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Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England - The Separation of the Citizen from the Self (Hardcover)
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Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England - The Separation of the Citizen from the Self (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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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.
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