Lucain et la litterature de l'age baroque en France. Citation, imitation et creation. By JEAN-CLAUDE TERNAUX. (Bibliotheque litteraire de la Renaissance, 3.43) Paris: Champion. 2000. 461 pp. +10 plates.
For most, if not perhaps all scholars, the identification of Lucan and the baroque era in French literature is a fait acquis. Yet, surprisingly, Jean-Claude Ternaux's is the first full-length study of the Roman poet's reception and influence in this period. Ternaux punctiliously ...