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Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
The art of conversation was widely believed to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature (the main source for "civil conversation"), Jennifer Richards reveals 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: May 14th, 2007
- Pages: 220
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.50in - 0.72lb
- EAN: 9780521035712
- Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Richards, Jennifer: - Jennifer Richards is Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the editor, with James Knowles, of Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings (1999) and the author of articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Criticism.
Praise for this book
"well paced and well proportioned: the chapters advance clear arguments in their own rights, but together they also form a persuasive thesis that should help readers reconsider their ideas about sixteenth-century English conduct and courtesy writings...carefully argued and interesting." Sixteenth Century Journal Thomas G. Olsen, State University of New York at New Paltz