Selected essays on rhetoric [electronic resource] / by Thomas De Quincey ; edited by Frederick Burwick ; foreword by David Potter.

ISBN:

9780809386055

Title:

Author:

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.

Personal Author:

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlviii, [81]-352 pages).

Series:

Landmarks in rhetoric and public address

General Note:

Originally published: 1967.

Contents:

Foreword by David Potter -- Introduction by Frederick Burwick -- Rhetoric -- Style -- Language -- Conversation -- A brief appraisal of the Greek literature in its foremost pretensions -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Rhetoric.

Added Author:

Burwick, Frederick.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2010

1967

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Summary

The five essays presented here-- Rhetoric , Style , Language , Conversation , and Greek Literature --were published together for the first time in The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey in 1889-1890. Frederick Burwick brings the essays together again in this volume, introducing them by tracing the sources and development of a belletristic theory of rhetoric, which he says "is one of the most original, and for a few critics, the most puzzling of the nineteenth century." Burwick makes the edition complete with a comprehensive index and a selected bibliography.

Author Notes

Frederick Burwick ,a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power , Mimesis and its Romantic Reflections , and many other books.