Evocations of Eloquence

Nicholas Hammond is Reader in French at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610–1715) (2011) and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of French Literature (2011). His edition of Saint-Pavin’s Poésies is forthcoming.Michael Moriarty is Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse. His most recent book is Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (2011). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

• Contents: Nicholas Hammond/Michael Moriarty: Introduction – John D. Lyons: Bossuet and the Tragic – Anne Régent-Susini: Religious Discourse and Legal Discourse in Seventeenth-Century France: The Example of Bossuet – Emma Gilby: Having the Last Word: Authority in Bossuet’s Funeral Orations – Henry Phillips: Secular and Religious Cultures in Seventeenth-Century France – Richard Parish: Chantons l’Auteur de la lumière,/ Jusqu’au jour où son ordre a marqué notre fin. Corneille and Racine: The Hymnes traduites du bréviaire romain – David Wetsel: Self-Annihilation, Self-Hatred and Original Sin in Pascal’s Pensées – Michael Moriarty: Pascal: The Wager and Problems of Order – Olivier Tonneau: The Science of the Cross: The Jansenist Doctrine of Predestination and Their Pedagogy of Conversion – Edward James: Pierre Bayle on Reason, ‘Sentiment’ and God – Richard Maber: No Miracles Please, We’re English – Nicholas Hammond: The Child’s Voice: Knowledge and Inexperience in Seventeenth-Century France – Michael Hawcroft: Racine’s Rhetorical Questions – Noël Peacock: The Gods from the Machine: Reconfiguring Retribution in Molière’s Dom Juan – John O’Brien: Stilts; Or, a Not So Tall Story – Philip Ford: Of Lions, Bears and Pigs: Political Allegories of Homer in Renaissance France – Pierre Zoberman: Topoi of (the) Renaissance in Seventeenth-Century France: The Ambiguity of the Reference to the Past – Emmanuel Bury : Guez de Balzac critique de l’éloquence sacrée, entre philologie et rhétorique – John Leigh: Voltaire’s Little Oraisons funèbres? Catalogue and Canon in the Siècle de Louis XIV – Jenny Mander: Politeness to Strangers: The Mark or Mask of Civility? – Nicholas White: Fidelity and Invention: Jules Lemaître and Action française Revisit La Princesse de Clèves – Neil Kenny: ‘Je ne me réputerai totalement mourir’: Tense, Death, Survival in Rabelais’s Pantagruel.