Literature and nation in the sixteenth century

inventing Renaissance France

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Literature and nation in the sixteenth century

inventing Renaissance France

"Assessing the relationship between the emergence of modern French literary culture and the ideological debates that marked Renaissance France, Timothy Hampton explores the role of literary form in shaping national identity.".

"The foundational texts of modern French literature were produced during a period of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of community. In the face of religious heresy, political threats from abroad, and new forms of cultural diversity, Renaissance French culture confronted, in new and urgent ways, the question of what it means to be "French." Hampton shows how conflicts between different concepts of community were mediated symbolically through the genesis of new literary forms.

Hampton's analysis of works by Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay, and Marguerite de Navarre, as well as writings by lesser-known poets, pamphleteers, and political philosophers, shows that the vulnerability of France and the instability of French identity were pervasive cultural themes during this period.".

"Contemporary scholarship on nation-building in early modern Europe has emphasized the importance of centralized power and the rise of absolute monarchy. Hampton offers a counterargument, demonstrating that both community and national identity in Renaissance France were defined through a dialogic relationship to that which was not French - to the foreigner, the stranger, the intruder from abroad.

He provides both a methodological challenge to traditional cultural history and a new consideration of the role of literature in the definition of the nation."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
289

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Cover of: Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century
Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France
2018, Cornell University Press
in English
Cover of: Literature and nation in the sixteenth century
Literature and nation in the sixteenth century: inventing Renaissance France
2001, Cornell University Press
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Table of Contents

Garden of letters : toward a theory of literary nationhood
The limits of ideology : Rabelais and the edge of Christendom
Nation and utopia in the 1530s : the case of Rabelais's Gargantua
Narrative form and national space : textual geography from the Heptaméron to La princesse de Cléves
Representing France at mid-century : Du Bellay and the lyric invention of national character
History, alterity, and the European subject in Montaigne's Essais
Pauline's dream.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.

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Ithaca

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
840.9/358
Library of Congress
PQ239 .H26 2001, PQ239.H26 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 289 p. ;
Number of pages
289

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6776714M
ISBN 10
0801437741
LCCN
00010240
OCLC/WorldCat
44585950
Library Thing
6292523
Goodreads
874759

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