The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 21 (1999) edited by Jan Clarke

CONTENTS

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FRANÇOIS LAGARDE Le Logos, la faute et les styles: orthodoxie et langage au XVIIe siècle 1
LAURENCE GIAVARINI L'Invention de la norme: topique critique et orthodoxie linguistique dans la pastorale dramatique entre 1625 et 1631 15
TWYLA MEDING Epistles, Epigraphs and the Subversion of Writing in L'Astrée 29
ANTOINE SOARE Subversion tragique et orthodoxie tragi-comique: la querelle des genres dans le deuxième tiers du Grand Siècle 43
PAUL SCOTT Resistance Theories, Orthodoxy and Subversive Drama in Early Modern France 57
MILORAD R. MARGITIC Mythe, parodie et subversion chez Corneille 75
PERRY GETHNER Challenges to Royal Authority in French Classical Comedy 85
MARY REILLY Confessional Discourse in Britannicus, Bérénice and Phèdre: Racine's Dark Epiphany 91
EREC R. KOCH Deferred Acts: Bajazet, Untimeliness and Tragic Orthodoxy 101
RUTH CALDER Contrition, Casuistry and Phèdre's Sense of Sin 113
FRANÇOISE JAOÜEN Esther/Athalie: histoire sacrée, histoire exemplaire 123
MARIE-CLAUDE CANOVA-GREEN La Grâce, ou les derniers jours d'un révolté: L'Histoire de la vie de Henry, dernier duc de Montmorency 133
SYLVIA VANCE Retz and his Memoirs: the Question of Orthodoxy and Subversion 145
CHRISTINE MCCALL PROBES La Subversion au sein de la famille royale: les Lettres françaises de Madame Palatine 157
NICHOLAS HAMMOND All Dressed Up …: L'Abbé de Choisy and the Theatricality of Subversion 165
LEONARD HINDS The Critique of the 'Philosophes de Ruelles' in Ninon de Lenclos's La Coquette vengée 173
DAVID WETSEL La Mothe le Vayer and the Subversion of Christian Belief 183
PETER BAYLEY What was Quietism Subversive of? 195
ALAIN NIDERST Scepticisme ou fidéisme de Bayle? 205
ANTONY MCKENNA De la nécessité et de l'innocence de l'erreur: l'apport des controverses anglaises à la philosophie clandestine 215
LARRY F. NORMAN Subversive Ancients?: the Querelle Revisited 227
JEANNE MORGAN ZARUCCHI Perrault's Titular Subversions: Tapestries, Tales and Medals 239
ALISON SAUNDERS Emblems to Tapestries and Tapestries to Emblems: Contrasting Practice in England and France 247
ANDREW CALDER From Epic and Tragic to Comic and Satiric: Reversed Perspectives in Painting and Writing from the Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century 261
H. T. BARNWELL Review Article: Connexions and Relationships: a Retrospective Look at Five Biographies 277
H. T. BARNWELL Roy Clement Knight (1907-1999) 283