Introduction: the (early) modern nation: figuration, creation, critique -- The language plant in the garden of France: imitation and nation in La deffence et illustration de la langue Françoyse -- Mother France and her dysfunctional family: religious and national imageries in Ronsard's Discours and continuation and in D'Aubigné's Tragiques -- "A violent and treacherous schoolmistress": custom and the nationalization of the individual in the Essais -- Faith in the spirit of France: mythology and the myth of the nation in Malherbe's Odes -- Blood transvaluations and the limits of patriotism: staging fictive ethnicity in Le cid and Horace -- Conclusion: the open boundaries of literary nation-building.
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