Description
This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in France between the early 1600s and the final years of Louis XIVs reign.
Chapter
PART I: The Ethics of Action
Introduction - Elizabeth Woodrough
Chapter 1: 'Alternative' Ethical Systems in France during the Grand Siècle - William D. Howarth
Chapter 2: A Note on Lay Piety in the Early Seventeenth Century - John Cruickshank
Chapter 3: Guez de Balzac: The Enduring Influence of Rome - Margaret McGowan
Chapter 4: L'Image de la Ligue dans les Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz - Simone Bertiere
Chapter 5: The Political Testaments of Richelieu and La Rochefoucauld - Elizabeth Woodrough
Chapter 6: Considérations morales et politiques autour d'Henri II de Montmorency: Une polyphonie discordante - Noemi Hepp
Chapter 7: Medicine and Statecraft in the Mémoires of the Cardinal de Retz - Colin Jones
Chapter 8: The Fouquet-Colbert Rivalry and the 'Revolution' of 1661 - Richard Bonney
Chapter 9: Crescit ut aspicitur: Condé and the Reinterpretation of Heroism, 1650–1662 - Mark Bannister
Chapter 10: Love, Marriage and a Disputed Sentence in La Princesse de Clèves - John Campbell
Chapter 11: Marie de Villars: A Political Woman? - Wendy Perkins
Chapter 12: Ascendant et déclinaison de la noblesse française dans le système de Boulainvilliers - Yves Coirault
PART II: The PoliticsS of Theatre
Chapter 13; Corneille: Ethic and Polis - Henry Phillips
Chapter 14: Sur l'échec des conjurés dans La Mort de Sénèque - Madeleine Bertaud
Chapter 15: 'Le Poids d'une couronne': The Dilemma of Monarchy in La Calprenéde's Tragedies - Guy Snaith
Chapter 16: African Temptresses and Roman Matrons: Female Roles on the Paris Stage, 1634–1643 - David Clarke
Chapter 17: How Quinault uses Political Commonplaces - William Brooks
Chapter 18: Politics and Tragedy: The Case of the Earl of Essex - C. J. Gossip
Chapter 19: 'Je commence à rougir': Shame, Self-Esteem and Guilt in the Presentation of Racine's Hippolyte - Edward Forman
Chapter 20: L'influence de Louis XIV sur la vie littéraire: pour un bilan critique - Jean Rohou
Ethics And Politics In Seventeenth Century France
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