Daniel Shore

Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139508285
• Artikelnr.: 53002093

Autorenporträt

Daniel Shore is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. His work has appeared in journals such as PMLA, Critical Inquiry and Milton Studies. In 2006, the Milton Society of America awarded him the James Holly Hanford Award for 'Most Distinguished Essay' of the year. He earned his PhD and Master's degrees from Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: spoken only to trees and stones
Part I. The Renunciation of Rhetoric: 1. Milton in the public sphere
2. Constraint as a means of persuasion
3. Becoming a supplement
Part II. The Preservation of Rhetoric: 4. Why Milton is not an iconoclast
5. The uses of trembling
6. Instrumental reason and Imitatio Christi
Epilogue: the threat of Samson Agonistes.