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Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550-1610) was one of the most haunted in European history. Although existing studies of this climate have been attentive to the extensive body of writing on witchcraft and demons, they have had little to say of its ghosts. Combining techniques of literary criticism, intellectual history, and the history of the book, this study examines a large and hitherto unexplored corpus of ghost stories in late Renaissance French writing. These are shown to have arisen in a range of contexts far broader than was previously thought: whether in Protestant polemic against the doctrine of purgatory, humanist discussions of friendship, the growing ethnographic consciousness of New World ghost beliefs, or courtroom wrangles over haunted property. Chesters describes how, over the course of this period, we also begin to see emerge characteristics recognisable from modern ghost tales: the setting of the 'haunted house', the eroticised ghost, or the embodied revenant. Taking in prominent literary figures including Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, d'Aubigne, as well as forgotten demonological tracts and sensationalist pamphlets, Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France sheds new light on the beliefs, fears, and desires of a period on the threshold of modernity. It will be of interest to any scholar or student working in the field of early modern European history, literature or thought.

About the Author :
A specialist in early modern French literature and thought, Timothy Chesters was awarded his doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford, in 2005. Since then he has taught in Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, where he has been a lecturer in Modern Languages since 2007. Besides his work on ghosts and demonology, his research interests include nineteenth-century attitudes towards the early modern, and the relationship between phenomenology and literature in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Geneva School of literary criticism. His latest project is a book on Flaubert and the French Renaissance.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780191723537
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0191723533
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2011
  • Binding: Digital online
  • Sub Title: Walking by Night


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