...Alfred Foulet Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 THE ARCHETYPE OF JOINVILLE’S VIE LIE SAINT LOUIS By ALFREDFOULET The Vie de saint Louis was composed in three instalments: first came the book proper 19-765...

... importance. The mechanical accuracy in even the smallest details is remarkable. URBANT. HOLMES,JR. University of North CuroZitEa French Tragedy in the Reign of Louis XVI and the Early Years of the French Revolution, 1774-1792. By H...

... to a mainstream Anglophone audience: Joris-Karl Huysmans’s En Route (1895, trans. 1896) and La cathédrale (1898, trans. 1898) and Pierre Louÿs’s Aphrodite: Mœurs antiques (1896, trans. 1900 and 1906) and La femme et le pantin (1898, trans. 1908). By reading letters, memoirs, and prefaces alongside periodical...

... ceremonies. The omission of Racine’s tragic corpus is a gaping hole in Louis Marin’s discussion of the seventeenth-century theory of representation. Marin sees a perfect correlation between Pierre Corneille’s theater and the theatricality of power, conceived of as a force constructed through a dialectic...

... Years ,of Louis XIV, 1701-1 715. By HENRYCARRINGTON LANCASTER. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945. Pp. 365. $5.00. It was altogether fitting that Professor Lancaster, after bringing to completion his nine-volume history of seventeenth-century French drama, should...

...George R. Havens Donald S. Schier. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1941. Pp. x + 229. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 REVIEWS Louis-Bertrand Castel, Anti-Newtonian Scientist. By DONALDS. Schier. Cedar Rapids, Iowa : The Torch...

...Ralph C. Wood P. Hofacker Erich. St. Louis: Washington University Studies, new series, Language and Literature, No. 16, May, 1946. Pp. 125. Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Curtis C. D.Ziiil 25 1 In the spirit...

...David Daiches Robert Kiely. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. ix + 285 pp. $5.50. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 616 REVIEWS Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure. By ROBERTKIELY...

...), and in a famous passage near the beginning of Karl Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1851–52), a future poetry was greeted as an original poetry. In each of these instances, however, breaking with the past entailed imitating it, which suggests that poetry's future looks much like its past, the way...

... events. Similarly, Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte famously uses literary and theatrical tropes to explain the same events as Flaubert as they unfolded. Both Flaubert and Marx show us that literary form (irony, farce, attention to linguistic repetition) participates in the politicization...

.... Its significance grows to the end. Thus, the lawyer’s announcement of the verdict, “Non-lieu,” in Thtrkse Desgueyroux, and, in Le Ncmd de viptres, Isa’s exultant cry, “Les titres y sont,” which Louis thinks he can hear post-mortem, reverberate through the respective novels and, like...

...), Louis XVII, and Anastasia Romanov. The novel’s affinity for pretenders seemingly begins with Walter Scott and repre- sents, in its later forms, a tribute to Waverley—in which Charles Edward famously seeks to reinstate the Stuart dynasty on the throne of Great...

... to the humble birth of Abbot Suger, the minister of Louis VI and Louis VII. At any rate, its protest against the dain in authority is purposeful and emphatic. Further, a striking opposition exists between this theme and that of Ercrcles: all honor to an able and pious minister, even though he began...

... (fifteenth century), the pages on the inflated haroque ego, on the public in the times of Louis XIV. But of course the chapters on French realism. culminating in the appreciation of Zola and the Goiicourts, are the main pillars of .IZintrsis. If they are the pil!ars, those on thc twentieth...

... on chroniclers steeped in legend, reports that Fiacre came to France in 626. On the emigration of numerous Irish monks to the continent in the seventh century, see Louis J. Paetow, Guide to the Study of Medieval History (New York, 1931), pp. 162-63. On Faro, see Joseph BCdier, Le'gendes kpiques (Paris...

... tout court . Turn-of-the-century critics such as Gustave Lanson, René Bray, and Eugène Rigal attributed to “l’époque classique” under Louis XIV a quintessentially French “génie” that had the distinction of being codified by explicit rules, set out most famously (albeit a bit late in the game...

...- tion’s aspiration to create a new man to fictions about life-­size automata, among them a previously unknown predecessor of Mary Shelley’s Franken- stein. The third chapter, “The Once and Only Pitiful King,” focuses on the figure of Louis XVI as perceived and represented in accounts of the flight...

.... Chapel Hill : Uni- versity of North Carolina Press, 1941. Pp. vii + 359. $3.50. Byrd, William. The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712. [Edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling.] Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, 1941. Pp. v + 622. $5.00. Cameron, Kenneth...