LEADER 03520nam 22006852 450 001 9910454561903321 005 20151005020620.0 010 $a1-107-11828-X 010 $a0-521-03487-6 010 $a1-280-15456-X 010 $a0-511-11810-4 010 $a0-511-14987-5 010 $a0-511-30989-9 010 $a0-511-48389-9 010 $a0-511-04882-3 035 $a(CKB)111004366731798 035 $a(EBL)142419 035 $a(OCoLC)559639780 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000219831 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184756 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219831 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10247449 035 $a(PQKB)11651269 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511483899 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC142419 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL142419 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014998 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15456 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366731798 100 $a20090224d1999|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe performance of nobility in early modern European literature /$fDavid M. Posner$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 272 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;$v33 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-511-00628-4 311 $a0-521-66181-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-266) and index. 327 $g1.$tIntroduction: "The Noble Hart" --$g2.$tMontaigne and the staging of the self --$g3.$tMask and error in Francis Bacon --$g4.$tNoble Romans: Corneille and the theatre of aristocratic revolt --$g5.$tLa Bruyere and the end of the theatre of nobility. 330 $aThis valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Sie?cle, David Posner examines the structures of public identity in the period. He focuses on the developing tensions between, on the one hand, literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility' and, on the other, the increasingly problematic historical position of the nobility themselves. These tensions produce a transformation in the notion of the noble self as a performance, and eventually doom court society and its theatrical mode of self-presentation. Situated at the intersection of rhetorical and historical theories of interpretation, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the role of literature both in analysing and in shaping social identity. 410 0$aCambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;$v33. 606 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNobility in literature 606 $aNobility of character in literature 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNobility in literature. 615 0$aNobility of character in literature. 676 $a809/.93353 700 $aPosner$b David Matthew$01034394 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454561903321 996 $aThe performance of nobility in early modern European literature$92453507 997 $aUNINA