Title: Image and discourse: the rhetoric of virtue and vice in early 18th century England
Source document: Theory and Practice in English Studies. 2013, vol. 6, iss. 1, pp. [1]-2
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[1]-2
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ISSN1805-0859
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/129816
Type: Article
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Abstract(s)
The article explores the rhetoric of virtue and vice which was used by the eighteenth-century ruling class to reassert its right to power and suppress the influence of their opponents. Focusing on the tropes of greed and luxury as one of the most prominent tools of denoting enemies, it reveals the strong potential of such tropes to create identities of social groups and affect their social power. The article also aims to stress the ongoing interaction between the political and literary discourses of that time and shows how the rhetoric strategies were reflected in social satire, namely in the works of Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding.
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[2] Caleb D'Anvers. 1732/3. "Remarks on the horrible Oppressions, Insolencies, and unjustifiable Partialities ofthe Commissioners of the Excise." The Craftsman.
[3] Fielding, Henry. 1967. Joseph Andrews. Oxford: Clanderon P.
[4] Fielding, Henry. 1882. "Amelia." In The Works of HenryFielding vol. 3, edited by Leslie Stephen. London: Smith, Elder.
[5] Fielding, Henry. 1994. Tom Jones. London: Penguin Group.
[6] Grean, Stanley. 1967. Shaftesbury's Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. New York: Ohio UP.
[7] Peake, Charles. 1971. "The Coherence of Gulliver's Travels." In Swift, edited by Claude Rawson, 171–196. London: Sphere Books.
[8] Schama, Simon. 2001. A History of Britain. London: BBC Worldwide.
[9] Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, and Lawrence Eliot Klein. 1999. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. New York: Cambridge University Press.
[10] Swift, Jonathan. 1919. "Discourse on the Contests and Dissentions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome." In A Tale of a Tub and Other Early Works. Vol. 1 of The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by Temple Scott. 227–270. London: G. Bell and Sons.
[11] Swift, Jonathan. 1960. Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings, edited by Louis A. Landa. Boston: Riverside P.
[12] Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé. 1930. The History of British Civilization London: George Routledge.