{"title":"Preliminary remarks on Pascal’s Écrits sur la grâce","authors":"R. Parish","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The volume’s first introductory essay shows how the Écrits sur la grâce throw up many challenges and puzzles for the reader, while still revolving around a core set of problems and definitions. The first is the attempt to situate Augustinian teaching on grace in the middle (and by implication orthodox) ground between Calvinism and (neo-)Pelagianism, in a way which appeals both to authority and to common sense; the second is to underline the double nature both of finding and of losing grace in a range of co-operative sequences. Finally there are the linked imperatives of ignorance and incuriosity, allowing Pascal to conclude only that the gift of grace or its lack is due to ‘un jugement juste quoique caché’, without which mystery the hubristic risk of antinomianism becomes all too apparent.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"101 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mais comment donc écrire sur la Grâce?","authors":"A. Cantillon","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cet article prend en compte les conditions historiques de cette écriture-ci d’écrits sur la grâce, les problèmes philologiques posés par la prolifération de copies inachevées, et les caractéristiques structurelles de l’énonciation écrite en général. Il a donc alors fallu écrire sur la grâce, sans même être autorisé à le faire, sans même parvenir à achever aucun de ces écrits, et sans même aucune perspective de publication. Les copies font comme un ressassement sans fin. Dans ce ressassement quasi illisible, inaudible, qui est aussi reprise bégayante du mouvement traditionnel de la définition des doctrines par l’Église catholique, peut s’entendre cependant soudain par moment la voix d’une raison humaine qui tente d’avancer au plus loin dans la formulation de vérités qui, par définition, doivent toujours pourtant lui échapper.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"116 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Martin de Barcos: Grace, Predestination, and Jansenism","authors":"M. Moriarty","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Martin de Barcos’s posthumously published Exposition de la foy de l’Eglise romaine touchant la grâce et la prédestination is an important restatement of what he takes to be St Augustine’s doctrine on these matters. The first edition (1697) was condemned by the Archbishop of Paris, Louis-Antoine de Noailles, as a restatement of Jansenist doctrine, which, broken down into five key propositions, had been condemned by Innocent X in 1653. The ‘Remarques’ published with the second edition of 1700 argue that the Exposition by no means endorses the doctrines contained in the Five Propositions, and that the papal condemnation of these is thus irrelevant. This claim is assessed in a detailed analysis of the ‘Remarques’ and of the main text of the Exposition. In conclusion there is a brief discussion of the relationship of Barcos’s account of grace to Pascal’s and of the attempt to distinguish their views from those of the Calvinists.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"148 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epilogue: Co-operations","authors":"R. Scholar","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This response to the foregoing essays argues that the essays establish a useful critical distance from which to view the Écrits and that they do so by placing the text in a series of contexts: biographical, textual, doctrinal, sacramental, and institutional. It goes on to suggest that a different kind of context — the intentional context — remains relatively understudied here and to sketch various possibilities and problems that would attend any study of that context for the Écrits.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"179 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theatrical Iconography, Jeu de Scène, and Recognizing the ‘Table Scene(s)’ in Molière’s Tartuffe","authors":"D. G. Muller","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many recent discussions of the Chauveau and Brissart frontispieces to Molière’s Tartuffe have sought to discourage their use as documentary evidence for original performance practice on the grounds that their depiction does not conform to the text of the play. This article re-examines the textual and iconographic evidence for staging the ‘table scene’, suggesting that these frontispieces may still possess significant documentary value and cannot be so easily rejected as disaffirming the original jeu de scène. A close reading of the 1669 text as a script for performance reasserts the continuity between the text and these illustrations despite the hermeneutics of suspicion that pervade recent interpretations that rightly seek to emphasize the illustrations’ material function as liminary engravings within books.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"54 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Geography of Spectacle in Corneille’s L’Illusion comique","authors":"Jeffrey N. Peters","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In L’Illusion comique (1635) Corneille draws upon concepts of location and placing to dramatize the emergence of a new and, to modern readers, recognizable poetic style. Early in the play, the famous cave in which the magician Alcandre stages his ‘spectres’ serves to distinguish narrative from spectacle, word from image, with the ostensible purpose of giving preference to the latter. What ensues during the play, however, is a gradual blurring of the verbal and the visual. From within the apparent gap separating word and image comes a new kind of specifically verbal image, situated on stage and housed in the confining ‘place’ of the dramatic poem. The play therefore constitutes an important historical development in the early modern discussion of Aristotelian principles of vivid speech whereby the world is made both present and near.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"23 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La ‘Querelle des femmes’ est-elle une querelle? Philosophie et pseudo-linéarité dans l’histoire du féminisme","authors":"Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cet article part du constat selon lequel la catégorie de ‘querelle des femmes’ constitue un outil historiographique essentiel et pourtant problématique. Dès lors, il faut en retracer l’histoire pour voir comment cette catégorie s’est imposée. Cela amène à adopter un point de vue décalé, mobilisant la philosophie et non seulement la littérature, pour en éprouver la pertinence. Ce travail critique permet en définitive une autre lecture des rapports entre les querelles lettrées et la question des femmes jusqu’à la fin de l’Ancien Régime.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"69 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love and love of self in early modern French writing","authors":"M. Moriarty","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This is the text of a lecture given in March 2012 at Queen Mary, University of London, in honour of the late Malcolm Bowie. The lecture explores the portrayal of love in French writing (fiction, drama, and moral reflection) of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and especially the way in which love for another person is represented as stimulated and nourished by love of one’s self. The text has not been altered from the original lecture format. A list of works cited follows.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"80 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comic Epitaphs: Lucian, Scudéry, and Boileau","authors":"David Harrison","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article seeks to redefine the relationship between Boileau’s Dialogue des héros de roman and Madeleine de Scudéry’s Clélie. While Boileau wishes to use his text to erase Scudéry from memory, a close reading of the Dialogue and its Lucianic model reveals Scudéry’s influence on Boileau’s wit. Indeed, the character of Amilcar from Clélie embodies the spirit of Lucianic satire that Boileau hopes to use against Scudéry. Ultimately, Boileau is indebted to a form of enjouement that is inscribed within and popularized by Clélie, and it is this debt that Boileau tries unsuccessfully to make his reader forget in his Dialogue.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"38 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Servir le prince par la philologie: André Dacier (1651–1722), un érudit dans l’orbite du pouvoir royal","authors":"D. Blocker","doi":"10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Dans la lignée des travaux d’Anthony Grafton, l’histoire de la philologie s’est surtout focalisée, dans les dernières décennies, sur le développement des savoir faire érudits et sur la constitution des communautés savantes. Cet article propose de déplacer le regard de l’analyse des logiques propres de la pratique philologique vers l’étude des conditions sociales et politiques dans lesquelles se sont peu à peu établies ces compétences. Au travers de l’examen de la carrière et des publications d’André Dacier, on s’interroge en particulier ici sur la manière dont la recherche et l’obtention du patronage royal a pu infléchir les manières de faire des savants de l’époque moderne. L’étude examine d’abord comment Dacier s’est efforcé de créer une philologie à l’usage du monde, avant d’envisager dans un second temps comment sa manière de traduire, de commenter et de publier les textes anciens s’est modifiée, dans la dernière partie de sa carrière, lorsqu’il œuvrait dans la protection royale.","PeriodicalId":88312,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth-century French studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"22 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/0265106813Z.00000000019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65823150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}