EMF Volume 3 Contents:
Signs of the Early Modern 2: 17th Century and Beyond
Edited by David Lee Rubin

CONTENTS

Letter from the Editor
xiii

Contributors
xv

I. SIGNS OF THE EARLY MODERN 2

CATHERINE RANDALL
Possessed Personae in Early Modern France: Du Bellay, d'Aubigné and
Malherbe
1

LORRAINE DASTON
The Cold Light of Facts and the Facts of Cold Light:
Luminescence and the Transformation of the Scientific Fact, 1600-1750
17

HASSAN MELEHY
Descartes's Method: The Writing of the Subject
45

JEAN-PHILIPPE BEAULIEU
HANNAH FOURNIER
Le Discours politique de Marie du Gournay ou la modernité d'une prise de
parole
69

BASHIR EL-BESHTI
Signifying Texts and Displaced Contexts: Orientalism and the Ideological
Foundations of the Early Modern State
80

JANE O. NEWMAN
Almost White, but not Quite: "Race," Gender, and the Disarticulation
of the Imperial Subject in Lohenstein's Cleopatra (1680)
94

SCOTT BRYSON
Rules and Transgression: Imitatio naturae
and the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
121

JOAN DEJEAN
The Invention of a Public for Literature
149

II. REVIEW ESSAY

SCOTT BRYSON
Louis-Sébastien Mercier and the Birth of the Modern
169

III. COMMENTARY ON RECENT BOOKS

JODY ENDERS
The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture,
by Mary Carruthers
183

MICHAEL VINCENT
Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign, by Murray Krieger
187

DONALD STONE, JR.
Old Comedy in the French Renaissance (1576-1620), by Donald Perret
192

SUSAN READ BAKER
L'accès des femmes à la culture (1598-1715). Un débat d'idées
de Saint François de Sales à la Marquise de Lambert, by Linda Timmermans
195

ANNE M. MENKE
Subjectivity and Subjugation in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Prose:
The Family of Romance of French Classicism, by Mitchell Greenberg
200

ALAIN COUPRIE
La distinction à l'âge classique. Emules et enjeux, by Alain Fauderary
204

WILLIAM O. GOODE
Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture,
by Peter France
206

MARIAN HOBSON
Terms of Response: Language and Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-
Century Theory, by Robert L. Montgomery
211

MARK FRANKO
La politique-spectacle au grand siècle: Les rapports franco-anglais,
by Marie-Claude Canova-Green
214

FAITH E. BEASLEY
Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse
in the Old Regime, by Erica Harth
218

LOUISE K. HOROWITZ
The Pastoral Masquerade. Disguise and Identity in L'Astrée,
by Lawrence A. Gregorio
222

THOMAS PAVEL
Héros et Orateurs. Rhétorique et dramaturgique cornélienne, by Marc
Fumaroli
226

ORESTE RANUM
Pierre Corneille: Poetics and Political Drama under Louis XIII, by David
Clark
229

PAUL JOANNIDES
Poussin's Paintings, A Study in Art-Historical Methodology, by David
Carrier
233

JAMES F. GAINES
Molière à l'École républicaine: De la critique universitaire aux manuels
scolaires
(1870-1914), by Ralph Albanese, Jr.
237

JOSEPHINE V. ARNOLD
The Twilight of the Goddesses, by Madelyn Gutwirth
242

Index
247

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