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Powerful Connections
Peter W. Shoemaker
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Description for Powerful Connections
Hardback. Num Pages: 291 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
Powerful Connections is a reappraisal of the role of patronage in seventeenth-century French literary culture. By focusing on the networks of personal relationships in which writers were enmeshed, Shoemaker provides a corrective to the dominant theoretical accounts of representation and power during this period, which have tended to focus narrowly on the figures of the king and the absolutist state. The intensely personal character of patronage, he argues, had a profound impact on the deep rhetorical structures of seventeenth-century literary discourse. The tools of public oratory were of little use to a writer. What he/she needed, rather, was a fine ... Read more
Powerful Connections is a reappraisal of the role of patronage in seventeenth-century French literary culture. By focusing on the networks of personal relationships in which writers were enmeshed, Shoemaker provides a corrective to the dominant theoretical accounts of representation and power during this period, which have tended to focus narrowly on the figures of the king and the absolutist state. The intensely personal character of patronage, he argues, had a profound impact on the deep rhetorical structures of seventeenth-century literary discourse. The tools of public oratory were of little use to a writer. What he/she needed, rather, was a fine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
Number of Pages
291
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493290
SKU
V9781611493290
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About Peter W. Shoemaker
Peter W. Shoemaker is associate professor at the Catholic University of America.
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