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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.

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Author:   Jeff Persels ,  Kendall Tarte ,  George Hoffmann
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   208
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9789004191358

ISBN 10:   9004191356
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   16 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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, Heptameron 5 and 6 Gary Ferguson 2 A Palimpsest of the Heptameron: Eugene Scribe's Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre ou la Revanche de Pavie Cynthia Skenazi 3 Readers Writing in the Gordon Collection Heptameron Kendall Tarte 4 Itineraries of Satire: Polysemy and Morality in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron Bernd Renner 5 Language Lessons: Homophones and Gender Confusion in Des Periers's Nouvelles Recreations 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 Sceve and the Feminized Voice of Courtly Lyric Edwin M. Duval 8 In Search of La Belle Cordiere : The Rise and Fall of Louise Labe Leah L. Chang 9 Clement Marot and the Frames of Cultural Memory Nicolas Russell 10 Naive 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 Aubigne, 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 scene 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

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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).

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