392-395. Ambitious study of prose narratives published during the second half of the seventeenth century that address the controversial subject of revolt. Author examines the paradoxical nature of fictional representations of uprising during the reign of the Sun King, observing that whereas the readers are encouraged to identify and sympathize with the conspirators, the act of revolt is denounced, and the texts ultimately adopt a pro-monarchical stance that cautions against tyranny. According to the reviewer, Tribout’s pre-revolutionary corpus (not specified in the review) converges around “the pleasure of witnessing monarchical rule threatened and reestablished within the safe haven of fiction.” Reviewer admires Tribout’s meticulous research, but regrets that the author did not include a discussion of early modern theories of tragedy, or further develop his definition of the sublime noir, both of which would have strengthened his argument.

VAN DER LINDEN, DAVID. Experiencing Exile: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680-1700. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.

Review: M. van der Lugt in FS 70.2 (2016), 261-262. A three-part work that uses primary sources such as first-hand testimonies and sermons to explore diverse refugee experiences following the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Careful research allows the author to challenge certain idées reçues and expand current understanding of this significant moment in French religious, social, and political history. Despite gaps, notably the near-exclusion of Bayle, reviewer declares this an “exquisite piece of scholarship.”

VOISIN, PATRICK, ed. La Valeur de l’oeuvre littéraire, entre pôle artistique et pôle esthétique. Paris: Garnier, 2012.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 172 (2014), 205-206. This extremely wide-ranging investigation into the esthetic and artistic value of literature includes explorations organized into sections on general reflections, poetry, novel and literature and politics. Several theoretical chapters are followed by diverse inquiries into theatre, both textual and in the eye of the spectator. 17th c. scholars will appreciate two chapters on Racine’s Phèdre.

WADE, MARA R., ed. Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014.

Review: M. Carter in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1105–1106. Wide-ranging collection “explores the intersectionality of multiple frameworks of gender construction and their expression as violence” in ramifications with disciplines such as theatre, literature, history, art and music. Transnational and with a global perspective which is also highly interdisciplinary. Recommended for educators (for several possible courses) and for scholars on violence and gender. Literature and visual art are particularly well-represented.

WHITE, SOPHIE. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians, Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

Review: B. Evans in DFS 102 (2014)125-127. “From start to finish, this two-part study… testifies to impeccable research, remarkable ability to establish connections between archival findings, and profound understanding of the social forces under examination. White’s examination of the ‘process of racialization in colonial Louisiana,’ which focuses on ‘placing clothing at the center of cross-cultural relations and speaking of the vitality of cultural exchanges made visible on the body,’ elucidates very cogently the extent to which ‘Frenchification theories were clearly premised on the malleability rather than the fixedness of Indians’ identity’”.

DE WICQUEFORT, ABRAHAM, ed. Les gazettes parisiennes de l’année 1653: Suivies de L’état de la France en 1654. Ed. Philippe Mauran. Paris: Champion, 2014.

Review: A.Pettegree in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 307-308. Welcome continuation of Claude Boutin’s 2010 edition of the 1648-52 newsletters (it had been thought that the later issues were too water damaged to be useful). De W.’s weekly newsletters written in service to Augustus of Braunschweig-Lüneburg presented political and diplomatic events and assessed powers and the process of decision making at court.

ANDRAULT, RAPHAËLE. “Guérir de la folie. La dispute sur la transfusion sanguine, 1667-1668.” DSS 264 (2014), 509-532.

Analyzes the polemic surrounding transfusions in relation to contemporary conceptions of blood and its life-preserving properties. Summarizes the divergent points of view adopted during the debate while also highlighting the Journal des sçavans role in the diffusion of these texts. Argues that studying polemics like this one reveals the important, often tacit preconceptions held by given publics at a given time.

BAH-OSTROWIECKI, HÉLÈNE. Le Theophrastus redivivus. Érudition et combat antireligieux au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2012.

Review: N. Gengoux in DSS 265 (2014), 740-742. A study of the anonymous text based on the author’s “pioneering” dissertation. The analysis centers on the text’s doxographical form, interpreted “comme le signe d’une position essentiellement polémique de l’auteur anonyme du Theophrastus lequel cherche moins à prouver la vérité de sa thèse naturaliste et athée qu’à opposer à la position chrétienne une position adverse aussi forte, qui en fixe les limites, en dénonce la relativité et permette de défendre la liberté qu’elle étouffe.” The reviewer objects to certain conclusions, but admires the style and the quality of the argumentation, as well as the originality of the evoked “parenté” between atheism and religious thought.

BERNIER, MARC-ANDRÉ et al., eds. Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas: Intercultural Transfers, Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2014.

Review: M. Harrigan in FS 69.4 (2015), 525-526. Studies two centuries’ worth of letters, histories, and missionary documents across nations and languages, with a heavy focus on French and Spanish. Divided into three sections: ‘Intercultural Transfers,’ ‘Intellectual Disputes,’ and ‘Textualities,’ all of which remind the reader of the Jesuits’ key role in disseminating information about the Americas.

BERTHIAUME, PIERRE. Matières incandescentes: problématiques matérialistes des Lumières françaises, 1650-1780. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014.

Review: I. Moreau in MLR 111.1 (2016), 256-257. The reviewer finds the work to be a “useful survey of the key issues and driving concepts that informed a materialist understanding of man and the world in the eighteenth century.” B. argues that materialism does not constitute “a unified discourse” but rather is the site for tensions emerging from theology and the life sciences; the construction of materialism must therefore be understood in relation to what it negates or calls into question (the Bible, God’s existence, miracles, the Revelation, etc). Despite what the title may suggest, the reviewer notes that the study focuses primarily on texts published between 1750 and 1780.

BISARO, XAVIER. Le Passé présent. Une enquête liturgique dans la France du début du XVIIIe siècle. Histoire Religieuse de la France 38. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2012.

Review: M. Lezowski in DSS 265 (2014), 733-734. “Ce livre relève du genre de l’‘enquête de l’enquête’: proposant une vue d’ensemble sur les recherches liturgiques d’un oratorien, Pierre Lebrun.” The work underscores “la crise de l’érudition liturgique ouverte par le concile de Trente.” L. praises the study for its concision and nuance, as well as its accessibility to non-specialists.

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT. “Beyond Belief: Sovereignty and the Spectacle of Martyrdom in Early Modern France.” SCFS 36.2 (2014), 94-108.

Thought-provoking article highlights the importance of the rhetoric and representation of the memory of pain to the formation of a body politic. Blanchard presents a reading of Corneille’s martyr play Polyeucte (1643) in light of the Jesuit Louis Richeome’s devotion book La Peinture spirituelle (1611) in order to demonstrate how the performative violence of martyrdom ultimately functions to create and sustain the idea of divinely appointed sovereignty.

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

Review: H. Bjornstad in PFSCL XLVIII, 84 (2016), 109-111. A “challenge to the place of the dualist Cartesian subject as the crucial turning point on the way to modernity, countering not only accounts celebrating the Cartesian threshold moment (from Hans Blumberg to Jonathan Israel) but also decrying it (from Adorno to Foucault)" that is “supremely ambitious and utterly successful.” Following an introduction that “importantly shifts the emphasis from reasons to experience as the central concept that best enables us to grasp the major intellectual stakes of the period,” six chapters “so rich both in the breadth of their contextualizations and in the depth of their critical engagement as to contain the germ of a monograph of its own” analyze D’s Meditations, Poussinian art, Cornelian tragic poetry, the Moliéresque stage, Pascal’s Pensée, and Boileau’s “Sur l’Équivoque.”

Review: E. McClure CdDs XVI, 1 (2015), 109–111. Braider challenges the myth of Descartes as “tenacious idol to which most accounts of the early modern West pay homage” and instead centers his account of seventeenth-century French culture on the influence of Montaigne, "plac[ing] the age of classicism against the messiness of contingent embodiment rather than, say, against the geometric reflecting pools of Versailles." For Braider, "Descartes does, in the end, provide a useful framework through which to view the century, but only insofar as his aspiration for the clear, the distinct, and the universal is undercut by the inevitable pull of chaotic contingency." Poussin, Corneille, Molière, Pascal, and Boileau are important focus points for Braider and "the wide range of works considered, as well as the looseness of Braider’s theoretical apparatus, can at times lead the reader to wonder to what extent the conflict between universal and particular is specific to seventeenth-century France." In short, "Braider’s efforts to destabilize the classical canon, or, more accurately, to point to the ways in which the canon destabilizes itself" resonate with contemporary critical questions and "Braider’s provocative arguments, supported by readings that are often no less than ingenious, are a joy to read."

CAVAILLÉ, JEAN-PIERRE. Les Déniaisés. Irréligion et libertinage au début de l’époque moderne. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2014.

Review: M.-F. Pellegrin in RPFE 141.2 (2016), 235-290. “ Avec cette grande somme sur le libertinage ”, l’auteur “ défend l’utilité d’une catégorie historiographique apparemment un peu désuète. … Cavaillé entend en montrer ainsi la pertinence pour comprendre des penseurs assez divers d’apparence, le plus souvent rejetés ou minorés comme incompatibles avec l’idéal classique et rationaliste du grand siècle. … Ce travail mêle études de cas et réflexion générale sur la notion même de libertinage avec une maîtrise et une force démonstrative constants, l’auteur reprenant parfois des réflexions déjà développées ailleurs ”.

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. Préface par Philippe Sellier. Paris: Champion, 2012.

Review: F. Forner in S Fr 174 (2014), 591-592. Comprehensive and praiseworthy examination includes analyses of the epistolary in a religious institution in general as well as in Port-Royal in particular. Wide-ranging examination investigates importance of St. Augustine’s work, notably in relation to “amour-propre” and love for God, the style and length of the letters, the daily life of Port-Royal, the letter as means of defense of the community, the centrality of the letter, among other useful aspects. Numerous photographic reproductions of letters are included as is a genealogical tree of the Arnauld family.

CUMMINGS, BRIAN and FREYA SIERHUIS. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.

Review: E. Harvey in MP 113.4 (May 2016) E242-E245. The volume includes fifteen essays framed by an introduction and afterword coauthored by Cummings and Sirhuis. The collection encompasses diverse manifestations of subjectivity or the passions across a sweep of time (Montaigne to Hobbes), a range of disciplines (philosophy, politics, theology, art, literature, medicine, science), and a variety of approaches (philosophy, literary criticism, intellectual history). The final section of the volume, “Philosophy and the Early Modern Passions,” includes an essay by Stephan Laqué in which he considers Hamlet through the Cartesian mind-body divide. The reviewer states that “although the collection is a valuable addition to the debates on the passions, in its endeavor to rectify the somatic imbalance of its predecessor scholars, it ends up privileging through structure, method and topic the perspective of the mind.

DIONNE, VALÉRIE. “Le Sourire canin de Montaigne et de La Mothe le Vayer, ou la vertu cynique du libertin.” EMFS 37.1 (2015), 2-13.

“Le cynisme a suscité au cours de l’histoire de vives controverses. D’un côté, les partisans de cette philosophie justifient le cynisme des Anciens comme une pratique juste qui se présente sous la conduite de mère Nature. D’un autre côté, on entend la voix des détracteurs qui contestent la vie menée par ces philosophes cyniques comme inappropriée et indécente. En prenant part à ce débat, cet article montre que Montaigne et La Mothe Le Vayer revisitent l’opposition cynique entre nature et culture pour s’attacher plus particulièrement au thème de l’universalisme augustinien de la pudeur appartenant à la nature post-lapsaire de l’homme. Nos philosophes s’emploient à citer et représenter Diogène afin de déstabiliser cette perspective universaliste. Grâce aux cyniques, Montaigne et La Mothe Le Vayer peuvent ainsi exposer une nature pluraliste où les ‘lois naturelles’ sont spéculatives, complexes et souvent contradictoires. Cet essai établit que ces deux philosophes libertins recourent au cynisme dans le but de libérer les esprits et d’éveiller le jugement critique des citoyens afin qu’ils remettent en question les vérités dites universelles de ce qui est juste ou immanent à l’homme.”

DOOLEY, BRENDAN ed. A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 49. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Review: S. J. Rabin in Ren Q 68.2 (2015), 659-661. Wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary essays relate astrology to science, literature, art and music. R. reminds us that acceptance of astrology only began to decline in the mid-17th c.

FRISCH, ANDREA. Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015.

Review: G. Hoffman in MP 113.4 (2016), E239-E241. Although focuses primarily on the sixteenth century, this study will be of interest to dix-septièmistes for its interweaving of legal, religious, and literary history and the ways it sheds light on the rise of neoclassical tragedy and the modern era.

GARGAM, ADÉLINE. Les Femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées dams la littérature française des Lumières ou la conquête d’une légitmité (1690-1804). Paris: Champion, 2013. 2 vols.

Review: R. Bochenek-Franczakowa in S Fr 174 (2014), 594-595. Important for its contribution to the understanding of the place and role of women in the (late) 17th and in the 18th centuries’ literary and intellectual history. Includes documentation of over 500 women, real and fictive, literary and scientific. Of major importance for our grasp of the access of women to knowledge and the obstacles they faced. G. has organized her study into three parts: “Les femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées: approches littéraires, historique et sociologique,” “Femmes et savoirs dans les débats scientifiques et littéraires” and “Les femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées dans les fictions narratives et théâtrales.” Rich voluminous examination includes imposing and precise bibliography.

GIANNINI, MASSIMO CARLO ed. Papacy, Religious Orders, and International Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. I libri di Viella 159. Rome: Viella, 2013.

Review: C. Schneider in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 332-334. Found uneven yet useful in its case studies, the collection focuses on members of religious orders and power politics. The editor’s essay on the Dominican order and Franco-Spanish enmity of the 1640s is judged “one of the best” in the volume. S. particularly appreciates its attention to primary sources.

GRÉGOIRE, VINCENT. “Malentendus culturels rencontrés par les missionnaires usulines en Nouvelle-France au XVIIème siècle.” SCFS 36.2 (2014), 109-124.

Grégoire’s study chronicles the difficulties experienced by a group of Ursuline sisters who established a convent in Nouvelle-France in 1639 with the intention of providing a religious and moral instruction for the young Native American girls. According to the author (who generously cites firsthand témoignages throughout the article), the sisters found the process of assimilation to the French culture, or “francisation,” to be much more challenging than anticipated, having underestimated the strong sense of cultural identity of the Native American population as well as of the Canadian daughters of French settlers.

GUERRINI, ANITA. The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris. Chicago: U Chicago P, 2015.

Review: P. Duris in FS 70.4 (2016), 598-599. Looks at the anatomical and physiological research carried out by the newly formed Académie royale des sciences in Paris from 1667 on. Focuses on human and animal dissection, including exotic species, for example an elephant at Versailles in 1681. Also explores circulatory systems, the discovery of which is considered to be one of the major scientific achievements of the era. Shows that such experiments and discoveries were objects of fascination not just to scientists, but to members of the court as well.

HOFMANN, CATHERINE and HÉLÈNE RICHARD, edsLes globes de Louis XIV. Étude artistique, historique et matérielle. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2012.

Review: R. Abad in E Cr 55.2 (2015), 1-3. The editors of the summer volume of E Cr introduce its focus, the notion of Genius. The impetus for the collection was a journée d’études held November 15, 2013 at the Maison française d’Oxford. The approach favored is the history of the notion “dans la longue durée” and in the great variety of constructions and uses, including, for example, quarrels and debates, political, economical, linguistic (and other) relationships. 17th c. specialists will appreciate studies on linguistic phenomena and on Descartes, for example.

KESSLER-MESGUICH, SOPHIE. Les études hébraïques en France: De François Tissard à Richard Simon (1508–1680). Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 517. Geneva: Droz, 213.

Review: M.-L. Demonet in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1472-1474. Welcome praiseworthy reexamination of the study of Hebrew in the early modern. The corpus of the study is well chosen and includes materials from authors, printers and clergymen including Counter-Reformation Jesuits and educators such as Nicolas Clenard whose method was language immersion. Chapter 9 focuses on the 17th c. and includes both Protestant and Catholic Hebraists.

KRAUSE, VIRGINIA. Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015.

Review: W. Williams in FS 70.3 (2016), 430-431. An extensively researched yet concise study that makes a significant contribution to our ever-evolving understanding of early modern demonology. References both literature and law as it explores the crucial role of oral confession versus visible evidence in proving witchcraft cases. Accessible to specialists and lay readers alike.

KROUPA, GREGOR. “The Poets and the Philosophers: Genius and Analogy in Descartes and the Encyclopédie (Following Aristotle).” E Cr 55.2 (2015), 34-47.

Beginning with Aristotle’s statement that “‘the greatest thing by far’ for a poet is to be a master of metaphor: ‘It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others: and it is also a sign of genius [euphyía], since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars’” (qtd. from the Poetics), K. then turns his attention to Aristotle’s Rhetoric with its narrowing down of the definition of metaphor: “‘metaphors must not be far-fetched, or they will be difficult to grasp, not obvious, or they will have no effect.’” K.’s consideration of Descartes focuses on what he terms “unofficial texts” of the Cartesian canon, “to find heterogeneous analogies between the physical and spiritual domains—those better served by the genius of poetry than rational methods” (42). In the remainder of his essay, K. focuses on the Encyclopédie, concluding that “Diderot links genius to analogy in a way that echoes both Aristotle and Descartes, insofar as analogy is not primarily a didactic tool but a means of discovery” (45). This thoughtful and convincing article provides stimulating references in the notes and concludes that while the “century of genius” (the 17th) brought “so many new discoveries, [. . . the 18th c.’s task was] to bring order to the vast quantity of new knowledge.”

LAS HERAS, IGNACIO IÑARREA. “Étude des itinéraires français du pèlerinage de Compostelle des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle.” S Fr 172 (2014), 22-36.

This study examines the use of French routes to Compostela and their evolution, considering pertinent texts relevant to frequency of the route. Although Las H. indicates other secondary routes, he focuses on the following: La via Turonensis, La via Tolosana and the routes from Béarn towards Roncevaux, and La via Podiensis. Well documented article includes attention to other voyage literature and popular songs of the time.

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. ed. Le Mariage et la loi dans la fiction narrative avant 1800. Louvain: Peeters, 2014.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 51.2 (2015), 235. Welcome volume examines links (“ethical, aesthetic and existential”) between the topic and “each literary production and its context.” Organized into sections on “the relation between marriage and the law,” “texts which reject marriage” and “the poetics of the topos of marriage,” the collection also demonstrates convincingly the “power of fiction by exploring the nature of its relation to the real world.”

MARAL, ALEXANDRE. Le Roi-Soleil et Dieu. Paris: Librairie académique Perrin, 2012.

Review: X. Bisaro in DSS 264 (2014), 573-574. The reviewer praises the author’s ability to succinctly and powerfully synthesize the complexity of the religious polemics during Louis XIV’s reign, as well as the originality of certain arguments and the multidisciplinary methodological approach. Despite mentioning several weaknesses (stylistic and substantive), B. concludes that the study proposes “un aperçu érudit et accessible du règne de Louis XIV, tout en en dévoilant des aspects aussi captivants que mal connus.”

MARTIN, CRAIG. Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History and Philosophy in Early Modern Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014.

Review: S. Gaukroger in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 267-268. Judged a “clear and careful book,” the volume includes chapters on the rise to prominence of the Jesuits along with cases of anti-Aristotelianism, such as Mersenne and Gassendi. The reviewer would have wished for an explanation as to why Aristotelianism was adopted in the 13th c. and why, after its 17th c. abandonment, it was revived in the 19th c.

MAURAN, PHILIPPE. “Le Ballet des Incompatibles (Montpellier-1655) ou l’état du Languedoc en 1655.” DSS 265 (2014), 691-707.

Argues that the libretto for the Ballet des Incompatibles can be analyzed as a pièce de circonstance reacting to events from the Fronde. Reviews some of the criticism on the question of authorship

MC GOWAN, MARGARET M. ed. Dynastic Marriages, 1612/1615: A Celebration of the Hapsburg and Bourbon Unions. European Festival Studies: 1450-1700. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.

Review: J. Todorovic in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 290-291. Praiseworthy for its originality, its interdisciplinarity , its rich bibliography of both print and digitized primary sources, and the fourteen detailed analyses it provides. Stage and costume design, festival books, chivalric tradition, these and other aspects are lauded, all gathered here, thanks “to the credit of [the volume’s] prudent editor.”

MEERE, MICHAEL. “Theatres of Torture: Martyrs, Pagans, and the Politics of Conversion in Early Seventeenth-Century France.” EMFS 37.1 (2015), 14-28.

“This essay examines writing about and representations of pain and torture by looking specifically at two French Catholic martyr plays that appeared at the turn of the seventeenth century: Nicolas Soret’s La Céciliade (1606) and Jean Boissin de Gallardon’s Le Martyre de saincte Catherine (1618). It interprets these plays alongside Antonio Gallonio’s Trattato degli instrumenti di martiro (1591; 1594) and Richard Verstegan’s Théâtre des cruautez des Herectiques de nostre temps (1587; 1607). On the one hand, by analysing the representations of physical torture, this article investigates the relationship between religious violence in the real world and the significance of the martyr figure on stage in La Céciliade. On the other, it takes into account the crushing of the executioners’ bodies in Boissin’s play and in iconographical representations of St Catherine’s wheel of torture, arguing that representations of the martyrs’ and pagans’ injured bodies not only serve to profess publicly the truth of the Catholic faith but also act as vehicles for the Catholic Church’s politicization of martyrdom and conversion.”

MELION, WALTER S., JAMES CLIFTON, and MICHEL WEEMANS, eds. Imago Exegetica: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400–1700. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 33. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Review: B. J. Noble in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 994-995. This welcome and massive volume of over 1000 pages includes the work of both junior and senior scholars as it “examine[s] the relation between artistic practice and biblical hermeneutics.” Includes 24 color plates.

MENTZER, RAYMOND ed. Les Registres des consistoires des Églises réformées de France — XVIe–XVIIe siècles: Un inventaire. Geneva: Droz, 2014.

Review: D. C. Margolf in Ren Q 68.2 (2015), 723-725. More than an inventory, M.’s volume provides “a succinct history of the Reformed consistory, its archives and the methodologies that historians have used to interpret these sources.” Reminds us that many records are lost due to Louis XIV’s attempt to “eradicate all traces of Reformed churches.”

Review: M. Green in FS 70.2 (2016), 259-260. Uses extant documents to create an “inside view” that traces Reformed Church history back as early as the 1560s. A three-chapter essay introduces an inventory of consistories classified by place. Includes an index of places and names, but no thematic index. Reviewer declares it a useful research tool for those studying the history of the Reformed Church in France.

MILANESE, ARNAUD. “‘History as psychology’: de quoi est faite une psychologie empiriste chez Bacon?” DSS 265 (2014), 619-364.

Proposes a reconsideration of Francis Bacon’s thought by arguing that psychology articulates a fundamental link between philosophy and history: “la possibilité d’une psychologie cognitive pleinement philosophique passe … par une historiographie des savoirs, et d’abord de la philosophie.”

MONTOYA, ALICIA C. Medievalist Enlightenment from Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Medievalism Vol. 2. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013.

Review: M. Roussillon in DSS 265 (2014), 739-740. A study inscribed in a body of research examining the ways in which the medieval period was imagined or “constructed” in subsequent periods, the author examines the reception of the Middle Ages in the 17th and 18th centuries (during the “Crisis of the European Mind”). “A. C. Montoya montre que le médiéval n’est pas tant utilisé comme une catégorie historique que comme une catégorie morale et esthétique.” Divided into three sections (Conceptualizing the Medieval, Reimagining the Medieval, and Studying the Medieval), the study analyzes both aesthetic and fictional works, concluding that the medieval period reveals contradictions and tensions that are perhaps intrinsic to the development of modernity.

MURATORI, CECILIA and BURKHARD DOHM, eds. Ethical Perspectives on Animals in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period. Micrologus’ Library 55. Florence: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2013.

Review: P. F. Cuneo in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1030-1032. The result of two research projects, the volume’s goals are as follows: “To show that the materials revealing ethical perspectives on animals is richer and more complex than previously assumed; and to consider the development of ethical problems from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries without holding to the radical separation between a phase before Descartes and one after Descartes.” Both goals are capably met; 17th c. scholars will appreciate chapter 6, “Descartes on the Moral Status of Animals”. Highly useful both for animal studies and human identity and culture.

QUANTIN, JEAN-LOUIS. “‘Si mes Lettres sont condamnées à Rome... ‘Les Provinciales devant le Saint-Office.” DSS 265 (2014), 587-617.

Analysis of the condemnation of the Lettres provinciales and other Jansenist works based on archives from the Stanza Storica, including an appendix with transcriptions of primary documents. Provides details on the officials involved in the condemnation.

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

Review: P. Balazs in S Fr 172 (2014), 142. An attestation to the semantic “malléabilité” of the term “l’ordre naturel,” this collection of essays responds to the question, “L’ordre de la nature réside-t-il dans les choses même ou bien dans leur modélisation scientifique?” Scholars examine aspects as varied as “la physico-théologie,” “le materialisme,” “la naufrage,” and “la poésie descriptive,” among others.

PETERSCHMITT, LUC. Espace et métaphysique de Gassendi à Kant Anthologie. Paris: Hermann, 2013.

Review: J. Walsh in RPFE 140.2 (2015), 246-248. “The volume is divided into fourteen sections, each devoted to either a philosopher or a group of related philosophers. Each section begins with a helpful short general introduction to the concept of space of each thinker, followed by useful comments on each excerpt of primary text, followed by the primary texts themselves.” In spite of some criticisms, the reviewer writes that this anthology “will be undoubtedly useful for any francophone interested in theories of space in the early modern period and especially for those teaching classes on the topic.”

POIRSON, MARTIAL. Les Audiences de Thalie. La comédie allégorique, théâtre des idées à l’âge classique. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013.

Review: P. Martinuzzi in S Fr 173 (2014), 361-362. Focusing on a vast corpus, largely unknown, P. demonstrates his pluridisciplinary competences, examining French dramatists who treated dramatic allegory from 1672 to 1795. Genres include: opéras-comiques, parody, pantomime, ballet, among others. Praiseworthy for its innovative critical horizons.

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

Review: M. Senior in MP 113.3 (Feb. 2016) E148-E151. Randall argues that “religious writings and practices in early modern Europe reveal a shift toward increased compassion for animals that contributed directly to the animal rights movement and contemporary calls for animal liberation.” Randall examines François de Sales’ Introduction to the Devout Life (1608) at length, as well as the Protestant poet Guillaume Du Bartas’ La Semaine (1578) and Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant’s Amusement philosophique sur le langage des bêtes (1739). Other 17th century authors appearing in this work are Descartes and La Fontaine. The reviewer concludes that this is “a highly original contribution to the history of thinking about and thinking with animals.” The reviewer also praises Randall’s “poetic flair and economy that makes it a great pleasure to read.”

Review: L. Mackenzie in MLR 110.3 (2015), 860-862. A “welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on animals and early modern culture” (861), most notably for restoring the importance of theology to the discussion of the “animal turn” in the period. Analyzing texts by Montaigne, Du Bartas, de Sales, La Fontaine, and Jesuit priest Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant, the author examines what she calls a “theology of creatureliness” figuring animals as teachers and co-inhabitants of God’s created world. Unlike the more descriptive representations of animals in pre-Renaissance texts, these works complicate the relationship between animals, man, and God. The reviewer notes that R. could have further developed certain analyses, but overall praises the study for shedding important light on the “deep historical back-story” (862) to contemporary debates about the intelligence of animals and related ethical questions.

Review: P. Sahlins in Ren Q 68.2 (2015), 726-728. Focuses on two questions: “how animals are used as a means for humans to explore themselves and the meaning of existence, and how animals can be subjects in their own rights with their own minds.” 17th c. scholars will appreciate chapter 3 on François de Sales where R. demonstrates S.’s concept of animals as providing models for spiritual life. Confessional and chronological axes organize the volume. S. has praise for certain aspects and serious reserves for others such as R.’s remarks on La Fontaine and on salon culture.

Review: Jean Leclerc CdDs XVI, 1 (2015), 111–112. Randall surveys thought ranging from theological interpretation of the Bible and Thomas Aquinas to modern thought on animal rights (Keith Thomas, Diana Donald, Erica Fudge) in order to measure “les acquis quant à la perception des animaux, leurs structures sociales, leur capacité à communiquer, à sentir et à vivre des emotions.” This study focuses on Montaigne, Du Bartas, François de Sales, and Guillaume-Hyacinthe Bougeant and spans the 16th through 18th centuries. The reviewer concludes in short: “un livre utile au champ des études interdisciplinaires du long XVIIe siècle, agréable à lire malgré quelques redondances, et solide sur le plan de la recherche malgré quelques oublis bibliographiques.”

REEVES, EILEEN. Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Review: W. Rothman in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1017-1018. Impressive for its range of primary sources, including a sonnet by a teenage Descartes and for his comparing of sensory impressions to engravings which are “the most successful, and best suggest an object when they resemble it less.”

ROUX, ALEXANDRA. “Robert Challe et Malebranche: de la recherche de la vérité à la recherche de la vraie religion.” DSS 265 (2014), 651-675.

Considers Robert Challe (whose works were only rediscovered in the 20th century) as a reader of Malebranche, specifically analyzing the ways in which Challe subverts Malebranche’s writings to articulate a Deist philosophy.

SCHAFFER, SIMON. “Fontenelle’s Newton and the Uses of Genius.” E Cr E Cr 55.2 (2015), 48-61.

Pertinent consideration of F. as “both emblem and protagonist of the cultural uses of genius.” The concept of both individual and national genius are examined and illustrated through numerous texts of F. and others, including the eulogies/éloges F. formally made in his roles in the academies and his correspondence with prominent Europeans. With references to Newton, Voltaire and others, S. demonstrates “the range of uses of genius in . . . public statements about the development and fate of natural philosophy [ . . . and how] questions of authorship and intellectual property were central in the establishment of the term’s sense.”

TONOLO, SOPHIE. “L’allégorie, en image et en texte, dans les almanachs d’époque Louis XIV conservés à Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France (1645-1690)” in Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2016. 49-63.

“L’almanach apparaît donc comme un outil de communication puissant et l’allégorie se déploie comme un dispositif bien orchestré. Cependant, la virtuosité des nombreux artistes et artisans qui y travaillent enrichit peu à peu le processus propagandiste. Centre des pièces, la figure masculine de monarque est peu à peu supplantée par une représentation abstraite de la France, et de son peuple. La fin naturelle de l’allégorie, instruire le spectateur, se dote d’une dimension métadiscursive : une célébration des pouvoirs de l’allégorie ou une pédagogie de l’image.”

TRUE, MICAH. Masters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015.

Review: V. Grégoire in FS 70.3 (2016), 435-436. A well-written (reviewer) work that has two main emphases. One is to investigate the ways the Jesuits used language and translation in their missions in New France. The other is to look at their written accounts of their mission project in the Relations annuelles published in Paris in the middle part of the seventeenth century. Shows that Jesuits behaved like colonizers, not just missionaries and ethnographers.

TUTINO, STEFANIA. Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Review: J. P. Sommerville in Ren Q 68.2 (2015), 671-672. European Catholic culture is the focus of T,’s work which extends into the 17th c. Praiseworthy, notably for its “impressive manuscript and printed primary sources.” Valuable for scholars and others interested in the culture and the ideas of the early modern.

VAN DER LINDEN, DAVID. Experiencing Exile: Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680-1700. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.

Review: M. van der Lugt in FS 70.2 (2016), 261-262. A three-part work that uses primary sources such as first-hand testimonies and sermons to explore diverse refugee experiences following the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Careful research allows the author to challenge certain idées reçues and expand current understanding of this significant moment in French religious, social, and political history. Despite gaps, notably the near-exclusion of Bayle, reviewer declares this an “exquisite piece of scholarship.”

VAN MIERT, DIRK, ed. Communicating Observations in Early Modern Letters (1500–1675), Epistolography and Epistemology in the Age of the Scientific Revolution. Warburg Institute Colloquia 23. London: The Warburg Institute, 2013.

Review: K. Reeds in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1015-1016. Eleven essays analyze content, presentation of observations, social protocols and materiality. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the contributions on Descartes and on Peiresc, among others. Highly recommended.

VINCIGUERRA, LUCIEN. La Représentation excessive. Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Pascal. Villeneuve d’Ascq : PU du Septentrion, coll. “ Philosophie moderne ”, 2013.

Review: P. Hamou dans RPFE 140.2 (2015) 249-251. L’auteur reprend “ la question de la représentation à l’Âge classique, interrogeant quatre figures philosophiques canoniques ”. Le critique trouve l’analyse de Descartes “ tout à fait remarquable, en particulier en ce qu’elle nous fait comprendre pourquoi nos problèmes (le dualisme, le voile des perceptions, les équivoques sceptiques du représentationnalisme) ne sont pas et ne pouvaient pas être ceux de Descartes ”. Par contre, “ les pages consacrées à Locke, Leibniz ou Pascal sont également très suggestives, mais parfois moins convaincantes ”.

WIENAND, ISABELLE and OLIVIER RIBORDY “La conception cartésienne de l’amour pour Dieu: amour raisonnable et passion.” DSS 265 (2014), 635-650.

Despite preconceptions to the contrary, Descartes does not entirely overlook love. The authors analyze Descartes’ reflections on intellectual or reasonable love, sensual or sensitive love, and love for God in his correspondence and in the Passions de l’âme, contending that each type is predicated upon the union of the body and soul. Suggests that his epistolary works are “de toute première importance pour l’intelligence de sa doctrine de l’amour.”

BAH-OSTROWIECKI, HÉLÈNE. Le Theophrastus redivivus. Érudition et combat antireligieux au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2012.

Review: N. Gengoux in DSS 265 (2014), 740-742. A study of the anonymous text based on the author’s “pioneering” dissertation. The analysis centers on the text’s doxographical form, interpreted “comme le signe d’une position essentiellement polémique de l’auteur anonyme du Theophrastus lequel cherche moins à prouver la vérité de sa thèse naturaliste et athée qu’à opposer à la position chrétienne une position adverse aussi forte, qui en fixe les limites, en dénonce la relativité et permette de défendre la liberté qu’elle étouffe.” The reviewer objects to certain conclusions, but admires the style and the quality of the argumentation, as well as the originality of the evoked “parenté” between atheism and religious thought.

BECKETT, SANDRA, ed. Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World: An Anthology of International Retellings. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2014.

Review: V.L.M. Harkavy in M&T 29.2 (2015), 354-356. Uses Perrault’s version as hypotext to establish a compilation of 52 retellings of the Red Riding Hood tale, all but two of which are appearing in English for the first time. Organized thematically rather than chronologically or geographically, which some readers may not appreciate. Also problematic is the verbal description of images that could not be reproduced. Reviewer finds it better as a reading anthology than a scholarly resource, but definitely recommends as such.

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT. “Beyond Belief: Sovereignty and the Spectacle of Martyrdom in Early Modern France.” SCFS 36.2 (2014), 94-108.

Thought-provoking article highlights the importance of the rhetoric and representation of the memory of pain to the formation of a body politic. Blanchard presents a reading of Corneille’s martyr play Polyeucte (1643) in light of the Jesuit Louis Richeome’s devotion book La Peinture spirituelle (1611) in order to demonstrate how the performative violence of martyrdom ultimately functions to create and sustain the idea of divinely appointed sovereignty.

BOTTIGHEIMER, RUTH B. Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic: From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Review: A. Maggi in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1496-1498. Highly useful for several disciplines beyond fairy tales themselves such as the history of ideas, the volume focuses on both magic itself in the tales and what their characters consider magical. Wide-ranging study finds Straparola as embodying the new approach and that the printing press created “a sea change.” Judged an “interesting and serious volume.”

BOULERIE, F., ed. La Médiatisation du littéraire dans l’Europe des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Tübingen: Narr, 2013 (Biblio 17, 205).

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 172 (2014), 138. The seeming anachronism of the title is well justified by Ch. Mazouer whose contribution focuses on the reevaluation of the place of literature in the public and social life of the Early Modern. The volume is organized in the following sections: “Stratégies publicitaires,” “Débats esthétiques,” “Instrumentalisations politiques” and “Consécrations auctoriales.”

CALABRITTO, MONICA and PETER DALY, eds. Emblems of Death in the Early Modern Period. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 120. Geneva: Droz, 2014.

Review: D. Graham in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1369-1370. Includes much new materials but is found disappointing for its lack of specificity and unevenness as concerns any consistent understanding of what an emblem of death is.

CALL, MICHAEL. “Fortuna Goes to the Theater: Lottery Comedies in Seventeenth-Century France.” Fr F 40.1 (2015), 1-15.

Pertinent and well documented study begins with a concise history of bans and permissions of the lottery in the Renaissance and the 17th c, with finally “the broad social acceptance of the practice [which] would result in the successful establishment of a royal lottery in 1659.” Focus here is on shared connections between lottery and theatre, spectacle and performance, which leads C. to examine a series of lottery comedies. The diverse approaches of characters hoping to assure a win, strategies which may provide dénouements, moral tone, plays based on real-life incidents and models, commentaries on the time, all come up for discussion leading to the conclusion that “chance is about vraisemblance [and similarly] comedies . . . are based on the tension between predetermined outcomes and probable futures.” C. writes well, even wittily at times, such as in his concluding sentence: “Even while staging the random, the authors of seventeenth-century lottery comedies could ill afford to leave anything to chance.”

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

Review: M. Mastroianni in S Fr 172 (2014), 135-136. Wide-ranging and heterogenous volume analyzes texts relevant to eloquence, “lettres d’amour” and “lettres galantes.” The analysis demonstrates that the letter is “una forma già matura e completa nei suoi elementi costitutivi che sono gli stesse che continueranno ad animarla nel Settecento” (135). Careful attention to cultural influences is evident throughout this solid and useful examination.

CHAOUCHE, SABINE. “Stratégies économiques et politiques de programmation à la fin du XVIIe siècle. Les spectacles à l’heure des barbouilleurs et des amuseurs.” DSS 265 (2014), 677-690.

Studies the economic foundations of the theater in the Old Regime, too often overlooked according to the author (although C. notes the Registres de la Comédie-Française project currently in progress). Combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyze the interdependence between commercial strategies and dramatic productions to understand the increasing commercialization of the theater from the end of the 17th century.

CUMMINGS, BRIAN and FREYA SIERHUIS. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.

Review: E. Harvey in MP 113.4 (May 2016) E242-E245. The volume includes fifteen essays framed by an introduction and afterword coauthored by Cummings and Sirhuis. The collection encompasses diverse manifestations of subjectivity or the passions across a sweep of time (Montaigne to Hobbes), a range of disciplines (philosophy, politics, theology, art, literature, medicine, science), and a variety of approaches (philosophy, literary criticism, intellectual history). The final section of the volume, “Philosophy and the Early Modern Passions,” includes an essay by Stephan Laqué in which he considers Hamlet through the Cartesian mind-body divide. The reviewer states that “although the collection is a valuable addition to the debates on the passions, in its endeavor to rectify the somatic imbalance of its predecessor scholars, it ends up privileging through structure, method and topic the perspective of the mind.

DALLA VALLE, DANIELA, LAURA RESCIA and MONICA PAVESIO, eds. Da un genere all’altro. Traposizioni e riscritture nella letteratura francese. Rome: Aracne, 2012.

Review: B. Piqué in S Fr 172 (2014), 136-138. This collection of essays originating in the November 2010 conference held in Torino on the topic of the volume’s subtitle is a rich contribution of twenty-five essays. Important for analyses of the development of the theatre, romance, innovations such as Fénelon’s “contaminazione di poesia e prosa” and for resonances with La Fontaine.

DION, NICHOLAS. Entre les larmes et l’effroi. La tragédie classique française, 1677-1726. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2012.

Review: O. El Mansouri in DSS 265 (2014), 750-751. Within the existing corpus of criticism on “la dimension affective du théâtre classique,” D.’s study stands out for the choice of primary texts and for the consideration of both “la pitié tragique” and “l’effroi.” The first section presents the theoretical scaffolding for the project, including a convincing argument regarding tragedy’s appropriation of the “merveilleux noir” developed in the opera. Section Two turns to the influence of “le goût élégiaque et la tentation horrifique” on tragic dramaturgy, while the final section examines the relationship between elegy and horror. The reviewer praises in particular D.’s “style sobre et toujours elegant” and “[la] richesse et [la] precision de ses analyses” of post-Racinian tragedies. The work will also interest 18th-century specialists.

EICHEL-LOJKINE, PATRICIA Contes en réseaux: L’émergence du conte sur la scène littéraire européenne. Les seuils de la modernité 16. Geneva: Droz, 2013.

Review: L. C. Seifert in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1106-1108. Argues that the “conte” must be understood as a transcultural phenomenon. E.-L.’s work fills a number of important lacunae. Useful reliance on the Foucauldian notion of network. The study is arranged into three parts: 1) an investigation of definitions of the fairy tale, 2) the genre’s genealogy and 3) its transformations from Straparola to Perrault. Specific tales are analyzed as well and animal-human relations are examined. Appealing and useful to both specialists and non-specialists.

ÉVAIN, AURORE, PERRY GETHNER, and HENRETTE GOLDWYN. Théâtre de femmes de l’ancien régime, Vol.III, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2011.

Review: M. Dye in MLR 110.3 (2015), 863-864. The reviewer notes a “great diversity of themes and genres” (863) in the six authors and nine plays that figure in Volume 3 of this series offering critical editions for works by female playwrights in the Ancien Régime. Some authors adapt well-known stories from antiquity, while others invent plots that question marriage and gender norms. The works presented in the volume dialogue with canonical (male) figures from the period even as they innovate upon these works, and many of the female authors represented were able to live from their pen. D. finds that the plays in the volume “provide an important perspective on the classical era that is indeed crucial to our understanding of the age” (864).

FEERICK, JEAN E. and VIN NARDIZZI, eds. The Indistinct Human in Renaissance Literature. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Review: J. Crawford in Ren Q 68.1 (2015), 398-400. Stimulating and wide-ranging collection explores humans and relationships with nature, its editors claiming that “the potential for human indistinction is the dark underside of Renaissance celebrations of man’s preeminent place within the cosmos.” C. finds much to like in the studies which are indebted both to Aristotle’s De Anima and his understanding of the “ensouldness of all things” and to the 2012 book by Laurie Shannon, The Accomodated Animal. Shannon is represented in this volume as well and the editors follow Shannon in “seeing Descartes as the endpoint for the reign of human indistinction.”

FERREYROLLES, GÉRARD, et al., eds. Traités sur l’histoire (1638-1677). La Mothe Le Vayer, Le Moyne, Saint-Réal, Rapin. Paris : Champion, 2013.

Review: V. Kapp in PFSCL XLVIII, 84 (2016), 118-122. Anthology of 17th c. historical treatises, arguing that history in the period be considered not only with respect to historiographes, but also historiologues, “notion par laquelle il [Ferreyrolles] désigne les ‘auteurs des traités sur l’histoire’ dont ce volume réunit quatre des plus importants de l’époque.” Although reviewer notes that the editors seem to feel compelled to make arguments “sans pouvoir toujours prouver leur pertinence,” he applauds Ferreyrolles’s 100-page introduction which assess: 1) “les enjeux de la charge d’historiographe du roi de France,” 2) the porous border “entre érudition profane et érudition ecclésiastique,” 3) “les affinités et les conflits entre la codification de l’historiographie et les préceptes rhétoriques du style" (119). Reviewer concludes that “Aucun critique qui s’occupe de le poétique du XVIIe siècle, ne pourra plus contourner la problématique littéraire de ce genre.”

FIX, FLORENCE. Barbe-Bleue et l’esthétique du secret de Charles Perrault à Amélie Nothomb. Pari: Hermann, 2014.

Review: R. Sapino in S Fr 174 (2014), 652-653. Rich and wide-ranging examination of the figure of Barbe-bleue from P.’s 17th c. to the present. The very large corpus includes some 20 texts of varied genres. The volume is organized into the following chapters: “Figures de l’impossible,” “La curiosité est un vilain défaut,” “Anne, ma soeur Anne . . .” and “L’adieu au bleu.”

FORESTIER, GEORGES. Scédase de Hardy: à propos de quelques récents malentendus sur violence et cruauté dans la tragédie française. DSS 264 (2014), 533-548.

Rejects the notion that Hardy’s Scédase stands apart from previous humanist tragedies for the depiction of on-stage violence, contending that the work continues a tradition traceable to Seneca. Argues that the misinterpretation of the word “honnêtement” in De l’Art de la Tragédie (1572) constitutes the root of a misunderstanding that incorrectly considers humanist theater as precluding the representation of violence. Deploying a “genetic” approach, F. suggests that the play’s true innovation resides in the author’s reinforcement of the tragic element through the promise of “justice” to come.

FRISCH, ANDREA. Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2015.

Review: G. Hoffman in MP 113.4 (2016), E239-E241. Although focuses primarily on the sixteenth century, this study will be of interest to dix-septièmistes for its interweaving of legal, religious, and literary history and the ways it sheds light on the rise of neoclassical tragedy and the modern era.

FUMAROLI, MARC. La république des lettres. Paris: Gallimard, 2016.

Review: J. Rogister in TLS 5875 (Nov 6 2015), 27. This “stimulating and allusive book” examines the République des lettres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. Fumaroli shows how Amsterdam, London and Paris became three great centers of this republic. He pays much attention to Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and the brothers Dupuy, then traces the origins of a new République as French replaces Latin.

GARGAM, ADÉLINE. Les Femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées dams la littérature française des Lumières ou la conquête d’une légitmité (1690-1804). Paris: Champion, 2013. 2 vols.

Review: R. Bochenek-Franczakowa in S Fr 174 (2014), 594-595. Important for its contribution to the understanding of the place and role of women in the (late) 17th and in the 18th centuries’ literary and intellectual history. Includes documentation of over 500 women, real and fictive, literary and scientific. Of major importance for our grasp of the access of women to knowledge and the obstacles they faced. G. has organized her study into three parts: “Les femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées: approches littéraires, historique et sociologique,” “Femmes et savoirs dans les débats scientifiques et littéraires” and “Les femmes savantes, lettrées et cultivées dans les fictions narratives et théâtrales.” Rich voluminous examination includes imposing and precise bibliography.

GARNIER, ISABELLE and OLIVIER LEPLATRE, eds. Impertinence générique et genres de l’impertinence, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles. Cahiers du GADGES 10. Genève: Droz, 2012.

Review: A. Vintenon in DSS 265 (2014), 747-749. Contributions to this edited volume analyze the term “impertinence” at the intersection of aesthetics, morality, and savoir-vivre from linguistic, generic, and rhetorical perspectives. “La richesse de cette belle notion est bien reflétée par ce recueil foisonnant et varié, qui explore non seulement le lexique de l’impertinence, mais aussi, plus largement, la réalité qu’elle recouvre, l’écart par rapport à une norme.” “Les vingt-neuf contributions sont, globalement, de très bonne facture, et leur organisation, présentée dans une solide introduction, décrit une progression efficace.”

GOBERT, R. DARREN. The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2013.

Review: E. Koch in MP 113.3 (Feb. 2016), E164-E166. In analyzing theater, theater history, and theater performance, Gobert’s work extends a recent development in studies of Descartes: the restoration of Cartesian corporeality and corporal phenomena by tracing its cultural effects beyond Descartes’ philosophy. Koch calls Gobert’s work “important” and “intriguing,” but cautions that much of the physiology and theory of passions that Gobert attributes to Descartes is very much in the air at this time and resonances can be found elsewhere as well.

GREENHILL, PAULINE. “The International Fairy-Tale Filmography (IFTF).” M&T 29.1 (2015), 137-139.

“We introduce the International Fairy-Tale Filmography (iftf.uwinnipeg.ca), created by Jack Zipes, Pauline Greenhill, and Kendra Magnus-Johnston. It is a database currently searchable by title, director, person, company, country, language, or origin (ATU numbers and/or literary fairy-tale titles and authors). It is available free of charge, open access to all users.”

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

Review: M. Meere in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1517-1518. Focusing on theoretical texts from the 16th -18th c., H. analyzes the spectator as a “composite or hypothetical construct” of theoreticians. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the chapters on the Abbé d’Aubignac, Corneille and Jean-Baptiste Dubos as well as analyses of music in the theatre, the unities, perspective, pleasure and suspense, emotion, among other topics. Only criticism is a plea for more attention to earlier and lesser-known late 16th- and early-17th c-theorists.

HAWCROFT, MICHAEL. “Violence et bienséance dans l’Examen d’Horace: pour une critique de la notion de bienséances externes.” DSS 264 (2014), 549-570.

Against other interpretations, H. focuses on the overlooked first paragraph in the Examen d’Horace to revise what he perceives to be an enduring inaccuracy in literary criticism: “La bienséance ou les bienséances n’avait rien à voir au XVIIe siècle avec la representation de la violence sur la scène. La bienséance était surtout un concept poétique exigeant une cohérence dans le traitement du personnage fictif” (560). Further contends that Corneille weighs the representation of violence in relation to the importance to incite fear and pity in spectators.

JEFFERSON, ANN and JEAN-AL:EXANDRE PERRAS. “Introduction.” E Cr 55.2 (2015), 1-3.

The editors of the summer volume of E Cr introduce its focus, the notion of Genius. The impetus for the collection was a journée d’études held November 15, 2013 at the Maison française d’Oxford. The approach favored is the history of the notion “dans la longue durée” and in the great variety of constructions and uses, including, for example, quarrels and debates, political, economical, linguistic (and other) relationships. 17th c. specialists will appreciate studies on linguistic phenomena and on Descartes, for example.

KJØRHOLT, INGVILD HAGEN, “Appropriations of the Cosmopolitan in Early Modern French Literature.” FMLS 51.3 (2015), 287-303.

Focuses on the origins of the Greek term and its transformations in early modern France. After a careful consideration of kosmopolites as illustrated by Diogenes, K. turns to 16th and 17th c. French texts to demonstrate the term’s appropriation. Although K. has a section entitled “The 16th and 17th centuries: the cosmopolitan as author,” and several 16th c. examples are given, the only 17th c. one is that of a Polish alchemist, philosopher and medical doctor. Yet before turning to the next section, “The 18th century: the cosmopolitan philosopher,” K. remarks that the term in 16th and 17th c. French “is usually employed as a pseudonym or sobriquet.” While appreciative of this article’s attentiveness to 16th and 18th c. uses of the concept under study, we would concur with K. that, at least as regards the 17th c., “further research” is merited.

KROUPA, GREGOR. “The Poets and the Philosophers: Genius and Analogy in Descartes and the Encyclopédie (Following Aristotle).” E Cr 55.2 (2015), 34-47.

Beginning with Aristotle’s statement that “‘the greatest thing by far’ for a poet is to be a master of metaphor: ‘It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others: and it is also a sign of genius [euphyía], since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars’” (qtd. from the Poetics), K. then turns his attention to Aristotle’s Rhetoric with its narrowing down of the definition of metaphor: “‘metaphors must not be far-fetched, or they will be difficult to grasp, not obvious, or they will have no effect.’” K.’s consideration of Descartes focuses on what he terms “unofficial texts” of the Cartesian canon, “to find heterogeneous analogies between the physical and spiritual domains—those better served by the genius of poetry than rational methods” (42). In the remainder of his essay, K. focuses on the Encyclopédie, concluding that “Diderot links genius to analogy in a way that echoes both Aristotle and Descartes, insofar as analogy is not primarily a didactic tool but a means of discovery” (45). This thoughtful and convincing article provides stimulating references in the notes and concludes that while the “century of genius” (the 17th) brought “so many new discoveries, [. . . the 18th c.’s task was] to bring order to the vast quantity of new knowledge.”

LAIGNEAU-FONTAINE, SYLVIE. “Petite patrie”: L’image de la région natale chez les écrivains de la Renaissance. Travaux d’humanisme et Renaissance 521. Geneva: Droz, 2013.

Review: E. M. Ancekewicz in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1349-1350. The birthplace or native region is the focus of L.-F.’s study which includes an essay by ÉMILE SÉRIS on the topos itself, its history and symbolic functions. Seven studies by L.-F. examine French humanism and the praise of France. Highly recommended.

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. ed. Le Mariage et la loi dans la fiction narrative avant 1800. Louvain: Peeters (La République des lettres, 53), 2014.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 51.2 (2015), 235. Welcome volume examines links (“ethical, aesthetic and existential”) between the topic and “each literary production and its context.” Organized into sections on “the relation between marriage and the law,” “texts which reject marriage” and “the poetics of the topos of marriage,” the collection also demonstrates convincingly the “power of fiction by exploring the nature of its relation to the real world.”

LE GUERN, MICHEL, ed. La Rhétorique ou l’éloquence française by Louis de Lesclache. Paris: Garnier, 2012.

Review: A. Sort-Jacotot in DSS 265 (2014), 743-744. Critical edition featuring an introduction with details on the attribution of the work to Lesclache and on the years of the treatise’s composition (c. 1652 -1660), as well as situating Lesclache’s place in the history of rhetoric. A glossary and two indices supplement the critical apparatus.

LOCHERT, VÉRONIQUE and JEAN DE GUARDIA, eds. Théâtre et Imaginaire: Images scéniques et representations mentales, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Dijon: Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2012.

Review: S. L’Hopital in DSS 265 (2014), 753-755. An edited volume featuring contributions from a colloquium on the ways in which the theater produces images, both mental and material. Section 1 studies the status of the image in the theater and the birth of the “image illusionniste” in the 17th century. Section 2 treats the exchanges between images on the stage and in the cultural imaginary. The third and final section discusses “la naissance d’un théâtre de l’imaginaire et du spectaculaire” in the 18th century.

MARRACHE-GOURAUD, MYRIAN. “La Plume des Amériques en son histoire allégorique.” in Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2016. 253-270.

Argues that the markedly ambivalent European conception of the native peoples of America is clearly present in the emblematic trope of the feather. Through Lévi-Strauss’s observation in Tristes Tropiques that the new is always in some ways marked by the old, the author embarks on a longitudinal examination of the “feather’s” allegorical construction. The analysis concludes that the symbol realizes both exotic and savage dimensions, which render it allegorically ambiguous.

MCCLARY, SUSAN. Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression. Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2013.

Review: M. Reeves in UTQ 84.3 (Summer 2015), 193-195. This collection of thirteen essays addresses “a remarkably diverse array of primary sources, including treatises, travel writing, letters, prophecy, visual art, poetry, and various musical forms. What ties these essays together is their common interest in tracing structures of feeling in written, visual, and performative art produced within various cultures across western Europe and the Americas during the seventeenth century.” The critic notes that this is a scholarly work, not an introductory text, which succeeds in promoting the seventeenth century as a period worthy of study in its own right.

MIERNOWSKI, JAN. La beauté de la haine. Essais de misologie littéraire. Genève: Droz, 2014.

Review: R. Benedettini in S Fr 174 (2014), 657. This wide-ranging examination treats the aesthetic concept of the beauty of hatred from the 16th c. to the present through careful attention to poetry, novel, theatre and pamphlets. 17th c. specialists will appreciate the analyses of Corneille’s Rodogune and Racine’s Thébaïde, the latter termed a veritable festival of hatred. Bibliography and index.

MOREAU, FRANÇOIS, MARIE-CHRISTINE GOMEZ-GÉRAUD and PHILIPPE ANTOINE, eds. Itinéraires littéraires du voyage, Travaux de Littérature, XVI (2013), Paris: ADIREL.

Review: R. Sapino in S Fr 174 (2014), 654-656. This volume of TL asks the question “La Littérature de voyage est-elle de la littérature?” The collected essays are organized into five sections: “Voyageurs et voyageuses: une écriture ?” “Saveurs et images du voyage,” “De la Méditérranée aux Orients,” “Poétiques du voyage,” and finally three contributions on the 20th c. The essays make a positive reply to the opening question as they examine numerous pertinent aspects such as language, a feminine imaginary, dialogue, food, images, ruins, genres, the “sacré” and the “profane,” the writer-traveler and “lieux de mémoires,” among others. Index of names, presentation of authors and recent publications of members of ADIREL.

NANCY, SARAH. La Voix féminine et le plaisir de l’écoute en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 172 (2014), 141. Informed by theories of the pleasure of listening, this examination focuses on relationships between feminine voices, music, word and spectacle. Impressive both for its engagement with primary sources and today’s critics, N.’s study is well documented, an example of interdisciplinarity imbued with serious scholarship.

NEDELEC, CLAUDINE and J. LECLERC, eds. Le Burlesque selon les Perrault, Oeuvres et critiques. Paris: Champion, 2013.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 173 (2014), 359-360. Praiseworthy discovery and edition of rare texts, some in manuscript, of a literary and theoretical nature belonging to the burlesque genre. The first part of the anthology includes the burlesque texts, such as L’Enéide burlesque, while the second part focuses on critical reflection (1678-1692) of the brothers P. Rich critical apparatus includes a glossary and an extensive bibliography.

OIRY, GOULVEN. “Des abeilles dans la grande ruche citadine: les serviteurs de la comédie des années 1540-1610.” S Fr 173 (2014), 236-248.

Although the focus here is Renaissance comedy, demonstrating convincingly the pivotal role of domestics, several plays by authors toward the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th c. are included: Pierre de Larivey, Pierre Le Loyer, François d’Amboise, Odet de Turnèbe, François Perrin, Jean Goddard and Pierre Troterel. Well documented and pertinent, the article demonstrates that “pour la bourgeoisie et la noblesse, sur le mode de la dérision humoristique plutôt que d’une satire méprisante, le serviteur du théâtre comique fait bien office d’exutoire. Il se conçoit en ce sens comme le raccourci ou l’emblème du spectacle comique dans son ensemble.”

ORME, JENNIFER. “A Wolf’s Queer Invitation: David Kaplan’s Little Red Riding Hood and Queer Possibility.” M&T 29.1 (2015), 87-109.

“The concept of queer invitation is explored in this reading of David Kaplan’s short film Little Red Riding Hood (1997). I propose that queer reading is activated by the acceptance of the queer invitation initiated primarily by the wolf figure in the film. This invitation to queer reading demands the suspension of the culturally dominant versions and interpretations of the tale by the Grimms and Perrault and activates gay cultural knowledges of celebrity intertexts in their stead. The suspension of “what everybody knows” about the tale and the wolf figure in particular opens space for a repositioning of the wolf-man through the representation of the wolf but also through the relationships between the cinematic visual, verbal, and musical channels and extratextual references to Vaslav Nijinsky and Quentin Crisp. Although offering a queer reading, I do not attempt to offer a template for queer reading of fairy tales; rather, I suggest that situated and specialized cultural knowledges are integral to queer reading and are therefore not available to, or accepted by, all audience members at all times.”

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

Review: K. Laporta in RR 104.3/4 (2013), 389-392. Appreciative review qualifies Paige’s case study of the evolution of the early modern French novel as “innovative” and “as bold as it is cautious.” In order to explore the rise of fictionality during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Paige creates three régimes of literary invention: Aristotelian, pseudo-factal, and fictional. The author then proceeds to analyze a corpus of six authors—Lafayette, Subligny, Crébillon fils, Rousseau, Diderot, and Cazotte—whose works characterize the problematic truth-status of the pseudo-factal regime, thereby delineating an important shift in novelistic practice.

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

Review: P. Balazs in S Fr 172 (2014), 142. An attestation to the semantic “malléabilité” of the term “l’ordre naturel,” this collection of essays responds to the question, “L’ordre de la nature réside-t-il dans les choses même ou bien dans leur modélisation scientifique?” Scholars examine aspects as varied as “la physico-théologie,” “le materialisme,” “la naufrage,” and “la poésie descriptive,” among others.

PAVESIO, MONICA. “Nascita, evoluzione e successo di un nuovo tipo di servo sel teatro francese tardo secentesco: il caso di Crispin.” S Fr 173 (2014), 257-264.

This illuminating article fills an important lacuna in the study of the evolution of personages of 17th c. theatre. Convincingly demonstrates the multiple influences and sources for Crispin who became the “valet vedette” of the 17th c. thanks to actor-playwright Belleroche (Raymond Poisson, 1633-1690).

PERRAS, JEAN-ALEXANDRE. “Genius as Commonplace in Early Modern France.” E Cr 55.2 (2015), 20-33.

P.’s article is the introductory one for this issue of E Cr which focuses on the concept of genius: “Thinking Genius, Using Genius / Penser le génie à travers ses usages,” directed by Ann Jefferson and Jean-Alexandre Perras. P’s exploration of the opposition “between genius and the commonality” begins with attention to definitions, the first being that of 1606 in Jean Nicot’s Thrésor de la langue françoise tant ancienne que moderne which focuses on the individual, in contrast with that of Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s 1801 Néologie: “Genius: A mind superior to that of other men: but by how much? That is the question?” P.’s study includes consideration of “the authority of ethical and esthetic models inherited from antiquity” and the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. Other important contributors to the development and use of the notion examined here include Perrault and Boileau, as well as several key figures of the 18th c. Well documented and with illustrations including examples of Roman and French coinage representing the concept.

PEUREUX, GUILLAUME. La Muse satyrique, 1600-1622. Seuils de la modernité 17. Geneva: Droz, 2015.

Review: A. Horsley in MLR 111.1 (2016), 249-250. The first modern book-length study of the corpus of obscene poetry known as les recueils satyriques, P.’s work traces these anthologies and their reception by their contemporary public and beyond. The reviewer notes in particular the study’s surprising conclusion regarding the “subversion and resistance” evidenced in some of these works (250). By limiting his analysis to a select number of the roughly 150 poets who published these collections, the reviewer finds that P. stimulates the reader’s interest in this corpus and provides “solid groundwork and useful scholarly frameworks for future studies” (250).

Review: H. Roberts in FS 70.1 (2016), 102-103. The first serious, book-length attempt to deal with the profusion of early seventeenth-century satyres since the work of Frédéric Lachèvre in the early 1900s. Looks at the sheer number of anthologies and their increasing obscenity in light of contemporary attitudes, including a defense of “traditional” masculinity during the rise of court culture. Reviewer, who admits a personal stake due to collaboration with the author, finds text “essential reading for anyone with an interest in this intriguing area of French literary history.”

Review: J. Leclerc in PFSCL XLVIII, 84 (2016), 122-125. Avoiding the many traps of les recueils satyriques by placing them within their historical context (the Edict of Nantes, assassination of Henri IV, and the trial of Théophile de Viau), “[l]e livre de G.P. s’avère le meilleur guide de lecture écrit jusqu’à maintenant sur ces textes, dessinant un trajet minutieux à travers les méandres de la poésie satyrique.” Five chapters ("Phénomène satyrique," “Trouble satyrique,” “Poètes et lecteurs satyriques,” “Double obscénité satyrique," and "Politique de l’événement satyrique") explore “les aspects éditoriaux, génériques, sociologiques, et idéologiques,” laying the foundation for future study in the directions evoked but not pursued by P. Reviewer considers the notion of “‘l’effet de recueil,’ grâce à laquelle la pluralité des voix auctoriales, des motifs, des thèmes, et des genres sollicités trouve sa cohérence, une sorte d’unification artificielle, susceptible d’opérer un ‘travail’ sur le lecteur" to be the most convincing of the text.

REQUEMORA-GROS, SYLVIE. “Voyager vent debout: Paradoxes d’un ‘charmant voyage’”. Tr L 28 (2015), 75-83.

Including a helpful review of key volumes and colloques on voyage in prose and verse and a succinct characterization of the genre, R.-G. focuses on the writings of Jean-François Regnard as well as on La Fontaine, l’abbé Levasseur and others. R.-G. underscores R.’s originality and diversity in her pertinent analyses and offers highly useful remarks on “galanterie,” the term’s semantic and style.

PROBES, CHRISTINE. “‘La Vie’ selon les emblématistes : les sens et les significations.” CdDs XV, 2 (2014), 18–32.

A comparative study of "la vie" that focuses on the role of the senses in the work of Jean-Jacques Boissard (Emblemes, 1584, 1593, 1595 ; and Theatrum vitae humanae, 1596) and Jean-Baptiste Chassignet (Sonnets franc-comtois, c. 1615). In addition to their consistent application of the senses, the two emblematists also evoke a tension between the senses and reason. By appealing to the eyes, the intellect, and the memory, their work "réunit l'utile à l'agréable, visant à plaire et à instruire."

RESIDORI, MATTEO, HÉLÈNE TROPÉ, DANIELLE BOILLET, and MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD, eds. Vies d’écrivains, vies d’artistes: Espagne, France, Italie, XVIe–XVIIe siècles. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2014.

Review: E. Guerra in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1489-1490. This result of two research projects, “Formes et idées de la Renaissance au Lumières” and “Les Cultures de l’Europe méditerranéenne occidentale,” analyzes biographies, their writing processes and relation to societies including readers. Wide-ranging, the project also addresses the pedagogical role of biographies and confirms that “the biography is a precious instrument that . . . helps us further understand Renaissance societies.”

ROMANOWSKI, SYLVIE. "Teaching the Seventeenth Century at the Graduate Level." CdDs XVI, 1 (2015), 93–108.

The author presents strategies for organizing a graduate seminar around the theme of modernity. The course allows for a wide variety of seventeenth-century culture to be presented while encouraging broad connections with the literature and culture of other periods.

RONZEAUD, PIERRE. “Usages Polémiques de l’allégorie en context pamphlétaire: les Mazarinades” in Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2016. 215-226.

“Son enquête montre la grande variété des figurations allégoriques proposées par Mazarinades et la grande instabilité de leurs usages dépendant des positions frondeuses ou anti-frondeuses des auteurs, qui, changeant d’ailleurs s’inverser, amenant des anamorphoses, des métamorphoses ou même de renversements totaux de l’imagerie mobilisée. La plasticité des contextes esthétiques (dramatique ou burlesque par exemple), des modèles génériques (sonnet, discours, ou dialogue par exemple), induit en outre des variations dans les potentialités d’allégorèses des Mazarinades: facilitation d’interprétation souvent renforcée par des titres, des explications, des commentaires, ce qui est logiqu dans une stratégie de conquête de l’opinion, ou, plus rarement, opacification énigmatique.”

ROUSSEAU, CHRISTINE. "Hommes et animaux dans les contes de fées du XVIIe siècle." CdDs XV, 2 (2014), 103-120.

Fairy tales push us to ask whether animals or humans have a greater bestial nature and whether metamorphosis from animal to human (or vice versa) is positive or negative. The author concludes that " la métamorphose est ainsi le lieu privilégié d’une critique des moeurs et des relations hommes-femmes."

SCHUWEY, CHRISTOPHE. "Le Mercure galant : un recueil interactif." CdDs XVI, 1 (2015), 48–62.

This article looks at the Mercure as a "livre perpetuel"––a book constantly being written and rewritten––and shows how modern concepts of journalism are foreign to the seventeenth-century understanding of its editorial practice which considered the Mercure a "receuil." The author concludes that "Il constitue ainsi une plateforme à la plasticité maximale, idéale pour imprimer, diffuser, et surtout, conserver une série de contenus qui ne pourraient trouver place ailleurs : en cela, il participe à l’immense entreprise d’écriture de l’histoire du siècle de Louis le Grand. Mais la pérennité de sa republication lui permet en outre de susciter des productions, et de les imprimer ensuite, en une sorte de mouvement perpétuel : le Mercure galant est interactif."

SERVET, PIERRE et MARIE-HÉLÈNE. Testaments pour rire. Testaments facétieux et polémiques dans la littérature d’Ancien Régime. 1465-1799. Édition critique. Genève: Droz “Textes littéraires français” 625, 2013.

Review: G. M. Roccati in S Fr 174 (2014), 651. Welcome critical edition focuses on burlesque and satirical testaments, examining them chronologically and by genre, from Jean de Meung’s Congès up to the Revolution. Identifies characteristics of literary form (figures and symbols, for example), situates form “au carrefour des genres” and studies editorial contexts. Table, bibliography and lexical notes are included in this examination which is organized in two parts: “Testaments facétieux” and “Testaments polémiques.”

SOUILLER, DIDIER, ed. Maniérisme et Littérature. Comparaisons. Paris: Éditions Orizons, 2013.

Review: S. Miglierina in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1492-1493. The result of two conferences which occurred in 2010 at the Château d’Ancy le Franc and at the Université de Bourgogne, the volume addresses the problematic relationship between literature and a “pictorial language,” here, mannerism. Afterword by Danielle Della Valle on the need for such investigation. The essays include considerations of the ancient and Renaissance legacy, the diversity of genres (erotic dreams, gardens) and specific geographical areas (including France with an article on Abraham de Vermeil). Praiseworthy for the lacunae which the volume fills and for its erudition.

SPICA, ALLE-ÉLISABETH. “L’allégorie, “ Figure et image ”” in Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2016. 3-27.

L’article essaie “de mettre au jour la pluralité des niveaux de contradiction de l’allégorie classique, entendue dans ses différents champs d’application, rhétorique, théologique et poétique ; pour essayer, aussi, de saisir les clivages interprétatifs qui se constituent, au XVIIe siècle, autour d’une notion convoquée avec autant d’abondance que de militantisme.”

STANTON, DOMNA C. The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing. Farnham: Ashgate. 2014

Review: S. Genieys-Kirk in MLR 111.1 (2016), 251-252. By analyzing cultural and literary representations of women, S. engages with Butler and Foucault to argue that gender norms constitute “sites of contested meaning” in 17th-century France. The first part of the book (“Women Writ”) studies works penned by male authors, engaging with recent scholarship that analyzes notions such as “classicism” as semi-mythical constructs. Part Two (“Writing Women”) turns to works by female authors, revealing the complex subversion of gender norms that figure in female literary production from the period. A “rich study” combining “literary and gender theories, psychoanalysis, and feminist epistemology,” the reviewer finds that the work sheds “new light on the complex ‘dynamics’ of the ‘Querelle des femmes et des hommes.’”

STEIGERWALD, JÖRN and MARINE ROUSSILLON, eds. La dispute entre l’Arioste et le Tasse. Les appropriations de deux esthétiques antagonistes au XVIIe siècle en France. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, vol. XL, n. 79, Tübingen: Narr, 2013.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 174 (2014), 593. Welcome assessment of the new Ariosto-Tasse aesthetic at the courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Book chapters examine reception, appropriations in “histoires comiques,” the epic genre, the unities, the ballet and in Molière’s work.

STIKER-MÉTRAL, CHARLES-OLIVIER. “L’amour-propre : de l’allégorie à la réflexion morale” in Pioffet, Marie-Christine, Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. S’exprimer autrement: poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2016. 151-161.

“De manière exemplaire, ces deux textes [Le palais de l’amour divin entre Jésus et l’âme chrétienne et Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales] sur l’amour-propre permettent de [sic] d’observer à la fois un approfondissement et une rupture dans le traitement littéraire de cette notion. Certes, on voit se développer, tout au long du siècle, une interrogation sur l’amour-propre, lequel s’apparente à un défi au langage et à la représentation. Mais la rupture est peut-être déterminante : la morale consiste pour La Rochefoucauld en une herméneutique des actions humaines, plutôt qu’en la figuration toujours imparfaite d’une intériorité et qu’en un portrait de ce qui demeure irrémédiablement caché.”

SUKIC, CHRISTINE ed. Corps héroïque, corps de chair dans les récits de vie de la première modernité. Reims: Éditions et Presses universitaires de Reims, 2013.

Review: P. Zoberman in Ren Q 68.4 (2015), 1490-1492. Judged as an “important contribution to our understanding of the emergence of the representation of the modern body and (auto)biographical writing,” these studies resulting from a 2012 conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Languages and Thought include essays on Dassoucy and Jeanne de Chantal, among others.

TIKANOJA, TUOMAS. Transgressing Boundaries: Worldly Conversation, Politeness and Sociability in Ancien Régime France, 1660-1789. Helsinki: Unigrafia, 2013.

Review: C. Crowston in MLR 111.1 (2016), 253-254. An “ambitious” study tracing the emergence of the terms sociabilité and social in the eighteenth century, T.’s book examines a wide range of primary texts (works by salonnières, court manuals, treatises) to set out the argument that a “new high society constituted itself in the late seventeenth century as a self-conscious alternative to the absolutist court.” Arguing against recent works by Antoine Lilti and Steven Kale, T. defends Dena Goodman’s thesis that the salons “played a central role in the development of an autonomous public sphere.” The reviewer congratulates the author for “weaving together a rich and fascinating set of reflections” on the topics, but criticizes T.’s methodology for taking primary sources at face value.

TRIBOUT, BRUNO. Les récits de conjuration sous Louis XIV. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Lanval, 2010.

Review: K. Laporta in RR 104.3/4 (2013), 392-395. Ambitious study of prose narratives published during the second half of the seventeenth century that address the controversial subject of revolt. Author examines the paradoxical nature of fictional representations of uprising during the reign of the Sun King, observing that whereas the readers are encouraged to identify and sympathize with the conspirators, the act of revolt is denounced, and the texts ultimately adopt a pro-monarchical stance that cautions against tyranny. According to the reviewer, Tribout’s pre-revolutionary corpus (not specified in the review) converges around “the pleasure of witnessing monarchical rule threatened and reestablished within the safe haven of fiction.” Reviewer admires Tribout’s meticulous research, but regrets that the author did not include a discussion of early modern theories of tragedy, or further develop his definition of the sublime noir, both of which would have strengthened his argument.

TRUE, MICAH. “Beyond the ‘Affaire Tartuffe’: Seventeenth-Century French Theatre in Colonial Quebec.” RomN 55.3 (2015), 451-61.

This article questions the tendency to focus on the 1694 quarrel over a performance in of Tartuffe when discussing theatre in New France. By examining the extant records of French plays performed in the colony, the author tries to determine how common such performances were, who chose the plays, and how the plays were received. The author proposes that close readings of plays known to have been performed in New France should occur alongside examination of the rich accounts of colonial life. This might illumine performance circumstances and yield new interpretations of the plays in question.

VAILLANT, ALAIN, ed. Esthétique du rire. Paris: PU de Paris Ouest, 2013.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 173 (2014), 360-361. Wide-ranging volume of thirteen essays is organized from the medieval age to our day and focuses on French literature. Three articles examine 17th c. authors and perspectives, including the laughter of libertinage, badinage, and works by Sorel, Scarron, Théophile and Cyrano, among others. Useful bibliography.

VAN DAMME, STÉPHANE. “Subversive Freedom: Libertine Anthropology and the Geography of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France.” EMFS 37.2 (2015), 108-125.

“To understand how the idea of freedom operates in seventeenth-century France, and in libertine writing in particular, this article argues that it is important to take into account new social and spatial constraints that arose in the period, as well as the fictional figures of libertine travel writing. French libertine conceptions of freedom are then seen primarily as the reflection of a developing practice of mobility. To give substance to the hypothesis of a relationship between mobility, moral geography, and conceptions of freedom, the article contrasts two examples of attitudes to kinds of freedom in the French libertine world. The first example is that of French libertines themselves, and their relationship to the decline of liberty in France which took place in the aftermath of Theophile de Viau's trial. The second is centred on the banks of the Ganges and the experience of libertine travellers to India in the mid-seventeenth century. The suggestion is that libertine travelling culture modified its representations of freedom by introducing anthropological and comparative dimensions to the discourse.”

VERSELLE, VINCENT. “Faire dire, pour décrire. Caractérisation langagière des personnages et poétique du récit dans la littérature comique et satirique (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle). Metz: U de Lorraine, coll. “Recherches textuelles,” 2012.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 173 (2014), 360. Interdisciplinary approach, privileging the linguistic-semiotic aspect provides literary exegesis of a large corpus of works by Sorel, Scarron, Furetière, Marivaux and Diderot. First part of the volume concentrates on the theoretical confronting Aristotelian theory with modern semiotics while the second section applies theoretical apparatus to a novella of Sorel.

VOISIN, PATRICK, ed. La Valeur de l’oeuvre littéraire, entre pôle artistique et pôle esthétique. Paris: Garnier, 2012.

Review: A. Schellino in S Fr 172 (2014), 205-206. This extremely wide-ranging investigation into the esthetic and artistic value of literature includes explorations organized into sections on general reflections, poetry, novel and literature and politics. Several theoretical chapters are followed by diverse inquiries into theatre, both textual and in the eye of the spectator. 17th c. scholars will appreciate two chapters on Racine’s Phèdre.

WADE, MARA R., ed. Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 169. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014.

Review: M. Carter in Ren Q 68.3 (2015), 1105–1106. Wide-ranging collection “explores the intersectionality of multiple frameworks of gender construction and their expression as violence” in ramifications with disciplines such as theatre, literature, history, art and music. Transnational and with a global perspective which is also highly interdisciplinary. Recommended for educators (for several possible courses) and for scholars on violence and gender. Literature and visual art are particularly well-represented.

WARNER, MARINA. Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tales. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014.

Review: F. Wade in TLS 5841 (March 13 2015). “A thoroughly enjoyable and scholarly account.” Warner contends that the writing down of traditional tales is closely linked with social and national events. For example, Charles Perrault and his niece Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier wrote modern variants of old tales in order to challenge the cultural supremacy of classical myth.

WELCH, ELLEN. "Risking Life and Limb: Commerce and the Value of Life in Caribbean Adventure Narratives." CdDs XV, 2 (2014), 121–139.

In the anonymous Nouvelles de l’Amérique ou le Mercure amériquain (1678) and the first French edition of Exquemelin’s Histoire des aventuriers (1686) pirates display "an ideal, chivalric form of heroism" while pursuing material riches, making them valuable figures for examining "notions of the honorableness of commercial endeavors." Furthermore, pirates' acceptance of risk to life and health for the sake of wealth points to an evaluation of life's value in a commercially driven society.

WINN, COLETTE H., ed. Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2011.

Review: Kathleen Llewellyn in CdDs XVI, 1 (2015), 113–116. “A critical reappraisal of current thinking on early modern women writers and a guide to studying their works, particularly in the classroom,” this work surveys the cultural, economic, social, and literary conditions of women writers before presenting a series of studies devoted to individual authors (Louise Labé, Pernette Du Guillet, Georgette de Mornay, Anne de Marquet, Marie de Gournay.) The volume concludes with a section on pedagogical approaches appropriate to both the undergraduate and graduate classroom as well as a guide to abundant useful resources for research and teaching. “This volume will be a precious resource for teachers and for scholars. The selection of writers, subjects, and approaches is both broad and deep, and will prove invaluable for those who wish to include women writers in survey courses or courses focusing on a particular theme or genre, and for those constructing a course specifically centered on early modern women writers.” Largely focused on pre-17th-century literature with some points of interest for dix-septièmistes.

ZANIN, ENRICA. Fins tragiques: poétique et éthique de dénouement dans la tragédie de la première modernité (Italie, France, Espagne, Allemagne). Genève: Droz, 2014.

Review: E. Wilton-Godberfforde in FS 70.1 (2016), 101-102. An effort to provide wide-reaching insight into the theories and practices underlying tragedy, especially the “unhappy ending” aspect, across Western Europe in the early modern period. Reviewer finds the work to be thorough, though also at times “disjointed” and “scattered,” probably because it attempts rather too much for a single volume.

Ariosto

STEIGERWALD, JÖRN and MARINE ROUSSILLON, eds. La dispute entre l’Arioste et le Tasse. Les appropriations de deux esthétiques antagonistes au XVIIe siècle en France. Tübingen: Narr, 2013.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 174 (2014), 593. Welcome assessment of the new Ariosto-Tasse aesthetic at the courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Book chapters examine reception, appropriations in “histoires comiques,” the epic genre, the unities, the ballet and in Molière’s work.

ARNAULD D’ANDILLY, ROBERT

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. Préface par Philippe Sellier. Paris: Champion, 2012.

Review: F. Forner in S Fr 174 (2014), 591-592. Comprehensive and praiseworthy examination includes analyses of the epistolary in a religious institution in general as well as in Port-Royal in particular. Wide-ranging examination investigates importance of St. Augustine’s work, notably in relation to “amour-propre” and love for God, the style and length of the letters, the daily life of Port-Royal, the letter as means of defense of the community, the centrality of the letter, among other useful aspects. Numerous photographic reproductions of letters are included as is a genealogical tree of the Arnauld family.

ARNAULD, ANTOINE (L’ABBÉ)

ARNAULD, ANTOINE. Des vraies et fausses idées. D. Moreau, éd. Paris : Vrin, 2011.

Review: M.-P. Pellegrin in RPFE 141.2 (2016), 293-294. “ Le texte polémique Des vraies et fausses idées, rédigé par Antoine Arnauld contre Malebranche, révèle en effet un conflit d’interprétation passionnant, puisqu’il est tout autant un conflit de filiation, par rapport à Descartes et par rapport à Augustin, dont les deux auteurs se réclament si souvent ”.

ARNAULD, ANTOINE et PIERRE NICOLE. La Logique, ou l’art de penser. D. Descotes, éd. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2014.

Review: H. Dilberman in RPFE 141.2 (2016) 294-295. “ Cette édition critique de la Logique de Port-Royal ne mérite que des éloges, et d’abord parce qu’elle constitue un objet très élégant sous sa belle couverture blanche et bleue—une élégance toute classique. L’on appréciera tout autant la lisibilité parfaite de l’ouvrage : l’apparat critique, abaondant mais très éclairant, se trouve en bas de page, ce qui préserve le fil de la lecture. Je m’attarderai surtout sur l’excellente introduction de Dominique Descotes, qui explique fort bien les raisons du choix de l’édition de 1664. On trouvera d’ailleurs dans une section à part les chapitres de 1662 remaniés en 1664 ainsi que les chapitres ajoutés en 1683 ”.

Abiven, Karine

Styles, genres, auteurs (Roman d’Enéas, La Boétie, Corneille, Marivaux, Baudelaire, Yourcenar), codirection Hélène Biu, n°14, Paris, PUPS, 2014.

“ Saillance et genre de discours ”, dans M. Boisseau et A. Hamm (dir.), La Saillance en langue et en discours, Besançon, Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2015, 119-128.

“ Publication posthume et censure bienveillante : lʼexemple des Ana (1666-1715) ”, dans Y. Leclerc, L. Macé, C. Poulouin (dir.), Censure et critique. Actes du colloque international Censure et critique, XVIIe-XXIe siècles, Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. ” Littérature et censure “, 2016, 173-184.

“ Les Pensées-de-Pascal : un Pascaliana? “, Acta Litt&Arts [en ligne], Les fragments pascaliens: ordre, raisons, figures, 2016. URL : http://ouvroir-litt-arts.u-grenoble3.fr/revues/actalittarts//revues/actalittarts/182-les-pensees-de-pascal-un-pascaliana.

“ L’exemplum : un modèle opératoire dans la lettre familière ? ”, Exercices de rhétorique [en ligne], 6 | 2016, mis en ligne le 10 février 2016. URL : http://rhetorique.revues.org/431 ; DOI : 10.4000/rhetorique.431

“ Portraits et memorabilia : mot historique et morale de l’histoire ”, dans M. Hersant et C. Ramond (dir.), Le Portrait dans les mémoires et la fiction, XVI-XVIIIe siècles, Leiden, Brill, “ Faux titre ”, 2016.

“ L’anecdote, conte et histoire à la fois. Sur les traces textuelles d’une frontière du dire-vrai ”, dans R. Jomand-Baudry et M. Hersant (dir.), Conte et Histoire (1690-1800), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2016.

“ Doit-on rire aux bons mots de Montmaur ? ”, dans C. Barbafieri et J.-M. Civardi (dir.), L’Affaire Pierre de Montmaur. Actes du colloque du 12 juin 2013, Paris, PUPS, 2016.

“ Le sens de la repartie, de Castiglione au discours de la civilité en français : enjeux linguistiques et génériques ”, dans N. Viet (dir.), Traduire le mot d’esprit à la Renaissance, actes du colloque de Clermont-Ferrand, oct. 2014, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2016.

“ Le ‘dangereux honneur’ de parler à la cour. Pour une pragmatique de l’entretien ”, dans A. Cousson (dir.), L’Entretien au xviie siècle, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2016.

Assaf, Francis

“ Les derniers jours de Louis XIII : chronique d’une mort annoncée. ” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLII (2015) : 253-262.

“ Les horreurs du Grand Siècle : un échantillonnage du crime sous les deux premiers Bourbons. ” Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 67.2 (aprile-giugno 2015) : 119-138.

“ La Mort de Louis XIV commémorée par le premier Bourbon d'Espagne, Madrid 1716. ” In Le Roi est mort. Louis XIV, 1715. Paris : Editions Tallandier, 2015, 82-91.

“ Louis XIV. Sa propre allégorie ? ” In S’exprimer autrement : poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Marie-Christine Pioffet et Anne-Élisabeth Spica, eds. Actes du colloque du CIR 17. Tübingen : Narr, 2016, 199-214.

“ Oraisons funèbres et pamphlets à la mort de Louis XIV. ” In Les Funérailles princières en Europe, XVIème-XVIIIème siècles. Vol. 3. Le Deuil, la mémoire, la politique. Paris : Editions Tallandier, 2015, 259-267.

“ Avatars de la guerre cyranienne: du macrocosme au microcosme. “ Les Lettres romanes 69.3-4 (2015), 329-46.

*Dissertation directed

Polly Thompson Mangerson : On the Passions of Kings : Tragic Transgressors of the Sovereign’s Double Body in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre. Dissertation defended November 30, 2015.

Baudry, Hervé :

Le Dos de ses livres. Descartes a-t-il lu Montaigne ?, Paris: H. Champion, 2015.

Une bibliothèque à la fin de l’Ancien Régime. Présentation historique suivie de l’édition du catalogue des livres du collège royal de La Flèche (1777). Chauray: La Ligne d’ombre, 2014.

“ L’angoisse prospective. Remarques sur Le Plagiat par anticipation de Pierre Bayard “, in Fabula. Atelier de théorie littéraire, avril 2016 (http://www.fabula.org/atelier.php?Angoisse_prospective)

“ Sur une émission méconnue de l’Archipathologia de Felipe/Eliahu Montalto (1614) “ (en portugais), en ligne http://filosofiamedicina esociedade.blogspot.pt/2014/09/sobre-uma-emissao-desconhecida-da.html, 2014

“ De vive voix ” : Joubert père & fils et l’interprétation de Guy de Chauliac aux xvie-xviie siècles. “ Réforme, Humanisme et Renaissance. 78 (2014), 75-90.

“ Témoignage et biographie : les limites d’un privilege.” ¿ Interrogations ? 17 (janvier 2014). [en ligne: http://revue-interrogations.org/Temoignage-et-biographie-les ]

*Work in progress:

Early modern censorship : the inquisitorial expurgation.

Beasley, Faith :

*Work in progress :

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

Bilis, Hélène :

Passing Judgment : The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Bjornstad, Hall :

*Work in progress :

Study on royal exemplarity, on royal glory, and on Pascal and failure.

Bolduc, Benoît :

La Fête imprimée. Cérémonies et spectacles politiques (1549-1662). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016.

“ Fêtes on Paper: Graphic Representations of Louis XIV’s Festivals. ” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, LXXVI.1-2 (2014-15), 211-241.

*Work in progress :

Avec Hélène Visentin, Les Livres commémorant les entrées solennelles d’Henri II et de François II dans les villes de France.

** Dissertation directed :

Myron McShane, French, 2011-2015. Jean Dorat’s Prophetic Practices: Poetry, Philology and Interpretation. Defended 28 August 28, 2015.

Bombart, Mathilde :

“ Romans à clés : une pratique illégitime au filtre de la critique littéraire des journaux (2002-2012). ” Romans à clés: Les ambivalences du reel. A. Glinoer and M. Lacroix, eds. Liege: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2014, 43-65.

“ Marie de Médicis “, “ Madame d’Aulnoy ” et “ Madame de Murat ”. Dictionnaires des femmes créatrices. Paris: Éditions des Femmes, 2014.

Edition de Charles Sorel, La Bibliothèque française (1667) (avec Filippo d’Angelo, Laurence Giavarini, Claudine Nedélec, Dinah Ribard, Michèle Rosellini et Alain Viala). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015.

Direction de L’Age de la connivence : pour lire entre les mots à l’époque moderne, Cahiers du GADGES, n°13, décembre 2015 (avec Ariane Bayle et Isabelle Garnier).

“ La connivence : nouvel outil opératoire pour les études littéraires ? ” (avec Ariane Bayle et Isabelle Garnier), dans L’Âge de la connivence : pour lire entre les mots à l’époque moderne, Cahiers du GADGES, n°13, décembre 2015.

“ Un regard sur le monde littéraire : les ‘gens de lettres’ et leurs querelles, ” Dossier critique dans l’édition de Ch. Sorel. La Bibliothèque française. Paris: Champion, 2015, 487-505.

“ Mlle Bonafon : subir et aménager le système de domination (Bastille, 1745-1759).” Écriture et Action. Paris: Vrin/EHESS, 2015.

“ Guez de Balzac et Descartes. Pourquoi la Censura n’a-t-elle pas été publiée par Guez de Balzac ? ” Actes du colloque “ La science et son fondement : les dix premières années de la philosophie cartésienne 1619-1628 ” (Paris, novembre 2012), Examina philosophica, publications on-line du Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi su Descartes e il Seicento, décembre 2015 www.cartesius.net

“ When Writers Gossip : Gossip and Authorial Reputation in Early Modern France. ” Renaissance Studies. 30.1 (2016), 137-151.

“ André de Saint-Denis. ” Dictionnaire des philosophes. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2015.

Bruun, Mette

*Work in progress :

Principal investigator of the collective interdisciplinary research study entitled Solitudes. Withdrawal and Engagement in the long Seventeenth Century, funded by the European Research Council (2013-2017).

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 directed :

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

Call, Michael

“Fortuna Goes to the Theater : Lottery Comedies in Seventeenth-Century France.” French Forum 40.1 (2015), 1-15.

Canova-Green, Marie-Claude

“Le Carnaval de Venise.” in Théâtre français de Jean-François Regnard. Vol. 1. Sabine Chaouche, ed. Paris : Garnier, 2015.

“The Warrior King in French Royal Entries (1620-1629).” in Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe. The Iconography of Power. J.R. Mulryne, M.I. Aliverti and A. M. Testaverde, eds. (Farnham : Ashgate, 2015), 77-98.

“D’une interprétation l’autre. Les entrée provençales de Louis XIII à l’automne 1622 et leurs relations.” in Interpretation in/of the Seventeenth Century. Pierre Zoberman, ed. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), 15-28.

Corréard, Nicolas :

“La poésie contre les sciences : le scepticisme comme exercice spirituel dans la poésie calviniste française et anglaise.” Littératures classiques. 85 (2014), 43-68.

“ Pots-pourris de vers et de proses : de la satire ménippée au tribunal critique des Lumières (Saint-Hyacinthe, Pope).” Atlantide 1 (2014).

“ Le genre du dialogue more academicorum en Espagne au XVIe siècle. ” Skepsis, 7.10 (2014).

“ Le pouvoir vu d’outre-tombe : la ‘vainegloire’ des puissants dans les dialogues des morts lucianesques en Europe (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle). ” Représenter le pouvoir. Images du pouvoir dans la littérature et les arts (Actes du colloque international de l’Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3, 15-17 nov. 2009), éd. Marie-Madeleine Castellani et Fiona McIntosh. Peter Lang, 2014, 111-125.

“ La parodie satirique du discours critique au XVIIIe siècle : Thémiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe, Alexander Pope et G. W. Rabener. ” L’écrivain et son critique : une fratrie problématique (Actes du XXXVIIIe Congrès de la SFLGC, Tours-Orléans, 2012), dir. Ph. Chardin et M. Rousseau. Paris: éditions Kimé, 2014, 417-426.

“ Entre désir et dégoût des savoirs : l’encyclopédisme ironique de la satire ménippée (Rabelais, Saavedra Fajardo, Swift). ” Littérature et appétit des savoirs, dir. B. Acinas et F. Géal, Presses de l’Université de Burgos, 2014, 29-44.

“ La satire ménippée ”, Dictionnaire raisonné de la caducité des genres littéraires, dir. Alain Montandon et Saulo Neiva. Genève: Droz, 2014, 955-966.

Notices bibliographiques sur Le Nouveau Panurge (1615) et la Suite du nouveau Panurge (1623) attribués à Guillaume Reboul, dans Fictions narratives en prose de l’âge baroque. Répertoire analytique (1611-1623), 2e partie ; travail dirigé par Frank Greiner. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014, 803-806 et 807-809.

“ ‘But from the over-curious and vain / Distempers of an artifical brain’ : la critique de la curiosité vaine chez Samuel Butler (1612-1680). ” Etudes Epistémé. 27 (2015).

“ Scepticisme et anti-scepticisme dans les dialogues des morts aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. ” Pour et contre le scepticisme, dir. E. Argaud, N. El Yadari, S. Charles et G. Paganini, Champion. “ Libre-pensée et littérature clandestine “, 62 (2015), 219-242.

“ Idéal de la raison, catastrophe de la raison. Utopisme et scepticisme chez Foigny, Swift et Holberg. ” Utopie et catastrophe. Revers et renaissances de l’utopie (XVIe-XXIe siècle) (Actes du colloque “ Dystopies et perturbations de l’utopie ”, Bordeaux Montaigne, 16 nov. 2013), dir. J.-P. Engélibert et R. Guidée, Bordeaux 3, Rennes, PUR, “ La Licorne 114 ”, 2015, 73-94.

Côté, Sébastien :

“ Portrait de Paul Lejeune en écrivain : les Relations de 1632 à 1634. ” Argument : politique, société, histoire, 16. 2 (été 2014) : 96-106.

“ Réception des relations de voyage en Nouvelle-France dans l’histoire littéraire du Québec et du Canada. ” Eds. Marie-Christine Pioffet et Mawy Bouchard. @nalyses [University of Ottawa], 9.1 (hiver 2014) : 269-294, online.

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

“ Samuel de Champlain. ” The Literary Encyclopedia. 16 octobre 2015. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1177

“ La réception des écrits jésuites de la Nouvelle-France dans l’histoire littéraire au Québec (1874-2007) : archiver la mémoire. ” Ed. Guy Poirier. Textes missionnaires dans l’espace francophone I. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2015.

“ Jacques Cartier. ” The Literary Encyclopedia http://litencyc.com

“ Mémoire de l’eau et imaginaire du fleuve : entre Cartier et Aubert de Gaspé. ” In collaboration with Charles Doutrelepont. Eds. Anne Caumartin, Julien Goyette, Karine Hébert, and Martine-Emmanuelle Lapointe, Je me souviens, j’imagine. Montréal : Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2015.

*Work in progress :

“ Champlain, homme de lettres ? Usages et fortune littéraire des Voyages. ” Eds. Dominique Marshall and Yves Frenette, Champlain in the Anishinabe Aki : History and Memory of an Encounter. Online multi-modal publication (Scalar).

Court, Marc

“ Michel Le Nobletz et ses réseaux. ” Politica Hermetica, 2014.

“ Voyantes mystiques et réseaux en Bretagne. “ Politica Hermetica, 2015.

“ Autour d'Amice Picard (1599-1652) et des réseaux mystiques bretons. “ Politica Hermetica, décembre 2016.

*Work in progress :

“ Les voyantes Bretonnes entre orthodoxie et politique de la mystique, 1635-1662. “ (titre provisoire).

Mystiques et réseaux, fin XVIe-XVIIe siècle.

Cousson, Agnès

“ Témoigner de sa captivité : les Relations des signeuses de Port-Royal ”, Actes du colloque Témoigner aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Université de Clermont-Ferrand II, 2009. Paris, Champion, 2015.

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, avec une préface de Philippe Sellier. Paris, Champion, novembre 2012, (640 p.). Réédité en 2015

“ Disparition et fin dans les lettres des abbesses de Port-Royal ”, communication présentée au 33e colloque de la Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies (SE-17), Du lieu à l’espace, 16-18 octobre 2014, Western University, London, Ontario, in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 83 (2015), 393-405.

“ Deux réseaux du Grand Siècle : Port-Royal et la Compagnie de Jésus .” Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity. Selected Essays from the 44th North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Conference. Ellen R. Welch and Michele Longino, eds. Tübingen: Narr, 2015, 161-174.

“ La notion de genre à Port-Royal.” in Écrire, dit-elle, Scrivere, lei disse. P. Caraffi, R. Jalabert, and et J. F. Plamondon, eds. Bologna: I libri di Emil, 2014, 57-78.

Delehanty, Ann

“ Kairos and the Pascalian Model of Time and History.” Romanic Review 105.3-4 (2015), 129-147.

Duggan, Anne

“ Epicurean Cannibalism, or France Gone Savage. ” French Studies 67.4 (October 2015) : 463-477.

Duggan, Anne E., and Donald Haase, eds. With Helen Callow. Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World. Second revised and expanded edition of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktale and Fairy Tales. 4 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016.

Enchantements désenchantés : les contes queer de Jacques Demy. Trans. Jean-François Cornu. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015. (French translation of Queer Enchantments, 2013)

“ From Genie to Efreet: Fantastic Apparitions in the Tales of The Arabian Nights. “ Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts. (2015), 113-135.

Ekstein, Nina

“ With What Arms Do We Fight? The Network of Possible Worlds in Corneille’s Nicomède. ” Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity in Seventeenth-Century France, Ed. Michèle Longino and Ellen Welch. Tübingen : Gunter Narr, 2015, 37-45.

Fleck, Stephen

“ Speaking Folly to Power : Molière’s Moebius Sarabande. ” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. XLII, 83 (2015), 443-52.

“L'Ultime Molière : vers un théâtre éclaté.” Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity in Seventeenth-Century France. Ed. Michèle Longino and Ellen Welch. Tübingen : Gunter Narr, 2015.

Fogelberg Rota, Stefano

City of the Soul: The Literary Making of Rome. Sabrina Norlander Eliasson and Stefano Fogelberg Rota (eds.). Stockholm : Suecoromana, 2015.

Shaping Heroic Virtue : Studies in the Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia. Stefano Fogelberg Rota and Andreas Hellerstedt (eds.). Leiden-Boston : Brill, 2015.

In collaboration with Anna Blennow and Frederick Whitling : “ Roma antiqua et moderna : Guideboken som genre genom seklerna “, in Scandia. Tidskrift för historisk forskning (2015).

“ Anti-Protestant Heroic Virtue in Early Modern Rome : Queen Christina (1626-1689) and Senator Nils Bielke (1706-1765).” in Shaping Heroic Virtue : Studies in the Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia. Stefano Fogelberg Rota and Andreas Hellerstedt (eds.). Leiden-Boston : Brill, 2015, 95-130.

“ La Roma arcade del senatore svedese Nils Bielke “, in City of the Soul : The Literary Making of Rome. Sabrina Norlander Eliasson and Stefano Fogelberg Rota (eds.). Stockholm : Suecoromana, 2015, 57-71.

“ Representations of power: the role of Nicolas Vallari in Queen Christina’s Ballets and Processions.” in Musique-Images-Instruments. Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale 15 (2015), 62-89.

“ Le Ballet de la Félicité och Festa teatrale.” in Hedvig Eleonora : Den svenska barockens drottning. Merit Laine (ed.). Stockholm : Kungl. Husgerådskammaren, 2015, 102-103.

“ Lärd republik eller lärd monarki? Drottning Christinas kungliga akademi i Rom.” in Lärda samtal : En festskrift till Erland Sellberg. Emma Hagström Molin and Andreas Hellerstedt (eds.). Lund : Ellerströms, 2014, 33-44.

Freidel, Nathalie :

Mme de Sévigné, Lettres choisies, éd. Nathalie Freidel. Paris, Gallimard, 2016.

“ Connivences épistolaires : le commerce triangulaire des Sévigné ” dans L’Âge de la connivence : pour lire entre les mots à l’époque moderne, dir. Mathilde Bombart, Ariane Bayle et Mathilde Garnier, Cahiers du GADGES 13 (décembre 2015).

“ La ruse du nom, machination rhétorique dans Amphitryon de Molière. ” Cahiers du XVIIe siècle 16.1 (2015), 18-34.

“ Le commerce de l’amitié dans la correspondance de Mme de Sévigné. ” Topiques de l’amitié dans les littératures françaises d’Ancien Régime. Études Satoriennes, 2015.

“ L'art de la dévorante. ” Magazine littéraire 543 (mai 2014), 40-41.

“ L’Histoire amoureuse des Gaules au carrefour des genres mondains. ” @nalyses 9.1 (hiver 2014). https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ojs/index.php/revue-analyses/article/view/961

*Work in progress :

Édition critique d’une anthologie de la correspondance de Marie de l’Incarnation, en collaboration avec Marie-Christine Pioffet.

Gaines, James :

“ Les Faux Moscovites: ouverture intellectuelle ou quasi-turquerie? ” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, XLII, 83 (March 2015).

* 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,’” Work on La Champmeslé

Ganim, Russell :

Review of Cavaillé, Jean-Pierre. Irréligion et libertinage au début de l’époque moderne. Renaissance Quarterly 68.4 (Winter 2015), 1475-1477.

“ Tristan dans le Middle-West américain.” Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite. 37 (2015), 97-99.

“ Criminality, Performance, and the Search for Paradise : The Appropriation of Othello in Les Enfants du Paradis.” Dalhousie French Studies 101 (2014), 9-24.

Gethner, Perry :

Le Voyage de campagne par Madame Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de Murat. (An edited modern French edition). Allison Stedman, en collaboration avec P. Gethner. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014.

Challenges to Traditional Authority : Plays by French Women Authors, 1650-1700. Edited and translated by P. Gethner. Toronto : Iter, and Tempe : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015.

Théâtre de femmes de l'Ancien Régime, XVIe siècle. Co-edition with Aurore Évain and Henriette Goldwyn. Vol. I re-edited. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014.

Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien régime, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Co-edition with Aurore Évain and Henriette Goldwyn. Vol. II re-edited. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016.

Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien régime, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Co-edition with Aurore Évain and Henriette Goldwyn. Vol. IV. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016.

Goldsmith, Elizabeth

“ Galant Culture.” Cambridge Companion to French Literature. Ed. John Lyons. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge UP, 2015.

“ Writing for the Elite : Molière, Marivaux, Beaumarchais. “ Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’arte. Judith Chaffee and Olly Crick (eds.). New York : Routledge, 2015, 321-329.

* Work in progress :

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

Goldwyn, Henriette :

Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien régime, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Co-edition with Aurore Évain and Perry Gethner. Vol. II re-edited. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016.

Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien régime, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Co-edition with Aurore Évain and Perry Gethner. Vol. IV. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016.

“ Mme Du Noyer Presenting and Re-Presenting the Peace of Utrecht. ” Performances of Peace : Utrecht 1713 (chapter 5), (co-authored with Suzan Van Dijk). Eds. Renger de Bruin, Lotte Jensen and David Onnekink. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

Grégoire, Vincent :

“ Malentendus culturels et en particulier linguistiques rencontrés par les ursulines en Nouvelle-France au XVIIème siècle. “ SCFS, 36.2 (December 2014), 109-124.

Guyot, Sylvaine :

“ ‘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, 2014.

“ Plaisirs d’‘attache’ et éros tragique au XVIIe siècle. D’une conjoncture historique autour de Racine,” in Corps en scènes, dir. Catherine Courtet, Mireille Besson, Françoise Lavocat et Alain Viala. Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2015, 235-247.

“ Poésie du plateau et énigmes théâtrales: Pour une résonance sensible
de la scène contemporaine. Entretien avec Giorgio Barberio Corsetti,” in Corps en scènes, dir. Catherine Courtet, Mireille Besson, Françoise Lavocat et Alain Viala. Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2015, 249-260.

“ Opacity of Theater : Reading Racine with and against Louis Marin, ” Modern Language Quarterly, 77.2 (2016), 219-246.

“ Discours de l’ennui et visions interstitielles au Grand siècle. La Palatine à la Cour, ” XVIIe siècle, 271.2 (2016), 77-92.

“ La lettre sur scène au XVIIe siècle : écriture dramatique et action épistolaire ,” avec Alain Brunn, in Écriture et action, dir. Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l’Histoire du Littéraire, Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2016, 151-161.

*Work in progress :

Comédie-Française Registers Project: http://cfregisters.org/en/

Harrigan, Michael :

“ 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, ed. Anne Eusterschulte and Hannah Wälzholz. Berlin : Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2015, 541-556.

“ Traduire l’inconnu à l’époque prémoderne : un corsaire à Madagascar. “ Voyages vers l’inconnu. Ed. F. de Souza. Louvain: EME Editions, 2015, 19-42. ISBN: 978-2-8066-3563-1.

“ A Need to Narrate? Early Modern French Accounts of Atlantic Crossings. “ Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1500-Present, ed. C. Mathieson. London : Pickering and Chatto, 2016, 29-61.

* Encyclopedia entries:

“ De Rebus Turcarum (Christophe Richer).” Online entry for Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, ed. David Thomas.

“ François La Boullaye Le Gouz.” Online entry for Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, ed. David Thomas.

** 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).

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

Kennedy, Theresa

Madame de Maintenon. Proverbes dramatiques. Co-authored with Perry Gethner. Annotated Critical Edition. Paris : Garnier, 2015.

Kozhanova, Tatiana :

“ Le dénouement de La Princesse de Clèves comme réponse au dilemme pastoral. ” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature (June 2015).

*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. ”

Landry, Bertrand :

“ Madame de Sévigné et le ‘Fourbin’ de Marseille. ” Voyages, échanges, rencontres au XVIIe siècle. Actes du 43ème Colloque Annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (NASSCFL). Sylvie Requemora-Gros, ed. Tübingen: Narr, 2015.

LaPorta, Kathrina :

“ Diverting the Reader : Novel Strategies in the Conseil privé de Louis le Grand (1696). ” Early Modern French Studies 37.2 (2015), 135-146.

“ Judging a Book by its Cover : The Aesthetics of the Ephemeral in L’Alcoran de Louis XIV, ou le Testament politique de Cardinal Jules Marazin (1695). ” French Studies Bulletin 36.136 (2015), 49-53.

“ Eustache Le Noble. ” Encyclopedia entry for The Literary Encyclopedia, eds. Allison Stedman, Julia Prest, Tim Unwin, William Wetsel, and David Williams, January 2015. http://www.litencyc.com

Leibacher, Lise

Pure, Michel de. Epigone, histoire du siècle futur (1659). In collaboration with Daniel Maher. Revised and augmented edition (not a reprint). Paris : Editions Hermann, 2015.

*Work in progress:

“ Le Portrait de l'Equivoque (Michelet) : Maintenon et les enjeux de la différence (XVIIIème –XIXème siècles) ”.

Book monograph on P.C. Blessebois.

Lignereux, Yann :

“ Une capitale ‘déplacée’ en Amérique. Québec au XVIIe siècle : une cité introuvable ? ” Laurent Vidal (dir.). Capitales rêvées, capitales abandonnées. Considérations sur la mobilité des capitales dans les Amériques (XVIIe-XXe siècle). Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014, 179-192.

“ Hercule sans-culotte. Une figure de l’iconoclasme révolutionnaire en France (XVIIème-XIXème siècles). ” Emmanuel Fureix (dir.). Iconoclasme et révolutions. De 1789 à nos jours. Ceyzérieu, Champ Vallon, 2014, 56-67.

“ Les rois de France sont-ils fascinants ? Image, lustre et fascination dans la représentation louis-quatorzienne. ” Gilles Declercq et Stella Spriet (éd.). Fascination des images, images de la fascination. Paris, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2014, 61-82.

“ Baroque et classicisme ou le destin de Daphné. Enjeux disciplinaires et héritage historiographique du livre de Victor Lucien Tapié en France. ” Hélène Rousteau-Chambon et Claire Mazel (dir.). Victor-Lucien Tapié. Relire ‘Baroque et classicisme’, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015, 59-72.

“ Le choix de la représentation du risque dans l’imaginaire du ‘roi de guerre’. Autour de quelques figures de Louis XIV, un roi ‘exposé’. ” Marie Barral-Baron, Marie-Clarté Lagrée et Mathieu Lemoine (dir.). Les Stratégies de l’échec. Enquêtes sur l’action politique à l’époque moderne. Paris, Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 2015, 285-302.

“ Henri IV anecdotique ? La rhétorique de l’anecdote ou l’éloquence étrange d’Henri IV. ” Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac, Camille Esmein-Sarrazin, Gaël Rideau et Gabriele Vickermann-Ribémont (dir.). L’Anecdote entre Littérature et Histoire. A l’époque moderne. Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015, 223-238.

“ Vercingétorix à la Renaissance. Un modèle pour les rois de France ? ” La Défaite à la Renaissance, Jean-Marie Le Gall (dir.). Genève, Droz, 2015.

Meere, Michael :

“ Theatres of Torture : Martyrs, Pagans and the Politics of Conversion in Early Seventeenth-Century France.” Early Modern French Studies. 37.1 (2015), 14-28.

Montoya, Alicia :

“ Jouer aux troubadours à l’aube des Lumières.” La réception des troubadours en Languedoc et en France, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Jean-François Corouau et Isabelle Luciani (eds.). Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015, 95-108.

Muratore, Mary Jo :

*Work in progress :

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).

Norman, Buford

*Work in progress :

Website devoted to the works and life of Philippe Quinault : www.quinault.info.

Database on Racine and Music. Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

Troisième édition de Philippe Quinault : Livrets d'opéra. Paris, Hermann, 2016

“ ‘Le tort de rien ajouter aux vers de Quinault’ : l’adaptation de Persée en 1770 et les premiers remaniements de Quinault. ” Colloque sur le Persée de 1770. Versailles, janvier 2016.

Norman, Larry

“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, 2015.

Paschoud, Adrien

Exprimer la vision spirituelle (XVe-XVIIe siècle). Ed. Adrien Paschoud et Barbara Selmeci Castioni. Louvain: Peeters, 2015.

Littérature et politique. Factions et dissidences de la Ligue à la Fronde. Ed. Adrien Paschoud et Malina Stefanovska. Paris: Garnier, 2015.

Représenter la corruption en France à l’âge baroque (1580-1660). Ed. Frank Lestringant et Adrien Paschoud. Etudes de Lettres, vol. 3-4, 2015.

“ Vision, mystique et herméneutique chez Jean-Joseph Surin. ” Exprimer la vision spirituelle (XVe-XVIIe siècles). Ed. Adrien Paschoud et Barbara Selmeci Castioni. Louvain: Peeters, 2015, 151-162.

“ Vie psychique et mystique jésuite : l’exemple de Jean-Joseph Surin. ” La Représentation de la vie psychique dans les récits factuels et fictionnels de l’époque classique. Ed. Marc Hersant et Catherine Ramond. Amsterdam: Brill / Rodopi, 2015, 313-325.

Perlmutter, Jennifer

“ A Seductress Constructed : The Female Jewish Moneylender in Regnard’s Le Joueur. ” The French Review. 90.1 (2016), 136-145.

“ Meh. The Unmarked Jews of Nicolas Boindin’s Le Port de mer. ” Cahiers du dix-septième : An Interdisciplinary Journal. XVII (2016), 28-40.

Pioffet, Marie-Christine

Marc Lescarbot. Poésies et opuscules sur la Nouvelle-France. Edition critique établie en collaboration avec Isabelle Lachance. Montréal, Nota Bene, 2014.

S’exprimer autrement : poétique et enjeux de l’allégorie à l’Âge classique. Actes du colloque du CIR 17 qui s’est tenu à Toronto en mai 2014. Édition en collaboration avec Anne-Élisabeth Spica. Tübingen: Narr, 2016.

Numéro spécial de la revue @nalyses intitulé Ambivalences et carrefours génériques à l’âge classique, comprenant huit études; auteure de la préface et coéditrice du recueil en collaboration avec Mawy Bouchard. @nalyses 9.1 (2014).

Geographiae imaginariae. Dresser le cadastre des mondes inconnus dans la fiction narrative de l’Ancien Régime. Actes du XXIIe colloque annuel de la SATOR qui s’est tenu à l’Université York à Toronto du 2 au 4 octobre 2008. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2011 ; deuxième édition revue et corrigée parue en novembre 2014 aux Éditions Hermann.

“ La Nouvelle-France dans l’imaginaire jésuite : terra doloris ou Jérusalem céleste ? ” Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas : Intercultural Transfers Intellectual Disputes, and Textualities. Marc André Bernier, Clorinda Donato, and Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, 263-275.

“ Bibliothèques imaginaires et subversion de l’espace littéraire public au XVIIe siècle. ” Actes du XXIVe colloque international de la SATOR tenu en juin 2010 à l’Université de Coimbra (Portugal). Marta Anacleto, ed. Louvain: Éditions Peeters, 2015, 341-351.

“ Écrire l’histoire autrement : Gabriel Sagard et la chronique des missions franciscaines en Amérique du Nord.” Argument 16.2 (2014), 107-128.

“ L’Histoire de la Nouvelle-France de Marc Lescarbot ou le temps des ‘vaines tentatives’ reconstitute.” Monuments intellectuels de la Nouvelle-France et du Québec ancien (XVIIe-XIXe siècles), grands livres fondateurs d’une tradition culturelle. Claude Corbo, ed. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014, 23-36.

Prest, Julia :

*Work in progress :

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

Probes, Christine McCall :

Contributing Editor. French 17. An Annual Descriptive Bibliography of French 17th Century Studies. Head Editor, Stephen A. Shapiro. Bennington, VT : Bennington College, 2015.

Co-editor with Catherine Montfort. Voyages de femmes. Volume in progress for publication with Women in French Studies. Some 20 articles are either out to referees or now in revision. Articles range from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.

“ ‘Pource faire cognoistre ici bas en tout lieu’ : Zealously Advancing God’s Truth through Key Theophanies and Anthropomorphisms in Georgette de Montenay’s Emblèmes ou devises chrestiennes.” Accepted by Alison Adams for the volume; I was subsequently invited to co-edit The Art of Persuasion: Emblems and Propaganda. Glasgow : University of Glasgow, Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2014.

“ ‘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.” Interpretation in/of the Seventeenth Century, ed. Pierre Zoberman. Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

“ Woman at the Margins : Her Strength and Diversity in a Representative Emblematic Album of the Early Modern, the Sonnets franc-comtois. “ Contemporary Approaches to World Languages and Cultures, eds. Margit Grieb, Yves-Antoine Clemmen and Will Lehman. Boca Raton, FL : Brown Walker Press, 2015.

“ 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. “ Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity, ed. Ellen R. Welch and Michèle Longino. Tübingen: Narr, 2015.

*Work in progress

“ Towards an Ecocritical Exploration of the Late Renaissance Emblem : Vaenius’s Amoris divini emblemata. “ For the New College Medieval and Renaissance Conference; “ Engaging Students Ecocritically and Metaphorically : Jean-Jacques Boissard’s Early Modern Emblems. “ For the 22nd Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Film; “ Contingent Labor and Unionization: Faculty Mentoring and Colleagiality ” for panel organized by MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession; “ Royal Games in Germanic, French and Italian Courts : The Mémoires et lettres de voyage of Sophie de Hanovre. ” For NASSCFL in Orlando; Two previously published articles on Jean de La Ceppède have been included in the multi-format library reference volume of Literary Criticism, 1400-1800, Gale, 2016.

Racevskis, Roland :

“ Cyrano’s Posthuman Moon : Comic Inversions and Animist Relations. ” Symposium 69.4 (2015), 214-39.

“ Ecocriticism in the French Literary Classroom. ” Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French. Ed. Douglas Boudreau and Marnie Sullivan. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2016, 21-39.

Ravel, Jeffrey S. :

The digital humanities project, the Comédie-Française Registers Project (CFRP), is now live at cfregisters.org. The Project includes high resolution digital images of the daily box office receipt registers for every performance at the Comédie-Française from 1680 to 1793, as well as a database containing that information, and search and visualization tools to study it.

Régent-Susini, Anne :

*Work in progress :

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 :

“ Les raisons de l’autorité dans le traité De la foy humaine de P. Nicole et A. Arnauld. “ Revue Astérion [en ligne] 12 (2014).

“ Boileau. ” Bibliographie des écrivains français. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015.

Requemora-Gros, Sylvie :

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, 2015.

Robin, Jean-Luc :

“ La triple dimension de la dispute chez Molière. ” Arrêt sur scène / Scene focus 3 (2014), 35-47. http://www.ircl.cnrs.fr/francais/arret_scene/arret_scene_focus_3_2014.htm

“ Impie en philosophie. Dramaturgie et idéologie chez Molière. ” Molière : toujours et encore! La Roche-sur-Yon : Presses universitaires de l’ICES, 2014, 307-325.

“ La composition sérielle chez Molière. ” Les Lettres romanes 70.1-2 (2016), 133-151.

Rosensweig, Anna :

“ The Eye of Paris, the Eye of France : Capital Bodies in Claude Billard’s La Mort d’Henri IV ”. Paris, Imagined Capital : Economic Transition and Modernity (17th to 19th Centuries). L’Esprit créateur. 55.3 (2015), 12-28.

“ ‘Toute la cité pleure’ : la mise en scène du peuple thébain dans Antigone ou la Piété de Robert Garnier.” Cahiers FoReLL: Formes et Représentations en Linguistique et literature. (2015) http://09.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/lescahiersforell/index.php?id=279.

Rousseau, Christine

“ Le système superlatif dans les contes de fées du XVIIe siècle.” Revue Tranel (Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique) 61-62 (2014), 171-182.

Schröder, Volker :

Exhibition: Versailles on Paper. Princeton University Library, February-July 2015. Exhibition website remains online at http://rbsc.princeton.edu/versailles

“ Royal Prints for Princeton College: A Franco-American Exchange in 1886. “ Princeton University Library Chronicle. 76.1-2 (autumn 2014–winter 2015), 13-50.

*Work in progress :

Boileau’s Book (monograph).

“ Quelques lettres inédites à Reinier Leers (1690-1700). ” (article)

Research on the Cabinet du Roi and other state-sponsored publications under Louis XIV.

**Dissertations directed :

Worden, David : Tales of Impostors : Exposing Belief in Fiction from the Baroque to the Early Enlightenment. Dissertation defended January 2015.

Senior, Matthew :

Animots : Postanimality in French Thought (co-editor with Carla Freccero and David L. Clark). Yale French Studies. 127 (2015).

“ ‘L’animal que donc je suis’: Self-Humaning in Descartes and Derrida.” Yale French Studies, 127, (2015), 52-68.

Spielmann, Guy :

“ ‘Paroles ne puent point’ : éluder la scène et l'obscène dans la parade du XVIIIe siècle,” Revue d'Histoire du Théâtre. 269 (2016), 33-44.

“ Le Vaudeville, de la chanson au théâtre (XIVe - XVIIIe siècles).” Le Vaudeville à la scène. Violaine Heyraud et Ariane Martinez, eds. Grenoble : Editions Littéraires et Linguistiques de l’Université de Grenoble (ELLUG), 2015, 19-28

Théâtre français de Charles Dufresny. 3 vols. Guy Spielmann et Martial Poirson, ed. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015.

Stedman, Allison

Henriette-Julie de Castelnau comtesse de Murat. Voyage de campagne. Critical edition (with the participation of Perry Gethner). Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014.

“ Eustache Le Noble. ” Encyclopedia entry for The Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Allison Stedman, Julia Prest, Tim Unwin, William Wetsel, and David Williams. January 2015 http://www.litencyc.com

“ Charles Perrault’s Histoires et contes du temps passé [Stories and Tales from Times Past].” The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark and Cristina Sandru. WEB, 2015. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4739

“ Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, comtesse d’Aulnoy.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark and Cristina Sandru. WEB, 2015. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12711

Stefanovska, Malina :

Littérature et politique : factions et dissidences de la Ligue à la Fronde. Sous la co-direction d’Adrien Paschoud. Paris : Garnier, 2015.

“La circulation des mots d'esprit dans la société du XVIIe siècle.” In Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity : Selected Essays from the 44th NASSCFL Conference. Ellen Welch and Michèle Longino, eds. Tübingen: Narr, 2015.

Steinberger, Deborah :

“The Mercure Galant and its Student Body : Donneau de Visé’s Inclusive Pedagogy.” Cahiers du dix-septième. 17 (2016), 41-56.

True, Micah

“De la mort volontaire : Racine et l’héritage de Sénèque.” European Drama and Performance Studies. 7 (2016), 89-104.

“La mort orpheline : le suicide des mères chez Racine. ” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. 42.83 (2015), 301-312.

“De l'alcôve à la tribune: Olympe de Gouges ou le désir d'agir. “ Lumières, 23 (2014), 151-166.

“Valmont ou la sémiotique du corps au service d’une séditieuse séduction. ” Corps et séduction, Christian Delporte et Audrey Hermel, eds. Paris : Éditions et Librairie ancienne Nicolas Malais, 2014, 151-162.

*Work in progress :

La Scène interdite. Racine et la rhétorique du silence [monographie; le titre va probablement changer].

Tobin, Ronald

“ Hospitality and the Immigration Crisis. “ Eutopias 2 (Fall 2015) : 90-99.

*Work in proress :

Stage and off-stage in Racine’s tragedies.

Toczyski

“ ‘Blessed the Breasts at Which You Nursed’ : Mother-Child Intimacy in St. Francis de Sales’ Treatise on the Love of God. ” Spiritus : A Journal of Christian Spirituality 15.2 (2015), 191-213.

Tonolo, Sophie

“ De l’influence des beaux-arts sur la satire : le cas singulier de Jacques Du Lorens.” Les poètes satiriques normands du XVIIe siècle : actes du colloque tenu à l'université de Caen Basse-Normandie, 13-14 octobre 2011. J.-F. Castille et M.-G. Lenormand, eds. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2015, 171-180.

*Work in progress :

“ Une figure intellectuelle du premier XVIIe siècle : Madame Des Loges. “ Etude en cours.

Trinquet du Lys, Charlotte :

Disapearances and Endings. Articles selected and introduced by Charlotte Trinquet du Lys, Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. XLII. 83 (2015).

“ Cypherpunks in the Chambre Bleue: A 21st Century Gamified Pedagogy to Teach the Social Networks of the 17th Century at the Intersection of Intellectual Culture and Political Economics. ” Co-authored with Benjamin Balak. Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity in Seventeenth-Century France. Selected essays from the 44th North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Conference. Welch, Ellen R. and Michèle Longino, eds. Tubingen : Narr, 203-213.

True, Micah :

“ Is It Time for a New Edition of the Jesuit Relations from New France? Campeau vs. Thwaites. ” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada/Cahiers de la Société Bibliographique du Canada. 51.2 (2013), 261-279

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

“From Quebec to Paris and Back : The Jesuit Relations and a Decentered Reading of France. ” Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity : Selected Essays from the 44th North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Conference. Michèle Longino and Ellen Welch, eds. Tübingen : Narr, 2015, 95-104

“ Beyond the ‘Affaire Tartuffe’: Seventeenth-Century French Theatre in Colonial New France.” Romance Notes 55.3 (2015), 451-461.

*Work in progress :

Translation and annotated edition of Pierre de Charlevoix : Journal historique d’un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l’Amérique Septentrionale (1744). Brill Publishing.

Turcat, Eric :

“ Don Juan et la flèche du temps en fuite. ” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLII, 83 (mars 2015).

Vuillemin, Jean-Claude :

“ Abraham Bosse (c. 1603-1676) ”, pp. 304-309 ; “ Nicolas-François Blondel (1618-1686) ”, pp. 282-287 ; “ Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (c. 1595-1676) ”, pp. 555-561 ; “ Jean de Rotrou (1609-50) ”, pp. 1547-1552 ; “ Jean Racine (1639-99) ”, pp. 1448-1456. In Dictionnaire des philosophes français du XVIIe siècle. Acteurs et réseaux du savoir. Luc Foisneau, ed . Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2015.

*Work in progress :

“ Tableaux de ‘Vanités’ : ars moriendi ou ars vivendi? ”

“ Le jeu et la jouissance : pour un ‘troisième temps’ du théâtre. ”

Vos-Camy, Jolene :

“ Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès, une muse albigeoise. ” Voyages, échanges, rencontres au XVIIe siècle: Marseille Carrefour. Sylvie Requemora-Gros, ed. Tübingen: Narr, 2015.

*Work in progress :

“ Le repos de l’âme dans La Comtesse d’Isembourg d’Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès. ”; “ La vie agréable, honnête et commode : Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès. ”; “ Une pauvre muse albigeoise. ” (Histoire d’Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès). ; “ Trois perspectives de l’histoire de La Comtesse d’Isembourg. ”

Welch, Ellen :

“ Constructing Universality in Early Modern French Treatises on Music and Dance.” Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present. Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, and Damien Mahiet, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 103-124.

Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity : Selected Essays from the 44th NASSCFL Conference 2014. Co-editor with Michèle Longino. Tübingen: Narr, 2015.

“ Intermediaries and the Media : Diplomacy in the Early Eighteenth-Century French Periodical Press.” Cultural Intermediaries/Intermédiaires culturels. Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding and Ellen R. Welch, eds. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015, 237-256.

“ Cervantes and the Domestication of Romance in Seventeenth-Century French Theater : Jean Rotrou’s Les deux pucelles, tragi-comédie.” Republics of Letters 4.2 (2015), 1-15.

“ La critique des spectacles par les diplomates au XVIIe siècle. ” Littératures Classiques. 89 (2016), 103-114.

Wikstrom, Toby :

“ 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-Age - XVIIème siècle). Eds. Clotilde Jaquelard et Nicolas Lombart. Paris : Garnier, 2015, 117-129.

*Work in progress:

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

Woshinsky. Barbara :

*Work in progress :

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

Zaiser, Rainer :

“ Autour de Tristan en Allemagne. ” Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite 37 (2015) : 65-70.

*Work in progress :

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

Numéro spécial d’Œuvres et Critiques. Revaloriser le classicisme : formation, réception et actualité du classicisme/des classicismes littéraires en France.

Zoberman, Pierre

“ Scarron’s Taming of the Shrew. ” Seventeenth-Century French Studies 36.2 (December 2014), 156-171.

*Dissertations directed :

Kim Anh Chevalier : “ Femmes méchantes dans la littérature du XVIIème et de la fin du XIXème français.