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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      04 November 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511483899
      9780521661812
      9780521034876
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483899
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 286 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.435kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, European Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (33)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (33)
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    This 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 Siècle, 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.

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