Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. Introduction. Fighting Words: Contextualizing Polemic in the French Wars of Religion 1
6. 1 Forging Satire from Scripture: Biblical Models and Verbal Violence before the Wars of Religion 10
7. 2 The Literary Conflict of Pierre de Ronsard and Antoine de Chandieu: A Fight for France 28
8. 3 Skirmishes in the Margins: Polemic at the Threshold of the Text 49
9. 4. Reprimanding the King: Jean Bégat’s 1563 Remonstrances 69
10. 5. A Martial Muse: Words of War in the Quest for French Domination of Literature 86
11. 6. Violent Words for Violent Times: Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s. Les Tragiques 101
12. 7. The Paradox of Civil War in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Tragiques 118
13. 8 Comme au monde à l’envers: Mapping Injustice in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s “Chambre dorée” 130
14. 9. Atmoterrorism in the Humanist Anthropocene 152
15. 10 Exporting Peace and Arming Vengeance in Lescarbot’s Histoire de la Nouvelle- France (1609) and La Défaite des Sauvages Armouchiquois (1607) 172
16. Bibliography 190
17. List of Contributors 203
18. Polemic and Literature index 205