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Historical studies of rhetoric and rhetoricians

Title
Historical studies of rhetoric and rhetoricians / edited by Raymond F. Howes.
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press [1961]

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Additional Authors
Howes, Raymond F. (Raymond Floyd), 1903-1986
Description
xiv, 446 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Rhetoric
  • Oratory > History
  • Speeches, addresses, etc. > History and criticism
  • Eloquence > History
  • rhetoric (discipline)
  • Eloquence
  • Oratory
  • Rhetoric
  • Speeches, addresses, etc
  • Geschichte
  • Rhetorik
  • Theorie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 383-432)
Contents
Introduction: The field of rhetoric / H.H. Hudson -- Rhetorical theory -- Plato and Aristotle on rhetoric and rhetoricians / E.L. Hunt -- Classical rhetoric and the mediaeval theory of preaching / H. Caplan -- Quintilian's witnesses / H.F. Harding -- Thomas Wilson's contributions to rhetoric / R.H. Wagner -- Bacon's conception of rhetoric / K.R. Wallace -- Sources of the elocutionary movement in England: 1700-1748 / W.S. Howell -- Whately and his rhetoric / W.M. Parrish -- Whately on elocution / J.A. Winans -- John Thelwall: his life, his school, and his theory of elocution / F.W. Haberman -- De Quincey on rhetoric and public speaking / H.H. Hudson -- Rhetorical practice -- Some differences between literary criticism and rhetorical criticism / H.A. Wichelns -- Thomas Wilson's speech against usury / R.H. Wagner -- Milton's rhetoric on the tyranny of kings / W.E. Gilman -- George Whitefield: commoner evangelist / C.H. King -- The contemporary reception of Edmund Burke's speaking / D.C. Bryant -- Lord Thomas Erskine: modern advocate / C.C. Arnold -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge in lecture-box and pulpit / R.F. Howes -- Matthew Arnold: the critic as rhetorician / E.L. Hunt -- The Gladstone-Huxley controversy on Genesis / C.K. Thomas -- The Nazi rhetorician / R. Scanlan -- Epilogue: Rhetoric and poetry / H.H. Hudson.
LCCN
61016667
OCLC
  • ocm00349174
  • 349174
  • SCSB-121088
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library