Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France

Zusatztext This excellent study of a word and the connotations spun around it is especially inspiring in terms of its methodology which, in true humanist manner, starts from an intense interest in philology ... The book will appeal to students and scholars of early modern France alike, and will particularly inspire those interested in a fusion between linguistics and historicism. Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Patterson is a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow in French at the University of Oxford. Klappentext Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France outlines the moral vocabulary and concepts used to describe avaricious behaviour in late Renaissance France and innovatively shows how the works of well-known authors engaged in productive dialogue with many of their lesser-known contemporaries on problems of avarice. Zusammenfassung Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France outlines the moral vocabulary and concepts used to describe avaricious behaviour in late Renaissance France and innovatively shows how the works of well-known authors engaged in productive dialogue with many of their lesser-known contemporaries on problems of avarice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Avarice and Avares 2: Gender Battles 3: Grasping at Gold and Money 4: The 'Fourth Estate' 5: Montaigne's Avarice 6: Before and Beyond Molière Bibliography

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• Authors: Jonathan Patterson, Jonathan (British Academy Post-Doctoral Patterson, Jonathan (British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow Patterson, Patterson Jonathan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9780198716518
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871651-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; French, France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600