RT Book
T1 Humanism, capitalism, and rhetoric in early modern England: the separation of the citizen from the self
T2 Research in medieval and early modern culture
T2 Studies in medieval and early modern culture
JF Research in medieval and early modern culture
A1 Hunter, Lynette 1951-
LA English
PP Berlin
PB De Gruyter
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1795729112
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index
CN B778
SN 9781501518577
SN 1501518577
K1 Humanism : England : History : 16th century
K1 Humanism : England : History : 17th century
K1 Capitalism : England : History : 16th century
K1 Capitalism : England : History : 17th century
K1 Rhetoric : England : History : 16th century
K1 Rhetoric : England : History : 17th century
K1 Self : England : History : 16th century
K1 Self : England : History : 17th century
K1 England : Intellectual life : 16th century
K1 England : Intellectual life : 17th century
DO 10.1515/9781501514241-202