Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
Contents:
Index. Introduction -- The Prophecy Fulfilled -- Literary Patronage -- The Evolution of Noble Identity -- The Search for Royal Eloquence -- How the Royal Odes Perform an Accessory Political Function -- The Political Functions of Wonder and its Rhetorical Production -- The Ciceronian Atticism of the Royal Odes -- The Sequence of Royal Odes -- The Return of Astraea -- The Trials of the King -- Prière pour le Roi allant en Limousin (1605; 1607) -- Ode sur l'attentat en la personne de sa majesté (1605; 1606) -- Triumph and Death -- Ode au feu Roi sur l'heureux succès du voyage de Sedan (1606; 1607) -- À Monseigneur le duc de Bellegarde (1608; 1609) -- Sur la mort de Henri le Grand (1610; 1630) -- The Goddess of War and Peace -- À la Reine sur les heureux succès de sa régence (1610; 1611) -- À la Reine mère du roi pendant sa régence (1613; 1621) -- Pour la Reine mère du roi pendant sa régence (unfinished 1613; 1630) -- The Prophecy Fulfilled -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.
Summary:
This new approach to Malherbe's odes interweaves political, cultural, rhetorical, and literary history to show how they constitute a unified sequence whose ambition is to forge a new national community in the aftermath of the Wars of Religion, dislodging Malherbe from his moribund critical reception as a grammarian and technician and recovering the brilliance of a poetic genius whose political mythmaking stems from an impassioned patriotism.
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