Renaissance Rhetoric (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349231461)

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.

Author: Peter Mack
ISBN-10: 1349231460
ISBN-13: 9781349231461
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1994
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d