The English Wits
Title | The English Wits PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle O'Callaghan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 2007-02-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139462563 |
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate, consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play. Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in the seventeenth century. This study will provide many insights for historians and literary scholars of the period.
English wits
Title | English wits PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Russell |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Wits |
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English Wits
Title | English Wits PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Russell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | English wit and humor |
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Battle of Wits
Title | Battle of Wits PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Budiansky |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | 0684859327 |
"This is the story of the Allied codebreakers puzzling through the most difficult codebreaking problems that ever existed.
Great British Wit
Title | Great British Wit PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemarie Jarski |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | English wit and humor |
ISBN | 0091906318 |
Arranged thematically--from Class and Character, Sex and Snobbery, to the Foreigner's Eye View--here is the definitive collection of the British nation's funniest quotations. Among the many great and good who dazzle us with their wit are Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Billy Connolly, Quentin Crisp, Roald Dahl, John Lennon, Queen Victoria, and Oscar Wilde.
House of Wits
Title | House of Wits PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Fisher |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 711 |
Release | 2008-06-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0805074902 |
A portrait of the eccentric and brilliant James family, which produced three famous children--novelist Henry, philosopher William, and feminist Alice--examines the experiences, relationships, ideas, conflicts, and lifestyle that shaped members of the family.
English Wits
Title | English Wits PDF eBook |
Author | SIR DESMOND. MacCARTHY |
Publisher | |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 1953 |
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