Books Received

Adenet le Roi. Bertha of the Big Foot [Berte as Grans Piés]: A Thirteenth-century Epic. Trans. Anna Moore Morton. Tempe (az): acmrs, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. ix + 118 pp.

Adrian Armstrong. The Virtuoso Circle: Competition, Collaboration, and Complexity in Late Medieval French Poetry. Tempe (az): acmrs, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. xxii + 202 pp.

Delphine Bénézet. The Cinema of Agnès Varda: Resistance and Eclecticism. London and New York: Wallflower, 2014. vii + 160 pp.

Claudie Bernard. Le Jeu des familles dans le roman français du XIX^e siècle. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2013. 323 pp.

Richard M. Berrong. Putting Monet and Rembrandt into Words: Pierre Loti’s Recreation and Theorization of Claude Monet’s Impressionism and Rembrandt’s Landscapes in Literature. Chapel Hill: unc Department of Romance Languages, 2013. 197 pp.

Matthew H. Bowker. Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd. Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity. Lanham: Lexington, 2013. 205 pp.

David Caron. The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of hiv. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 342 pp.

Vincent Debaene. Far Afield: French Anthropology between Science and Literature. Trans. Justin Izzo. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xv + 398 pp.

William Donoghue. Mannerist Fiction: Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 185 pp.

Armel Dubois-Nayt, Nicole Dufournaud, and Anne Paupert. Revisiter la “Querelle des femmes”: Discours sur l’égalité/inégalité des sexes, de 1400 à 1600. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2013. 285 pp.

Hannah Feldman. From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945–1962. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014. xvi + 317 pp.

Alison Finch, ed. Selected Essay of Malcolm Bowie. Vol. 1, Dreams of Knowledge and vol. 2, Song Man. Oxford: Legenda, 2013. xxii + 260 pp. and xviii + 332 pp.

Philippe Gasparini. La Tentation autobiographique de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2013. 234 pp.

Angelica Goodden. Rousseau’s Hand: The Crafting of a Writer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 238 pp.

Elizabeth Guild. Unsettling Montaigne: Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the “Essais” and Other Writings. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014. xii + 291 pp.

Heroines of the French Epic: A Second Selection of “Chansons de geste.” Trans. Michael A. H. Newth. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2014. xi + 422 pp.

Victor Hugo. God and the End of Satan/Dieu et la fin de Satan: Selections, in a Bilingual Edition. Ed. and trans. R. G. Skinner. Chicago: Swan Isle Press, 2014. xlviii + 475 pp.

Akane Kawakami. Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Macé. Oxford: Legenda, 2013. ix + 193 pp.

Douglas Kelly. Machaut and the Medieval Apprenticeship Tradition: Truth, Fiction and Poetic Craft. Oxford: D. S. Brewer, 2014. xx + 356 pp.

Nina Kushner. Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. xi + 295 pp.

Antoine de La Sale. Jean de Saintré: A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry. Trans. Roberta L. Krueger and Jane H. M. Taylor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xxv + 237 pp.

Nicholas Macdonald. In Search of “La Grande Illusion”: A Critical Appreciation of Jean Renoir’s Elusive Masterpiece. Jefferson (nc) and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2014. x + 258 pp.

Chantal Massol. Une Poétique de l’énigme: Le Récit herméneutique balzacien. Geneva: Droz, 2006. 402 pp.

Orlene Denice McMahon. Listening to the French New Wave: The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014. xvii + 295 pp.

Jan Miernowski. La Beauté de la haine: Essais de misologie littéraire. Geneva: Droz, 2014. 280 pp.

———. Le Sublime et le grotesque. Geneva: Droz, 2014. 344 pp.

Eve Celia Morisi. Albert Camus, le souci des autres. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 160 pp.

Warren Motte. Mirror Gazing. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2014. 295 pp.

Piety and Persecution in the French Texts of England. Trans. Maureen B. M. Boulton. Tempe (az): acmrs, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xii + 219 pp.

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