Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
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- Author: Jennifer Richards, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Date Published: May 2007
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521035712
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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.
Read more- A fascinating study of changing attitudes to male friendship
- This book offers a cultural study of 'honesty' in the early modern period
- Will be of interest to literary and cultural historians
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'… valuable approaches … thought-provoking and nicely controversial study.' Notes and Queries
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'Jennifer Richards' Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature is itself a fine example of cultural history focused on early modern rhetorical concerns. Rhetorica
'… thought-provoking and nicely controversial'. Thomas MacFaul, Oriel College, Oxford
'The argument of Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature is an elegant if complex one. …[this book] is a discriminating and careful work of literary and cultural history.' Criticism
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- Date Published: May 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521035712
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 160 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.332kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Types of honesty: civil and domestical conversation
2. From rhetoric to conversation: reading for Cicero in The Book of the Courtier
3. Honest rivalries: Tudor humanism and linguistic and social reform
4. Honest speakers: sociable commerce and civil conversation
5. A commonwealth of letters: Harvey and Spenser in dialogue
6. A new poet, a new social economy: homosociality and The Shepheardes Calender
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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