Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France - Chesters, Timothy (Lecturer in French, Royal Holloway, University of London)

This book describes the ideological, intellectual, and literary role of ghost stories in late Renaissance France. It takes in prominent literary figures - Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne - as well as lesser known tracts and pamphlets to shed new light on the beliefs, fears, and desires of a period on the threshold of modernity.