{"title":"Introduction: Women and the History of Philosophy","authors":"Derval Conroy","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2021.1924012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2021.1924012","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction aims to briefly outline some of the ways in which women have been historically excluded from the history of philosophy, and the ways in which recent developments are addressing that neglect and exclusion. It also outlines ways in which women were in fact included in the historiography of philosophy in the 17th century itself, the period in question.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"2 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2021.1924012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43279026","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":"Heroism and Homoeroticism in Madame d’Aulnoy’s Belle Tales","authors":"P. Scott","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2020.1835111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2020.1835111","url":null,"abstract":"Madame d’Aulnoy’s two fairy tales featuring central characters named Belle, La Belle aux cheveux d’or (1697) and Belle-Belle ou le chevalier Fortuné (1698) share similar themes and share many parallels and convergences in addition to sources in common. However, an overlooked and significant element in both stories is the depiction of same-sex desire on the part of central male characters. Ultimately, these characters conform to the heteronormative conventional ending of the majority of early modern fairy tales, but not before a process of detachment from their homoerotic desires and homosocial world. This process involves their intellectual and physical intimacy with women with whom they ‘become men’ in the sense of healthy and happy individuals. The tales therefore present a flouting of patriarchal imperatives both through their depiction of feminine parity, and indeed, superiority and in their strident critique of male society that excludes women, be it homosocial or homosexual in nature.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"186 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2020.1835111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43516185","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":"Death Sentences: Corneille's Prison Monologues","authors":"Joseph Harris","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2020.1856574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856574","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores Corneille's ‘prison monologues’ – soliloquies uttered by imprisoned characters contemplating their own forthcoming execution. Unable to engage materially with the world, Corneille's prisoners are effectively reduced to voices; although objectively powerless, they are subjectively able to wield language as a tool to engage with and symbolically triumph over death. Refusing to condemn the potential fallibility or illegitimacy of the legal power that has condemned them, prisoners like the eponymous tragicomic hero of Clitandre and Clindor in L’Illusion comique devise creative, poetic accounts to justify and explain their imprisonment on a symbolic level, in an attempt to reconcile themselves to – or even to transcend – the degraded reality of their current situation and their upcoming fate. Corneille's prison monologues dramatize the tension between the prisoners’ abstract trust in justice and their physical, embodied experience of imprisonment, thus unearthing a new side to these early Cornelian heroes.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"145 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42412078","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":"Pardon paternel et justice d’exception dans Les Corrivaus (1573) de Jean de La Taille","authors":"Corinne Noirot","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2020.1856572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856572","url":null,"abstract":"Les Corrivaus de Jean de la Taille (1573) dramatise la souveraineté royale comme source de justice et de concorde. Une double tentative d'enlèvement demeure impunie dans cette comédie humaniste. Le pardon des pères s'exerce au mépris apparent de l'institution judiciaire, entre éthique nobiliaire, royalisme pacificateur et morale évangélique. Le discours figuratif investit les thèmes de l'union et du rapt, alors que le mécontentement et la satisfaction nobiliaires redéfinissent le crime des fils. La justice des pères apaise le conflit, entre autorité patriarcale et acte de charité. Ressort un homologue de ‘justice d'exception' (Agamben), acte justifié par une menace imminente et visant le rétablissement de l'harmonie collective. A l'inverse d'appels polémiques à l'expurgation violente, durant les premières guerres de religion, la perspective est anti-machiavélienne et conciliatrice. La Taille représente l'aristocratie comme un pilier d'une monarchie elle-même justifiée par un paternalisme bienveillant rendant possible une France réunifiée où chacun soit ‘satisfait’.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"131 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856572","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41438658","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":"Vigilante, Brigand, Terrorist: Staging Popular Justice in Revolutionary Times","authors":"Y. Robert","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2020.1856577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856577","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the many rewritings of a single story: the adventures of a brigand vigilante, first told in Schiller's Die Raüber, adapted by Lamartelière into the 1792 hit Robert, chef de brigands, and updated over the next decade through new endings and sequels. The evolving nature of this vigilante – from noble brigand to popular insurrectionist to merciful judge to Terrorist – reflects the anxieties produced by the shift from a conception of justice as a transcendental force, originating in God's will and flowing through the king and his courts, to an immanent model resting on the notion that all humans possess an innate sense of right and wrong and thus the ability to judge. The manifold revisions of Schiller's story open a window onto the shifting sands of Revolutionary justice, revealing the impact of such events as the September Massacres, Louis XVI's trial, and the institution of the Revolutionary Tribunal.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"198 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856577","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47418498","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":"The Stage Against the Scaffold: French Adaptations of George Lillo’s London Merchant","authors":"Annelle Curulla","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2020.1856570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856570","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers French theatrical adaptations of George Lillo’s 1731 tragedy, The London Merchant, or, The History of George Barnwell. It asks how authors engaged with concepts of crime and punishment in the process of translation across cultures, genres and theatrical traditions. Following analysis of Lillo’s play, itself adapted from a seventeenth-century ballad, the article focuses on French rewritings of the George Barnwell story in the years following Diderot’s theorization of the drame. I suggest that by the 1760s and 1770s, the more French playwrights attempted to humanize Barnwell’s crime, the harder it became to preserve the meaning of the executions that conclude Lillo’s play. The ways in which the meanings of the scaffold shifted in these theatrical adaptations suggest broader changes in discourses of punishment in 1760s and 1770s France.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"185 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46511650","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":"Bérénice on Trial: Judging Corneille Against Racine","authors":"H. Bilis","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2020.1856571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856571","url":null,"abstract":"On 21 November 1670, Parisian spectators could watch Racine's Bérénice at the Hôtel de Bourgogne and, a week later, attend the premiere of Corneille's Tite et Bérénice at the Palais Royal, as the playwrights and their troupes vied for box office success. Despite Racine's victory, scholarship on the playwrights has minimized the importance of this duel as just one among many guerres comiques. This essay argues that the comedy, Tite et Titus ou Critique sur les Bérénices, published anonymously in 1673, enables a better understanding of how the duelling plays were a defining experience for both playwrights. The comedy stages Racine's Titus and Corneille's Tite, who come before the god Apollon in judgment, accusing one another of impersonation. Understanding the allegory of the Parnasse trial renders visible the stakes of the Bérénice duel and illustrates the changing reception of the tragic genre in the last quarter of seventeenth-century France.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"160 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856571","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48468701","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":"IN MEMORIAM – Christian Biet (1952–2020)","authors":"M. Meere","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2020.1869656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2020.1869656","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"106 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2020.1869656","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43869800","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":"Charles IX et la Justice dans l’Antigone de Jean-Antoine de Baïf","authors":"Valérie M. Dionne","doi":"10.1080/20563035.2020.1856576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856576","url":null,"abstract":"L’Antigone de Jean-Antoine de Baïf est la première pièce de Sophocle traduite en français et l’unique tragédie que le poète ait publiée. Souvent considérée comme une simple traduction, cette pièce a longtemps été ignorée du répertoire des Antigones françaises. Toutefois, Baïf procède à une réécriture en adaptant le texte au contexte de la fin du XVIe siècle qui fait écho aux guerres de Religion et à la Saint-Barthélemy. C’est en questionnant le rôle de la dikè ou de la Justice dans le texte de Sophocle et dans l’Antigone de Baïf, en comparant le texte grec à la traduction que se saisissent la pensée politique de l’auteur-traducteur et son rôle de courtisan sous Charles IX, époque où se marient les arts et le pouvoir dans le but d’harmoniser comme de pacifier les relations civiles.","PeriodicalId":40652,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern French Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"116 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20563035.2020.1856576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43402417","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}