The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 27 (2005) edited by William Brooks

CONTENTS

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DANIELLE TRUDEAU Langue et économie du savoir au XVIIe siècle 1
TWYLA MEDING Economies of Gender and of the Foreign in the Pastoral: Hair, Habits and the African Satyr in the 'Histoire de Diane' of L'Astrée 13
EMMA GILBY Economies of Perspective in Seventeenth-century France 29
EREC R. KOCH Body, Passion, Ethics: Descartes's Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and the Passions de l'âme 39
DONNA KUIZENGA Strategic Rewriting: Women as Knowledge Workers and the French Connection 51
RICHARD SCHOLAR Towards a Pre-History of the Knowledge Economy: The Case of Pascal 71
LARRY W. RIGGS The Formation and Exploitation of Cultural Capital in Molière 81
RICHARD SÖRMAN L'Économie de l'incertitude chez Molière 91
PIERRE ZOBERMAN Domestic Economy in Molière's Comedy 103
JOHN D. LYONS Mlle de Chartres at the Jeweller's Shop: Knowledge and Commerce in La Princesse de Clèves 117
NICHOLAS HAMMOND Knowing your pumpkin from your elbow: La Fontaine's 'Le Gland et la Citrouille' 127
SUSANNAH CARSON L'Économique de la mode: Costume, Conformity, and Consumerism in Le Mercure galant 133
WENDY PERKINS Pauline de Grignan in the letters of Mme de Sévigné 147
THOMAS PARKER La Bruyère Gives His Two Cents: Financial Language and Ethical Ideals 163
FRANCIS ASSAF Essai d'une taxinomie du savoir médical: 1665-1715 175
RICHARD MABER Knowledge as commodity in the Republic of Letters, 1675-1700 197
ANA CLARA SANTOS La fortune de Racine au Portugal: traduction et mise en scène 209