Author: Michelle O'Callaghan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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.
The English Wits
Author: Michelle O'Callaghan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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.
The American Encyclopædic Dictionary
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
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English Writers
Author: Henry Morley
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary
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Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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Pages : 1290
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The Nation
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of Difficult Words
Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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A Dictionary of the English Language: in Wich the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers ... By Samuel Johnson. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.]
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Pages : 1472
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English Wits
Author: Leonard Russell
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays
Author: Henry Beers
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040658249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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"The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays" by Henry A. Beers. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040658249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
"The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays" by Henry A. Beers. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
English Wits
Author: Leonard Russell
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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