Jonathan Patterson

Villainy in France (1463-1610)

A Transcultural Study of Law and Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the idea of villainy as a literary trope in French literature from 1450 to 1610, and the extent to which conceptions of villainy portrayed in the works of a number of well known and unfamiliar French writers came to influence representations of the villain in English settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198840015
• ISBN-10: 0198840012
• Artikelnr.: 60746805

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Patterson is Departmental Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Going with Villainy's Flow
Part I. Villainy: What the Jurists Say
1: Criminalizing Villainy
2: The Villain: Morality and Status
3: The Villainies of a Facetious Jurist
Part II. A Poetry of Villains
4: Villains and Villons
5: François Villon: Attesting Villainies
6: Defence, Attack, Arbitration
Part III. Remembering Rabelais: Tricksters and Trials
7: Profanity and Polemic
8: Panurge: The Making of a Villain
9: Taking on the Law
10: Old Panurgos and Beaten Foxes
Part IV. Massacre and Villainy
11: Responding to the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
12: A French History of 'Most Shamefull Villanie'
13: Forensic Tragedy: The Case against 'Vilain Herodes'
14: The Drama of Regicide
Part V. L'Estoile: Villainy between Law and Literature
15: Disavowing Villainy
16: Enduring the Catholic League
17: Family Crimes
18: Transcultural Debasement
Afterword: Still going with Villainy's Flow