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The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature

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 SiËcle, 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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Title of ebook: The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
ISBN: 9780511033582
parent-ISBN: 9780521661812
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 2334 kb
Published: 11-1995
Released online for download: 11-03-1995
Author of eBook: Posner, David M.

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