Itineraries in French renaissance literature : essays for Mary B. McKinley / edited by Jeff Persels, Kendall Tarte, and George Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Persels, Jeff, editor.

Tarte, Kendall B., 1965- editor.

Hoffmann, George, editor.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 208.

Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 1573-4188 ; Volume 208

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French literature.

Renaissance--France.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction. Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature / Kendall Tarte , George Hoffmann and Jeff Persels

On Mary B. McKinley

Puns, Exemplarity, and Women’s Sexual Agency: Nomerfide and Oisille, Heptaméron 5 and 6 / Gary Ferguson

A Palimpsest of the Heptaméron: Eugène Scribe’s Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre ou la Revanche de Pavie / Cynthia Skenazi

Readers Writing in the Gordon Collection Heptaméron / Kendall Tarte

Itineraries of Satire: Polysemy and Morality in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron / Bernd Renner

Language Lessons: Homophones and Gender Confusion in Des Périers’s Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devis / Nicholas Shangler

The Dido Effect and the Rise of the French Novel / Virginia Krause

Maurice Scève and the Feminized Voice of Courtly Lyric / Edwin M. Duval

In Search of “La Belle Cordière”: The Rise and Fall of Louise Labé / Leah L. Chang

Clément Marot and the Frames of Cultural Memory / Nicolas Russell

Naïve douceur: Earthy Grist and Gallic Verve in the Marotic Rondeau / Robert J. Hudson

Rhetorics of Peace: Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de L’Hospital on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion / Cathy Yandell

Bearding the Pope, circa 1562 / Jeff Persels

Reconversion Tales: How to Make Sense of Lapses in Faith / George Hoffmann

Aubigné, Josephus, and Useful Betrayal / Stephen Murphy

“The Difficulty is to Judge Well”: Jean de la Taille, Deceptive Astrologer (Le Blason des pierres précieuses and La Géomance abrégée, 1574) / Corinne Noirot

Montaigne, Monsters, and Modernity / Kathleen Long

Montaigne’s Response to the Alcibiades Question / Cara Welch

France’s Mid-Sixteenth-Century Imperial Gaze on Canada: The Dieppe School of Hydrography, the Kingdom of Saguenay, and the Mise en scène of Possession / Scott D. Juall

Guillaume Rondelet’s Monkfish, or Natural History as Social Network / Pascale Barthe

Making the Stones Speak: The Curious Observations of Gabriele Simeoni / Karen Simroth James

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-35151-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004351516 DOI