La Peste a la Renaissance

L'imaginaire d'un fleau dans la litterature au XVIe siecle

by Brenton Hobart

Book cover: La Peste a la Renaissance

Extent: 1015 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Geographies du monde

Series volume number: 27

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(September 2020)

ISBN: 9782406089964

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $73.00

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Hardback (Published)

(September 2020)

ISBN: 9782406089971

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $123.00

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French Renaissance authors, such as Clement Marot, Francois Rabelais, and Montaigne, perpetuated and developed a body of representations of the plague by combining imitation and invention, and by frequently presenting themselves as survivors of epidemics. The plague thus became a codified literary genre.

  • By (author) Brenton Hobart
  • Preface by Frank Lestringant