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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'...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Posner, David Matthew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 33.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.