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Northwestern Reveries of Community: French Epic in the Age of Henri IV, 1572-1616 (Rethinking the Early Modern)

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Reveries of Community reconsiders the role of epic poetry during the French Wars of Religion, the series of wars between Catholics and Protestants that dominated France between 1562 and 1598. Critics have often viewed French epic poetry as a casualty of these wars, arguing that the few epics France produced during this conflict failed in power and influence compared to those of France’s neighbors, such as Italy’s Orlando Furioso, England’s Faerie Queene, and Portugal’s Os Lusíadas. Katherine S. Maynard argues instead that the wars did not hinder epic poetry, but rather French poets responded to the crisis by using epic poetry to reimagine France’s present and future. Traditionally united by une foi, une loi, un roi (one faith, one law, one king), France under Henri IV was cleaved into warring factions of Catholics and Huguenots. The country suffered episodes of bloodshed such as the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, even as attempts were made to attenuate the violence through frequent edicts, including those of St. Germain (1570) and Nantes (1598). Maynard examines the rich and often dismissed body work written during these bloody decades: Pierre de Ronsard’s Franciade, Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas’s La Judit and La Sepmaine, Sébastian Garnier’s La Henriade, Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques, and others. She traces how French poets, taking classics such as Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Iliad as their models, reimagined possibilities for French reconciliation and unity. Review "Maynard is recognized as a key thinker of French Renaissance epic. The field is waiting for this book."--Phillip John Usher, author of Epic Arts in Renaissance France "In this journey across the work of five epic poets, Maynard not only provides ample evidence for the importance and the vitality of the French epic, but also provides a productive lens through which to consider these difficult, formative decades of French history." -- Renaissance Quarterly About the Author KATHERINE S. MAYNARD is an associate professor of French at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

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Brand: Northwestern
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0810135841
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > France
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 November 2017
Listed Since: 02 March 2017

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