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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'...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
33. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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', and the increasingly problematic historical position of the noble classes themselves. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511006284 9780511006289 0511033583 9780511033582 0511048823 9780511048821 0511118104 9780511118104 9780521661812 0521661811 9780511483899 0511483899 |