Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Honour of Stephen Bamforth : Nottingham French Studies Volume 56, Issue 3
by
Neil Kenny
Book Details
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Nottingham French Studies Special Issues
ISBN-10
1474424554
ISBN-13
9781474424554
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 20th, 2017
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
252 grams
Dimensions
16.50 x 23.90 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysEssaysLiterary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
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With eight contributions, this volume sheds new light on text, knowledge, and wonder in early modern France, which were more fundamentally intertwined than their modern counterparts.
Explores the entwinement of early modern text, knowledge and wonder, and their connections in FranceA triple nexus of text, knowledge, and wonder permeated much literary, learned, and ceremonial culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. There were endless variations on the combination, often with two of the three elements predominating. This volume tracks some of those variations as they appeared in collections of natural wonders, pedagogical situations, a family, an alchemical romance, a carnival festivity, a learned society, and poetry. Key FeaturesContent written in English and French.The contributors to this volume are leading specialists in early modern French studies, from France and the UK.Considers the development of natural wonders, monsters and mythical animals, alchemical symbols and concepts of friendship and rivalry.
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