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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Unsettling Identities: From Custom to Price
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The concept of the self as a kind of performance, managing the relationship between being and seeming, had emerged in courtly circles during the Italian Renaissance. The literature of that time such as Baldasar Castiglione’s The Courtier (1528) and Giovanni Della Casa’s Galateo (1558) was widely read and imitated in England — the first targeted at a courtly readership and the second, a guide for general social decorum.1 The popularity of such guides is evidence of a widespread anxiety over self-transparency, particularly intense in authority contexts where the failure to present an agreeable exterior could jeopardize one’s well-being.