Humanism Capitalism And Rhetoric In Early Modern England

Author : Lynette Hunter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501514241

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Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England by Lynette Hunter Pdf

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495–1660, beginning with Erasmus’ work on sermo or the conversational rhetoric between friends, which considers the reader as an ‘absent audience’, and following the transference of this stance to a politics whose broadening democratic constituency needed a legitimate structure for governance-at-a-distance. Unusually, the book brings together the impact on behavior of these new concepts about rhetoric, with the growth of the publishing industry, and the emergence of capitalism and of modern medicine. It explores the effects on the formation of the ‘subject’ and political legitimation of the early liberal nation state. It also lays new ground for scholarship concerned with what is left out of both selfhood and politics by that state, studying examples of a parallel development of the ‘self’ defined by friendship not only from educated male writers, but also from women writers and writers concerned with socially ‘middling’ and laboring people and the poor.

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107128859

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From Humanism to Hobbes by Quentin Skinner Pdf

Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.

Author : Andrew Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000314854

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The better Angels Of Capitalism by Andrew Herman Pdf

This book explores, through an ethnographic examination of life stories of wealthy men, a historical analysis of the moral meanings of wealth and power in Western capitalism, and a mapping of different symbolic spaces in contemporary American culture.

Author : Michael Ullyot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192666048

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The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England by Michael Ullyot Pdf

In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians' words and readers' actions; and second, that positive moral examples are not replicable, but rather aspirational models of readers' posthumous biographies. For example, Alexander the Great envied Achilles less for his exemplary life than for Homer's account of it. Ullyot defines the three types of decorum on which exemplary rhetoric and imitation rely, and charts their operations through Philip Sidney's poetics, Edmund Spenser's poetry, and the dedications, sermons, elegies, biographies, and other occasional texts about Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, and Henry, Prince of Wales. Ullyot expands the definition of occasional texts to include those that criticize their circumstances to demand better ones, and historicizes moral exemplarity in the contexts of sixteenth-century Protestant memory and humanist pedagogy. The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England concludes that all exemplary subjects suffer from the problem of metonymy, the objection that their chosen excerpts misrepresent their missing parts. This problem also besets historicist literary criticism, ever subject to corrections from the archive, so this study concedes that its own rhetorical methods are exemplary.

Author : Mark Garrett Longaker
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271074771

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Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue by Mark Garrett Longaker Pdf

During the British Enlightenment, the correlation between effective communication and moral excellence was undisputed—so much so that rhetoric was taught as a means of instilling desirable values in students. In Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue, Mark Garrett Longaker explores the connections between rhetoric and ethics in the context of the history of capitalism. Longaker’s study lingers on four British intellectuals from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century: philosopher John Locke, political economist Adam Smith, rhetorical theorist Hugh Blair, and sociologist Herbert Spencer. Across one hundred and fifty years, these influential men sought to mold British students into good bourgeois citizens by teaching them the discursive habits of clarity, sincerity, moderation, and economy, all with one incontrovertible truth in mind: the free market requires virtuous participants in order to thrive. Through these four case studies—written as biographically focused yet socially attentive intellectual histories—Longaker portrays the British rhetorical tradition as beholden to the dual masters of ethics and economics, and he sheds new light on the deliberate intellectual engineering implicit in Enlightenment pedagogy.

Author : Andrew Fitzmaurice
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139436755

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Humanism and America by Andrew Fitzmaurice Pdf

Humanism and America provides a major study of the impact of the Renaissance and Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings on colonization, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia Company. Andrew Fitzmaurice shows that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in inspiration, and he excavates the distinctively humanist tradition that informed some central issues of colonization: the motivations of wealth and profit, honour and glory; the nature of and possibilities for liberty; and the problems of just title, including the dispossession of native Americans. Dr Fitzmaurice presents a colonial tradition which, counter to received wisdom, is often hostile to profit, nervous of dispossession and desirous of liberty. Only in the final chapters does he chart the rise of an aggressive, acquisitive and possessive colonial ideology.

Author : Jennifer Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139436878

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Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature by Jennifer Richards Pdf

Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers alternative ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. She argues that humanists explored styles of conversation to reform the manner of association between male associates; teachers and students, buyers and sellers, and settlers and colonial others. They reconsidered the meaning of 'honesty' in social interchange in an attempt to represent the tension between self-interest and social duty. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among mid-Tudor humanists, John Cheke, Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham, as well as their self-styled successors, Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser.

Author : Mike Pincombe,Cathy Shrank
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191607172

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The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature by Mike Pincombe,Cathy Shrank Pdf

This is the first major collection of essays to look at the literature of the entire Tudor period, from the reign of Henry VII to death of Elizabeth I. It pays particularly attention to the years before 1580. Those decades saw, amongst other things, the establishment of print culture and growth of a reading public; the various phases of the English Reformation and process of political centralization that enabled and accompanied them; the increasing emulation of Continental and classical literatures under the influence of humanism; the self-conscious emergence of English as a literary language and determined creation of a native literary canon; the beginnings of English empire and the consolidation of a sense of nationhood. However, study of Tudor literature prior to 1580 is not only of worth as a context, or foundation, for an Elizabethan 'golden age'. As this much-needed volume will show, it is also of artistic, intellectual, and cultural merit in its own right. Written by experts from Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom, the forty-five chapters in The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature recover some of the distinctive voices of sixteenth-century writing, its energy, variety, and inventiveness. As well as essays on well-known writers, such as Philip Sidney or Thomas Wyatt, the volume contains the first extensive treatment in print of some of the Tudor era's most original voices.

Author : Aaron Kitch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317078821

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Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England by Aaron Kitch Pdf

Crossing the disciplinary borders between political, religious, and economic history, Aaron Kitch's innovative new study demonstrates how sixteenth-century treatises and debates about trade influenced early modern English literature by shaping key formal and aesthetic concerns of authors between 1580 and 1630. The author's analysis concentrates on a commonly overlooked period of economic history-the English commercial revolution before 1620-and, utilizing an impressive combination of archival research, close reading, and attention to historical detail, traces the transformation of genre in both neglected and canonical texts. The topics here are wide-ranging but are presented with a commitment to providing a concrete understanding of the religious, political, and historic context in literary thought. Kitch begins with the emerging wool trade and explosion of economic writing, Spenser's glorification of commerce and the Protestant state as presented in The Faerie Queene, and writers such as Thomas Nashe who drew on the same economic principles to challenge Spenser. Other topics include the reaction to the herring trade in prose satire and pamphlets, the presentation of Jewish trading nations in Shakespeare and Marlowe, and the tension between the crown and London merchants as reflected in Middleton's city comedies and Jonson's and Munday's pageants and court masques.

Author : Bernard Murchland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835744892

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Humanism and Capitalism by Bernard Murchland Pdf

Author : N. Gildea,H. Goodwyn,M. Kitching,H. Tyson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137478054

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English Studies: The State of the Discipline, Past, Present, and Future by N. Gildea,H. Goodwyn,M. Kitching,H. Tyson Pdf

An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies.

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374717780

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What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson Pdf

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”

Author : Jane Donawerth
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809330270

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Conversational Rhetoric by Jane Donawerth Pdf

In Conversational Rhetoric, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres-humanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of women's preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks.

Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199645916

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The Invention of Improvement by Paul Slack Pdf

The idea of improvement - gradual and cumulative betterment - was something new in 17th century England. It became commonplace to assert that improvements in agriculture, industry, commerce, and social welfare would bring infinite prosperity and happiness. The word improvement was itself new, and since it had no equivalent in other languages, it gave the English a distinctive culture of improvement which they took with them to Ireland, Scotland, and America. Slack explains the political, intellectual, and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root.

Author : Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226864907

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Meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Death of Jesus Christ by Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg Pdf

Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–94) was the foremost German woman poet and writer in the seventeenth-century German-speaking world. Privileged by her social station and education, she published a large body of religious writings under her own name to a reception unequaled by any other German woman during her lifetime. But once the popularity of devotional writings as a genre waned, Catharina’s works went largely unread until scholars devoted renewed attention to them in the twentieth century. For this volume, Lynne Tatlock translates for the first time into English three of the thirty-six meditations, restoring Catharina to her rightful place in print. These meditations foreground women in the life of Jesus Christ—including accounts of women at the Incarnation and the Tomb—and in Scripture in general. Tatlock’s selections give the modern reader a sense of the structure and nature of Catharina’s devotional writings, highlighting the alternative they offer to the male-centered view of early modern literary and cultural production during her day, and redefining the role of women in Christian history.