{"title":"‘Tout frémit au seul nom de cette maladie’: on strategies for (not) naming the plague, Marseille 1720","authors":"David McCallam","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2024.2317156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2024.2317156","url":null,"abstract":"The last major plague epidemic in France hit Marseille in 1720 and ultimately took the lives of over 120,000 people across the city and Provence. Yet to what degree did the act of naming the plague...","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139969422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Motz […] en main’ or words you can hold in your hand: Rabelais in the Printshop (Quart Livre, 55–6)","authors":"Emily Butterworth","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2024.2311156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2024.2311156","url":null,"abstract":"In chapters 55-56 of Rabelais’s Quart Livre, Pantagruel and his companions encounter a soundscape of inexplicable, disembodied voices and noises, which turn out to be sounds that have frozen into v...","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139752405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amphibious Author: Abel Boyer, Iphigénie, and Huguenot Migration","authors":"Suzanne Jones","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2024.2302973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2024.2302973","url":null,"abstract":"This article centres on the idea of an ‘amphibious author’, an epithet applied to the London-based Huguenot writer, lexicographer, and translator Abel Boyer (1667?–1729). Cross-channel migration of...","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"256 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139903032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metalinguistic Strategies in Early Modern Language Controversies","authors":"R. Maber","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2023.2297092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2297092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139387122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel J. Worden, Caitlin Facello, Gracey Greco, Scarlett Holton
{"title":"Diaphanous bodies: projections of ecstasy, insolence, and yearning in <i>Les États et Empires du Soleil</i> by Cyrano de Bergerac","authors":"Daniel J. Worden, Caitlin Facello, Gracey Greco, Scarlett Holton","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2023.2264926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2264926","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac’s (1619–55) tale of a voyage to the sun, Les États et Empires du Soleil, a cosmic traveller’s physical body, as well as his light-propelled spacecraft, undergo eerie transformations. After the vehicle shines like enamel and gold in blazing sun rays, it fades to transparency. Meanwhile, the narrator’s body becomes diaphanous, revealing inner organs that gleam in hues of scarlet, vermillion, and garnet. This article develops a close reading of this passage. The authors analyse the passage’s narrative descriptions, first alongside Neoplatonic metaphors of saintly bodies as prisms for divine light, then in relation to early modern discourse about optics, magnetism, and anatomy, and finally as burlesque allusions to an infant’s conception and birth. At length, the authors suggest that these descriptions can inspire feelings of ecstasy, insolence, and yearning in readers, and that this array of sentiments can facilitate an experience of freeing the imagination.KEYWORDS: Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–55)États et Empires du Soleilfictionnarrationimagerytransparencyprojection Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 S. Cyrano de Bergerac, Les États et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil, ed. by Madeleine Alcover, Champion Classiques Series: Littératures (Paris: Champion, 2004), p. 205.2 ibid., p. 2293 ibid., p. 2294 ibid., p. 2295 ibid., p. 2296 ibid., pp. 227–287 ibid., pp. 228–298 A. Torero-Ibad, Libertinage, science et philosophie dans le matérialisme de Cyrano de Bergerac, Libre pensée et littérature clandestine Series (Paris: Champion, 2007), p. 14.9 N. Gengoux, Une Lecture philosophique de Cyrano. Gassendi, Descartes, Campanella : trois moments du matérialisme, Libre pensée et littérature clandestine Series (Paris: Champion, 2015), pp. 11–13.10 B. Parmentier, ‘Présentation,’ in Cyrano de Bergerac, Les États et Empires du Soleil (Paris: GF Flammarion, 2003), pp. 19–48, p. 23.11 ibid., p. 2412 J. Prévot, Cyrano de Bergerac : Écrivain de la crise, Biographies et Mythes historiques Series (Paris: Ellipses, 2011), pp. 268, 274.13 F. Aït-Touati, Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century, trans. by Susan Emanuel (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2011), p. 68.14 J.-C. Darmon, ‘L’Imagination de l’espace entre argumentation philosophique et fiction, de Gassendi à Cyrano,’ Études littéraires, 34.1–2 (2002), 217–40, p. 234.15 I. Moreau, ‘Guérir du sot’: Les stratégies des libertins à l’âge classique, Libre pensée et littérature clandestine Series (Paris: Champion, 207), p. 176.16 F. Balique, ‘La Métaphore, figure de l’insolence dans Les États et Empires de la lune de Cyrano de Bergerac,’ in Styles, genres, auteurs, Vol. 4, ed. by Gérard Berthomieu and Françoise Rullier-Theuret (Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2005), pp. 67–80.17 D. Worden, ‘Projection and Recasting of the Self in États et Empires du Soleil by Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Papers on","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136143020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addicted to Love: Royal Relapses in Racine’s Andromaque","authors":"Polly T. Mangerson","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2023.2247030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2247030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44978009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s Note","authors":"Nicholas Hammond","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2023.2236391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2236391","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Early Modern French Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138532382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sodomy, Subculture, and Surveillance in Paris, 1739–47","authors":"J. Merrick","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2023.2194339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2194339","url":null,"abstract":"Recently digested evidence from the 1740s confirms both patterns and variety in the sodomitical subculture of Paris in the 1720s and 1730s that historians have already analyzed. Men who desired men understood the methods and hazards of solicitation in the Luxembourg and Tuileries gardens, where the police deployed decoys to entrap them. Records of arrest demonstrate continuity over three decades as well as evolution in practices of surveillance. In 1748–49, agents interrogated not only the men they arrested but also the men these men mentioned, who named others, almost none of whom ended up in prison. We still do not know why the police prioritized information over imprisonment at this time because we have no documentation about administrative deliberations. Thanks to archival inquiry, however, we can now follow the steps that preceded the shift.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"199 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45084425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friedrich Nietzsche’s assessments of François de La Rochefoucauld’s maxims through the Academic Sceptic argumentative method of pro and con and syntactic analysis","authors":"Jiani Fan","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2023.2198572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2198572","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on section I, 35 and I, 36 of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, as well as other related works, this paper examines Nietzsche’s evaluation of François de La Rochefoucauld’s psychological observation in the latter’s maxims. It argues that, in Nietzsche’s view, La Rochefoucauld’s perspicacity in detecting moral psychology is crystallized both in the form of maxim and the messages derived from psychological observation that are conveyed in the maxims. It contends that the readers’ reactions to these maxims also render their passions and desires tangible and intelligible for La Rochefoucauld’s and Nietzsche’s observations of their psyche. Furthermore, by exploring Nietzsche’s contrasting assessments of La Rochefoucauld’s maxims, we can also illuminate his own theory of moral psychology.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"150 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60044427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voyage en terre colonisatrice : Relation du Voyage d’Espagne de Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy","authors":"Valentine Balguerie","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2023.2185848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2185848","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47725223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}