Elizabethan rhetoric : theory and practice

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Elizabethan rhetoric : theory and practice

Title remainder

theory and practice

Statement of responsibility

Peter Mack

Creator

• Mack, Peter, 1955-

Subject

• English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
• English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in rhetoric and argument on a range of Elizabethan prose texts, including political orations, histories, romances, conduct manuals, privy council debates and personal letters. Elizabethan Rhetoric reconstructs the knowledge, skills and approaches which an Elizabethan would have acquired in order to participate in the political and religious debates of the time: the approaches to an audience, analysis and replication of textual structures, organisation of arguments and tactics for disputation. Study of the rhetorical codes and conventions in terms of which debates were conducted is currently a major area of historical and literary enquiry, and Mack provides a wealth of new information about what was taught and how these conventions were exploited in personal memoranda, court depositions, sermons and political and religious pamphlets. This important book will be invaluable for all those interested in the culture, literature and political history of the period.--

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• Ideas in context, 63

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Ideas in context
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

63