Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations - Introduction - Notes on Contributors - Aristotle's Rhetoric and Renaissance Views of the Emotions; L.D.Green - Ghosting the Reform of Dialectic: Erasmus and Agricola Again; L.Jardine - The Significance of Melanchthon's Rhetoric; K.Meerhoff - Order, Reason and Oratory: Rhetoric in Protestant Latin Schools; D.Knox - Some Reflections on the Rhetoric Textbook; B.Vickers - Rhetoric and Renaissance Drama; G.K.Hunter - Rhetoric in Use: Three Romances by Greene and Lodge; P.Mack - Rhetoric, Ideology and the Elizabethan World Picture; D.Norbrook - Raphael and the Rhetoric of Painting; P.Rubin - Index
