Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature |
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| Author:
| Richards, Jennifer |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-82470-5 |
| Publication Date: | May 2003 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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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. 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. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among...
More DescriptionRhetoric 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. 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. 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 Spencer.