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1 online resource. |
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data file |
| Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
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Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Learning to Forget -- Clemency, Pardon, and Oubliance -- History without Passion: National Historiography in the Age of Oubliance -- Tragedy as History: From the Guisiade to Garnier -- From Emotion to Affect. |
| Summary |
By juxtaposing representations of the French civil war past as they appear (and frequently overlap) in historiography and tragedy from 1550-1630, Andrea Frisch tracks changes in the ways in which history and tragedy sought to 'move' readers throughout the period of the wars and in their wake. The book shows that a shift from a politically (and martially) active reading of the past to a primarily affective one follows the imperative, so clear and urgent at the turn of the seventeenth century, to put an end to violent conflict. The emotions that neoclassical tragedy and absolutist historiography sought to elicit were intended above all to be shared, and thus a medium via which political and religious differences could be downplayed or forgotten. The book aims to illuminate some of the ways in which the experience of the wars of religion, as registered in tragedy and historiography, contributed to a restructuring of the ever-vital relationship between emotion and politics, and thereby to historicize the very concept of 'esmouvoir'.--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wars of the Huguenots (France : 1562-1598) |
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Religion and politics -- France -- History -- 16th century.
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Religion and politics. |
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France. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
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France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Social aspects.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 16th century.
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Memory -- Social aspects. |
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Memory. |
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Social conflict -- France -- History -- 16th century.
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Social conflict. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1599 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Tragedy, historiography, and the French Wars of Religion |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Frisch, Andrea. Forgetting differences. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] 0748694390 9780748694396 (DLC) 2015413393 (OCoLC)910905933 |
| ISBN |
9780748694402 (electronic book) |
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0748694404 (electronic book) |
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9781474404471 (electronic book) |
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1474404472 (electronic book) |
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9781474412322 |
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1474412327 |
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9780748694396 (hardback) |
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0748694390 (hardback) |
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