The Literature of Controversy: Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius

Author:   Thomas N. Corns
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032357751


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   30 November 2022
Format:   Hardback
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The Literature of Controversy: Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius


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First published in 1987, The Literature of Controversy is a collection of essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, and Australia on major works from a classic epoch of English controversial prose. Each essay engages a single text or series of texts, less to discuss the ideas and arguments per se than to consider the rhetorical techniques assumed for the political manipulation of the readers. Though emphasis varies from contribution to contribution, the purpose, broadly, is to explore how the constituents of those texts are organised to coax, cajole, persuade or inspire those to whom they address. As the editor argues in his introduction, this approach, the critique of polemical strategy, for the most part accepts the validity of paying regard to the author and his intentions; it engages questions about the responses of the readership at which the texts were targeted; and it proceeds intertextuality in its attempts to reconstruct the controversies in which the texts were embedded and the codes within which they operated. This book will be of interest to students of literature, rhetoric and history.

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Author:   Thomas N. Corns
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9781032357751


ISBN 10:   1032357754
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   30 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction 2. Milton’s Aeropagitica: Liberty for the Sects 3. Richard Overton’s Marpriest Tracts: Towards a History of Leveller Style 4. How to be a Literary Reader of Hobbes’ Most Famous Chapter 5. Something to the Purpose: Marvell’s Rhetorical Strategy in The Rehearsal Transpros’d 6. The Autobiographer as Apologist: Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696) 7. Defoe’s Shortest Way with Dissenters: Irony, Intention and Reader-Response 8. ""In the case of David"": Swift’s Drapier’s Letters 9. Junius and the Grafton Administration, 1768-1770"

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