Open Access Edition of Hostile Humor in Renaissance France by Bruce Hayes

FAIN: DR-296741-24

University of Delaware (Newark, DE 19711-3651)
Julia Oestreich (Project Director: July 2023 to present)

Hostile Humor in Renaissance France investigates the forms of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays produced in 16th Century France in the period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when a deliberately harmful and destructive form of satire appeared. Author Bruce Hayes shows 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. An open access (OA) edition would broaden the work's availability to its intended audiences of scholars of French and Francophone Studies, Renaissance Studies, and Literary Studies, including undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars located in the Global South, for whom the cost of the book may be a barrier to access. To disseminate the OA edition of Hostile Humor as widely as possible, the UD Press will ensure that electronic open access versions are made available on institutional platforms (e.g., JSTOR, OAPEN).

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Publication Type: Single Publication
Title: Hostile Humor in Renaissance France
Year: 2020
ISBN: 9781644531792
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Author: Bruce Hayes
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.
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Secondary URL: https://bibliopen.org/9781644531792
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URL 3: https://udspace.udel.edu/items/1228f175-fc44-4597-b253-a317ecfefa7f
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Type: Single author monograph

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