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Author: Michelle O'Callaghan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate, consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play. Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in the seventeenth century. This study will provide many insights for historians and literary scholars of the period.
Author: Michelle O'Callaghan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Book Description
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate, consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play. Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in the seventeenth century. This study will provide many insights for historians and literary scholars of the period.
Author: Rocío G. Sumillera
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322817
Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities that prepare them to excel only in particular fields of knowledge. With his treatise Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (Baeza, 1575), dedicated to King Philip II, Huarte hoped to form a body of naturally accomplished professionals by providing readers with clues to identify their leading wit and the career path associated with it. The book experienced such overwhelming success in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—it underwent fifty-five editions in six different languages—that it is now considered one of the most influential Spanish scientific books of the early modern period. The present edition modernizes the text of Richard Carew’s The Examination of Men’s Wits (London, 1594), the first rendering into English of Huarte’s work—via a previous Italian translation. In addition, the Introduction contextualizes both the Spanish and the English texts and their authors, discusses the censorship imposed by the Inquisition, the (often deliberate) textual divergences of the English translation, the multiple translations and editions the book underwent in early modern Europe, and its domestic and European reception, with a focus on the English scientific, educational and literary arenas. William Camden, John Marston, Ben Jonson and Sir Francis Bacon are some of the household names acquainted with Huarte’s theories, thanks to Richard Carew’s widely read English version.
Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Author: Elizabeth Adelaide Herrmann
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Category : Absolute criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: John Timbs
Publisher:
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Category : Humorists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: John Timbs
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375016662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Author: Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Author: Katherine Thomson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Grace WHARTON (pseud. [i.e. Mrs. Katharine Thomson], and WHARTON (Philip) pseud. [i.e. J. C. Thomson.])
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Author: Grace Wharton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752534427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
