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

• Autore: Richards Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3554
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: England Intellectual life 16th century; England Intellectual life 17th century
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Rhetoric & Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
• Titolo autorizzato: Rhetoric and courtliness in early modern literature
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783109203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II