Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

Hayes, Bruce

Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

Author(s)	Hayes, Bruce
Date Accessioned	2024-11-26T16:38:59Z
Date Available	2024-11-26T16:38:59Z
Publication Date	2020-04
Description	Copies of this book are available for order at: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/9781644531785/ © 2020 by Bruce Hayes. All rights reserved.
Abstract	In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France, Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when a deliberately harmful and destructive form of satire appeared. This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show how this new form of humor emerged that attacked religious practices and people in ways that forever changed the nature of satire and religious debate in France. Hayes explores this phenomenon in the context of the Catholic and Protestant conflict to reveal new insights about the society that both exploited and vilified this kind of satire. About the Author Bruce Hayes is Associate Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas.
Sponsor	The National Endowment for the Humanities, through its Fellowships Open Book Program, provided funding to make an Open Access version of Hostile Humor in Renaissance France available.
Citation	Hayes, E. Bruce. Hostile Humor in Renaissance France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2020.
ISBN	9781644531778
ISBN	9781644531785
ISBN	9781644531792
URL	https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/35623
Language	en_US
Publisher	University of Delaware Press
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Title	Hostile Humor in Renaissance France
Type	Book