The world upside-down in 16th century French literature and visual culture / / by Vincent Robert-Nicoud.

In The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2018]
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Faux Titre 426.
Physical Description:1 online resource (298 pages).
Notes:Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • The Sixteenth-Century World Upside Down
  • Adages, Paradoxes and Emblems
  • Rabelais’s World Upside Down
  • Religious Satire and Overturned Cooking Pots
  • Social and Cosmic Disorders
  • General Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index Nominum.