Research Catalog

Title

Figurations of France : literary nation-building in times of crisis (1550-1650) / Marcus Keller.

Author

Keller, Marcus, 1968-

Publication

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.

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Details

Description

x, 211 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Bellettrie
• France > In literature
• Frankrijk
• Frans
• French literature > 16th century > History and criticism
• French literature > 17th century > History and criticism
• Nation-state > Philosophy
• National characteristics, French, in literature
• Nationale kenmerken
• Staat (politicologie)
• State, The, in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the (early) modern nation: figuration, creation, critique -- The language plant in the garden of France: imitation and nation in La deffence et illustration de la langue Françoyse -- Mother France and her dysfunctional family: religious and national imageries in Ronsard's Discours and continuation and in D'Aubigné's Tragiques -- "A violent and treacherous schoolmistress": custom and the nationalization of the individual in the Essais -- Faith in the spirit of France: mythology and the myth of the nation in Malherbe's Odes -- Blood transvaluations and the limits of patriotism: staging fictive ethnicity in Le cid and Horace -- Conclusion: the open boundaries of literary nation-building.

ISBN

• 9781611490480 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1611490480 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781611490497 (electronic)
• 1611490499 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2011004776

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library