Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature

Jeff Persels, Ph.D. (1991), University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of French at the University of South Carolina. He has edited, co-edited and contributed to volumes on early modern scatology, theatre and eco-criticism and authored a number of related articles.Kendall Tarte, Ph.D. (1997), University of Virginia, is Associate Professor of French at Wake Forest University (North Carolina). She has published a monograph on Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches (2007) and articles on sixteenth-century French literature.George Hoffmann, Ph.D. (1990) University of Virginia, is Professor of French at the University of Michigan. He has published in the history of the book (Montaigne’s Career, 1998) before turning to social and religious history in The Reformation of French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers (forthcoming from Oxford).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction. Itineraries in French Renaissance LiteratureKendall Tarte, George Hoffmann, and Jeff PerselsOn Mary B. McKinleyPart 1: On Telling Tales1 Puns, Exemplarity, and Women’s Sexual Agency: Nomerfide and Oisille, Heptaméron 5 and 6Gary Ferguson2 A Palimpsest of the Heptaméron: Eugène Scribe’s Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre ou la Revanche de PavieCynthia Skenazi3 Readers Writing in the Gordon Collection HeptaméronKendall Tarte4 Itineraries of Satire: Polysemy and Morality in Marguerite de Navarre’s HeptaméronBernd Renner5 Language Lessons: Homophones and Gender Confusion in Des Périers’s Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devisNicholas Shangler6 The Dido Effect and the Rise of the French NovelVirginia KrausePart 2: On Poets and Poetry7 Maurice Scève and the Feminized Voice of Courtly LyricEdwin M. Duval8 In Search of “La Belle Cordière”: The Rise and Fall of Louise LabéLeah L. Chang9 Clément Marot and the Frames of Cultural MemoryNicolas Russell10 Naïve douceur: Earthy Grist and Gallic Verve in the Marotic RondeauRobert J. HudsonPart 3: On Religious Controversy11 Rhetorics of Peace: Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de L’Hospital on the Eve of the French Wars of ReligionCathy Yandell12 Bearding the Pope, circa 1562Jeff Persels13 Reconversion Tales: How to Make Sense of Lapses in FaithGeorge Hoffmann14 Aubigné, Josephus, and Useful BetrayalStephen Murphy15 “The Difficulty is to Judge Well”: Jean de la taille, Deceptive Astrologer (Le Blason des pierres precieuses and La geomance abregee, 1574)Corinne NoirotPart 4: On Montaigne16 Montaigne, Monsters, and ModernityKathleen Long17 Montaigne’s Response to the Alcibiades QuestionCara WelchPart 5: On the Sciences and Knowledge Networks18 France’s Mid-Sixteenth-Century Imperial Gaze on Canada: The Dieppe School of Hydrography, the Kingdom of Saguenay, and the Mise en scène of PossessionScott D. Juall19 Guillaume Rondelet’s Monkfish, or Natural History as Social NetworkPascale Barthe20 Making the Stones Speak: The Curious Observations of Gabriele SimeoniKaren Simroth JamesIndex