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Empire of eloquence : the classical rhetorical tradition in colonial Latin America and the Iberian world / Stuart M. McManus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McManus, Stuart M., 1986- author.
- Series:
- Ideas in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric, Ancient--Study and teaching--Spain--History.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Rhetoric, Ancient--Study and teaching--Latin America--History.
- Latin philology--Study and teaching--Spain--History.
- Latin philology.
- Latin philology--Study and teaching--Latin America--History.
- Latin language, Medieval and modern--Rhetoric.
- Latin language, Medieval and modern.
- Latin language--Church Latin--Rhetoric.
- Latin language.
- Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Rhetoric.
- Intellectual life.
- History.
- Latin language--Church Latin.
- Latin philology--Study and teaching.
- Rhetoric, Ancient--Study and teaching.
- Spain--Colonies--History.
- Spain.
- Colonies.
- Spain--Intellectual life--History.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: An Empire of Eloquence in a Global Renaissance
- Cultural History: Building Empires
- Intellectual History: A Treasure-Trove of Ideas
- Historical Meta-Geography: Defining the Iberian World
- The Classical Rhetorical Tradition
- Chapter Outlines
- Chapter 1 The Foundations of the Empire of Eloquence
- Humanism in Renaissance Iberia
- Rhetoric across the Pre-/Post-conquest Divide
- Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the Iberian World
- The ''Nuts and Bolts'' of the Classical Rhetorical Tradition
- Looking Out at the Iberian World from Mexico City
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2 Philip IV's Global Empire of Eloquence
- Late Humanism in the Hispanic Monarchy
- ''Virtue Politics'' and Good Government in Royal Exequias
- Neo-stoicism and Anti-Machiavellian ''Virtue Politics''
- Lineage, Education and Virtue Politics
- Virtue Politics As a Technology of ''Negotiation''
- The Language of Virtue beyond the Exequias
- Colonialism and the Limits of ''Virtue Politics''
- ''Virtue Politics'' in the Indigenous Republic
- Virtue Politics and Non-imperial Spaces
- Chapter 3 A Japanese Cicero Redivivus
- Humanism at the Arima Seminary
- Humanism on Deck
- Humanist Education in Renaissance Japan
- Jesuit Eloquence in Europe
- Homeward Bound
- Jesuit Eloquence in East Asian Languages
- Jesuit Eloquence in Early Modern China
- Christian Japan and the Iberian World
- Chapter 4 Indo-Humanist Eloquence
- Evangelization and Indo-Humanist Grammar in Goa and Salcete
- How a Jesuit Missionary Read His Mahabharata
- Konkani Sacred Oratory
- ''Orators in the Audience'': Connecting Caste and Erudition
- Chapter 5 Centers, Peripheries and Identities in the Empire of Eloquence
- The Making of a Late Humanist Orator
- Tradition and Innovation in Campos' 1745 Oration
- Prosopopoeia and Patriotism
- Defining Citizenship in the ''Mexican'' Branch of the Republic of Letters
- The Meta-Geography of the Mexicani
- Chapter 6 The Republic of Eloquence
- Defining ''Post-Humanism''
- ''Post-Humanist'' Eloquence in the Hispanic Economic Societies
- Neoclassicism and Republican Nationalism in the September Orations
- Bibliography
- Archival Sources
- Mexico
- Peru
- Chile
- United States of America
- Spain
- Portugal
- Italy
- India
- Philippines
- Japan
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index
- Notes:
- Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: McManus, Stuart M., 1986- Empire of eloquence
- ISBN:
- 9781108909181
- 1108909183
- 9781108905954
- 1108905951
- Publisher Number:
- 40030488904
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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