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OverviewIn The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something 'topsy-turvy' in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the world upside down evokes a world in which everything is inside-out and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, and rivers flow back to their source. The world upside down proves to be key in understanding how the social, political, and religious turmoil of sixteenth-century France was represented and conceptualised, and allows us to explore the dark side of the Renaissance by unpacking one of its most prevalent metaphors. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vincent Robert-NicoudPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 426 Weight: 0.606kg ISBN: 9789004381834ISBN 10: 900438183 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 20 September 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Sixteenth-Century World Upside Down 1 Adages, Paradoxes and Emblems 1 Erasmus's Adages of Inversion 2 Paradoxes 3 Moral Emblems 4 Carnivalesque Emblems 5 Emblems of the Religious Wars 6 Conclusion 2 Rabelais's World Upside Down 1 Carnivalesque Rituals 2 Grotesque Body 3 Wisdom and Folly 4 Conclusion 3 Religious Satire and Overturned Cooking Pots 1 The Cooking Pot Trope 2 Huguenot Satires 3 Rabelais's Posthumous Tradition 4 Catholic Responses 5 Conclusion 4 Social and Cosmic Disorders 1 France as a World Upside Down 2 Millenarianism and Apocalypse 3 Monsters and Polemic 4 Conclusion General Conclusion Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index NominumReviewsRobert-Nicoud is to be applauded for introducing readers to a wealth of polemical treatises, emblems, and images that had significant contemporary importance, but many of which have fallen into near oblivion. [...] Overall, this is a fine book by a young scholar who brings to bear an impressive level of erudition to show his readers how the image of the world upside down evolves and becomes something much more menacing as the sixteenth century progressed. - Bruce Hyes, University of Kansas, in Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image, vol. 3., 2019, pp. 331-333 Author InformationVincent Robert-Nicoud, D.Phil. (2016), University of Oxford, has published articles on various aspects of early modern French literature, especially on polemic and satire during the French wars of religion. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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