Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England - Couverture rigide

Peltonen, Markku

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107028299 ISBN 13 : 9781107028296

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides a completely new account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It examines the centrality of humanist rhetoric in the pre-revolutionary educational system and its vital contribution to the political culture of the period. Humanism, Markku Peltonen argues, was crucial to the development of the participatory character of English politics as schoolboys were taught how to speak about taxation and foreign policy, liberty and tyranny. A series of case studies illustrates how pre-revolutionary Englishmen used the rhetorical tools their schoolmasters had taught them in political and parliamentary debates. The common people and the multitude were the orator's chief audience and eloquence was often seen as a popular art. But there were also those who followed these developments with growing dismay and Peltonen examines further the ways in which populist elements in political rhetoric were questioned in pre-revolutionary England.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Markku Peltonen is Professor of General History (chair founded in 1640) at the University of Helsinki. He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Mellon Fellow at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California and President of the Finnish Historical Society. His publications include Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570640 (Cambridge, 1995) and The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour (Cambridge, 2003). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (Cambridge, 1996).

Revue de presse :

'It easily achieves its aims of asserting the centrality of rhetoric in prerevolutionary England and redefining exactly what that rhetoric was. But it also adds a new dimension to the debate on the popular political participation and breathes fresh life into the vigorous debate on early seventeenth-century politics. It demonstrates further ways in which those outside the governing elite were engaged in politics and, by establishing how men were educated, creates a foundation for reassessing the complex relationship between ideology, thought, and action with which historians have grappled for so long.' Natalie Mears, Renaissance Quarterly

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107028299
• ISBN 13: 9781107028296
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 285