La Premiere reception des Essais de Montaigne

(1580-1640)

by Olivier Millet

Book cover: La Premiere reception des Essais de Montaigne

Extent: 249 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Etudes montaignistes

Series volume number: 23

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(January 2023)

ISBN: 9782406146650

8.62 x 5.94 inches

Price: $41.00

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Hardback (Published)

(January 2023)

ISBN: 9782812457999

8.62 x 5.94 inches

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Refuting the idea that the Essais were largely ignored, this collection gathers little-known critical texts from 1580 to 1640. The manner in which the Essais were received shows that they enriched literary criticism and creation from the end of the Renaissance to the threshold of the French classical age.

Olivier Millet est professeur émérite de littérature française du XVIe siècle à Sorbonne Université. Ses travaux portent sur la littérature religieuse, la rhétorique humaniste et le théâtre de la Renaissance. Nous lui devons notamment Calvin et la dynamique de la parole (Paris, 1992). Il a également publié le théâtre de Marguerite de Navarre (Paris, 2002).

  • By (author) Olivier Millet