Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature

This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and society. Through detailed readings of major authors, David Posner examines the tensions between literary or imaginative representations of 'nobility', and the increasingly problematic historical position of the noble classes themselves.Posner, David M. is the author of 'Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521034876 and ISBN 0521034876.