Being Moved: Louis XIV’s Triumphant Tenderness and the Protestant Object

This essay examines the place of affect in Le Triomphe de la Religion, a text from 1687 that praises Louis XIV for the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the forced conversion of French Protestants. It explores the role of the material object in this text and contrasts it with seventeenth-century Protestant fears about the seductive power of Catholic objects. Drawing on the work of affect theory, it suggest how attention to the strange relation between emotion and the material object might better illuminate our sense of what it meant to be religiously different in absolutist France

L'écriture féminine : sexe, genre et nom d'auteur au XVIIe siècle

DeJean Joan E. L'écriture féminine : sexe, genre et nom d'auteur au XVIIe siècle. In: Littératures classiques, n°28, automne 1996. Le style au XVIIe siècle. pp. 137-146

Striking the Air: Early Modern Parisian Sound Worlds

The sounds of early modern Paris are first explored through poetic and satirical depictions of urban noise, with emphasis placed on the disruption that they present. The attempt by Louis XIV to assert his absolute power becomes manifest in the means employed to control and contain those sounds deemed to be potentially subversive and seditious, especially in the threat posed by performers of songs on the Pont-Neuf, which was one of the few public spaces where people of all classes rubbed shoulders. The example of the blind singer Philippot le Savoyard shows how the Pont-Neuf became the prime locus of difference and marginality

Madame de Genlis oder Goethe? Weibliche Autorschaft in französisch- und deutschsprachigen Taschenbüchern für Frauen 1801

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