Selected Essays on Rhetoric

by Frederick Burwick and Thomas de Quincey

The five essays presented hereOCo"Rhetoric," "Style," "Language," "Conversation," and "Greek Literature"OCowere published together for the first time in "The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey" in 1889OCo1890. 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 OC is one of the most original, and for a few critics, the most...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809302624
• ISBN13: 9780809302628
• Release Date: August 1967
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"