A group of leading scholars here investigate the varied ways in which the Renaissance incorporated conversation and dialogue into its literary, political, juridical, religious, and social practices. Across a range of texts and genres, the essays focus on the importance of conversation to early modern understandings of ethics; on literary history itself as an ongoing authorial conversation; and on the material and textual technologies that enabled early modern conversations.
A group of leading scholars here investigate the varied ways in which the Renaissance incorporated conversation and dialogue into its literary, political, juridical, religious, and social practices. Across a range of texts and genres, the essays focus on the importance of conversation to early modern understandings of ethics; on literary history itself as an ongoing authorial conversation; and on the material and textual technologies that enabled early modern conversations.
Zachary Lesser is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Benedict S. Robinson is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY-Stony Brook, USA.
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Contents: Preface; Introduction Zachary Lesser and Benedict S. Robinson. Part 1 Conversational Ethics: The art of Conversazioni: practices in Renaissance rhetoric Arthur F. Kinney; 'Defend his freedom 'gainst a monarchy': Marlowe's republican authorship Patrick Cheney; 'Much more the better for being a little bad ' or gaining by relaxing: equity and paradox in Measure for Measure Peter G. Platt. Part 2 Authors in Conversation: Allegory irony despair: Chaucer's Pardoner's and Franklin's Tales and Spenser's Faerie Queene Books I and III Judith H. Anderson; 'Les langues des hommes sont pleines de tromperies': Shakespeare French poetry and alien tongues William J. Kennedy; Joining the conversation: David Astrophil and the Countess of Pembroke Margaret P. Hannay. Part 3 Technologies of Conversation: The puzzling letters of Sister Elizabeth Sa[u]nder[s] Betty S. Travitsky; A civil conversation: letters and the edge of form Roger Kuin; 'Made all of rusty yron ranckling sore': The imprint of paternity in The Faerie Queene Douglas A. Brooks. Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Preface; Introduction Zachary Lesser and Benedict S. Robinson. Part 1 Conversational Ethics: The art of Conversazioni: practices in Renaissance rhetoric Arthur F. Kinney; 'Defend his freedom 'gainst a monarchy': Marlowe's republican authorship Patrick Cheney; 'Much more the better for being a little bad ' or gaining by relaxing: equity and paradox in Measure for Measure Peter G. Platt. Part 2 Authors in Conversation: Allegory irony despair: Chaucer's Pardoner's and Franklin's Tales and Spenser's Faerie Queene Books I and III Judith H. Anderson; 'Les langues des hommes sont pleines de tromperies': Shakespeare French poetry and alien tongues William J. Kennedy; Joining the conversation: David Astrophil and the Countess of Pembroke Margaret P. Hannay. Part 3 Technologies of Conversation: The puzzling letters of Sister Elizabeth Sa[u]nder[s] Betty S. Travitsky; A civil conversation: letters and the edge of form Roger Kuin; 'Made all of rusty yron ranckling sore': The imprint of paternity in The Faerie Queene Douglas A. Brooks. Bibliography; Index.
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