The Poetry of Place : : Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France / / Louisa MacKenzie.

• VerfasserIn: MacKenzie, Louisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the Pléiade poets, including Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim Du Bellay, Rémy Belleau, and Antoine de Baïf, produced some of the most abiding and irenic depiction...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Place and Poetry: An Overview
• 2. The Poet and the Mapmaker: Lyric and Cartographic Images of France
• 3. The Poet, the Nation, and the Region: Constructing Anjou and France
• 4. The Poet and the Painter: Problems of Representation
• 5. The Poet and the Environment: Naturalizing Conservative Nostalgia
• 6. The Poet and the Bower: Escaping History
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index