Overview

The literature and literate knowledge that were produced in Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries emanated from societies that were rigidly hierarchical. What difference did that fact make to the literature and literate knowledge? How did social hierarchy shape the production of literature and literate knowledge (by writers, patrons, printers) and their reception (by readers and audiences)? Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe is the first book to ask these question of Western Europe, in relation to a wide range of genres, disciplines, practices, and writers. The picture that emerges is of literature and literate knowledge largely bolstering social hierarchies while also questioning at times the very basis on which societies measured the status and worth of their members.

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Author:   Neil Kenny (Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780197267332

ISBN 10:   0197267335
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   17 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1: NEIL KENNY: Introduction Language, Social Literacy, and Social Status 2: WARREN BOUTCHER: 'Noble ambition': New Social Literacies and Traditional Hierarchies in Early Modern European Literature and History 3: HELENA SANSON: Women's Social Status and their Access to Learning in Multilingual Early Modern Italy 4: CHRISTINE STEVENSON: English Builders in Translation Roles of Cultural Production in Social Status 5: IAN MACLEAN: The Social Status of Publishers of Learned Texts in Europe 1560-1630 6: SARAH GWYNETH ROSS: Literary Collaboration and Social Legitimacy in an Actor's Oeuvre: The Peculiar Case of Francesco Andreini (d.1624) 7: JANE STEVENSON: Marta Marchina, Poetry and Social Mobility in Baroque Rome Representing Social Status: Genres and Discourses 8: RICHARD OOSTERHOFF: The Idiota's Authority: Fifteenth-Century Hierarchies in Dialogue 9: SUSAN WISEMAN: Making 'Gypsies' in the English Reformation? Laws, Words and Texts (1530-1621) 10: JONATHAN PATTERSON: 'Greatness going off' in Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Tragedies 11: RICHARD MCCABE: Tragedy, or the Fall of Middle-Class Men A Two-Way Relation 12: SIMON PARK: The Scribes of the Old Pillory: Hired Hands and their Customers in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon 13: COLIN BURROW: Authorship and Social Status in Early Modern England Index

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Neil Kenny is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Professor of French at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, where he is involved in language policy work as Lead Fellow for Languages. His publications include The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (2004), Death and Tenses: Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France (2015), and Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France (2021), all with Oxford University Press.

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