Reading Boileau: An Integrative Study of the Early "Satires"

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READING BOILEAU . ·-'-".i·· ..~....... --. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Floyd F. Merrell, Jeanette Beer Paul B. Dixon Editorial Board Series Editor Howard Mancing Anthony Julian Tamburri Allen G. Wood French Paul Benhamou Willard Bohn Gerard J. Brault Germaine Bn~e Mary Ann Caws Gerard Defaux Floyd F. Gray Michael Issacharoff Milorad R. Margiti6 Glyn P. Norton Allan H. Pasco Gerald Prince David Lee Rubin English Showalter Italian Fiora A. Bassanese Peter Carravetta Benjamin Lawton Franco Masciandaro Luso-Brazilian Fred M. Clark Mary L. Daniel Associate Editors Marta Peixoto Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg Spanish and Spanish American Maryellen Bieder Catherine Connor (Swietlicki) Ivy A. Codis Frederick A. de Armas Edward Friedman Charles Ganelin David T. Gies Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Patricia Hart David K. Herzberger Emily Hicks Djelal Kadir Lucille Kerr Alberto Moreiras Randolph D. Pope Francisco Ruiz Ramon Elzbieta Sklodowska Mario Valdes Howard Young volume 15 READING BOILEAU An Integrative Study of the Early Satires Robert T. Corum, Jr. Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana Copyright © 1998 by Purdue Research Foundation. All rights reserved. 02 01 00 99 98 543 2 @The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Design by Anita Noble Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Corum, Robert T. Reading Boileau: an integrative study of the early "Satires" / Robert T. Corum, Jr. p. cm. - (Purdue studies in Romance literatures; v. 15) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55753-110-2 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Boileau Despreaux, Nicolas, 1636-1711. Satires. I. Title. II. Series. PQ1721.S32C671997 841'.4-dc21 97-16246 CIP ...