Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613

ISBN-13: 9781138383807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

JONATHAN P.A. SELL

Opis

Exploring how far early modern travel writing could give the strange the ring of truth, this book offers rhetorical readings of the representations by early modern writers of new worlds and the wonder experienced before them. The author complements, and sometimes counters, recent work on early modern travel literature by concentrating on its use of rhetoric to communicate meaning. In doing so, he suggests how familiarity with the workings of rhetoric may enhance readings of early modern English literature generally.

Recenzje

'... an impressive achievement.' Times Literary Supplement ’... an excellent study of early modern rhetoric.’ Sixteenth Century Journal ’... a study that not only offers readers a very useful review of a body of both canonical and relatively unfamiliar texts, but also raises some difficult and necessary questions about our current approach to them as literary and cultural documents.’ Studies in Travel Writing

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Wonder, rhetoric and travel; The truth of travel writing; Wonder texts; Inventing and elocuting wonder; Composing and acting wonder; Epilogue; References; Select index.

O autorze

Jonathan P.A. Sell lectures at the University of Alcalá, Spain.