George Hoffmann

Reforming French Culture

Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, George Hoffmann presents a study of Protestant satirical texts in sixteenth-century France and their role in French literature and history, examining how France became a culturally Protestant country while remaining confessionally Catholic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808763
• ISBN-10: 0198808763
• Artikelnr.: 48499009

Autorenporträt

George Hoffmann is Professor of French at the University of Michigan in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. He is the author of Montaigne's Career (OUP, 1998) and several articles such as 'Was Montaigne a Good Friend?' in Men and Women Making Friends (Ashgate, 2015), 'Self-Assurance and Acting in the Essais' in Montaigne Studies (2014), and the Oxford Bibliographies Online entry for Montaigne. In addition, he has edited an issue devoted to Les Biographies de Montaigne in Montaigne Studies (2008) and contributed several articles to the Dictionnaire Montaigne, edited by Philippe Desan (Champion, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Background: Purging an Unreformed Past
2: Becoming Religious Foreigners
3: The Devotional Force of Incredulity
4: Pilgrims of Satire: To Go Home
5: Noplace Anywhere: 'Observation' as Worship
6: From Communion to Communication
7: The Legacy of French Reformation Satire