Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature

Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781139436878
ISBN-13 : 1139436872
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Download or read book Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature written by Jennifer Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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