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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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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
• Author: Jennifer Richards
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• EAN: 9780521035712
• ISBN: 0521035716
• ID: 02019418
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 330 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. May 2007

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