Introduction: Rhetoric, Emotion and the Early Modern English Sermon. Issue 7 (3rd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Clement, Jennifer
• Is Part Of: English studies. Volume 98:Issue 7(2017)
• Page Start: 655
• Page End: 660
• Publication Date: 2017-10-03
• Subjects: English philology -- Periodicals; English literature -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Philologie anglaise -- Périodiques; Littérature anglaise -- Étude et enseignement -- Périodiques; 420
• DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2017.1339990
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-838X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This is an introduction to the special issue on the early modern English sermon. It gives some context to the issue's exploration of the importance of rhetoric to genre, and it argues that we should read early modern sermons as, in certain ways, precursors to modern literary criticism. Moreover, this introduction argues that sermons are especially important for studying the intersection of rhetoric and emotion. Finally, it offers an outline of the essays included in the issue and explains the logic behind their organisation.