4 Proof by Digressio: A Rhetoric of Marriage

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Rhetorical Structure and Critical Re-construction 3
5. Inventio Heroicae
6. Decorum, Sequence, and Proof: The Problematics of Analogy 17
7. Redcrosse as Courtier; Narrative as Argument 34
8. luris Comitatus
9. Britomart Ascendant and Venus Transcendent 53
10. Proof by Digressio: A Rhetoric of Marriage 73
11. Civilitatis Causa
12. Ovid’s Cone and the Rhetoric of Law 93
13. Radigund, Britomart, and the Rhetoric of Psychomachia 114
14. Artegall, Mercilla, and Calidore: The Ethos of Fortune 135
15. “(Who Knowes Not Arlo-Hill?)”: A Grammar of Closure
16. Mount Acidale, Arlo Hill, and the Ethos of Pastoral 161
17. Envoy and Peroratio: Spenser on Arlo Hill 184
18. Schematic of Classical Rhetoric and Glossary of Terms 205
19. Notes 211
20. Bibliography 233
21. Index 241