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The English wits : = literature and sociability in early modern England /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The English wits :/ Michelle O'Callaghan.
Reminder of title:	literature and sociability in early modern England /
Author:	O'Callaghan, Michelle,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - Early modern, 1500-1700 -
Subject:	London (England) - Social and customs. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483844
ISBN:	9780511483844 (ebook)

The English wits : = literature and sociability in early modern England /
O'Callaghan, Michelle,

The English wits :literature and sociability in early modern England /Michelle O'Callaghan. - 1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

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

Gentleman lawyers at the Inns of Court -- Ben Jonson, the lawyers and the wits -- Taverns and table talk -- Wits in the House of Commons -- Coryats Crudities (1611) and the sociability of print -- Traveller for the English wits -- Afterlives of the wits.

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate, consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play. Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in the seventeenth century. This study will provide many insights for historians and literary scholars of the period.

ISBN: 9780511483844 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

558059
English literature
--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700Subjects--Geographical Terms:

658229
London (England)
--Social and customs.

LC Class. No.: PR428.W5 / O23 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9003

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