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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. Through detailed readings of major authors, David Posner examines the tensions between literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; 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.