Selected Essays on Rhetoric

By: de Quincey, Thomas

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809329751
• ISBN13: 9780809329755
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"