Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books - A Scholarly Anthology

This bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues presents a multitude of texts, from the genre's beginnings (Rabelais's satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700.

About the author

Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou is Professor of French language of the sixteenth century at Sorbonne University. She is the author of numerous publications on sixteenth-century poetry and Rabelais. Her publications include Panurge comme lard en pois. Paradoxe, scandale et propriété dans le Tiers Livre (2013).

Paul J. Smith is Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. He has published monographs, collective volumes and many articles on French Literature, including the co-edited volume Natural History in Early Modern France (2018).

Product details

• Assisted by: Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou (Editor), Paul J Smith (Editor), Paul J. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2019
• EAN: 9789004413641
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41364-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 813 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature