| Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England Contributor(s): Peltonen, Markku (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107028299 ISBN-13: 9781107028296 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $70.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.942 |
| LCCN: 2012019708 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 285 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Peltonen, Markku: - 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, 1570 1640 (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). |