Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion

Author:   Andrea Frisch (Associate Professor of French, University of Maryland)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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9780748694396


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   02 June 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion


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Author:   Andrea Frisch (Associate Professor of French, University of Maryland)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780748694396


ISBN 10:   0748694390
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   02 June 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Learning to Forget; 2. Clemency, Pardon, and Oubliance; 3. History without Passion: National Historiography in the Age of Oubliance; 4. Tragedy as History: From the Guisiade to Garnier; 5. From Emotion to Affect

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...an exciting and very welcome addition to studies on French historiography and theatrical tragedy. -- MICHAEL MEERE, French Studies, vol 70, no 4 It is hard to do justice to the richness of her argument through summary...the book fields an extended, subtle, and ultimately powerful argument that demands we rethink the connection between a number of cultural fields usually segregated. -- George Hoffmann, University of Michigan for Modern Philology, Vol 113, No 4 This is a beautiful, seminal, crucial work, which scholars of the French Renaissance must consult. -- Charles-Louis Morand-Metivier, University of Vermont for The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol 47, No 3


...an exciting and very welcome addition to studies on French historiography and theatrical tragedy. -- MICHAEL MEERE, French Studies, vol 70, no 4It is hard to do justice to the richness of her argument through summary...the book fields an extended, subtle, and ultimately powerful argument that demands we rethink the connection between a number of cultural fields usually segregated. -- George Hoffmann, University of Michigan for Modern Philology, Vol 113, No 4This is a beautiful, seminal, crucial work, which scholars of the French Renaissance must consult. -- Charles-Louis Morand-Metivier, University of Vermont for The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol 47, No 3


...an exciting and very welcome addition to studies on French historiography and theatrical tragedy. -- MICHAEL MEERE, French Studies, vol 70, no 4It is hard to do justice to the richness of her argument through summary...the book fields an extended, subtle, and ultimately powerful argument that demands we rethink the connection between a number of cultural fields usually segregated. -- George Hoffmann, University of Michigan for Modern Philology, Vol 113, No 4


Author Information

Andrea Frisch is currently Associate Professor of French at the University of Maryland in the US. She is the author of The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) as well as a number of refereed articles in journals including the Journal of Early Modern History, Montaigne Studies, and Modern Language Quarterly.

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