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The Unbridled Tongue - Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France (Hardcover)
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The Unbridled Tongue - Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France (Hardcover)
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The Unbridled Tongue looks at gossip, rumour, and talking too much
in Renaissance France in order to uncover what was specific about
these practices in the period. Taking its cue from Erasmus's
Lingua, in which both the subjective and political consequences of
an idle and unbridled tongue are emphasised, the book investigates
the impact of gossip and rumour on contemporary conceptions of
identity and political engagement. Emily Butterworth discusses
prescriptive literature on the tongue and theological discussions
of Pentecost and prophecy, and then covers nearly a century in
chapters focused on a single text: Rabelais's Tiers Livre,
Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, Ronsard's Discours des miseres
de ce temps, Montaigne's 'Des boyteux', Brantome's Dames galantes
and the anonymous Caquets de l'accouchee. In covering the 'long
sixteenth century', the book is able to investigate the impact of
the French Wars of Religion on perceptions of gossip and rumour,
and place them in the context of an emerging public sphere of
political critique and discussion, principally through the figure
of the 'public voice' which, although it was associated with unruly
utterance, was nevertheless a powerful rhetorical tool for the
expression of grievances. The Cynic virtue of parrhesia, or free
speech, is similarly ambivalent in many accounts, oscillating
between bold truth-telling (liberte) and disordered babble
(licence). Drawing on modern and pre-modern theories of the uses
and function of gossip, the book argues that, despite this
ambivalence in descriptions of the tongue, gossip and idle talk
were finally excluded from the public sphere by being associated
with the feminine and the irrational.
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