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.
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.
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
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
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