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OverviewThe literature and literate knowledge that were produced in Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries emanated from societies that were rigidly hierarchical. What difference did that fact make to the literature and literate knowledge? How did social hierarchy shape the production of literature and literate knowledge (by writers, patrons, printers) and their reception (by readers and audiences)? Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe is the first book to ask these question of Western Europe, in relation to a wide range of genres, disciplines, practices, and writers. The picture that emerges is of literature and literate knowledge largely bolstering social hierarchies while also questioning at times the very basis on which societies measured the status and worth of their members. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780197267332ISBN 10: 0197267335 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 17 March 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1: NEIL KENNY: Introduction Language, Social Literacy, and Social Status 2: WARREN BOUTCHER: 'Noble ambition': New Social Literacies and Traditional Hierarchies in Early Modern European Literature and History 3: HELENA SANSON: Women's Social Status and their Access to Learning in Multilingual Early Modern Italy 4: CHRISTINE STEVENSON: English Builders in Translation Roles of Cultural Production in Social Status 5: IAN MACLEAN: The Social Status of Publishers of Learned Texts in Europe 1560-1630 6: SARAH GWYNETH ROSS: Literary Collaboration and Social Legitimacy in an Actor's Oeuvre: The Peculiar Case of Francesco Andreini (d.1624) 7: JANE STEVENSON: Marta Marchina, Poetry and Social Mobility in Baroque Rome Representing Social Status: Genres and Discourses 8: RICHARD OOSTERHOFF: The Idiota's Authority: Fifteenth-Century Hierarchies in Dialogue 9: SUSAN WISEMAN: Making 'Gypsies' in the English Reformation? Laws, Words and Texts (1530-1621) 10: JONATHAN PATTERSON: 'Greatness going off' in Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Tragedies 11: RICHARD MCCABE: Tragedy, or the Fall of Middle-Class Men A Two-Way Relation 12: SIMON PARK: The Scribes of the Old Pillory: Hired Hands and their Customers in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon 13: COLIN BURROW: Authorship and Social Status in Early Modern England IndexReviewsAuthor InformationNeil Kenny is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, where he is involved in language policy work as Lead Fellow for Languages. His publications include The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (2004), Death and Tenses: Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France (2015), and Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France (2021), all with Oxford University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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