Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians Critical Studies and Sources

Subjects:

• Communications » Rhetoric/Speech

Reviews:

• This valuable resource brings to the scholar's attention many rhetoricians little recognized in literary history. Thirty-three articles make for a valuable guide providing information difficult to acquire elsewhere. Recommended for academic libraries.
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  Reference Book Review
• This volume should prove useful to students of rhetoric and experts in the field.
  —ARBA 95
• ...informative and enjoyable to read, and it will remain a valuable reference work until a great deal more scholarship is done in this underexplored era of rhetorical history.
  —Rhetoric Review

Table of Contents:

• Anon., An Essay on the Action Proper for the Pulpit
• Anthony Blackwell
• Hugh Blair
• James Burgh
• Edmund Burke
• George Cambell
• William Enfield
• Michel Le Faucheur
• Margaret Asker Fell
• Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon
• Alexander Gerard
• Thomas Gibbons
• Charles Gildon
• John Henley
• John Herries
• John Holmes
• David Hume
• Henry Home, Lord Kames
• John Lawson
• Thomas Leland
• John Locke
• John Mason
• Joseph Priestley
• Charles Rollin
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
• Thomas Sheridan
• Adam Smith
• Joshua Steele
• John Stirling
• John Walker
• John Ward
• Robert Watson
• Noah Webster
• John Witherspoon
• Mary Wollstonecraft