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Richards Jennifer |
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Rhetoric and courtliness in early modern literature / / Jennifer Richards [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 |
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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 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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of letters: Harvey and Spenser in dialogue -- A new poet, a new social economy: homosociality in the Shepheardes Calender |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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