Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-19135-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 208, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 830 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge Networks, they offer both fresh perspectives on canonical authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as original interpretations of less familiar works of sixteenth-century moment: confessional polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, epigraphy, bibliophilism and even ichthyology. Inspired by and gathered together here to honor the eclectic career of Mary B. McKinley, this anthology integrates many of the most pertinent topics and contemporary approaches of early modern French scholarly inquiry.

Contributors are: Pascale Barthe, Leah L. Chang, Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson, George Hoffmann, Robert J. Hudson, Karen Simroth James, Scott D. Juall, Virginia Krause, Kathleen Long, Stephen Murphy, Corinne Noirot, Jeff Persels, Bernd Renner, Nicolas Russell, Nicholas Shangler, Cynthia Skenazi, Kendall Tarte, Cara Welch, and Cathy Yandell.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Persels, Jeff

Tarte, Kendall

Hoffmann, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors

Introduction. Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature
Kendall Tarte, George Hoffmann, and Jeff Persels

On Mary B. McKinley

Part 1: On Telling Tales

1 Puns, Exemplarity, and Women’s Sexual Agency: Nomerfide and Oisille, Heptaméron 5 and 6
Gary Ferguson

2 A Palimpsest of the Heptaméron: Eugène Scribe’s Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre ou la Revanche de Pavie
Cynthia Skenazi

3 Readers Writing in the Gordon Collection Heptaméron
Kendall Tarte

4 Itineraries of Satire: Polysemy and Morality in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron
Bernd Renner

5 Language Lessons: Homophones and Gender Confusion in Des Périers’s Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devis
Nicholas Shangler

6 The Dido Effect and the Rise of the French Novel
Virginia Krause

Part 2: On Poets and Poetry

7 Maurice Scève and the Feminized Voice of Courtly Lyric
Edwin M. Duval

8 In Search of “La Belle Cordière”: The Rise and Fall of Louise Labé
Leah L. Chang

9 Clément Marot and the Frames of Cultural Memory
Nicolas Russell

10 Naïve douceur: Earthy Grist and Gallic Verve in the Marotic Rondeau
Robert J. Hudson

Part 3: On Religious Controversy

11 Rhetorics of Peace: Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de L’Hospital on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion
Cathy Yandell

12 Bearding the Pope, circa 1562
Jeff Persels

13 Reconversion Tales: How to Make Sense of Lapses in Faith
George Hoffmann

14 Aubigné, Josephus, and Useful Betrayal
Stephen Murphy

15 “The Difficulty is to Judge Well”: Jean de la taille, Deceptive Astrologer (Le Blason des pierres precieuses and La geomance abregee, 1574)
Corinne Noirot

Part 4: On Montaigne

16 Montaigne, Monsters, and Modernity
Kathleen Long

17 Montaigne’s Response to the Alcibiades Question
Cara Welch

Part 5: On the Sciences and Knowledge Networks

18 France’s Mid-Sixteenth-Century Imperial Gaze on Canada: The Dieppe School of Hydrography, the Kingdom of Saguenay, and the Mise en scène of Possession
Scott D. Juall

19 Guillaume Rondelet’s Monkfish, or Natural History as Social Network
Pascale Barthe

20 Making the Stones Speak: The Curious Observations of Gabriele Simeoni
Karen Simroth James

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeff Persels, Ph.D. (1991), University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of French at the University of South Carolina. He has edited, co-edited and contributed to volumes on early modern scatology, theatre and eco-criticism and authored a number of related articles.

Kendall Tarte, Ph.D. (1997), University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of French at Wake Forest University (North Carolina). She has published a monograph on Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches (2007) and articles on sixteenth-century French literature.

George Hoffmann, Ph.D. (1990) University of Virginia, is Professor of French at the University of Michigan. He has published in the history of the book (Montaigne’s Career, 1998) before turning to social and religious history in The Reformation of French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers (forthcoming from Oxford).