1st Edition
Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613
By Jonathan P.A. Sell
Copyright 2006
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible representations by generating intellectual and emotional significances which, meaningful in consensual terms, were 'consensually' true. However, some traveller-writers betrayed an unease with such representation, rooted as it was in a metaphorical epistemology... Read more
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.
Biography
Jonathan P.A. Sell lectures at the University of Alcalá, Spain.
'... 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
