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Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers
Author(s): George Hoffmann (Author)
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 14 Dec. 2017
- Language: English
- Print length: 282 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198808763
- ISBN-13: 9780198808763
Book Description
Rather than using literature to illustrate history, or contextualizing literature through historical background, this book brings literary understanding (what satire is and what it does) to bear on historical understanding. Situated at the crossroads of religion, literature, and cultural history, it explores how France, in this period, became a culturally Protestant country while remaining confessionally Catholic.
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Review
Already part of a lively scholarly discussion, Hoffmann’s work rewards both an overarching reading for its argument that in some important ways reformers defeated their own cause, and a close reading for its detailed study of the satirical genre and its various uses by reformed writers. ―
Jane Couchman, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et ReformeAbout the Author
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