Micah True, Masters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in 17th-Century New France. Montréal: McGill-Queens UP, 2015.
The Jesuit Relations re-evaluated in light of two concurrent missions - the Christianization of Amerindians and the extraction of information for France.
Congratulations to Michael Call for his new book, The Would-Be Author: Molière and the Comedy of Print, recently published with Purdue UP. Please see the description below :
Please join me in congratulating Steve Fleck on his new promotion ... to retired!
Steve Fleck promoted himself to retired status at CSU Long Beach and has moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Notwithstanding these shifts of status and venue, his article "Speaking Folly to Power: Molière's Moebius Saraband" was published in PFSCL and he looks forward to seeing his second book on Molière, to be published with Biblio 17, in print in the very near future.
At the SSCFS meeting this July 2015, Nicholas Hammond presented some of his research related to 17th- and 18th- century street songs and poems preserved in a manuscript entitled Chansonnier Maurepas. His research group has recreated some street song performances and many of the lyrics can be found online at his website. A useful interdisciplinary resource for thinking about popular culture, the history of music/sound, and ephemerality.
Congratulations to Vincent Grégoire, whose article « Emploi d’ ‘objets magiques’ et prédiction de phénomènes célestes dans les Relations des jésuites : une stratégie originale de conversion en Nouvelle-France au dix-septième siècle », will appear in 2016 in the Cahiers du XVIIème: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Bravo to Hélène Bilis for several recent accomplishments and new undertakings:
1. Her book -- Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine -- is forthcomingwith University of Toronto Press in January 2016.
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"Louis I, King of the Sheep" by Olivier Tallec (Enchanted Lion Books, September 2015) uses satire to treat themes central to the monarchy of the 17th century in a setting reminiscent of Versailles.
Please join me in congratulating Michèle Longino and Ellen Welch for the publication of selected essays from the 2014 NASSCFL Conference with Biblio 17.
Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity : Selected Essays from the 44th North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Duke University, edited by Ellen R. Welch and Michèle Longino. ISBN : 978-3-8233-6970-7
Luke Arnason wishes to announce a new endeavor to which he welcomes feedback and/or questions from our community. Luke has recently launched a YouTube channel devoted to harpsichord music. The channel, currently in the early stages of development, features two pieces by François Couperin along with a channel trailer. The long-term goal is to make the channel a platform for "vulgarising" the harpsichord that will include the following : harpsichord appreciation tutorials (how does the instrument, and the music written for it, work? What makes great harpsichord pieces great?
Bravo to Michèle Longino for the publication of her most recent book, French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseille-Constantinople (1650-1700), which came out with Routledge Press in March 2015. A description of the book is copied below:
French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseille - Constantinople (1650-1700)
Congratulations to Russell Ganim for the publication of a recent piece in Dalhousie French Studies :
“Criminality, Performance, and the Search for Paradise: The Appropriation of Othello in Les Enfants du Paradis.” Dalhousie French Studies 102 (Summer 2014). pp. 9-24.
With thanks to Leanna Bridge Rezvani for reminding me of her pedagogical website on teaching La Princesse de Clèves, to which she has made additions since speaking about the resource at last year's SE-17 conference.
Congratulations to the authors featured in the newest volume of Early Modern French Studies (Volume 37, Issue 1, July 2015).
*Please note that effective January 2015, Seventeenth-Century French Studies changed its title to Early Modern French Studies to reflect an expansion in scope.*
