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. Ranging widely from Castiglione and French courtesy manuals, through Montaigne and Bacon, to the literature of the Grand Siècle, David Posner examine...

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Main Author: Posner, David Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 33.
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