Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France

ISBN-13: 9780198852391 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 432 str.

Neil Kenny

Recenzje

...the wealth of examples that Kenny presents makes a case far more compelling than what arguments from social history alone could have accomplished. With measured prose and in understated tones, Kenny has introduced to literary study a revolution of seismic proportions whose importance and consequences are difficult to overstate.

O autorze

Neil Kenny is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of French at the University of Oxford, having previously taught at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London. His work has long focused on early modern French literature, culture, and thought, within a wider European context. More recently, the focus has been on the relation of literate culture to social hierarchy. He is also interested in language policy in the UK and is Lead Fellow for Languages at the British Academy.