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 Siècle, David Posner examin...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1999.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 33. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4201332x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: "The Noble Hart"
- 2. Montaigne and the staging of the self
- 3. Mask and error in Francis Bacon
- 4. Noble Romans: Corneille and the theatre of aristocratic revolt
- 5. La Bruyere and the end of the theatre of nobility.
