Forgetting Differences : Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion / Andrea Frisch.

Author/creator Frisch, Andrea author.
Format Book
PublicationEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionx, 176 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects

Variant title Tragedy, historiography, and the French Wars of Religion
SeriesEdinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture. ^A1154616
Contents Learning to Forget -- Clemency, Pardon, and Oubliance -- History without Passion: National Historiography in the Age of Oubliance -- Tragedy as History: From the Guisiade to Garnier -- From Emotion to Affect.
Abstract By juxtaposing representations of the French civil war past as they appear (and frequently overlap) in historiography and tragedy from 1550-1630, Andrea Frisch tracks changes in the ways in which history and tragedy sought to 'move' readers throughout the period of the wars and in their wake. The book shows that a shift from a politically (and martially) active reading of the past to a primarily affective one follows the imperative, so clear and urgent at the turn of the seventeenth century, to put an end to violent conflict. The emotions that neoclassical tragedy and absolutist historiography sought to elicit were intended above all to be shared, and thus a medium via which political and religious differences could be downplayed or forgotten. The book aims to illuminate some of the ways in which the experience of the wars of religion, as registered in tragedy and historiography, contributed to a restructuring of the ever-vital relationship between emotion and politics, and thereby to historicize the very concept of 'esmouvoir'.--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015413393
ISBN0748694390 (hardback)
ISBN9780748694396 (hardback)
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