Goldsmith, Elizabeth C.
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988
Hardcover in very good condition with light spotting to ends.
An examination of the theory and practice of conversational interaction as it reflected the changing position of the French aristocracy and the reorganization of social hierarchies in the first modern state. Goldsmith surveys how these changes are encoded in seventeenth-century manuals of civility and letter-writing and writers of the period – Madeleine de Scudery, Bussy-Rabutin, Madame de Sevigne, and Edme Boursault. In different ways, these four authors all viewed their texts as conversation and all worked to perfect the art of conversation in their own lives and to make writing an extension of worldly talk. In her analysis of this complex system of verbal politesse, Goldsmith draws on modern theories of social interaction, recent studies on the social history of early modern Europe, and new readings of the relationship between the literature of the period and its social context.
ISBN 10: 0812281020
Goldsmith, Elizabeth C.
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988
Hardcover in very good condition with light spotting to ends.
An examination of the theory and practice of conversational interaction as it reflected the changing position of the French aristocracy and the reorganization of social hierarchies in the first modern state. Goldsmith surveys how these changes are encoded in seventeenth-century manuals of civility and letter-writing and writers of the period – Madeleine de Scudery, Bussy-Rabutin, Madame de Sevigne, and Edme Boursault. In different ways, these four authors all viewed their texts as conversation and all worked to perfect the art of conversation in their own lives and to make writing an extension of worldly talk. In her analysis of this complex system of verbal politesse, Goldsmith draws on modern theories of social interaction, recent studies on the social history of early modern Europe, and new readings of the relationship between the literature of the period and its social context.
ISBN 10: 0812281020
