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Author Haake, Gregory P., author.

Title The politics of print during the French wars of religion : literature and history in an age of "nothing said too soon" / by Gregory P. Haake
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 351 pages)
Series Faux titre : études de langue et littérature Franc̦aises, 0167-9392 ; volume 443
Faux titre ; no. 443.
Summary "In The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion, Gregory Haake examines how, in late sixteenth-century France, authors and publishers used the new medium of the printed text to control the terms of public discourse and determine history, or at least their narrative of it. The creativity of the Renaissance ushered in new instability of discourse and a decline of traditional centres of authority. Gregory Haake shows that poets, authors, printers, and polemicists - including historians, such as Simon Goulart; the great poets of the time, such as Pierre de Ronsard or Agrippa d'Aubigné; or anonymous authors of polemical texts - rushed in to take advantage of discursive uncertainty to discredit their enemies and shape the meaning of history as it unfolded"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed on November 12, 2020)
Subject French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
Printing -- France -- History -- 16th century
Authors and publishers -- France -- History -- 16th century
Literature and society -- France -- History -- 16th century
Renaissance -- France
Authors and publishers
French literature
Literature and society
Printing
Renaissance
War and literature
SUBJECT France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Literature and the war
Subject France
Genre/Form Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020038431
ISBN 900444081X
9789004440814