Villainy in France (1463-1610) : a transcultural study of law and literature / Jonathan Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Jonathan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villains in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York State : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This volume explores the idea of villainy as a literary trope in French literature from 1450 to 1610, and the extent to which conceptions of villainy portrayed in the works of a number of well known and unfamiliar French writers came to influence representations of the villain in English settings.

Contents:

Cover

Villainy in France (1463-1610): A Transcultural Study of Law and Literature

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Style

Introduction: Going With Villainy's Flow

Conceptual adjustments

The legal and the literary

A study in five parts

Part I: Villainy: What The Jurists Say

1: Criminalizing Villainy

From vilain cas to crime énorme

Villainous and injurious words

The collapse of a vilain cas: two sample court cases

2: The Villain: Morality and Status

The vilain: low birth and low morals?

Nobility and villainy, a problematic binary

3: The Villainies of a Facetious Jurist

Early works: playing with vilains and vilains cas

Later works: a retuning of villainous style

Part II: A Poetry Of Villains

4: Master Villon and Master Pathelin

Advocacy and advocasserie

Villon and Pathelin: an imbalanced double act

5: The Testator's Villainy

The 'poet laureate of all villainies'?

Taking on prelates

Appealing against degradation

6: Defence, Attack, Arbitration

Of bacon and prisons

Marot versus Sagon: opening lines

Enter valets and beasts

Looking forwards, looking back

Part III: Remembering Rabelais: Tricksters And Trials

7: Profanity and Polemic

The villain and his villainous style

8: Panurge: The Making of a Villain

Sempiternal hags and causes grasses

The haughty damsel and the dogs

An heretical excursus: Le Nouveau Panurge and the Tiers Livre

9: Taking on the Law

The Chiquanous: farce with tragic blows

The Chats-fourrez: a courtroom drama that stifles tricks

10: Old Panurgos and Beaten Foxes

Jonson's panourgia

ageing, gender, injustice

Part IV: Massacre And Villainy

11: Responding to the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Tragic mockery

Trahison si vilaine'.

12: A French History of 'Most Shamefull Villanie'

A call to vigilance

The 'strange Italian weede'

13: Forensic Tragedy: The Case Against 'Vilain Herodes'

Argumentative' tragedy

Sorcerers, devils, heretics, Machiavellians . . .

14: The Drama of Regicide

Depositions and estampes

Unfinished business: Marlowe's last scenes

Part V: L'estoile: Villainy Between Law And Literature

15: Disavowing Villainy

A monde à l'envers

Satire takes an obscene turn

From L'Estoile's blush to Marston's slime

16: Enduring the Catholic League

Preachers of hate

17: Family Crimes

From farcical humour to collective trauma

The Ravalet Tourlaville affair

18: Transcultural Debasement

Bussy's valour: 'absurd, childish, and villainous'

Biron's demise: a litany of 'choses indignes'

Afterword: Still Going with Villainy's Flow

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-257629-1

0-19-187562-7

0-19-257628-3

OCLC:

1245672955