Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Classical Rhetoric and the Personation of the State
- 3 Machiavelli on Misunderstanding Princely Virtù
- 4 Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice
- 5 Rhetorical Redescription and its Uses in Shakespeare
- 6 The Generation of John Milton at Cambridge
- 7 Rethinking Liberty in the English Revolution
- 8 Hobbes on Civil Conversation
- 9 Hobbes on Political Representation
- 10 Hobbes and the Humanist Frontispiece
- 11 Hobbes on Hereditary Right
- 12 Hobbes and the Concept of the State
- Bibliography
- Index
Conventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Classical Rhetoric and the Personation of the State
- 3 Machiavelli on Misunderstanding Princely Virtù
- 4 Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice
- 5 Rhetorical Redescription and its Uses in Shakespeare
- 6 The Generation of John Milton at Cambridge
- 7 Rethinking Liberty in the English Revolution
- 8 Hobbes on Civil Conversation
- 9 Hobbes on Political Representation
- 10 Hobbes and the Humanist Frontispiece
- 11 Hobbes on Hereditary Right
- 12 Hobbes and the Concept of the State
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Abbreviations. The following abbreviations are used in the footnotes:
BL: British Library
BN: Bibliothèque Nationale
DBI: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
DNB: Dictionary of National Biography
ODNB: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
OED: Oxford English Dictionary
OLD: Oxford Latin Dictionary
TLN: Through line number
Bibliographies. These are simply checklists of the primary and secondary sources quoted in the text. They make no pretence of being systematic guides to the critical literature on the themes I discuss. Readers in need of such a guide in the case of Shakespeare should consult the World Shakespeare Bibliography, and in the case of Hobbes should consult the ‘Bulletin Hobbes’ issued annually online by the Hobbes International Association. My bibliography of printed primary sources lists anonymous works by title. Where a work was published anonymously but its author's name is known I place the name in square brackets.
Classical names and titles. I refer to ancient writers in their most familiar single-name style, both in the text and bibliographies. I transliterate Greek titles, but all others are given in their original form.
Dates. Generally I follow my sources, except that I date by the common era, and treat the year as beginning on 1 January rather than 25 March.
Gender. I try to use gender neutral language so far as possible. But sometimes it is clear that, when the writers I discuss say ‘he’ they emphatically do not mean ‘he or she’ and in those cases I have felt obliged to follow their usage to avoid altering their sense.
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- From Humanism to HobbesStudies in Rhetoric and Politics, pp. xii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018