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The Unbridled Tongue. Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France.
Emily Butterworth
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Description for The Unbridled Tongue. Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France.
The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumour in a social, religious, political, and historical frame. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The Unbridled Tongue looks at gossip, rumour, and talking too much in Renaissance France in order to uncover what was specific about these practices in the period. Taking its cue from Erasmus's Lingua, in which both the subjective and political consequences of an idle and unbridled tongue are emphasised, the book investigates the impact of gossip and rumour on contemporary conceptions of identity and political engagement. Emily Butterworth discusses prescriptive literature on the tongue and theological discussions of Pentecost and prophecy, and then covers nearly a century in chapters focused on a single text: Rabelais's Tiers Livre, Marguerite de Navarre's ... Read more
The Unbridled Tongue looks at gossip, rumour, and talking too much in Renaissance France in order to uncover what was specific about these practices in the period. Taking its cue from Erasmus's Lingua, in which both the subjective and political consequences of an idle and unbridled tongue are emphasised, the book investigates the impact of gossip and rumour on contemporary conceptions of identity and political engagement. Emily Butterworth discusses prescriptive literature on the tongue and theological discussions of Pentecost and prophecy, and then covers nearly a century in chapters focused on a single text: Rabelais's Tiers Livre, Marguerite de Navarre's ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199662302
SKU
V9780199662302
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About Emily Butterworth
Emily Butterworth is a Senior Lecturer in French at King's College London. She is the author of Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France, and articles on gossip, scandal, obscenity, and other forms of deviant and excessive language in the early modern period. She is co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'Gossip and Nonsense: Excessive Language in the French ... Read more
Reviews for The Unbridled Tongue. Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France.
This informed, well-researched account of excessive uses of language in the sixteenth century and the early decades of the seventeenth century in France makes a sizable contribution to discussions of nonliterary, popular, and nonelite discourses and their contorted relationship to genteel, literary practices ... One of the important insights made in the book is that "the French public sphere was ... Read more