Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric

Contents

Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Rhetoric, Emotion, and Places of Persuasion 1 Rhetorics, Pedagogies, and Methods 1 Topics: Simultaneous and Consecutive 9 The Trouble with Emotion, and Rhetoric 12 Emotional Educations 21 The Trouble with Rhetoric, and Emotion 27 1. Decentering Rhetoric 33 Reviewing Rhetoric 35 Everyone Knows: Antique Characters 44 Everyone Knew: Rhetoric as Its Precedents 51 Poetry 55 Drama 58 Cures 61 Sophisticated Rhetoric 63 Divine Rhetoric 66 2. Trusting Texts 73 Trusting Printing 82 Trusting Rhetoric 86 “Sincerely, and Prudently, Yours” 94  3. The Mobility of Trust 106 Literature, “Literature,” and Rhetorical Truths 111 Rhetorical Rhetoric and Literary Truth 118 The Communicative Essence of Language: Pure British Tongues 127 The Turn to Words 133 The Ends of Trust 139 Conclusion: Centering Rhetoric—The Psychology of Anxious Moments and Solemn Occasions 145 The Motive to Act 148 The Motivator 151 Notes 157 Works Cited 165 Index 189 vi Contents ...