Catherine R. Eskin
E311: Renaissance Rhetoric: The Tongue, Eloquence and Literature
Spring 1997

RHETORIC RESOURCES AND THE WEB:
SOME PLACES TO START

Bibliography
Bibliography of Rhetoric
not just the Renaissance

Concepts
Sprezzatura
wonderful, clear discussions. Very complete! Includes links to others...

Conferences
Penn English Call for Papers
calls for papers in all literary periods. also includes calls for papers for books!

Renaissance Women: Courtly Power and Influence
lists the topics of the conference and the speakers. Links to women in the Renaissance.

Courses
Electronic Renaissance
history course conducted on-line. some interesting links, most interested in Italy.

Discussion List
H-net History of Rhetoric Discussion List
The address is H-RHETOR@MSU.EDU. May be useful if you have questions that I can't answer...

Glossary
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
more interested in writing and rhetoric. some helpful links like the glossary.

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
VERY cool site. You can go to any of a number of particular terms or just browse through them alphabetically.

Information
Review of Renaissance Culture in Context
haven't seen it....

Journals
English Literary Renaissance
more recent volumes and an index to older numbers. you have to pay to see most of the issues.

Early Modern Literary Studies
entire text; on-line journal.

Renaissance Forum
entire text; on-line journal.

Cahiers Élisabéthains
more recent issues; index to older numbers.

Resource
Classical Rhetoric and Historical Resources
primarily classical, but can be useful for Cicero.

Classical, Medieval & Renaissance Rhetoric
GREAT LINKS to just about everything. easy to use!

An Idiosyncratic History of Rhetoric
haven't seen it, but it sounds interesting....

Texts
Sidney's Defence of Poesie
entire text (original edition) and introduction. you can see the original printed version!

Baron's Renaissance Humanism
primarily European (Italian). very readable.

Rhetoric and Pedagogy
a book, I think...

Compiled 12/96

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