Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland,9781851827176

Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland

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ISBN13: 9781851827176
ISBN10: 185182717X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-04-01
Publisher(s): Four Courts Pr Ltd
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7(2)
Introduction 9(12)
I. WOMEN, MEN AND TEXTS IN CONFLICT
`Aux pieds de l'Eternel je viens m'humilier': Racine and the Bible
21(9)
Veronique Desnain
`By the sword divided': cultural and confessional conflict in the life and writings of Madame de St Balmont (1607--59)
30(11)
Kate Currey
From `Ex ovo omnia' to ovism: the father function in seventeenth-century treatises on generation
41(11)
Rebecca Wilkin
Medicine and religion in seventeenth-century France: La Rochelle, 1676--83
52(20)
Jean-Paul Pittion
`Il n'y a plus de Mecenas': Le Roman bourgeois and the crisis of literary patronage
72(10)
Craig Moyes
`Ce miracle du monde': harmony and disharmony in Saint-Amant's representation of the cosmos
82(21)
Sarah Alyn Stacey
II. MORAL CONFLICTS
The problem of freedom in Arnauld's defence of Jansenius
103(14)
Michael Moriarty
Free will, determinism and providence: the ideological context of the Histoires Tragiques of Jean-Pierre Camus
117(11)
Mark Bannister
Raillerie, honnetete and `les grands sujets': cultured conflict in seventeenth-century France
128(7)
David Culpin
Mutations judiciaires dans la seconde moitie du XVIIe siecle
135(16)
Pascale Feuillee-Kendall
III. THE THEATRE IN CONFLICT
On humour and wit in Moliere's Le Misanthrope and Congreve's The Way of the World
151(12)
Andrew Calder
The stage controversy in France and England -- a confessional convergence?
163(20)
Henry Phillips
Conflicting cultures as reflected in some seventeenth-century English translations of French plays
183(11)
Pat Short
`If Egypt now enslav'd or free A Kingdom or a Province be': translating Corneille in Restoration Dublin
194(16)
Deana Rankin
Rebel hearts: La Calprenede's transformation of political conflict into drama
210(17)
Guy Snaith
Conflicting signals: images of Louis XIV in Benserade's ballets
227(18)
Julia Prest
IV. MILITARY CONFLICT
Franco-Irish military relations in the Nine Years War, 1689--97
245(11)
Harman Murtagh
Voltaire's slanted vision of the Fronde as commedia buffa in Le Siecle de Louis XIV
256(15)
Marc Serge Riviere
Bibliography 271(12)
Index 283

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