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

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,...

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Superior document:Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume 208
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 208.
Physical Description:1 online resource (424 pages) :; color illustrations.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of 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.