In addition to the Bibliography I gave you in your compendium, here is a short (well, that's comparative, I suppose) list of other readings, and other rhetorics that are out there. You are by no means obliged to get them, much less read them, but I thought they might be useful for those of you interested in extending your study of Rhetoric to include Courtesy Literature and rhetorical approaches to literature. (This list also includes books of instruction for women, which are generally anti-rhetorical, apart from Juan Luis Vives' treatise.)
Rhetorics
Bruto, Giovanni Michele. The Necessarie, Fit and Convenient Education of a Yong
Gentlewoman (1598). (Available in the English Experience, number 168.)
Castiglione, Baldessar. The Courtier. (Widely available in several different translations.)
Cawdrey, Robert. A Treasurie or Storehouse of Similes: both Pleasaunt, delightfull, and profitable. London, 1600.
Copeland, Robert. The Art of Memorye, that is otherwise called, the Phoenix: a Boke Uery Behousefell and Profytable to all Professors of Seyences, Grammaryens, Rethoryciens, Legystes...Translated out of French. London, no date (Copeland fl. 1508-1547).
Elyot, Sir Thomas. The Boke Named the Governour. (Also widely available in several different editions.)
Gerardus Hyperius, Andreas. The Practis of preaching, otherwise called the Pathway to the Pulpet. London, 1577.
Guazzo, Stefano. The Civile Conversation of M. Steeven Guazzo Written First in Italian and Nowe translated out of the French by George Pettie. London, 1581.
Lever, Ralphe. The Arte of Reason Rightly Termed Witcraft, Teaching a Perfect Way to Argue and Dispute. London, 1573.
Mulcaster, Richard. Positions ... for the training up of children. London, 1581. (Available in at least two editions.)
Phillips, Edward. The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or, the Arts of Wooing and Complementing, 2 pts. London, 1658.
Salter, Thomas. The Mirrhor of Modestie. London, [1579?]. (Available: critical edition by Janis Butler Holm.) (This is an anglicized version of Bruto; unacknowledged, of course.)
Sturm, Johann. A Ritch Storehouse or Treasure Called Nobilitas literata (trans. T. Browne). London, 1570.
Vaughan, William. The Golden-Grove, Moralized in Three Bookes: A Worke Very Necessary for All Such as Would Know How to Governe Themselves, Their Houses, or Their Countrey. London, 1600.
Vives, Juan Luis. The Instruction of the Cristen Woman, trans. R. Hyrde. London, 1529.
Background Information
Conley, Thomas M. Rhetoric in the European Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. (Chapter 5 is devoted to "Rhetoric and Renaissance Humanism".)
Secondary Reading
Amussen, Susan Dwyer. An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England. NY: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Bates, Catherine. The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Burke, Peter. The Art of Conversation. London: Polity, 1993.
Bushnell, Rebecca W. A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Burt, Richard and John Michael Archer, ed. Enclosure Acts. Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Davis, Walter R. Idea and Act in Elizabethan Fiction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969.
Henderson, Katherine Usher and Barbara f. McManus, eds. Half Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1985. (Includes such wonderful titles as: The schoolhouse of women, Hic Mulier, Haec Vir, and A pitiless Mother.)
Houlbrooke, Ralph, ed. English Family Life, 1576-1716: An Anthology from Diaries. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Jones, Ann Rosalind. "Nets and Bridles: Early Modern Conduct Books and Sixteenth-Century Women's Lyrics," in The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality, eds. Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tenenhouse. New York: Methuen, 1987. 39-72.
Kinney, Arthur F. Humanist Poetics: Thought, Rhetoric, and Fiction. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.
Lanham, Richard A. A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. (Available at the bookstore!)
Levin, Carole and Jeanie Watson, ed. Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.
Murphy, James J., ed. Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric. Berkeley. University of California Press, 1983. (We will be reading some essays from this book, but there is a wonderful bibliography at the end, that might help supplement this meager list I'm giving you....)
Murphy, James J., ed. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Twentieth-Century America. NY: Hermagoras Press, 1990. (Interesting because of the discussions of rhetoric.)
Pratt, Karen. "Analogy or Logic; Authority or Experience?: Rhetorical Strategies for and Against Women", in Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture, ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Amherst, MA: D.S. Brewer, 1994. 57-66.
Sharp, J.A. Early Modern England: A Social History, 1550-1760. London: Edward Arnold, 1987.
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage In England, 1500-1800. NY: Harper, 1979.
--------------------. The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Wrightson, Keith. English Society 1580-1680. New Brusnwick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
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