UID:
almahu_9947415212202882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 203 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139108973 (ebook)
Content:
Challenging the conventional view of John Milton as an iconoclast who spoke only to a 'fit audience though few', Daniel Shore argues that Milton was a far more pragmatic writer than previous scholarship has recognized. Summoning evidence from nearly all of his works - poetry and prose alike - Shore asserts that Milton distanced himself from the prescriptions of classical rhetoric to develop new means of persuasion suited to an age distrustful of traditional eloquence. Shore demonstrates that Milton's renunciation of agency, audience, purpose and effect in the prose tracts leads not to quietism or withdrawal, but rather to a reasserted investment in public debate. Shore reveals a writer who is committed to persuasion and yet profoundly critical of his own persuasive strategies. An innovative contribution to the field, this text will appeal to scholars of Milton, seventeenth-century literature, Renaissance literature and the history and theory of rhetoric.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Milton in the public sphere -- Constraint as a means of persuasion -- Becoming a supplement -- Why Milton is not an iconoclast -- The uses of trembling -- Instrumental reason and Imitatio Christi -- Epilogue: the threat of Samson Agonistes.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107021501
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139108973
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