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• Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2021.

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Author:   Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Professor of French, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.804kg
ISBN:  

9780198852391

ISBN 10:   0198852398
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   03 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I. Introduction 1: Hierarchy and heredity 2: Why this time and place? 3: Inheritance under the law 4: Transmission beyond legal inheritance: socio-cultural legacy 5: Other collectivities 6: Family literature 7: The family function Part II. Family Literature: A Social Survey 8: Family literature: extent and social profile 9: Works shaped by family 10: Not going to plan 11: Conclusions Part III. Promoting Family Literature 12: Families and the emergence of literary history 13: La Croix du Maine's Bibliotheque (1584) 14: Scévole de Sainte-Marthe's Elogia (1598-1630) 15: Conclusions Part IV. The Marot Family 16: Introducing the Marots 17: The extent and the limits of a family's ascent through poetry 18: Moulding social hierarchy by communicating experience of it: Clément Marot's poetry 19: Conclusions Part V. The Brouart-Vatable-Beroald-Verville Family 20: Two deaths in the family: 1526, 1626 21: From barber-surgeon's son to professor: Matthieu Beroald 22: From professor's son to 'François Beroalde, escuyer, sieur de Verville, docteur en medicine' 23: Conclusions Conclusions Appendix: Families with more than one literary producer

Reviews

...the wealth of examples that Kenny presents makes a case far more compelling than what arguments from social history alone could have accomplished. With measured prose and in understated tones, Kenny has introduced to literary study a revolution of seismic proportions whose importance and consequences are difficult to overstate. * George Hoffmann, Renaissance and Reformation *

In this well-written study of 'literary families' in sixteenth-century France, Neil Kenny (University of Oxford) examines the relationship between 'family literature' and the family members' position on the social ladder....A must-read for literary, historical, and sociological interested readers. * Dick Wursten, Independent Scholar, Antwerp, Belgium, Church History and Religious Culture * ...the wealth of examples that Kenny presents makes a case far more compelling than what arguments from social history alone could have accomplished. With measured prose and in understated tones, Kenny has introduced to literary study a revolution of seismic proportions whose importance and consequences are difficult to overstate. * George Hoffmann, Renaissance and Reformation *

Author Information

Neil Kenny is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of French at the University of Oxford, having previously taught at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London. His work has long focused on early modern French literature, culture, and thought, within a wider European context. More recently, the focus has been on the relation of literate culture to social hierarchy. He is also interested in language policy in the UK and is Lead Fellow for Languages at the British Academy.

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