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Book SynopsisItineraries 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, they offer both fresh perspectives on canonical authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as original interpretations of less familiar works of sixteenth-century moment: confessional polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, epigraphy, bibliophilism and even ichthyology. Inspired by and gathered together here to honor the eclectic career of Mary B. McKinley, this anthology integrates many of the most pertinent topics and contemporary approaches of early modern French scholarly inquiry. Contributors are: Pascale Barthe, Leah L. Chang, Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson, George Hoffmann, Robert J. Hudson, Karen Simroth James, Scott D. Juall, Virginia Krause, Kathleen Long, Stephen Murphy, Corinne Noirot, Jeff Persels, Bernd Renner, Nicolas Russell, Nicholas Shangler, Cynthia Skenazi, Kendall Tarte, Cara Welch, and Cathy Yandell.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction. Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature Kendall Tarte, George Hoffmann, and Jeff Persels On Mary B. McKinley Part 1: On Telling Tales 1 Puns, Exemplarity, and Women’s Sexual Agency: Nomerfide and Oisille, Heptaméron 5 and 6 Gary Ferguson 2 A Palimpsest of the Heptaméron: Eugène Scribe’s Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre ou la Revanche de Pavie Cynthia Skenazi 3 Readers Writing in the Gordon Collection Heptaméron Kendall Tarte 4 Itineraries of Satire: Polysemy and Morality in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron Bernd Renner 5 Language Lessons: Homophones and Gender Confusion in Des Périers’s Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devis Nicholas Shangler 6 The Dido Effect and the Rise of the French Novel Virginia Krause Part 2: On Poets and Poetry 7 Maurice Scève and the Feminized Voice of Courtly Lyric Edwin M. Duval 8 In Search of “La Belle Cordière”: The Rise and Fall of Louise Labé Leah L. Chang 9 Clément Marot and the Frames of Cultural Memory Nicolas Russell 10 Naïve douceur: Earthy Grist and Gallic Verve in the Marotic Rondeau Robert J. Hudson Part 3: On Religious Controversy 11 Rhetorics of Peace: Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de L’Hospital on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion Cathy Yandell 12 Bearding the Pope, circa 1562 Jeff Persels 13 Reconversion Tales: How to Make Sense of Lapses in Faith George Hoffmann 14 Aubigné, Josephus, and Useful Betrayal Stephen Murphy 15 “The Difficulty is to Judge Well”: Jean de la taille, Deceptive Astrologer (Le Blason des pierres precieuses and La geomance abregee, 1574) Corinne Noirot Part 4: On Montaigne 16 Montaigne, Monsters, and Modernity Kathleen Long 17 Montaigne’s Response to the Alcibiades Question Cara Welch Part 5: On the Sciences and Knowledge Networks 18 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 19 Guillaume Rondelet’s Monkfish, or Natural History as Social Network Pascale Barthe 20 Making the Stones Speak: The Curious Observations of Gabriele Simeoni Karen Simroth James Index
