Reveries of community : French epic in the age of Henri IV, 1572-1616 /
"Reveries of Community reconsiders the role of epic poetry during the French Wars of Religion, the series of wars between Catholics and Protestants that dominated France between 1562 and 1598. Critics have often viewed French epic poetry as a casualty of these wars, arguing that the few epics F...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English French |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2018
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Series: | Rethinking the Early Modern
Rethinking the Early Modern |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : epic for a time of crisis
- Empires of erasure in Pierre de Ronsard's Franciade (1572)
- Region, nation, and empire in the long poems of Guillaume Salluste du Bartas (1574-1590)
- Epic and nation in an age of reconstruction : Sébastien Garnier's Henriade (1593/1594)
- Peace, fertility, and empire in Pierre-Victor Palma Cayet's Heptaméron de la Navarride (1602)
- Re-forming communities in Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les tragiques (1616)
- Conclusion
- Introduction : epic for a time of crisis
- Empires of erasure in Pierre de Ronsard's Franciade
- Region, nation, and empire in the long poems of Guillaume Salluste du Bartas (1574-1590)
- Epic and nation in an age of reconstruction : Sebastien Garnier's Henriade (1593/1594)
- Peace, fertility, and empire in Pierre-Victor Palma Cayet's Heptameron de la Navarride
- Re-forming communities in Agrippa d'Aubigne's Les tragiques
- Conclusion