The English wits : literature and sociability in early modern England
Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, together with John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Coryate, 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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations
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Gentleman lawyers at the Inns of Court
Ben Jonson, the lawyers and the wits
Taverns and table talk
Wits in the House of Commons
Coryats Crudities (1611) and the sociability of print
Traveller for the English wits
Afterlives of the wits
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