Textual Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, TechnologiesZachary Lesser, Benedict Scott Robinson Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 228 pages A group of leading scholars here investigate the varied ways in which the Renaissance incorporated conversation and dialogue into its literary, political, juridical, religious, and social practices. Across a range of texts and genres, the essays focus on the importance of conversation to early modern understandings of ethics; on literary history itself as an ongoing authorial conversation; and on the material and textual technologies that enabled early modern conversations. |
Contents
Technologies of Conversation | 8 |
Practices in Renaissance Rhetoric 133 | 13 |
Marlowes Republican | 27 |
Chaucers Pardoners and Franklins Tales | 71 |
Shakespeare | 91 |
David Astrophil and the Countess | 113 |
The Puzzling Letters of Sister Elizabeth Saunders | 131 |
Letters and the Edge of Form | 147 |
The Imprint of Paternity | 173 |
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