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Author Szabari, Antónia.

Title Less rightly said : scandals and readers in sixteenth-century France / Antónia Szabari.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.
Contents The heretic and the book -- Clean and dirty words -- Scandalous evidence -- The kitchen and the digest -- Poets, priests, and print -- Fabricated worlds and the Menippean satire -- Public scandals, withdrawn readers.
Summary "Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"--Yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal satire that aimed at converting readers to its ideological, religious, and, increasingly, political ideas. By focusing on popular pamphlets along with more canonical works, Less Rightly Said shows that the satirists did not simply renounce the moral ideal of elite, humanist scholarship but rather transmitted and manipulated that scholarship according to their ideological needs. Szabari identifies the emergence of a political genre that provides us with a more thorough understanding of the culture of printing and reading, of the political function of invectives, and of the general role of dissensus in early modern French society."--Jacket.
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Subject French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Political satire, French -- History and criticism.
Political satire, French.
Religious satire, French -- History and criticism.
Religious satire, French.
Books and reading -- France -- History -- 16th century.
Books and reading.
France.
History.
Scandals in literature.
Scandals in literature.
Invective in literature.
Invective in literature.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1500-1600
1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Szabari, Antónia. Less rightly said. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009010154
ISBN 9780804773546 (electronic book)
0804773548 (electronic book)
0804762929 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804762922 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804762922 (cloth ; alkaline paper)