The rhetoric of exemplarity in early modern England / Michael Ullyot.
This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that exemplarity is driven by both reader and author, and that positive moral examples were presented as aspirational models in posthumous biography.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxfod ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that exemplarity is driven by both reader and author, and that positive moral examples were presented as aspirational models in posthumous biography. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192666031 0192666037 9780192666048 0192666045 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 10, 2022) |