Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books: A Scholarly Anthology

by Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou

For this bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues, selections were made from a multitude of texts, from the genre's beginnings (Rabelais's satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700. In thirteen chapters, written by specialists in the field, diverse texts containing fictitious booklists are presented and contextualized. Several of these texts are well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004413642
• ISBN13: 9789004413641
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"