Books Received

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The Figaro Plays. (Tr. John Wells; ed. John Leigh). Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010. 320 pp.

Mary Ellen Birkett and Christopher Rivers (Eds.) Approaches to Teaching Duras's Ourika. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. 184p.

Nathan Bracher. After the Fall. War and Occupation in Irène Némirovsky's Suite française". Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010. Xxiii+268 pp.

Etienne Brunet. Comptes d'auteurs, Etudes statistiques de Rabelais à Gracq (tome 1). Paris: Champion, 2010. 396 pp.

Glyn S. Burgess and Leslie C. Brook (Eds.). The Old French Lays of Ignaure, Oiselet and Amours. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010. 286 pp.

Rachel Chrastil, Organizing for War: France 1870-1914. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. xiv + 256 pp.

Ayo A. Coly, The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. 176 pp.

Robert Darnton, Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge, MA: Harvard/Belknap, 2010. 210 pp.

Marion Demossier. Wine Drinking Culture in France. A National Myth or a Modern Passion? Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010. 236 pp.

Nicholas Dew, Orientalism in Louis XIV's France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 320 pp.

E. Jane Doering, Simone Weil and the Specter of Self-Perpetuating Force. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. 296 pp.

Véronique Dufief-Sanchez, Philosophie Du Roman Personnel De Chateaubriand à Fromentin (1802-1863). Genève: Droz, 2010. 416 pp.

Kirsten A. Fudeman, Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 240 pages

Sarah Hammerschlag. The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 312 pp.

Michel Le Guern, Nicolas Beauzée, grammairien philosophe. Paris: Champion, 2009. 208 pp.

M. Levesque et O. Pédeflous (dir.), L'emphase: copia ou brevitas? (XVIe-XVIIe siècle). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Sorbonne, 2010. 180 pp.

J.-B. Moraly, Le maître fou. Genet théoricien du théâtre (1950-1967). Saint Genouph: Nizet, 2009. 186 pp.

Philippe Néricault Destouches. Le Philosophe marié ou le Mari honteux de l'être. Ed. Gabriele Vickermann-Ribémont. Genève: Droz, 2010. 288 pp.

Roxanne Panchasi, Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. 240 pp.

Claude-Pierre Pérez. Les Infortunes de l'imagination. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2010. 344 pp.

Stephen Perkinson, The Likeness of the King: A Prehistory of Portraiture in Late Medieval France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 352 pp.

Lewis C. Seifert, Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. 352 pp.

Gabrielle Suchon. A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex. Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 448 pp.

Joanna Stalnaker, The Unfinished Enlightenment Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. 256 pp.

Balzac: matières et sensations. L'Année balzacienne, 10 (2009/1). Paris, P.U.F., 2009. 462 pp.

Gautier et les arts de la danse, Bulletin de la société Théophile Gautier, 31. Montpellier: Société Théophile Gautier, 2009. 374 pp.