The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England

Oxford University Press

The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England\nby Michael Ullyot\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Michael Ullyot\nTitle: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600\nPublisher: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780192849335\nISBN-10: 0192849336\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a recursive cycle driven by rhetoricians'' words and readers'' actions; and second, that positive moral examples are not replicable, but rather aspirational models of re.