Jesuit Rhetoric Across Space and Time : Local and Global Perspectives

Gannett, Cinthia (EDT); Brereton, John (EDT); Krauss, Manfred (EDT); Wright, Elizabethada (EDT); Awianowicz, Bartosz (EDT)

ISBN 10: 9004744509 / ISBN 13: 9789004744509

Published by Brill, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jesuit Rhetoric Across Space and Time : Local and Global Perspectives
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004744509
• ISBN 13: 9789004744509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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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.

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).