Rhetoric and courtliness in early modern literature / Jennifer Richards.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 212 pages)Content type: - text
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- Spenser, Edmund
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Harvey, Gabriel
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Courts and courtiers in literature
- English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
- England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
- England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
- Conversation -- History -- 16th century
- Conversation -- History -- 17th century
- Conversation in literature
- Courtesy in literature
- Humanists -- England
- Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Cours et courtisans dans la littérature
- Anglais (Langue) -- 1500-1700 (Moderne) -- Rhétorique
- Conversation -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Conversation -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Conversation dans la littérature
- Courtoisie dans la littérature
- Humanistes -- Angleterre
- Angleterre -- Vie intellectuelle -- 16e siècle
- Angleterre -- Vie intellectuelle -- 17e siècle
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Conversation
- Conversation in literature
- Courtesy in literature
- Courts and courtiers in literature
- English language -- Early modern -- Rhetoric
- English literature -- Early modern
- Humanists
- Intellectual life
- England
- Humanismus
- Antike
- Rhetorik
- Literatur
- Hoofsheid
- Conversatie
- Retorica
- Letterkunde
- Engels
- Literatura inglesa (história e crítica) -- 1500-1700
- Englisch
- 1500-1700
- England Höfische Kultur Konversation Rhetorik Geschichte 1530-1600
- Englisch Literatur Konversation (Motiv) Geschichte 1530-1600
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- PR428.C64 R53 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Types of honesty: civil and domestical conversation; CHAPTER 2 From rhetoric to conversation: reading for Cicero in The Book of the Courtier; CHAPTER 3 Honest rivalries: Tudor humanism and linguistic and social reform; CHAPTER 4 Honest speakers: sociable commerce and civil conversation; CHAPTER 5 A commonwealth of letters: Harvey and Spenser in dialogue; CHAPTER 6 A new poet, a new social economy: homosociality in The Shepheardes Calender; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
This book explores the early modern interest in conversation. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the philosopher Cicero. Recognising his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers new ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform.
English.
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