...Arnold H. Rowbotham Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 MADAME DE GENLIS AND JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU By ARNOLDH. ROWBOTHAM Madame de Genlis lived through the last years of the Ancien Regime, through the Revolution, the First Empire...

... freight in so cumbersome a vehicle. I regret also that he lightened his load by throwing out footnotes and all other critical parapher- nalia except a good bibliography and an index. CARLOSBAKER Princeton University Voltaire and Madame du...

...Robert C. McLean Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 THE COMPLETED VISION: A STUDY OF MADAME DE MAUVES AND THE AMBASSADORS By ROBERTC. MCLEAN As a recent critic points out...

...Robert J. Nelson MADAME BOVARY AS TRAGEDY By ROBERTJ. NELSON Whether we can assume that in this year of the centenary of Madame Bovary Flaubert continues to exert a shaping influence upon the modern sensibility is doubtful. For us moderns 1957...

...Harcourt Brown MADAME GEOFFRIN AND MARTIN FOLKES : SIX NEW LETTERS1 By HARCOURTBROWN Madame Geofrin One of the wisest and wittiest of the women of the 18th cen- tury, Madame...

...P. M. Wetherill Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 EDGAR ALLAN POE AND MADAME SABATIER By P, M. WETHERILL In his critical works, Poe wrote that one of the most nobly poetic themes is that of pure love. He is referring to the “Uranian” Venus...

... f‘or M’1,ady: If a deep sense of the many injuries I have offkred to so good a lady, with a sincere remorse, and a hearty contrition, can but obtain the least glance of’ compassion, I am too happy.-Ah, madam, there was a time!-but let it be forgotten-I confess 1 have...

...Harriet Ray Allentuch Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 MY DAUGHTER/MYSELF EMOTIONAL ROOTS OF MADAME DE SEVIGNE’S ART By HARRIETRAY ALLENTUCH Madame de Sevigne, an enduring...

...David L. Sedley This article interprets Madame de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Clèves as a response to Blaise Pascal’s arithmetic triangle. Pascal used the numbers of the triangle to determine how to divide fairly the stakes of an interrupted game of chance. He called his method “the geometry...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad This essay connects the television series Mad Men to Anthony Trollope’s Prime Minister and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary . All are serialized narratives of capitalist globalization in which motifs of exile articulate the experience of breached sovereignty in a modern world...

... been forgotten how much the individual naturalistic writer has in common with his predecessors. Of Zola, a critic aware of his short- comings but not hostile to his achievements wrote: “Les vraies origines de M. Zola doivent se chercher bien plus dans les Mise‘rables que dans Madame Bo...

... of the nouvelle in France. Not only was Segrais the first author to advance a definition of this literary genre, but he also gave it its most artistic expression before the short analytical narratives of Madame de la Fayette. The theory he proposes is that the nouvelle, as distinguished from...

..., by Professor Feuillerat. In Baudelaire’s first letter to Madame Saba- tier, in 1852, he enclosed the poem, A une Fenznze trop pie, the tone of which is utterly alien to the respectful, half-timid tone of ‘The volume contains six other studies: “Le P6lerinage de Charle- magne: a Baroque...

... to leave is in no sense a weak surrender to tradi- tional values. But, if we are to claim it as a spiritual triumph for Strether, it is necessary to say precisely what its content is: the renun- ciation of Europe and of Madame de Vionnet must have an intelligible bearing upon that triumph...

... of Madame Bovary appeared in this more appreciative environment. The translator, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (the youngest daughter of Karl Marx), cast her project not as a diversion but as a form of learning. “If [this translation] induces some readers to go to that original, if it helps to make known to those...

... of his let- ters edited by Josef Korner. One of the most important parts of his correspondence, however, does not appear there : his corre- spondence with Madame de Stael. Through a happy chance a great- great-granddaughter of Madame de Stael, Pauline de Pange, dis- covered...

... of his let- ters edited by Josef Korner. One of the most important parts of his correspondence, however, does not appear there : his corre- spondence with Madame de Stael. Through a happy chance a great- great-granddaughter of Madame de Stael, Pauline de Pange, dis- covered...

.... There it is!” (p. 20); the second after Mr. Touchett dies and leaves Isabel a fortune, when Mrs. Touchett informs Madame Merle, “The money’s to remain in the affairs of the bank, and she’s to draw the interest” (p. 208). The second passage is, I suggest, useful for interpreting the first. James’s...

... . . . montrant ses grosses cuysses pellues et vellues comme ung ours” (Chap. 81). It is with a similar lack of discretion that Antoine de la Sale makes Madame mention twice that she will not wear underwear on her bare body for penance’s sake (Chaps. 20 and 45). Furthermore he underscores her...

... in exile (Holland or England) is writing to Lionne in Paris concerning efforts being made to allow him to return to France. Such, at least, is the main topic of the first two paragraphs. . . . Je suis infiniment obligC aux bontCs de Madame * * * & B la chaleur de vos bons offices...