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ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS

“When Feasting with the Statue Is Dueling with le Ciel: Carnival Inversions in Molière’s Le Festin de pierre (Dom Juan).” Cincinnati Romance Review 32 (2011): 160–174. <http://www.cromrev.com/current/current.html>.

The Carnival Logic of Molière’s Amphitryon. In Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 37 (72): 93–115 (2010)

The Kinship among Men of the Republic of Letters: Christophe Dupuy and the Familial Paradigm for Scholarly Exchanges. Cahiers du dix-septième XI. 2: 59–70. (2007)

To Be or Not to Be: Overcoming the Persistence of Misleading Genre Classification in two Comédies by Cyrano de Bergerac and Saint-Evremond. In Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 67: 375–388 (2007)

Creating Comic Dialogue in Molière’s L’Avare: Harpagon and the Economics of Miserly Verbal Exchange. In Romance Notes 41(1): 79–86 (2000)

The Baroque Paradox of Cyrano de Bergerac’s Pédant joué: Exploiting a Conventionalized Form to Express an Anti-authoritarian Content. In Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 25(49): 523–530. Edited by Wolfgang Leiner. Biblio 17, Tübingen, Germany (1998)

The Woof and Warp of Authoritative Speech or the Exploitation of Costume by Molière’s Pedantic Characters. In Postscript 15: 1–10. Edited by Albert Gurganus. Philological Association of the Carolinas, The Citadel, Charleston, SC (1998)

Saint-Evrémond and Pedantry: The Baroque Aesthetic of La Comédie des académistes. In Cincinnati Romance Review 16: 8–15. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (1997)

Contesting Authority in Molière’s Tartuffe: the Role of the Pedantic Characters. In Cahiers du dix-septième: an Interdisciplinary Journal 6(2): 141–52. Edited by Francis Assaf. University of Georgia, Athens, GA (1992); (copyrighted in 1996, the 1992 issue went to press in 1997)

Discours pédantesque et spectateur: structures de la Commedia dell'Arte dans le Dom Juan de Molière [Spectator and Pedantic Discourse: Structures from the Commedia dell'Arte in Molière's Dom Juan]. In Francographies, Nouvelle Série 2, pp. 31–46. Edited by Jean Macary. Société des Professeurs français et francophones d'Amérique, New York (1993)

Le Caractère polémique de la Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur' [The Polemic Character of the Letter on the Comedy, 'The Imposter']. In Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature: Actes de Las Vegas, pp. 27–33. Edited by Marie-France Hilgar. Biblio 17, Paris, Seattle, Tübingen (1990)

Pouvoir de pédant/volonté de femme: le Renouvellement moliéresque d'une tradition comique [Pedant Power and Woman's Will: Molière's Renewal of a Comic Tradition]. In Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature: Actes de Davis, pp. 221–227. Edited by Claude Abraham. Biblio 17, Paris, Seattle, Tübingen (1988)

La Création comique d'une image royale: la manipulation du discours dans La Bague de l'oubli de Rotrou [The Comic Creation of a Royal Image: the Manipulation of Discourse in Rotrou's The Ring of Forgetfulness]. In Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature: Actes de Wake Forest, pp. 135–145. Edited by Milorad R. Margitic and Byron R. Wells. Biblio 17, Paris, Seattle, Tübingen (1987)

The Supernatural Presence in Molière's Dom Juan: A Problem of Belief or a Problem of Language? In Selected Proceedings, 32nd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, pp. 405–411. Edited by Gregorio Martin. Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, N.C. (1984)

BOOKS PUBLISHED

Humanisme et politique: Lettres romaines de Christophe Dupuy à ses frères, 1650–1654. [with P.J. Wolfe ]. Vol. III, 162 pp. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen (2005)

Humanisme et politique: Lettres romaines de Christophe Dupuy à ses frères, 1646–1649 [Humanism and Politics: The Roman Letters of Christophe Dupuy to his Brothers, 1646–1649] [with P.J. Wolfe ]. Vol. II, 258 pp. Biblio 17, Paris, Seattle, Tübingen (1997)

Considérations politiques sur la Fronde: la Correspondance entre Gabriel Naudé et le Cardínal Mazarin [Political Considerations on the "Fronde": The Correspondence of Gabriel Naudé and Cardinal Mazarin] [with P.J. Wolfe]. 215 pp. Biblio 17, Paris, Seattle, Tübingen (1991)[review by Pierre Ronzeaud appearing in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 20(38):297] (1993) [cited at entry for Gabriel Naudé in France baroque, France classique: 1589–1715, vol. 2, p. 843 by René & Suzanne Pillorget. Robert Laffont, Paris] (1995) [cited under “Principales éditions modernes” in the section devoted to Gabriel Naudé in Libertins du XVIIe siècle, p. 1300 [ed. Jacques Prévot] Paris: Gallimard, Editions de la Pléiade] (1998)

Humanisme et Politique: Lettres romaines de Christophe Dupuy à ses frères, 1639–1645 [Humanism and Politics: The Roman Letters of Christophe Dupuy to his Brothers, 1639–1645] [with P.J. Wolfe]. 218 pp. Biblio 17, Paris, Seattle, Tübingen (1988)

Lettres de Naudé à Grémonville [The Naudé-Grémonville Correspondence] [with P.J. Wolfe ]. 57 pp. Biblio 17, Paris, Seattle, Tübingen (1986) Cited under “Principales editions modernes” in the section devoted to Gabriel Naudé in Libertins du VIIe siècle, p. 1301 [ed. Jacques Prévot] Paris: Gallimard, Editions de la Pléiade (1998)

PARTS OF BOOKS PUBLISHED

Royal Discourse in Rotrou's Venceslas. In Baroque, Literature and the Other Arts: In Memory of Robert Nicolich, pp. 677–684. Edited by Wolfgang Leiner. Biblio 17, Paris, Seattle, Tübingen (1988)

BOOK REVIEWS

“À la recherche de la cuisine juive en France.” [In Search of France’s Jewish Cooking] Rev. of Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France, by Joan Nathan. Le Banquet, revue du CERAP 29 (2011): 209–213.

Études sur ‘Dom Juan’ de Molière [Studies on Dom Juan by Molière] by René Pommier. French Studies 63 (2): 208–09 (2009)

Rivalry and the Disruption of Order in Molière’s Theater by M. S. Koppisch. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 33 (65): 579–581 (2006)

Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy by Helen L. Harrison. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 25 (49): 612–614 (1998)

Lectures de La Fontaine [Readings of La Fontaine] by Jules Brody. Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 23 (45): 670–71 (1996)

Rereading Molière: mise en scène d'Antoine à Vitez [Rereading Molière: Staging from Antoine to Vitez] by Jim Carmody. Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 21 (41): 564–65 (1994)

La Mer, source de création littéraire en France au XVIIe siècle (1640–1671) [The Sea as a Source of Literary Creation in France in the 17th Century (1640–1671)] by Alia Bornaz Baccar. Seventeenth-Century News 51 (1–2): 20 (1993)

Corneille, témoin de son temps, I: Clitandre [Corneille, Witness to his Era, I: Clitandre] by Germain Poirier. Seventeenth-Century News 51 (1–2): 20–21 (1993)

Costume & Fashion in the Plays of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière by Stephen Varick Dock. Papers in Seventeenth-Century French Literature 20 (38): 226–228 (1993)

Mythes et découvertes: le salon littéraire de Madame de Rambouillet dans les lettres contemporaines [Myths and Discoveries: the Literary Salon of Madame de Rambouillet in Contemporary Letters] by Barbara Krajewska. Seventeenth-Century News 50 (3–4): 67–68 (1992)

Esthétique de la diversité: pour une histoire du baroque en France [The Aesthetics of Diversity: For a History of the Baroque in France] by Wilfried Floeck. Seventeenth-Century News 50 (1–2): 25 (1992)

Vies des poètes tourangeaux [Lives of the Poets from Touraine]. Edited by L. Locey, M. Locey and J. Pallister. Seventeenth-Century News 50 (1–2): 25–26 (1992)

La Naissance du roman en France [The Birth of the Novel in France]. Edited by Nicole Boursier and David Trott. Seventeenth-Century News 49 (3–4): 59–60 (1991)

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux: revolutionnaire et conformiste [Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux: Revolutionary and Conformist] by Paul Joret. Seventeenth-Century News 49 (1–2): 21–22 (1991)

Le Jeu Classique: jeu et théorie des jeux au grand siècle [The Classical Game: Games and the Theory of Play during the Classical Century] by Herbert De Ley. Seventeenth-Century News 49 (1–2): 24 (1991)

French Language and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography by F. Bassan, D. Spinelli and H. Sullivan. Oeuvres et Critiques, 15 (1): 149–150 (1990)

La Fontaine by M.-O. Sweetser. Seventeenth-Century News 48 (1–2): 26–27 (1990)

Madame de Lafayette, La Bruyère, La Femme et le pouvoir au théâtre: Actes de Davis [Madame de Lafayette, La Bruyère, Woman and Power in the Theater: Davis Proceedings]. Edited by Claude Abraham. Seventeenth-Century News 48 (1–2): 25–26 (1990)

Appelez-moi Pierrot: Wit and Irony in the Letters of Madame de Sévigné [Call me Pierrot: Wit and Irony in the Letters of Madame de Sévigné] by Jo Ann Recker. Seventeenth-Century News 47 (3–4): 51–52 (1989)

La Tragédie du prince: étude du personnage médiateur dans le théâtre tragique de Racine [The Tragedy of the Prince: Study of the Mediating Character in the Tragic Theater of Racine] by Catherine Spencer. Seventeenth-Century News 47 (3–4): 50 (1989)

Actes de Banff [Banff Proceedings]. Edited by Michel Barreau, Jacques Barchilon, Domna Stanton, and Jean Alter. Seventeenth-Century News, 46 (1–2): 19 (1988)

Burlesque et formes parodiques: Actes du Colloque du Mans (4–7 décembre 1986) [Burlesque and Parodic Forms: Proceedings of the LeMans Colloquium (4–7 December, 1986)]. Edited by Isabelle Landy-Houillon and Maurice Ménard. Seventeenth-Century News 46 (1–2): 18 (1988)

Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature: 17th Century-French Literature at the MLA 1985–86. Edited by W. Leiner. Seventeenth-Century News 46 (1–2): 18 (1988)

Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature: Textes et Images [Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature: Textes and Images]. Edited by W. Leiner. Seventeenth-Century News 45 (4): 76–77 (1987)

Evangélisation et missions en Grande Bretagne [Evangelization and Missions in Great Britain] by C. d'Haussy. Seventeenth-Century News 44 (1–2): 10–11 (1987)

Actes du Colloque Corneille à Tunis [Proceedings of the Corneille Colloquium in Tunis]. Edited by A. Baccar. Seventeenth-Century News 44 (1–2): 18 (1987)

Re-lectures raciniennes: nouvelles approches du discours tragique [Racinian Re-readings: New Approaches to Tragic Discourse]. Edited by R. Barnett. Seventeenth-Century News 44 (1–2):17 (1987)


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