Cosmographical Novelties in French Renaissance Prose (1550-1630): Dialectic and Discovery
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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
- 618
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Brepols
- ISBN
- 9782503550459
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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 380-page monograph is the outcome of five years of doctoral and post-doctoral research. It explores the role played by Renaissance logic and rhetoric in shaping and disseminating the ‘novelties’ of the Great Voyages and the Scientific Revolution into new genres of French prose—the essay, the cosmography. Combining intellectual history with literary scholarship, it unpicks the epistemological moves or the poetic choices made by canonical authors like Montaigne and Descartes, and lesser-known ones like La Primaudaye, Binet, and Belleforest. Contextualizing these involved researching a large corpus of early modern textbooks on dialectic, rhetoric, and natural philosophy.
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- Non-English
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