Dismembered rhetoric : English recusant writing, 1580 to 1603 /

Dismembered Rhetoric describes the rhetoric of devotional publications by the Catholic secret presses between 1580 and 1603. A myth persists of a chasm between the Protestant battle cry of "Bible" and the Catholic approach to the laity through sacrament rather than word. However, Catholic...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sullivan, Ceri, 1963-
Corporate Author: Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, N.J. : London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, [1995], ©1995
Madison, N.J. : London : c1995
Madison, N.J. : London : [1995]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Producing Recusant Devotional Texts
  • 3. Meditation as Deliberative Rhetoric
  • 4. Inventio and Memoria in English Meditations
  • 5. Hagiography and Catechism: Producing a Saint
  • 6. Hagiographies as Examples to Clarify the Faith
  • 7. Catechisms: Auditing the Self
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2. Producing Recusant Devotional Texts
  • 3. Meditation as Deliberative Rhetoric
  • 4. Inventio and Memoria in English Meditations
  • 5. Hagiography and Catechism: Producing a Saint
  • 6. Hagiographies as Examples to Clarify the Faith
  • 7. Catechisms: Auditing the Self
  • 8. Conclusion.