...Toby Wikström Larry F. Norman The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2011 . Pp. 296 . Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 588 BOOK REVIEWS Quijote intelligible as a reflection on political...

...Margot Irvine Rachel Mesch . Having It All in the Belle Époque: How French Women’s Magazines Invented the Modern Woman . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2013 . Pp. 241 . Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 BOOK REVIEWS figures of benefaction that genius both...

...Maurice Samuels Copyright © 2019 The Trustees of Columbia University 2019 Maurice Samuels FRIENDSHIP AND BETRAYAL: THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY, SIMON DEUTZ, AND MODERN FRANCE S FIRST ANTI-­SEMITIC AFFAIR At 5:30 p.m. on November 6, 1832, police agents raided the ­house at No. 3, rue Haute-d­ u-C­...

... and Guez de Balzac, which comprised an impoverishment of the language in her eyes, she defended the Pléiade, in what amounts to an early querelle des Anciens et Modernes . 7 Despite her hankering for earlier usages, it would be injudicious to regard as reactionary this “obligation religieuse de...

...Víctor Sierra Matute Abstract Early modern culture was most fully expressed in events where materiality and textuality are inextricably intertwined: theatrical spectacles, royal parades, triumphal arches, processions, poetic tournaments, and jousts. At the other end of the spectrum, mainstream...

...Pericles Lewis Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Pericles Lewis PROUST, WOOLF, AND MODERN FICTION V irginia Woolf began reading Marcel Proust in 1922. In an essay "On Rereading Novels," published in the Times Literary Supplement on July 20, 1922, she comments...

...Jean-Claude Carron William J. Kennedy , The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2003 . Pp. xiv + 383. Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 114 BOOK...

...Aurelie Renaud Andrea Goulet . Optiques. The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2006 . Pp. 272 . Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Book Reviews Andrea Goulet. Optiques...

...Shirin A. Khanmohamadi Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters (eds). Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . Pp. 253 . Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 200 BOOK REVIEWS Karina F. Attar...

... into vernacular languages. The precepts of this genre entered into the literary culture of early modern France primarily through the avenue of satire, in which characters were defined by the food they ate and by other aspects of the Galenic regimen. Because of its association with treatises on the education...

...Max McGuinness max.mcguinness@ucd.ie Edward J. Hughes , Egalitarian Strangeness: On Class Disturbance and Levelling in Modern and Contemporary French Narrative . Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures 75. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press , 2021 . Copyright © 2022...

...Tina Kuhlisch Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain . Cruz , Anne J. Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1999 . Pp. 297 . Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS 355 may have been able to assert...

...Ali Nematollahy Peter Schulman . The Sunday of Fiction. The Modern French Eccentric . West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press , 2002 . Pp. 196 . Copyright © 2002 The Trustees of Columbia University 2002 478 BOOK REVIEWS ration is either a conscious or unconscious...

...Lise Forment Abstract Cet article se concentre sur la participation de Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier aux Querelles des Contes et des Femmes, et cherche à éclairer le sens de son intervention dans les débats entre Anciens et Modernes. La conteuse y fait entendre une voix singulière, qui ne se résume pas...

...Andrea Goulet agoulet@upenn.edu Masha Belenky , Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2019 . Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 Anne...

...Leigh Mercer Abstract This essay examines the display of technological objects, consumer goods, and other materials within the earliest Spanish realist cinema, as well as the manipulation of things in pioneering fantasy films, to reveal how Spanish filmmakers projected the modernity of Spain...

...Scott Marentette William Marx . Naissance de la critique moderne: La littérature selon Eliot et Valéry . Arras : Artois Presses Université , 2002 . Pp. 411 . Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 432 BOOK REVIEWS Excerpt from "Subjects": What is my 'mind...

...Sophie Robert Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Sophie Robert ADRIENNE MONNIER ET L'ESPRIT MODERNE En novembre 1915, Adrienne Monnier ouvre sa librairie : « A. Monnier, aLibrairie, Location de livres » 7, rue de l'Odeon Paris, qui sera rebaptisee La Maison des Amis des...

...Anna-Louise Milne Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Anna-Louise Milne GIDE'S POLYMORPHOUS PERVERSITY, OR FRENCH MODERNISM'S ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT For a long time, it would seem, Gide's name, when considered from the perspective of America, provoked a sort of jolt...

...Anna-Louise Milne Copyright © 2008 The Trustees of Columbia University 2008 Anna-Louise Milne LA NOUVELLE REVUE FRANc;AISE IN THE AGE OF MODERNISM The significance of La Nouvelle Revue Franfaise in twentieth-century French literary publishing has long been recognized and has given rise...