Jesuit Rhetoric Across Space and Time: Local and Global Perspectives (Jesuit Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004744509 ISBN 13: 9789004744509

Publisher: Brill, 2026

Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to present current scholarship on Jesuit rhetoric in a coherent volume that highlights the diversity of research in the field. It brings together the broadest possible range of perspectives, both across time and space.

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About the Author

Sophie Conte is a full professor of Latin at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France). She has edited Nicolas Caussin: rhétorique et spiritualité à l’époque de Louis XIII (2007).

Cinthia Gannett is a professor emerita of English and English Writing at Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT, USA). She is coeditor, with John C. Brereton, of Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies (2016).

John C. Brereton (1943–2023) was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA, USA). He has published The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925 (1996).

Manfred Kraus is a professor emeritus of Classics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität (Tübingen, Germany). He works on the history and theory of rhetoric, the theory of argumentation, Greek philosophy, Byzantine, Renaissance and Jesuit studies.

Elizabethada A. Wright is a full professor of English, linguistics and writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA). She and Christina R. Pinkston co-edited Catholic Women’s Rhetoric: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance (2022).

Bartosz B. Awianowicz is a professor of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toru´n, Poland). He has published as co-author Monita privata (secreta) Societatis Iesu(2025).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004744509
• ISBN 13: 9789004744509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 524
• Editor: Gannett Cinthia, Brereton John, Krauss Manfred, Wright Elizabethada, Awianowicz Bartosz