The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 23 (2001) edited by Jan Clarke

CONTENTS

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GÉRARD FERREYROLLES Histoire et finalité: sur les origines du discours providentialiste au XVIIe siècle 1
EDWARD JAMES Pyrrhonism the Beginning or the End of Wisdom? Pascal and Bayle 15
DERVAL CONROY In the Beginning Was the Image: Reading the Frontispiece in Seventeenth-Century Feminist Texts 27
CHRISTINE MCCALL PROBES Feminine Friendship at the End of the Century: Testimony from the French Correspondence of Madame Palatine 39
TWYLA MEDING The Conqueror and the Shepherd: Discovery, habit and Costume in L'Astrée 51
MARK BANNISTER Du Verdier and the End of the Amadis de Gaule Romances 67
CHRISTOPHE TRIAU Cinna: catastrophe finale et catastrophe initiale 77
MILORAD MARGITIC Fins et débuts cornéliens: une analyse de Suréna 87
CHRISTOPHER GOSSIP Corneille as Self-Critic 97
JOSEPH HARRIS Engendering Female Subjectivity in Molière's Dépit amoureux 107
MARIE-CLAUDE CANOVA-GREEN Espace et pouvoir dans Les Plaisirs de l'Île enchantée 117
JULIA PREST The Problem of Praise and the First Prologue to Le Malade imaginaire 131
AMY WYGANT D'Aubignac Demonologist, 1: Monkeys and Monsters 143
RICHARD MABER A Publisher's Nightmare: Ménage, Wetstein, and Diogenes Laertius 165
WILLIAM BROOKS AND P. J. YARROW Armand de Bourbon, marquis de Miremont, and his Relations in France and England 179