Framing authority : sayings, self, and society in sixteenth-century England / Mary Thomas Crane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crane, Mary Thomas, 1956- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Rhetoric.

English language.

English literature--Classical influences.

Frame-stories--History and criticism.

Frame-stories.

Commonplace books--History.

Commonplace books.

Authority in literature.

Self in literature.

Humanists--England.

Humanists.

England--Intellectual life--16th century.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I. Finding A Place: The Humanist Logic of Gathering and Framing

Chapter II. Common People, Uncommon Words: The Power of Rhetoric

Chapter III. Seed or Goad: Educating the Humanist Subject

Chapter IV. Educational Practice in Early Sixteenth-Century England

Chapter V. Pastime or Profit: Aristocratic and Humanist Ideology, 1520-1550

Chapter VI. Framing the State: William Cecil and the Humanist System, 1558-1598

Chapter VII. "In a net to hold the Wind": Gathering, Framing, and Lyric Subjectivity, 1520-1540

Chapter VIII. Bend or Frame: Lyric Collections and the Dangers of Narrative, 1550-1590

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-263) and index.

ISBN:

9780691634074

0691634076

9780691605098

0691605092

9781400863310

1400863317

OCLC:

884013014