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The performance of nobility in early modern European literature /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The performance of nobility in early modern European literature // David M. Posner.
Author:	Posner, David Matthew,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 272 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	European literature - History and criticism. - Renaissance, 1450-1600 -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483899
ISBN:	9780511483899 (ebook)

The performance of nobility in early modern European literature /
Posner, David Matthew,

The performance of nobility in early modern European literature /David M. Posner. - 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;33. - Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;35..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: "The Noble Hart" --1.

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.

ISBN: 9780511483899 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

569556
European literature
--History and criticism.--Renaissance, 1450-1600

LC Class. No.: PN721 / .P67 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93353

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