G. Jonathan Mallinson, M.A. (M.A., Ph.D. Cambridge), Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Emeritus Professor of Early-Modern French, Fellow of Trinity College
Research
Jonathan Mallinson has worked on French theatre and prose fiction in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a special interest in comedy, prose fiction, women's writing, and Enlightenment readings of canonical neo-classical texts. In retirement he has published research on twentieth-century decorative arts, notably on British art pottery and its reception.
Teaching
Publications
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
A. COMEDY
1. Corneille
Book
- The Comedies of Corneille: Experiments in the Comic (Manchester: 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 by JM, 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.1-241
- Voltaire, Lettres d’Amabed, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, 70A (Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2015), pp. 281-422
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’, Les 250 ans de Candide: Lectures et Relectures, ed. N. Cronk & N. Ferrand, La République des Lettres, 55 (Peeters : Louvain, 2014), 373-386
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
- ‘Traductions et adaptations des Lettres d’une Péruvienne’, Françoise de Graffigny rentre à Lunéville. Donation Pierre Mouriau de Meulenacker (Musée du Château de Lunéville, 2012), 63-67
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
TWENTIETH-CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS
Book
- William Moorcroft, Potter: Individuality by Design (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023)
Articles
- 'Signed by design: the making of William Moorcroft' (Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis Publications, 2017), 1-15
- 'A pottery of "soulfulness": the art of William Moorcroft re-assessed', DAS Journal, 46 (2022), 89-101
- 'An important art exhibit in the Palace of Industry: William Moorcroft at the British Empire Exhibition (1924), Newsletter of the Northern Ceramic Society, 208 (2024), 31-43