Reforming French culture : satire, spiritual alienation, and connection to strangers

Reforming French culture : satire, spiritual alienation, and connection to strangers / George Hoffmann.

In this volume, George Hoffmann presents a study of Protestant satirical texts in sixteenth-century France and their role in French literature and history, examining how France became a culturally Protestant country while remaining confessionally Catholic.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffmann, George (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1500-1599
French literature > 16th century > History and criticism.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
French literature
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Religion
France > Social life and customs > 16th century.
France > Religion > History.
France > Intellectual life > 16th century.
France
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Background: purging an unreformed past
  • Becoming religious foreigners
  • The devotional force of incredulity
  • Pilgrims of satire: to go home
  • No place anywhere: observation as worship
  • From communion to communication
  • The legacy of french reformation satire
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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