Scottish Rhetoric and Its Influences

, by Gaillet; Lyneé Lewis

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ISBN: 9781880393277 | 1880393271
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Copyright: 12/1/1997

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Preface

(6)

Acknowledgments

(2)

Contributors

xvii

Introduction

(16)

Winifred Bryan Horner

PART I. REEXAMINING INFLUENTIAL FIGURES

(162)

1 Hume's Concept of Taste in the Context of Epideictic Rhetoric and 18th-Century Ethics

(14)

Dana Harrington

2 Thomas Reid's Philosophy as a Basis for Rhetoric

(12)

William A. Wallace

3 Ekphrastic Rhetoric and National Identity in Adam Smith's Rhetoric Lectures

(14)

Susan C. Jarratt

4 Fitting Words: Propriety in Adam Smith's Rhetoric and Ethics

(10)

Stephen J. McKenna

5 Blair "Abroad": The European Reception of the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Letters

(12)

Don Abbott

6 Student Notes of Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric

(16)

Gary Layne Hatch

7 Professor William Greenfield, Sad Successor to Professor Hugh Blair: A Study of the Second Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Letters at University of Edinburgh, 1784-1798

(16)

Sarah Sloane

8 Staff and Student: The Teaching of Rhetoric in the Scottish Universities

111

(10)

Murray Pittock

9 Rhetoric and Freedom in the Scottish Treatment of the History of Rhetoric

121

(10)

Herman Cohen

10 The Rhetoric of George Campbell's Sermons

131

(10)

Mark Gellis

11 Rhetorical Theory and Practice in Scottish Sermons Against American Independence, 1776-1779

141

(12)

Sandra J. Sarkela

12 Scottish Influences on Richard Whately's Theory of Pathos

153

(10)

Jean Nienkamp

13 "Scotch Knowledge" and the Formation of Rhetorical Studies in 19th-Century England

163

(16)

Linda Ferreira-Buckley

PART II. THE RHETORIC OF NORTH AMERICAN COMPOSITION

179

(50)

14 Samuel P. Newman's A Practical System of Rhetoric: An American Cousin of Scottish Rhetoric

179

(14)

Beth L. Hewett

15 George Jardine's Outlines of Philosophical Education: Prefiguring 20th-Century Composition Theory and Practice

193

(16)

Lynee Lewis Gaillet

16 The Impact of Science on Rhetoric Through the Contributions of the University of Aberdeen's Alexander Bain

209

(10)

Shelley Aley

17 Alexander Bain and the Teaching of Composition in North America

219

(10)

Andrea A. Lunsford

Author Index

229

(4)

Subject Index

233

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