Dignified retreat writers and intellectuals in the age of Richelieu
Dignified Retreat is a panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in early seventeenth-century France following the devastating Wars of Religion. This was a period that not only witnessed the recovery of the country following these wars, and the emergence of a stro...
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Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University Press
2019
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Reforming French : the making of a movement
- Aristocrats and writers : the emergence of a Parisian 'world'
- Culture of discretion
- Richelieu and writers
- Rambouillet salon : 'a purified world'
- Dupuy cabinet : 'an innocent refuge'-- Writing Otium : retreat as a mode of engagement
- Conclusion