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Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century - Inventing Renaissance France (Hardcover)
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Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century - Inventing Renaissance France (Hardcover)
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Assessing the relationship between the emergence of modern French
literary culture and the ideological debates that marked
Renaissance France, Timothy Hampton explores the role of literary
form in shaping national identity.The foundational texts of modern
French literature were produced during a period of unprecedented
struggle over the meaning of community. In the face of religious
heresy, political threats from abroad, and new forms of cultural
diversity, Renaissance French culture confronted, in new and urgent
ways, the question of what it means to be "French." Hampton shows
how conflicts between different concepts of community were mediated
symbolically through the genesis of new literary forms. Hampton's
analysis of works by Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay, and Marguerite
de Navarre, as well as writings by lesser-known poets,
pamphleteers, and political philosophers, shows that the
vulnerability of France and the instability of French identity were
pervasive cultural themes during this period.Contemporary
scholarship on nation-building in early modern Europe has
emphasized the importance of centralized power and the rise of
absolute monarchy. Hampton offers a counterargument, demonstrating
that both community and national identity in Renaissance France
were defined through a dialogic relationship to that which was not
French to the foreigner, the stranger, the intruder from abroad. He
provides both a methodological challenge to traditional cultural
history and a new consideration of the role of literature in the
definition of the nation."
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