When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal p

Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience. In The Imperfect Friend, Wendy Olmsted examines a broad r

Recognized scholars honor Robert Tannehill in this Festschrift.

Charting developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, John Staines here explores the political con

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twent