Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians : Critical Studies and Sources
Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #9606
ISBN: 0313279098
Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; This reference provides critical overviews and bibliographic information for all major and many minor British and American rhetoricians of the eighteenth century. Eighteenth-century rhetorical theory and rhetoricians figured prominently in the development of contemporary composition and rhetoric. This reference provides critical overviews of the careers and contributions of all major and many minor British and American rhetoricians of the 18th century. The volume begins with an introduction that discusses the various rhetorical movements of the time, including the importance of women to rhetorical theory. The entries that follow are arranged alphabetically, and each provides a bibliography of important primary and critical sources. A bibliography of general sources on 18th-century rhetoric concludes the work. Contents: An Essay on the Action Proper for the Pulpit / Anonymous --Anthony Blackwall --Hugh Blair --James Burgh --Edmund Burke --George Campbell --William Enfield --Michel Le Faucheur --Margaret Askew Fell --Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon --Alexander Gerard --Thomas Gibbons --Charles Gildon --John Henley --John Herries --John Holmes --Henry Home, Lord Kames --John Lawson --Thomas Leland --John Locke --John Mason --Joseph Priestley --Charles Rollin --Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury --Thomas Sheridan --Adam Smith --Joshua Steele --John Stirling --John Walker --John Ward --Robert Watson --Noah Webster --John Witherspoon --Mary Wollstonecraft.; Ex-Library; x, 318 pages.
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