Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Chapter One. Garden of Letters: Toward a Theory of Literary Nationhood 1
6. Chapter Two. The Limits of Ideology: Rabelais and the Edge of Christendom 35
7. Chapter Three. Nation and Utopia in the 1530s: The Case of Rabelais's Gargantua 66
8. Chapter Four. Narrative Form and National Space: Textual Geography from the Heptaméron to La Princesse de Clèves 109
9. Chapter Five. Representing France at Mid,Century: Du Bellay and the Lyric Invention of National Character 150
10. Chapter Six. History, Alterity, and the European Subject in Montaigne's Essais 195
11. Conclusion. Pauline's Dream 227
12. Notes 233
13. Bibliography 269
14. Index 283