Less rightly said : scandals and readers in sixteenth-century France / Antonia Szabari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szabari, Antónia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--16th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Political satire, French--History and criticism.

Political satire, French.

Religious satire, French--History and criticism.

Religious satire, French.

Books and reading--France--History--16th century.

Books and reading.

Scandals in literature.

Invective in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal satire that aimed at converting readers to its ideological, religious, and, increasingly, political ideas. By focusing on popular pamphlets along with more canonical works, Less Rightly Said shows that the satirists did not simply renounce the moral ideal of elite, humanist scholarship but rather transmitted and manipulated that scholarship according to their ideological needs. Szabari identifies the emergence of a political genre that provides us with a more thorough understanding of the culture of printing and reading, of the political function of invectives, and of the general role of dissensus in early modern French society.

Contents:

The heretic and the book

Clean and dirty words

Scandalous evidence

The kitchen and the digest

Poets, priests, and print

Fabricated worlds and the Menippean satire

Public scandals, withdrawn readers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-282) and index.

ISBN:

9780804773546

0804773548

OCLC:

646788483