| Description |
viii, 176 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Thomas N. Corns -- Milton's Areopagitica : liberty for the sects / Michael Wilding -- Richard Overton's Marpriest tracts : towards a history of Leveller style / Nigel Smith -- How to be a literary reader of Hobbes's most famous chapter / Charles Cantalupo -- Something to the purpose : Marvell's rhetorical strategy in The rehearsal transpros'd / Jennifer Chibnall -- The autobiographer as apologist : Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696) / N.H. Keeble -- Defoe's Shortest way with dissenters : irony, intention and reader-response / J.A. Downie -- "In the case of David" : Swift's Drapier's letters / Margarette Smith -- Junius and the Grafton administration, 1768-1770 / David W. Lindsay |
| Analysis |
English literature, 1625-1800 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
"This group of studies first appeared in a special issue on 'The literature of controversy' of Prose studies, vol. 9, no. 2, published by Frank Cass & Co., Ltd."--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
English prose literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Polemics.
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Politics, Practical -- In literature.
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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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Rhetoric -- History.
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Rhetoric -- 1500-1800
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| Author |
Corns, Thomas N.
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| LC no. |
86017523 |
| ISBN |
0714632929 |
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