Creation, Re-creation, and Entertainment: Early Modernity and Postmodernity : Selected Essays from the 46th Annual Conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Rollins College & The University of Central Florida, Jun

Orlando, Florida, may be one of the best places to discuss the subject of creation and re-creation of entertainment: the city lives under the shadow of Disney corporation, whose most celebrated re-creations are based on French texts from the 17th century French literature, and in particular Perraults fairy tales. From this perspective, whether we speak of fireworks behind a princes castle, a morality tale to entertain children and parents alike, or even a theatrical representation that seems to appear from magic, the three hundred years that separate Orlando and Versailles seem to disappear: the parallels between the 17th and 21st centuries are founded on the same drive to enliven and enlighten one's world. With the help of our Editorial committee, we are proud to present a collection of articles on the theme: Creation, Re-creation, and Entertainment: Early Modernity and Postmodernity. Introduction / Benjamin Balak & Charlotte Trinquet du Lys Murat, Durand and the novel about leisure / Perry Gethner "Je suis la personne qui m'ennuie le moins, m'occupant toujours, et me divertissant même à rêver" : Mademoiselle de Montpensier et l'art de s'amuser / Agnèes Cousson Solitary reading and group reading in Ibrahim and Clélie / Kathleen Wine Récréation, instruction et amusement dans La Maison des Jeux. Jeux de hasard et jeux d'esprit / Marcella Leopizzi La Belle aus bois dormant ou l'écriture philosophique / Franck Baron Uncommon learning: debating natural history in Charles Sorel's Science universelle / Eric Rottman Didactic dissemination of philosophical thought in proto-science-fiction: an analysis of Bergerac, Foigny and Fontenelle / Lauren Gandy "Faire la diaconesse": les Réflexions chrétiennes d'Antoinette de Salvan de Saliès The invisible hand of the fairies: post-mercantilism and magnanimity in women's fairy tales of the 1690s / Benjamin Balak and Charlotte Trinquet du Lys Madame Palatine et l'écriture: nature et fonction d'un divertissement / Sarah Beytelmann Forms of entertainment in Germanic, French and Italian courts: the Mémoires et lettres de voyage of Sophie de Hanovre / Christine McCall Probes Se diverter "aux rives prochaines": le divertissement de l'étranger sous le regard du libertin en voyage. Jean-Jacques Bouchard, "Le carnaval à Rome en 1632" / Mathilde Morinet The development and influence of Acadia's La Petite Cendrillouse: a journey across the Atlantic and into Acadian literature / Leanna Thomas None Louis de Bourbon ou le soleil maudit: fashioning a gay Grand Siècle / Stephen Shapiro "[Ma fille,] votre chant m'a ravi": : "Peau d'Âne" au diapason de Jacques Demy / Martine Debaisieux "La Princesse de Clèves" de Marie Darrieussecq: recréer l'histoire d'un roman classique à l'âge postmoderne / Rainer Zaiser Création de re/récréation autour "happy end": suite et fins des contes? Qu'y a-t-il après le "happy end"? Avertissement et divertissement, des contes de fées du XVIIe siècle aux photos de Dina Goldstein et de Thomas Czarnecki / Christine Rousseau La recréation ludique de l'Antiquité dans l'oeuvre de La Fontaine / Julien Bardot "Mais ôtez leur divertissement, vous les verrez sécher d'ennui": Pascal and the pictorial tradition of melancholy / Chad A. Córdova Comedy, catastrophe, conformism: on Molière's and Mickey's career trajectories / Steve Pleck The original wicked queen: from poisoned cup in Corneille's Rodogune to poisoned apple in Disney's Snow White and the seven dwarfs / Polly T. Mangerson Pocahontas and Ignou Ouaconisen: profitable Native princesses / Sophie Capmartin "Enseigner Disney à l'université: pourquoi a-t-il aussi sa place dans un cours sur le conte de fées? / Sophie Raynard Please, instruct, and edutain: strategies for teaching seventeenth-century French literature to millennials / Skye Paine.