Literature of Controversy - Polemical Strategy From Milton to Junius

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Thomas N. Corns

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas N. Corns
• Assisted by: Thomas N. Corns (Editor), Corns Thomas N. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032357751
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235775-1
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Miscellaneous; Radiology, MEDICAL / Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics, Oncology, Medical physics, MEDICAL / Oncology / General, Medical imaging: radiology