An Artist among the Puritans:Challenging a Cultural Image in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter by Michèle BONNET

“…This essay about The Scarlet Letter explores from a textual and cultural perspective the place of the artist in New England culture, both that of Puritan seventeenth-century Boston and of the nineteenth-century Salem satirized in « The Custom-House ». …”
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Puritans, Nuns and Love: Reflections on L. M. Alcott and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman by Aušra Paulauskienė

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Bozenna Chylińska, The Gospel of Work and Wealth in the Puritan Ethic: From John Calvin to Benjamin Franklin. by Zbigniew Mazur

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Purging the Past and Gauging the Future: Stage Puritans as Manifestations of Religious Trauma in Restoration Comedies Adapted from European Sources (1660-1689) by Alice Marion-Ferrand

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Living out nonconformity: Restoration ministers and their diaries by Colin HARRIS

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L’Histoire culbutée : Shakespeare et ses jeux de mots by Jean-Pierre Richard

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Crime Films and Lexical Change: Can an Analysis of an Electronic Corpus of Fifteen Crime Films Help Students Understand Semantic Mutations? by Jean-Louis Vidalenc

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The Apocalyptic Empire of America by Akça Ataç

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The Hybridity of Popular Culture in The Winter’s Tale by François Laroque

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A New American “Physical Morality”: Martha Graham and the Revaluation of the Body in Letter to the World by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

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Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage by Raphaël Lambert

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« It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight » : la jérémiade dans No Country for Old Men by François Gavillon

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Deconstruction of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” by Nataliya Krynytska

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I. Hofmeyr, The portable Bunyan: a transnational history of The Pilgrim's Progress by B. A. Zuiddam

“… From text: As I was about to receive The portable Bunyan for review purposes, I was looking forward to some collected or condensed work by the great Puritan Baptist. …”
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Taming the Sculptress: Roman Beauty and Marble Love in Alcott’s Art Tales by Daniela Daniele

“…Being victimized by a Puritan ideal of beauty that no living body could equal, Alcott’s feminized versions of The Marble Faun allude to the American colony of women sculptors led by the actress Charlotte Cushman, whose extraordinary accomplishments in the arts challenged the patriarchal demands of the male gaze.…”
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Mel et sal. Suavité et sévérité de la voix dans Twelfth Night by François Laroque

“…Letter games such as the M.O.A.I. riddle in the letter supposedly written by Olivia are playing on sounds as well as with existential issues and they raise laughter at the expense of the Puritan steward Malvolio. The voices in the play alternate from mellifluous sweetness to discordant fooling in verbal fireworks that prove as ferocious as they are funny and festive.…”
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Music, theology, and space: listening as a way of seeking God by F. England

“…From its roots in the New Testament, through its approval or prohibition by the Church Fathers, to the Puritan purges, the Classical liturgical commissions, and the revivalist celebrations, sacred music continues to be a means of negotiating the relationship between human selves and the sacred. …”
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La Représentation de la montagne dans la littérature anglaise d’inspiration religieuse au XVIIe siècle by Jean-Louis Breteau

“…So do the English metaphysical poets, in particular George Herbert and John Donne, as well as the puritan author of The Pilgrim’s Progress…”
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Nuit javanaise. Réflexions sur le Merapi, la verticalité et le paganisme by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…The first part highlights the high places and the dense-moments of the volcano’s nightlife, whose mountain and night-time qualities meet and support each other; the second part reframes these practices and representations within the context of conflicts between puritan orthodoxy and local practices, where the night and the mountain play a similar role; finally, the third part conceptualises the space-time link between this place and this moment and hypothesises that, beyond a simple simultaneity, there is a similar relationship to verticality, which is itself regarded as the result of a trajection.…”
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Night-time in Java. Thoughts on Merapi, Verticality and Paganism by Jean-Baptiste Bing

“…The first part highlights the high places and the dense-moments of the volcano’s nightlife, whose mountain and night-time qualities meet and support each other; the second part reframes these practices and representations within the context of conflicts between puritan orthodoxy and local practices, where the night and the mountain play a similar role; finally, the third part conceptualises the space-time link between this place and this moment and hypothesises that, beyond a simple simultaneity, there is a similar relationship to verticality, which is itself regarded as the result of a trajection.…”
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