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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450035603321

Autore

Richards Jennifer

Titolo

Rhetoric and courtliness in early modern literature / / Jennifer Richards [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-13741-1

1-280-16305-4

0-511-06233-8

0-511-12138-5

1-139-14904-0

0-511-05600-1

0-511-30621-0

0-511-48391-0

0-511-07079-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/3554

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Courts and courtiers in literature

English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Rhetoric

Conversation - History - 16th century

Conversation - History - 17th century

Conversation in literature

Courtesy in literature

Humanists - England

England Intellectual life 16th century

England Intellectual life 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Types of honesty: civil and domestical conversation -- From rhetoric to conversation: reading for Cicero in The Book of the Courtier -- Honest rivarlries: Tudor humanism and linguistic and social reform -- Honest speakers: social commerce and civil conversation -- A commonwealth



of letters: Harvey and Spenser in dialogue -- A new poet, a new social economy: homosociality in the Shepheardes Calender

Sommario/riassunto

Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers alternative ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. She argues that humanists explored styles of conversation to reform the manner of association between male associates; teachers and students, buyers and sellers, and settlers and colonial others. They reconsidered the meaning of 'honesty' in social interchange in an attempt to represent the tension between self-interest and social duty. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among mid-Tudor humanists, John Cheke, Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham, as well as their self-styled successors, Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser.