The 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

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

• Assisted by: Thomas N. Corns (Editor), Corns Thomas N. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032357775
• ISBN: 978-1-032-35777-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Weight: 290 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern