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| ISBN: | 9781139518857
1139518852
1280774177
9781280774171
9781139108973
1139108972
9781107021501
1107021502
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Challenging the conventional view of John Milton as an iconoclast who spoke only to a 'fit audience through 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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| Other form: | Print version: Shore, Daniel, 1980- Milton and the art of rhetoric. Cambridge [Englnad] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107021501
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