Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth-Century France: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Quainton - Tapa blanda

These essays written to celebrate the distinguished career of Renaissance scholar Professor Malcolm Quainton confirm the idea that the sixteenth century in France was deeply marked by conflict, but readers expecting to find a volume wholly devoted to studies of war or religious disputation will be intrigued to discover that these are not the only topics discussed. A number of subtle analyses reveal also the stresses of internal conflict experienced by writers and woven into the fabric of their compositions. The three sections focus respectively on Living and Writing in Conflict, the Wars of Religion and Intertextuality as Conflict. Subjects include Ronsard, Baïf, Du Bellay, D'Aubigné, Le Fèvre de la Boderie, Du Plessis-Mornay and Montaigne, Hélisenne de Crenne and Jean Bouchet, the Satyre Menippée, a Neo-Latin poem on Pandora, sonnets by Mary Queen of Scots and the political role of court festivities, while a previously unknown riposte to Clément Marot is first published here. The contributors are Neil Kenny, Daniel Ménager, François Rigolot, Philip Ford, Tom Conley, David Foster, Elizabeth Vinestock, Jean Vignes, Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani, Pauline M. Smith, Margaret McGowan, John O'Brien, Richard Cooper, Jean Céard, Ann Moss, George Hugo Tucker and Adrian Armstrong.

The editors are Elizabeth Vinestock and (until his untimely death in March 2007) David Foster, former students of Malcolm Quainton who became his colleagues in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University. David Foster gained his Ph.D. at Lancaster for his thesis on 'Le Fantastique et la fantaisie créatrice dans l'oeuvre de Pierre de Ronsard' and is the co-author of A Sound Approach to French Grammar. Elizabeth Vinestock gained her Ph.D. at Lancaster for her work on Baïf, published as Poétique et pratique dans les 'Poemes' de Jean-Antoine de Baïf. She collaborated with Malcolm Quainton to edit and translate Selected Poems by Ronsard (Penguin Classics).