Jennifer Richards

Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the early modern interest in conversation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521035712
• ISBN-10: 0521035716
• Artikelnr.: 22736287

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Richards is Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the editor, with James Knowles, of Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings (1999) and the author of articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

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.