![]() ![]() Two portraits are offered, a winsome one on the cover, the other less attractive (p. It begins with Ulla Kolving's account of the history of scholarship on Emilie and ends with her chronological bibliography. The passages in square brackets are my own additions. This volume is a collection of twenty-eight articles, most of them papers given at the 2006 Bibliotheque nationale de France colloquium celebrating the tercentenary of the birth ofMme Du Chatelet. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d'Etude du xvme Siecle. University of Aberdeen John Dunkley Emilie Du Chdtelet: eclairages et documents nouveaux. This is a welcome edition and a particularly timely one in the context of the current reappraisal of theminores and consequent refinement of our picture of the French Enlightenment, and of the problematization of dramatic reception. Francois gets an extra lease of lifeon page 10, and Neron's mother makes a Hitchcock appearance on page 18. The edition includes editorial notes, variants, and a useful selective bibliography. The editor also makes the point that the intimacy created by reading drama, and hence circumventing themateri ality of performance, creates the ideal dramatic space but, in this instance, creates problems of focalization. Wynn has discovered an unknown critique of the play in the Bibliotheque nationale de France (ms fr.20837 extracts are helpfully reproduced inan appendix) and gives an informative account of itscontent and importance. MLR, 104.4, 2009 1145 speare for his transmission of history in a formwhich appealed to the aesthetic sensitivity ofhis readers or spectators, with theusual French caveats about his igno rance of'the rules'.Wynn includes a typical extract fromVoltaire's correspondence with Madame Du Deffand which well illustrates this frustrating ambivalence. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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