Dr G.J. Mallinson

G. Jonathan Mallinson, M.A. (M.A., Ph.D. Cambridge)
University Lecturer (CUF) in French, Fellow of Trinity College
General Editor, SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century)
Address: Trinity College, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BH
Email: jonathan.mallinson@trinity.ox.ac.uk

Research

Jonathan Mallinson works on French theatre and prose fiction in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has a special interest in comedy, prose fiction, women's writing, and in the reception of canonical neo-classical writers in the Enlightenment. Current research projects include a critical edition of Voltaire's Lettres d'Amabed, and a book on the seventeenth-century French novel.

Teaching

Translation into English, and French literature and thought of the 17th- and 18th-centuries.

Graduate Teaching

French women's writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Publications

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

A. COMEDY

1. Corneille

Book

The Comedies of Corneille: Experiments in the Comic (Manchester: University Press,1984)

Articles

'The Variants of Corneille's Early Plays', Modern Language Review, 77 (1982), 547 57; reprinted in Drama Criticism, 21 (Gale, 2003), 115-122
'Le Même Génie: Corneille from comedy to tragedy', Seventeenth Century French Studies, 7 (1985), 4 16.
'Corneille et la comédie de la feinte', Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Études Françaises, 37 (1985), 87 101
'Corneille et les paradoxes du dénouement comique', Actes du Colloque International Pierre Corneille (Paris: PUF, 1985), 365 74.
'Strehler, Corneille and L'Illusion: A Play in Retrospect', French Studies Bulletin, 17 (1985/6), 4 5.
‘Les comédies de Corneille: problèmes familiers, perspectives nouvelles’, Œuvres et critiques, 30 :2 (2005), 19-28

2. Molière

Books

Molière: L'Avare, Critical Guides to French Texts, 70 (London: Grant & Cutler, 1988; 2nd edition, 1993)
Molière, Le Misanthrope, edited with Introduction and Commentary, Bristol Classical Press French Texts (London: Duckworth, 1996; reprinted 2001)

Articles

'Planchon's L'Avare and the expectations of a comedy', French Studies Bulletin, 23 (1987), 18 20.
'Molière's Amphitryon: re-reading a comedy', Nottingham French Studies, 33 (1994), 43-52

3. Other

'L'Hospital des Fous of Charles Beys: the Madman and the actor', French Studies, 36 (1982), 12 25.
'Mareschal's Le Railleur: Topicality and the Search for the Comic', Newsletter of the Society for Seventeenth Century French Studies, 4 (1982), 40 47.
'The Braggart: Survival and Transformation of a Type in French Comedy of the 1630s', Australian Journal of French Studies, 21 (1984), 3 14.
'Rotrou et le déguisement comique', Revue d'Histoire du Théâtre, 37 (1985), 313 26.
`Defining comedy in the seventeenth century: moral sense and theatrical sensibility', The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, III, The Renaissance, ed. Glyn P. Norton (Cambridge: CUP, 1999), 259-64

B. TRAGEDY

1. Corneille

'Du jeu de l'amour et de la politique dans Tite et Bérénice', Pierre Corneille: ambiguïtés, Parabasis, 1 (Edmonton: Alta Press, 1989), 81 96.
'Attila, ou les tyrannies du tyran', Seventeenth-Century Studies in Honour of H.Gaston Hall, Australian Journal of French Studies, 33 (1996), 366-80

2. Racine

‘Des rires et des pleurs: Racine, Molière et la réception de la tragédie', La Réception de Racine à l’âge classique : de la scène au monument, éd. A. Viala & N. Cronk (SVEC 2005 : 06), 84-99

C. FICTION

'Fiction, morality and the reader: reflections on the Classical formula plaire et instruire', Continuum, 1 (New York: Ams Press, 1989), 203 228.
'Les choses comme elles sont: art and nature in the Nouvelles françoises of Segrais', The Seventeenth Century, 4 (1989), 149 63
'Sorel et les préfaces de Francion', Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Études Françaises, 42 (1990), 137 49.
'Madeleine de Scudéry, lectrice des romans de son temps', Les Trois Scudéry: Actes du Colloque du Havre 1991 (Paris: Klincksieck, 1993), 331-39
'The Mirror of Revelation: La Fontaine's Psyché and the truths of fiction', French Studies, 48 (1994), 274-84
'Mirror images: allegory and illusion in Sorel's Berger extravagant', Aesthetic Illusion, 1 Parabasis, 3 (Edmonton: Alta Press, 1995), 29-39
`Writing wrongs: Lettres portugaises and the search for identity', Journal of the Institute for Romance Studies, 5 (1997), 143-53; reprinted in Writers and Heroines: Essays on Women in French Literature, ed. S. Jones Day (Berne: P. Lang, 1999), 31-47
'Reading the Signs: with the Princesse de Clèves at Coulommiers', The Art of Reading: Essays in memory of Dorothy Gabe Coleman, ed. P.J. Ford & G. Jondorf (Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 1998), 95-103
`Seventeenth-century theories of the novel in France: writing and reading the truth', The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, III, The Renaissance, ed. Glyn P. Norton (Cambridge: CUP, 1999), 314-21
`Francion à la campagne: illusionnistes dans la bergerie', Lectures du Francion de Charles Sorel, ed. D. Riou (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2000), 69-77
‘Le roman baroque’, Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Études Françaises, 56 (2004), 307-317

D. GENERAL

39 articles on various topics, including selected seventeenth-century novels and novelists, ‘Amadis de Gaule’, ‘ballet de cour’, ‘pastoral’, ‘Spanish influences on French literature’ in Oxford Companion to Literature in French, ed. P. France (Oxford: O.U.P., 1995)
Articles on Le Cid and Tartuffe in International Dictionary of Theatre, I : Plays (London: St. James Press, 1992)

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

A. FICTION

1. Graffigny

Books

Françoise de Graffigny, Lettres d'une Péruvienne, édition présentée, établie et annotée par J.M., Vif (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002 ; reprinted 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010)
Françoise de Graffigny, Letters of a Peruvian Woman, translated, with introduction and notes, by J.M., Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford: O.U.P., 2009)
Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: écriture et réception, ed. J.M., SVEC 2004:12

Articles

`Re-présentant les Lettres d'une Péruvienne en 1752: illustration et illusion', Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 15 :2 (2003), 227-39
‘Françoise de Graffigny, textes et images’, Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres : écriture et réception, ed. J.M., SVEC 2004:12, xv-xxiv

2. Other

'Usbek, language and power: images of authority in Montesquieu's Lettres persanes', French Forum, 18 (1993), 23-36

B. VOLTAIRE

Books

Voltaire, Paméla, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, 45C (Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2010), pp.1-252
Voltaire, Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, 45C (Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2010), pp.253-447
Voltaire, Histoire du docteur Akakia, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, 32C (Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2012), pp.

Articles

‘What’s in a name ? Reflections on Voltaire’s Paméla’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 18:2 (2006), 157-168
‘Epistolary illusions: Voltaire, Paméla and La Mettrie’, Revue Voltaire, 7 (2007), 225-237
‘Textual liaisons: Voltaire, Paméla and Don Quixote’, An American Voltaire: Essays in memory of J. Patrick Lee, ed. E. Joe Johnson and Byron R. Wells (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 273-84
‘A narrative of enlightenment: Frederick, Phaéton and Voltaire’s Paméla’, Enlightenment and Narrative: essays in honour of Richard A. Francis, ed. P. Robinson, Nottingham French Studies, 48 (2009), 51-60
[Voltaire in 1759], Preface to Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, 49B (Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2009), pp.xix-xxviii
[Voltaire and autobiography], Preface to Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, 45C (Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2010), pp.xix-xxxv
‘Dialogues de la mémoire et de l’imagination: Candide et les Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de la vie de M. de Voltaire’, Etudes sur Candide [forthcoming]

C. OTHER

Book

The Eighteenth Century now : boundaries and perspectives, ed. J.M., SVEC 2005: 10

Articles

‘The eighteenth century now : reading beyond the lines’, The Eighteenth Century now: boundaries and perspectives, ed. J.M.(SVEC 2005:10), 1-10
Articles on Turcaret, La Double Inconstance, and Le Mariage de Figaro in International Dictionary of Theatre, I: Plays (London: St. James Press, 1992)
Articles on Beaumarchais, Marivaux and Voltaire in International Dictionary of Theatre, II: Playwrights (London: St James Press, 1994)

RECEPTION STUDIES

A. TRANSLATION

'Guilleragues et le roman épistolaire en Angleterre', France et Grande Bretagne de la chute de Charles 1er à celle de Jacques II (1649 1688): Actes d'Oxford (UEA: Society for Seventeenth Century French Studies, 1990), 263 73.
`Reconquering Peru: eighteenth-century translations of Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne', SVEC 2007:06, 291-310
‘L’Astrée en Angleterre au XVIIe siècle’, Cahiers de l'Association Internationale des Études Françaises, 60 (2008), 207-224
‘Telle qu’en elle-même… ? Illustrant la Peruvian Princess de Graffigny’, Traduire et illustrer le roman du XVIIIe siècle, éd. N. Ferrand (SVEC 2011: 04), 215-25

B. RE-WRITINGS

'Vision comique, voix morale: la réception du Misanthrope au dix-huitième siècle', Littératures classiques, 27 (1996), 367-77
« Cela ne vaud pas Zaïde » : Graffigny, lectrice de Mme de LaFayette, Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres : écriture et réception, ed. J.M., SVEC 2004 : 12, 118-128
‘Lettres d’Amabed : a re-writing of the Lettres d’une Péruvienne ?’, Voltaire in the 1760s (SVEC 2008:08), 227-235
‘From Provence to Prussia: Voltaire’s Paméla and the Voyage de Messieurs de Bachaumont et La Chapelle’, Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters. Essays in honour of Richard G. Maber, ed. P.A. Scott (Manchester : M.U.P., 2010), 135-147.
`Autres temps, autres moeurs ?: L'Autre Tartuffe de Beaumarchais', Séries et Variations. Etudes littéraires offertes à Sylvain Menant, éd. L. Fraisse (Paris: PUPS, 2010), 599-615