Writing as Medication in Early Modern France (eBook)

Cover 1
Titel 4
Imprint 5
Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
Introduction?????????????????????????????????????? 12
Methodology???????????????????????????????????? 21
Chapter Summaries???????????????????????????????????????????????? 24
Leone Ebreo’s "Dialoghi d’amore": Appeal and Reception 27
1 Medico-Philosophical Concepts in Leone Ebreo’s "Dialoghi d’amore" 36
Love and Cognition in Pico, Ficino, and Ebreo???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 38
Cognition as Copulation in the "Dialoghi d’amore" — Embodied Knowledge-Making 45
Anima Appetens – Mating Soul and Transmigration 52
Conclusion and Outlook?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 58
2 Female Love-Melancholy: Hélisenne de Crenne, Galen, and the Dolce Stil Novo 62
Love’s Cause and Its Effect on Hélisenne?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 68
Love, Melancholy, and the Imagination???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 71
Love, Melancholy, and the Dolce Stil Novo???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 77
Encountering the Other’s Gaze???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 81
Conclusion: Diagnosis, Potential Cure, and Literary Inspiration???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 85
3 Death, Resurrection, and the Anatomy of Epistemon in François Rabelais’s Pantagruel 90
Literal: Epistemon’s Death and Resurrection — The Panurgic Cure 94
Allegorical: Epistemon’s Anatomy?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 96
Tropological: Literary Context and Moral Significance???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 98
Toward an Anagogical Interpretation: A. ‘Arabist’ and ‘Anti-Arabist’ Medical Practitioners 100
Toward an Anagogical Interpretation: B. Symphorien Champier and François Rabelais?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 103
Anagogical: (Spiritual) Panacea and the Success of Panurge’s Wager?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 107
Conclusion?????????????????????????????????? 109
4 Renaissance Soul-Searching and Natural Philosophical Poetry???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 112
An Infinite Mind: Maurice Scève’s Microcosme (1562) 117
A Journey through the Cosmos (of Love): Transmigration in "L’amour des amours" (1555) 121
Ambiguous Mediators: Demons, Plants, Animals, and Philosophy in Ronsard’s "Hymnes" (1555, 1556) and “Le chat” (1569) 129
The All-Encompassing Protestant Soul in Du Bartas’s Creation (1578, 1584) 137
René Bretonnayau and the Cosmic Temple of the Soul (1583) 144
Conclusion?????????????????????????????????? 148
5 Constitution of the Female Author: From Temperament to Alchemy in the Work of Marie de Gournay 152
Temperament, Complexion, Character?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 153
Juan Huarte de San Juan and the "Examination of Men’s Wits" 156
Alchemy and Gender?????????????????????????????????????????????????? 161
Marie de Gournay as Practitioner of Alchemy???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 163
Alchemy and Writing: Transmuting Texts, Transmuting Relationships???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 167
Alchemical Images—Androgynous Souls???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 175
Conclusion: Androgynous Souls as Political Concepts???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 180
6 Evacuative Strategies in Jacques Dubois and Michel de Montaigne???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 184
Jacques Dubois (Jacobus Sylvius) and Mesue’s "Opera" 187
Medical Practice: Drugs and Purging in the "Essais" 193
Occult Force and Quintessence: The Ambiguous Nature of Rhubarb?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 199
Purging Body and Soul: Montaigne’s Embodied Cognition???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 201
Exemplum, Consilium, Observatio, Historia Montani???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 207
Conclusion: Evacuative Strategies and Spiritual Exercise?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 211
Conclusion?????????????????????????????????? 216
Literary Consciousness and Medical Culture?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 223
Bibliography?????????????????????????????????????? 228
Index Nominum???????????????????????????????????????? 262
Index Rerum???????????????????????????????????? 270
Backcover 273