Early Modern Civil Discourses

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

Del i serien Early Modern Literature in History

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Beskrivning

This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scottish - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama and chronicles - by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period, as well as the complex use of the adjectives "civil" and "barbarous" in cultural and colonial encounters.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-09-09
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:388 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Early Modern Literature in History
Antal sidor:206
Upplaga:2003
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9781403917362

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JENNIFER RICHARDS is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle. She is the author of Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature and the co-editor, with James Knowles, of Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings. -

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.Richards Civil Tongues: Language, Law and Reformation; C.Shrank Of Marriage, Morals and Civility; H.Moore 'Civilized with Death': Civility, Duelling and Honour in Elizabethan England; M.Peltonen 'Words More than Civil': Republican Civility in Lucy Hutchinson's ' The Life of John Hutchinson '; D.Norbrook 'When Civil Fury First Grew High'; Politics and Incivility in Restoration England; S.Achinstein Shakespeare the Barbarian; N.Rhodes Tacitus and Reform in Ireland in the 1590's; A.Hadfield Drama, Ireland, and the Question of Civility; T.Healy Uncivil Monarchy; Scotland, England and the Reputation of James IV; D.Cavanagh The Civility of Early Modern Welsh Women ; K.Chedgzoy The Cultural Impact of the Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day; R.White Index