Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community

Gentry Rhetoric examines the full range of influences on the Elizabethan and Jacobean genteel classes' practice of...
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Author: Daniel Ellis
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Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community by Ellis, Daniel

Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community

$245.38

Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community

$245.38
Author: Daniel Ellis
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Gentry Rhetoric examines the full range of influences on the Elizabethan and Jacobean genteel classes' practice of English rhetoric in daily life. Daniel Ellis surveys how the gentry of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Norfolk wrote to and negotiated with each other by employing Renaissance humanist rhetoric, both to solidify their identity and authority in resisting absolutism and authoritarianism, and to transform the political and social state. The rhetorical training that formed the basis of their formal education was one obvious influence. Yet to focus on this training exclusively allows only a limited understanding of the way this class developed the strategies that enabled them to negotiate, argue, and conciliate with one another to such an extent that they could both form themselves as a coherent entity and become the primary shapers of written English's style, arrangement, and invention.

Gentry Rhetoric deeply and inductively examines archival materials in which members of the gentry discuss, debate, and negotiate matters relating to their class interests and political aspirations. Humanist rhetoric provided the bedrock of address, argumentation, and negotiation that allowed the gentry to instigate a political and educational revolution in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.


​Daniel Ellis is an associate professor of English and associate dean of Arts and Sciences at St. Bonaventure University.



Author: Daniel Ellis
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 12/01/2022
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781496221186

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