The performance of nobility in early modern European literature

著者

• Posner, David Matthew

書誌事項

The performance of nobility in early modern European literature

David M. Posner

（Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 33）

Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1999

• : pbk

注記

Bibliography: p. 258-266

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 Siecle, 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.

目次

• Acknowledgments
• 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
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB05676008
• ISBN:
  • 9780521034876
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge
• ページ数/冊数: x, 272 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PN721
  • DC21 : 809/.93353
• 件名:
  • LCSH : European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Nobility in literature
  • LCSH : Nobility of character in literature
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA18857777