Andrea Frisch is currently Associate Professor of French at the University of Maryland in the US. She is the author of The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) as well as a number of refereed articles in journals including the Journal of Early Modern History, Montaigne Studies, and Modern Language Quarterly.

This is a brilliant and provocative book, upending a good deal of received wisdom concerning the roots of French neoclassicism, the history of tragedy and the emergence of modern historiography. Combining deep historical scholarship with enviable hermeneutic flair, it not only enlivens debates about the historical trajectory and character of early modern French literary and intellectual culture but also opens new avenues for discussion in future.

• 1. Learning to Forget; 2. Clemency, Pardon, and Oubliance; 3. History without Passion: National Historiography in the Age of Oubliance; 4. Tragedy as History: From the Guisiade to Garnier; 5. From Emotion to Affect

Andrea Frisch is currently Associate Professor of French at the University of Maryland in the US. She is the author of The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) as well as a number of refereed articles in journals including the Journal of Early Modern History, Montaigne Studies, and Modern Language Quarterly.

This is a brilliant and provocative book, upending a good deal of received wisdom concerning the roots of French neoclassicism, the history of tragedy and the emergence of modern historiography. Combining deep historical scholarship with enviable hermeneutic flair, it not only enlivens debates about the historical trajectory and character of early modern French literary and intellectual culture but also opens new avenues for discussion in future.

• 1. Learning to Forget; 2. Clemency, Pardon, and Oubliance; 3. History without Passion: National Historiography in the Age of Oubliance; 4. Tragedy as History: From the Guisiade to Garnier; 5. From Emotion to Affect

Andrea Frisch is currently Associate Professor of French at the University of Maryland in the US. She is the author of The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) as well as a number of refereed articles in journals including the Journal of Early Modern History, Montaigne Studies, and Modern Language Quarterly.

This is a brilliant and provocative book, upending a good deal of received wisdom concerning the roots of French neoclassicism, the history of tragedy and the emergence of modern historiography. Combining deep historical scholarship with enviable hermeneutic flair, it not only enlivens debates about the historical trajectory and character of early modern French literary and intellectual culture but also opens new avenues for discussion in future.

• 1. Learning to Forget; 2. Clemency, Pardon, and Oubliance; 3. History without Passion: National Historiography in the Age of Oubliance; 4. Tragedy as History: From the Guisiade to Garnier; 5. From Emotion to Affect