Please join me in congratulating Ronald Tobin for the publication of his article “Britannicus or The Secrets of Space” in the current issue of the Romanic Review (107.1–4 January–November 2016 A Tribute to Gita May (1929–2016).
You can access the article here.
Félicitations à Tristan Alonge pour la parution de son nouveau livre, Racine et Euripe : La révolution trahie (Genève : Droz, 2017). Veuillez trouver ci-dessous un précis :
Congratuations to Katherine Ibbett, whose book Compassion's Edge has just appeared with The University of Pennsylvania UP. Please find further details below.
Compassion's Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France (Pennsylvania, 2017) Katherine Ibbett
Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. Early modern fellow-feeling drew distinctions, policed its borders, and far from reaching out to others, kept the other at arm's length. This book ranges widely over genres, contexts, and geographies, taking up major figures such as D'Aubigné, Montaigne, Lafayette, Corneille, and Racine, as well as less familiar Jesuit theologians, Huguenot ministers, and nuns from a Montreal hospital. Investigating the affective undertow of religious toleration, Compassion's Edge provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.
Full Description, Table of Contents, and More: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15747.html
304 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4970-5 | $79.95s | £66.00 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-9456-9 | $79.95s | £52.00 A volume in the Haney Foundation Series: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/HFS.html
Congratulations to Francis Assaf, whose article "Le Page disgracié: l’Histoire ou une histoire?" has been published in the most recent volume of Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (XLIV, 86 (2017): 7-18).
Congratulations to Sophie Maríñez, for the publication of her book, Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2017). This book was the recipient of a 2012 NEH Summer Stipend Award.
Further details are available through the following website: brill.com/products/book/mademoiselle-de-montpensier
