Overview

Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of ""gathering"" textual fragments and ""framing"" or forming, arranging, and assimilating them, Mary Crane shows how keeping commonplace books made up the English humanists' central transaction with antiquity and provided an influential model for authorial practice and authoritative self-fashioning. She thereby revises our perceptions of English humanism, revealing its emphasis on sayings, collectivism, shared resources, anonymous inscription, and balance of power--in contrast to an aristocratic mode of thought, which championed individualism, imperialism, and strong assertion of authorial voice. Crane first explores the theory of gathering and framing as articulated in influential sixteenth-century logic and rhetoric texts and in the pedagogical theory with which they were linked in the humanist project.She then investigates the practice of humanist discourse through a series of texts that exemplify the notebook method of composition. These texts include school curricula, political and economic treatises (such as More's Utopia), contemporary biography, and collections of epigrams and poetic miscellanies. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Author:   Mary Thomas Crane
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   247
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780691634074

ISBN 10:   0691634076
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter I. Finding A Place: The Humanist Logic of Gathering and Framing, pg. 12*Chapter II. Common People, Uncommon Words: The Power of Rhetoric, pg. 39*Chapter III. Seed or Goad: Educating the Humanist Subject, pg. 53*Chapter IV. Educational Practice in Early Sixteenth-Century England, pg. 77*Chapter V. Pastime or Profit: Aristocratic and Humanist Ideology, 1520-1550, pg. 93*Chapter VI. Framing the State: William Cecil and the Humanist System, 1558-1598, pg. 116*Chapter VII. ""In a net to hold the Wind"": Gathering, Framing, and Lyric Subjectivity, 1520-1540, pg. 136*Chapter VIII. Bend or Frame: Lyric Collections and the Dangers of Narrative, 1550-1590, pg. 162*Conclusion, pg. 197*Notes, pg. 201*Index, pg. 265"

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