Rhetoric and courtliness in early modern literature

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Rhetoric and courtliness in early modern literature

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer Richards

Creator

• Richards, Jennifer
• Richards, Jennifer

Subject

• Conversation in literature
• Courtesy in literature
• Courts and courtiers in literature
• England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
• England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
• English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Humanists -- England
• Conversation -- History -- 16th century
• Conversation -- History -- 17th century

Language

eng

Summary

"Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern England 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. 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. She figures 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."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

UKM

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction