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The Literature of Controversy: Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius book cover

1st Edition

The Literature of Controversy Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius

Edited By Thomas N. Corns Copyright 1987
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction Thomas N. Corns 2. Milton’s Aeropagitica: Liberty for the Sects Michael Wilding 3. Richard Overton’s Marpriest Tracts: Towards a History of Leveller Style Nigel Smith 4. How to be a Literary Reader of Hobbes’ Most Famous Chapter Charles Cantalupo 5. Something to the Purpose: Marvell’s Rhetorical Strategy in The Rehearsal Transpros’d Jennifer Chibnall 6. The Autobiographer as Apologist: Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696) N. H. Keeble 7. Defoe’s Shortest Way with Dissenters: Irony, Intention and Reader-Response J. A. Downie 8. "In the case of David": Swift’s Drapier’s Letters Margarette Smith 9. Junius and the Grafton Administration, 1768-1770 David W. Lindsay

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