Renaissance Rhetoric

✍ Scribed by Peter Mack (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides examples of the best modern scholarship on rhetoric in the renaissance. Lawrence Green, Lisa Jardine, Kees Meerhoff, Dilwyn Knox, Brian Vickers, George Hunter, Peter Mack, David Norbrook and Pat Rubin look at the reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric in the renaissance; the place of rhetoric in Erasmus's career, Melanchthon's teaching, and sixteenth century protestant schools; the rhetoric textbook; the use of rhetoric in Raphael, renaissance drama, Elizabethan romance, and seventeenth century political writing. It will become essential reading for advanced studies in English, rhetoric, art history, history, history of education, history of ideas, political theory, and reformation history.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Views of the Emotions....Pages 1-26
Ghosting the Reform of Dialectic: Erasmus and Agricola Again....Pages 27-45
The Significance of Philip Melanchthon’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance....Pages 46-62
Order, Reason and Oratory: Rhetoric in Protestant Latin Schools....Pages 63-80
Some Reflections on the Rhetoric Textbook....Pages 81-102
Rhetoric and Renaissance Drama....Pages 103-118
Rhetoric in Use: Three Romances by Greene and Lodge....Pages 119-139
Rhetoric, Ideology and the Elizabethan World Picture....Pages 140-164
Raphael and the Rhetoric of Art....Pages 165-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-188

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics; Literature, general; Classical and Antique Literature; Intellectual Studies