McClure The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-689-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 44, 253 Seiten

Reihe: Gallica

A sensitive investigation into how French writers, including Descartes and Racine, treated a central preoccupation in early modern writings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McClure, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Translations
Introduction: The Logic of Idolatry and the Question of Creation
Chapter One: Idolatry and Instability in Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée
Chapter Two: Descartes' Meditations as a Solution to Idolatry
Chapter Three: Idolatry and the Questioning of Mastery in La Fontaine's Fables
Chapter Four: Idolatry and the Love of the Creature in Sévigné's Letters
Chapter Five: Theatrical Idolatry in Molière and Racine
Conclusion: The End(s) of Idolatry
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

McClure Ellen:
ELLEN MCCLURE is Associate Professor of History and French, University of Illinois at Chicago.