Jonsonian Discriminations : : The Humanist Poet and the Praise of True Nobility / / Michael McCanles.
At the heart of all Ben Jonson’s nondramatic poetry, argues Michael McCanles, lies the concept of true nobility. Jonson sought to transform the inherited aristocracy of England into an aristocracy of humanist virtue in which he could claim a place through his achievement of true nobility by the meri...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER ONE. The Poetics of Discrimination
- CHAPTER TWO. Jonson and 'Vera Nobilitas'
- CHAPTER THREE. Signs of Nobility and the Nobility of Signs
- CHAPTER FOUR. 'Vera Nobilitas' as a Theory of Epideictic Rhetoric
- CHAPTER FIVE. Jonson at Court
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Jonson's Works