Humanism, capitalism, and rhetoric in early modern England: the separation of the citizen from the self

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...

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Main Author: Hunter, Lynette 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Berlin De Gruyter 2022
[Kalamazoo, MI] Medieval Institute Publications 2022
In: Research in medieval and early modern culture (33)
Year: 2022
Series/Journal:Research in medieval and early modern culture 33
Studies in medieval and early modern culture 81
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Humanism / Capitalism / Rhetoric / Behavior / Self / Citizen / History 1495-1660
Further subjects:B Humanism (England) History 17th century
B Self (England) History 16th century
B Humanism (England) History 16th century
B England Intellectual life 17th century
B Rhetoric (England) History 17th century
B Capitalism (England) History 16th century
B England Intellectual life 16th century
B Self (England) History 17th century
B Capitalism (England) History 17th century
B Rhetoric (England) History 16th century
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Hunter, Lynette: Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter ; [Kalamazoo, Michigan] : Medieval Institute Publications, [2022]. - 9781501514241
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Summary: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.--Publisher description
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index
ISBN:1501518577
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9781501514241-202