Advertising the Self in Renaissance France: Authorial Personae and Ideal Readers in Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais

by Scott Francis

Book Overview

Advertising the Self in Renaissance France is a study of how authors and readers are represented in printed editions of three major literary figures of the French Renaissance: Jean Lemaire de Belges, Cl ment Marot, and Fran ois Rabelais. Print culture is marked by an anxiety of reception that became much more pronounced with increasingly anonymous and unpredictable readerships in the sixteenth century. To allay this anxiety, authors, as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644530074
• ISBN13: 9781644530078
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"