(2012) Volume XIV

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Allison Stedman.  Lafayette Rewrites History, Murat Rewrites Lafayette: the Novel and the Transfiguration of the Social Sphere in Old-Regime France......................................1

Wilson Goss.  L'anti-critique de La Princesse de Clèves...................................................22

Ellen R. Welch.  From Aesthetic to Ethical Cosmopolitanism in Scudéry’s Le Grand Cyrus................................................37

Eric Turcat.  Ironie polyphonique ou polycentrique ? L’honnête homme et son habile alter ego dans les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld............................55

Ioana Manea.  Le philosophe La Mothe Le Vayer : spectateur de la « comédie »du monde et explorateur du « globe intellectuel »............................................................................88

Francis Assaf.  L’Orphelin infortuné ou le portrait du bon frère (1660) : rester propre au sein de la saleté................100

Perry Gethner.  Depictions of War in the Plays of Rotrou.............................................119

BOOK REVIEWS
(PDF of Book Reviews)

McClure, Ellen M. Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-252-03056-7. Pp. 316. $50.00 (Chloe Hogg)..............................................135

Wilkin, Rebecca.   Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT:  Ashgate Publishing Company, 2008.  ISBN 978-0-7546-6138-2.  Pp. 243.  $114.95 (Barbara Woshinsky).......................137

Seifert, Lewis C. Manning the Margins:  Masculinity & Writing in Seventeenth-Century France Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-472-07058-1.  Pp. 339.  $29.95. (Juliette Cherbuliez)...........................................................................142

Goldstein, Claire. Vaux and Versailles: The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France. Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.  ISBN 978-0-8122-4058-0. Pp 270. $59.95 (Matthew Senior)...................................................145

Greenberg, Mitchell. Racine: From Ancient Myth to Tragic Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. ISBN 9780816660841. Pp. xvi + 287. $25.00. (Roland Racevskis).............................................................................147