Less Rightly Said : Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France.
Title:
Less Rightly Said : Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France.
Author:
Szabari, Antonia.
ISBN:
9780804773546
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Heretic and the Book -- 2. Clean and Dirty Words -- 3. Scandalous Evidence -- 4. The Kitchen and the Digest -- 5. Priests, Poets, and Print -- 6. Fabricated Worlds and the Menippean Satire -- 7. Public Scandals, Withdrawn Readers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Less Rightly Said is a detailed study of polemical literature in sixteenth-century France that explores the role of offense ("scandal") in a religious and a rhetorical sense and traces the emergence of a new political genre through both canonical polemical works and popular satires and invectives.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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