Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
: A - 26A - Modern Languages
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics : A - 26A - Modern Languages
- Output identifier
- 12307
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198852391
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 175,000-word monograph contributes to re-inserting ‘class’ into the history of literature and learning. It is the first systematic study of how families constructed ‘class’ relations through the practice of literature. Methodologically ambitious, it combines quantitative social history with the qualitative methods of literary and cultural history. It identifies c.200 families containing more than one literary producer (born 1450–1600). Within this panorama, case-studies explore the complexity of the role played by literature in families’ social ascents and disasters. Family is shown for the first time to be a major force in the early modern French and Latin literary field.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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