Lettering the self in medieval and early modern France

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Lettering the self in medieval and early modern France

Statement of responsibility

Katherine Kong

Creator

• Kong, Katherine

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• France
• Französisch
• French letters
• French letters -- History and criticism
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval
• Latin letters, Medieval and modern
• Latin letters, Medieval and modern -- France -- History and criticism
• Literatur
• Selbst
• Self in literature
• Self in literature
• Briefliteratur

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Lettering the Self argues that letters in medieval and early-modern France reveal the contours of the pre-modern self. Letters in this period were complicated compositions which, in addition to their administrative and artistic functions, represented the self in relation to its various others: social superiors and subordinates; friends and lovers; teachers and students; allies and adversaries; patrons and supplicants. These relationships were expressed in the content and form of letters: the rule-bound medieval discipline of letter writing structured the expression of interpersonal relationships in exacting ways, and writers navigated its rules to express contradictory and even illicit relations. Each chapter focuses on a particular epistolary exchange in its intellectual and cultural context, from Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance of Angers, through Heloise and Abelard, Christine de Pizan's participation in the querelle du Roman de la rose, Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet, to Michel de Montaigne and Étienne de La Boétie, emphasizing the importance of letter-writing in pre-modern French culture and tracing a selective yet significant history of the letter, contributing to our understanding of the development of the epistolary genre, and the pre-modern self. KATHERINE KONG is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville."

Member of

• Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)), v. 17

Cataloging source

N$T

Index

index present

Language note

Text in English

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Gallica,

Series volume

v. 17