The Americans as Moral Emblem in French Literature, 1560-1600
FAIN: FT-12718-75
Tom C. Conley
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
To examine how and to what degree the New World existed as a moral emblem and a rhetorical trope for both scientific and non-scientific writers in French literature, 1560-1600. Project will study the Americas as figura and moral icon in writers as Montaigne, de Lery, and others.