Description
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the shifting relationships between literature and polemic during the late French Renaissance.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Fighting Words: Contextualizing Polemic in the French Wars of Religion by Jeff Kendrick and Katherine S. Maynard
Forging Satire from Scripture: Biblical Models and Verbal Violence before the Wars of Religion by Christopher M. Flood
The Literary Conflict of Pierre de Ronsard and Antoine de Chandieu: A Fight for France by Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier
Skirmishes in the Margins: Polemic at the Threshold of the Text by Amy Graves Monroe
Reprimanding the King: Jean Bégat’s 1563 Remonstrances by Jeff Kendrick
A Martial Muse: Words of War in the Quest for French Domination of Literature by Brooke Di Lauro
Violent Words for Violent Times: Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques by Kathleen Perry Long
The Paradox of Civil War in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Tragiques by Marcus Keller
Comme au monde à l’envers: Mapping Injustice in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s “Chambre dorée” by Ashley Voeks
Atmoterrorism in the Humanist Anthropocene by Phillip John Usher
Exporting Peace and Arming Vengeance in Lescarbot's Histoire de la Nouvelle-France(1609) and La Défaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois (1607)by Katherine S. Maynard
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Polemic and Literature Index
