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Literary studies cannot neglect the study of books, the physical objects through which literary texts are transmitted. Book form is especially relevant to the literature of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which saw the crucial shift from manuscript to print in Western Europe. This book examines manuscripts and printed editions of three major French writers of this key period: Jean Molinet, Jean Lemaire de Belges and Jean Bouchet. Presentational features which influence the reading of poems, such as layout, illustration, anthologization and paratext, are analysed. The development of these features reflects a gradual change in the ways in which literary self-consciousness is manifested. In earlier texts, produced within an essentially manuscript culture, poets' creative investment in their work is exhibited primarily as formal virtuosity. As printing becomes dominant, such virtuosity tends to be rejected in favour of self-commentary and an apparently more personal discourse.

Book history --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- France --- French poetry --- French language --- Printing --- Style, Literary --- History and criticism --- Style --- History --- -French poetry --- -Printing --- -Style, Literary --- Early printed books --- -Incunabula --- -Poetics --- -840-1 "14/15" --- 094:840-1 --- 091 =40 --- Poetry --- Cradle books (Early printed books) --- Incunables --- Books --- Bibliography --- Literary style --- Literature --- Criticism --- Diction --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- French literature --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- -History --- -Franse literatuur: poëzie--?"14/15" --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Franse literatuur : poëzie --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frans --- Technique --- Aesthetics --- Imprints. --- 091 =40 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frans --- 094:840-1 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Franse literatuur : poëzie --- 840-1 "14/15" Franse literatuur: poëzie--?"14/15" --- Franse literatuur: poëzie--?"14/15" --- Incunabula --- Poetics --- 840-1 "14/15" --- Literary style. --- Bouchet, Jean --- Jean Molinet. --- Lemaire de Belges, Jean --- Belges, Jean Lemaire de, --- De Belges, Jean Lemaire --- Lemaire de Belges, Jean, --- Le Maire le Belgeois, Jehan --- Le Maistre, Jehan --- Lemaire de Belges, Jehan --- Lemaire, Jean --- Maire de Belges, Jean Le --- Maistre, Jehan Le --- Molinet, Jean --- French poetry - To 1500 - History and criticism --- French poetry - 16th century - History and criticism --- French language - Style --- Printing - France - History