Books Received

Roger-Michel Allemand and Christian Milat, eds. Le "Nouveau Roman" en questions 5: une "nouvelle Autobiographie"?. Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard, 2004. 301 pp.

Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar. Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. xi + 449 pp.

Jean-Vincent Blanchard. L'optique du discours au xviie siècle: De la rhétorique des jésuites au style de la raison moderne (Descartes, Pascal). Sainte-Foy QC: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005. xiii + 309 pp.

Pascal Brissette. La malédiction littéraire: Du poète crotté au génie malheureux. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2005. 413 pp.

François-Timoléon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, and Charles Perrault. Histoire de la marquise-marquis de Banneville. Edited by Joan DeJean. New York: MLA, 2004. xxviii + 64 pp.

François-Timoléon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, and Charles Perrault. The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. Translated by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Joan DeJean. New York: MLA, 2004. xxviii + 66 pp.

Isabelle de Conihout and Frédéric Gabriel, eds. Poésie et calligraphie imprimée à Paris au xviie siècle: Autour de La Chartreuse de Pierre Perrin, poème imprimé par Pierre Moreau en 1647. Chambéry: Editions Comp'Act, 2004. 220 pp.

Laurel Cummins. Colette and the Conquest of Self. Birmingham AL: Summa Publications, 2005. xiii + 214 pp.

Kim Grant. Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 403 pp.

M. Martin Guiney. Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004. xvi + 268 pp.

Elizabeth Hyde. Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture,and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xxiii + 330 pp.

Thomas M. Kavanagh. Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 251 pp.

Debra Kelly. Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Liverpool: Liverpool University Pres, 2005. viii + 400 pp.

Georges Kliebenstein. Enquête en Armancie. Grenoble: ELLUG, 2005. 253 pp.

Françoise Lavocat. La syrinx au bûcher: Pan et les satyres à la Renaissance et à l'âge baroque. Genève: Droz, 2005. 476 pp.

Marie Ndiaye. Rosie Carpe. Trans. Tamsin Black. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 305 pp.

Sandy Petrey. In the Court of the Pear King: French Culture and the Rise of Realism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xiii + 178 pp.

Lydie Salvayre. The Lecture. Trans. Linda Coverdale. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2005. 135 pp.

Marina van Zuylen. Monomania: The Flight From Everyday Life in Literature and Art. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 238 pp.

Deanne Williams. The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 283 pp.