Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France

by Emily Butterworth

Overview

Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604202
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Note on the Texts x

Introduction 1

1 Legal Sanctions: Recognition and Redress in the Courts 10

2 Words that Wound: Treatises on Slander 24

3 Francois Béroalde de Verville and the Power of Satire 44

4 Marie de Gournay and the Abuse of Mockery 60

5 Jean-Pierre Camus and Corrective Polemic 76

Conclusion 91

Bibliography 97

Index 111

Editorial Reviews

Butterworth's valuable work clearly shows that slander and satire are linked to other important preoccupations of the time (such as the use of rhetoric and the formation of identity) and brings a welcome focus on three writers, each of whom addresses one of Lucian's positions: slanderer, audience and victim.

Forum for Modern Language Studies, 45.3 (2009), 351-54 - unsigned notice

Her excellent book will be of interest to anybody concerned with rhetoric, polemic and the fashioning (and unfashioning) of early modern reputations.

French Studies, 469-70 - Timothy Chesters

Emily Butterworth's thoughtful and elegantly argued study... makes an important contribution to that burgeoning area of critical study where literature can never be conceived outside the notion of law, and in this case, the law itself.

Modern Language Review, 103.3, July 2008, 852-53 - Henry Phillips