This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siècle, David Posner examine...

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1. Verfasser:	Posner, David Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1999
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 33
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1420-1600 European literature / Renaissance, 1450-1600 / History and criticism Nobility in literature Nobility of character in literature Literatur Adel Renaissance Europa
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Zusammenfassung:	This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siècle, David Posner examines the structures of public identity in the period. He focuses on the developing tensions between, on the one hand, literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility' and, on the other, the increasingly problematic historical position of the nobility themselves. These tensions produce a transformation in the notion of the noble self as a performance, and eventually doom court society and its theatrical mode of self-presentation. Situated at the intersection of rhetorical and historical theories of interpretation, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of the role of literature both in analysing and in shaping social identity
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Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 272 pages)
ISBN:	9780511483899
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511483899