Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Honour of Stephen Bamforth
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- ISBN 9781474424554
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Explores the entwinement of early modern text, knowledge and wonder, and their connections in France
A 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.
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Content 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.
Neil Kenny is Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously he taught at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (2004), An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century French Literature and Thought (2008), and Death and Tenses: Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France (2015). He is currently researching early modern French families that produced more than one writer.
