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The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature

The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature

Posner, David M.
Orgel, Stephen
Barton, Anne

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 33

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521034876
ISBN13: 9780521034876
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 14 2006
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Through detailed readings of major authors, including Castiglione, Montaigne, Bacon and Corneille, David Posner examines the tensions between literary or imaginative representations of nobility, and the increasingly problematic historical position of the nobility themselves. Situated at the intersection of rhetorical and historical theories of interpretation, this book contributes significantly to our understanding of how literature can both analyze and shape social identity.

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