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In The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion, Gregory Haake examines how, in late sixteenth-century France, authors and publishers used the new medium of the printed text to control the terms of public discourse and determine history, or at least their narrative of it.
The creativity of the Renaissance ushered in new instability of discourse and a decline of traditional centres of authority. Gregory Haake shows that poets, authors, printers, and polemicists — including historians, such as Simon Goulart; the great poets of the time, such as Pierre de Ronsard or Agrippa d’Aubigné; or anonymous authors of polemical texts — rushed in to take advantage of discursive uncertainty to discredit their enemies and shape the meaning of history as it unfolded.
The creativity of the Renaissance ushered in new instability of discourse and a decline of traditional centres of authority. Gregory Haake shows that poets, authors, printers, and polemicists — including historians, such as Simon Goulart; the great poets of the time, such as Pierre de Ronsard or Agrippa d’Aubigné; or anonymous authors of polemical texts — rushed in to take advantage of discursive uncertainty to discredit their enemies and shape the meaning of history as it unfolded.
Price: $184.00
Pages: 352
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Faux Titre
Publication Date:
15 October 2020
ISBN: 9789004440807
Format: Hardcover
"La force de cet ouvrage réside dans son effort pour résoudre trois problèmes épineux : le premier, traiter de Vernon Sullivan avec sérieux et dans son intégralité ; le deuxième s’attaquer à l’hétéronymie--notion majoritairement développée pour le compte de Pessoa ; le troisième créer une nouvelle typologie opérationnelle pour étudier les canulars, plagiats, hoax… Derrière cette étude, se trouve une position ontologique affirmée : la figure de l’auteur entendue comme une entité indépendante de l’écrivain. Ce dédoublement de l’auteur ouvre de nombreuses perspectives de recherches, et en premier lieu une réévaluation du couple traditionnel auteur/narrateur."
- Cécile Pajona,Université Côte d’Azur, in H-France Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2021
"Respectful toward primary materials, Haake also treats previous scholarship conscientiously, carefully canvasing, summarizing, and measuring decades of study across a wide range of topics and approaches."
- George Hoffmann, University of Michigan, in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2021
- Cécile Pajona,Université Côte d’Azur, in H-France Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2021
"Respectful toward primary materials, Haake also treats previous scholarship conscientiously, carefully canvasing, summarizing, and measuring decades of study across a wide range of topics and approaches."
- George Hoffmann, University of Michigan, in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2021
Gregory P. Haake, Ph.D. (2015), Stanford University, is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Notre Dame. He has published articles on politics, religion, and literature in early modern France, as well as on lyric poetry.