Early Modern Civil Discourses

Early Modern Civil Discourses
ISBN-10
0230505066
ISBN-13
9780230505063
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
206
Language
English
Published
2003-09-09
Publisher
Springer
Author
J. Richards

Description

This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles - by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives 'civil' and 'barbarous' in cultural and colonial encounters.

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