Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society - A Sourcebook

This volume is a sourcebook for those interested in how the experimentalists of the seventeenth century profoundly shaped modern scholarly communication.

About the author

Tina Skouen, Dr. art., is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Oslo. She has published several articles on early modern literature and rhetoric, including 'The Rhetoric of Passion in Donne's Holy Sonnets' (Rhetorica 27:2).

Ryan J. Stark, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English at Corban University. His monograph, Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England, appeared in 2009, and he has published more recently on Paradise Lost and Tristram Shandy.

Contributors are Frédérique Aït-Touati, Peter Dear, Alan G. Gross, Joseph E. Harmon, Michael S. Reidy, Richard Nate, Robert E. Stillman and Michael Wintroub.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tina Skouen (Editor), Ryan Stark (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9789004283695
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28369-5
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Scholarly Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)