Figurations of France
Subtitle: literary nation-building in times of crisis (1550-1650)
By: Marcus Keller
Publisher: University of Delaware Press, with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781611490480; 9781611490497
Subjects: French literature; Nation-state; State, The, in literature; In literature; Philosophy; National characteristics, French, in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the (early) modern nation: figuration, creation, critique; title: The language plant in the garden of France: imitation and nation in La deffence et illustration de la langue Françoyse; title: Mother France and her dysfunctional family: religious and national imageries in Ronsard's Discours and continuation and in D'Aubigné's Tragiques; title: "A violent and treacherous schoolmistress": custom and the nationalization of the individual in the Essais; title: Faith in the spirit of France: mythology and the myth of the nation in Malherbe's Odes; title: Blood transvaluations and the limits of patriotism: staging fictive ethnicity in Le cid and Horace; title: Conclusion: the open boundaries of literary nation-building.