Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the
early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art.
Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the
republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on
courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' -
Jennifer Richards uncovers alternative ways of thinking about
humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. She argues
that humanists explored styles of conversation to reform the manner
of association between male associates; teachers and students,
buyers and sellers, and settlers and colonial others. They
reconsidered the meaning of 'honesty' in social interchange in an
attempt to represent the tension between self-interest and social
duty. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among
mid-Tudor humanists, John Cheke, Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham, as
well as their self-styled successors, Gabriel Harvey and Edmund
Spenser.
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