The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment

Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form theorized and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world.

Author: Ian Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/03/1998
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.16h x 5.94w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780521480888

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