Early modern catalogues of imaginary books
Subtitle: a scholarly anthology
By: edited by Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, Paul J. Smith
Series: Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture -- volume 66
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9789004413641; 9789004413658
Subjects: Imaginary books and libraries; Catalogs; Bibliography; History; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: "Book summary for this bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues, selections were made from a multitude of texts, from the genre's beginnings (Rabelais's satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700. In thirteen chapters, written by specialists in the field, diverse texts containing fictitious booklists are presented and contextualized. Several of these texts are well known (by authors such as Fischart, Doni, and Le Noble), others - undeservedly - are less known, or even unrecorded. The anthology is preceded by a literary historical and theoretical introduction addressing the parodic and satirical aspects of the genre, and its relationship to other genres: theatre, novel, and pamphlet. Contributors include: Helwi Blom, Tobias Bulang, Raphaël Cappellen, Ronnie Ferguson, Dirk Geirnaert, Jelle Koopmans, Marijke Meijer Drees, Claudine Nédelec, Patrizia Pellizzari, Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, Paul J. Smith, and Dirk Werle"--
Notes: "The present volume originated from the international conference Satirical Catalogues - Fictitious Libraries (16th-18th Centuries), which took place 20-21 June 2014 at Leiden University"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English and French.