Advertising the self in Renaissance France : Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais /

[This book] explores how authors and readers are represented in printed editions of the works of three major literary figures: Jean Lemaire de Belges, Clement Marot, and François Rabelais. Print culture is marked by an anxiety of reception that became much more pronounced with increasingly anonymou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francis, Scott (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : Rutgers University Press 2019
University of Delaware Press, 2019
Edition:1st ed
Series:Early modern exchange
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Author's Note
  • Introduction
  • Part I. "Ung petit tableau de mon industrie": Jean Lemaire de Belges and Gratitude for Historiography
  • 1. The Judgment of the Reader in the Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye
  • 2. Lemaire's Genius in the Concorde des deux langages
  • Part II. Clément Marot, or Proteus in Print
  • 3. "Quel bien par rime on a": Authorial and Printerly Personae in the Adolescence clementine
  • 4. "Je n'en donne ung festu, pourveu qu'ayons son livre": The Suite and the 1538 Œuvres
  • Part III. The Cure Is the Disease: Self-Fashioning and Charlatanism in François Rabelais's Prologues
  • 5. The Prophylactic Prologues of Pantagruel and Gargantua
  • 6. Rabelais, Doctor of Iatrosophism
  • Afterword: The Triumph of Advertising
  • Appendix: Marot Editions and Their Contents
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index