Synopses & Reviews
This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scottish--among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles--by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives "civil" and "barbarous" in cultural and colonial encounters.
About the Author
Jennifer Richards is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle.
Table of Contents
Civil Tongues: Language, Law and Reformation--Cathy Shrank * Of Marriage, Morals and Civility--Helen Moore * 'Civilized with Death': Civility, Duelling and Honour in Elizabethan England--Markku Peltonen * 'Words More than Evil': Republican Civility in Lucy Hutchinson's 'The Life of John Hutchinson'--David Norbrook * 'When Civil Fury First Grew High': Politics and Incivility in Restoration England--Sharon Achinstein * Shakespeare the Barbarian--Neil Rhodes * Tacitus and the Reform of Ireland i nthe 1590s--Andrew Hadfield * Drama, Ireland and the Question of Civility--Thomas Healy * Uncivil Monarchy: Scotland, England and the Reputation of James IV--Dermot Cavanagh * The Civility of Early Modern Welsh Women--Kate Chedgzoy * The Cultural Impact of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day--Robert White
Civil Tongues: Language, Law and Reformation--Cathy Shrank * Of Marriage, Morals and Civility--Helen Moore * 'Civilized with Death': Civility, Duelling and Honour in Elizabethan England--Markku Peltonen * 'Words More than Evil': Republican Civility in Lucy Hutchinson's 'The Life of John Hutchinson'--David Norbrook * 'When Civil Fury First Grew High': Politics and Incivility in Restoration England--Sharon Achinstein * Shakespeare the Barbarian--Neil Rhodes * Tacitus and the Reform of Ireland i nthe 1590s--Andrew Hadfield * Drama, Ireland and the Question of Civility--Thomas Healy * Uncivil Monarchy: Scotland, England and the Reputation of James IV--Dermot Cavanagh * The Civility of Early Modern Welsh Women--Kate Chedgzoy * The Cultural Impact of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day--Robert White