Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800 - A Critical Anthology

Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650 - 1800 traces the development of British rhetorical culture through English translations of selected works by Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cicero, Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Longinus, along with a glossary of English rhetorical vocabulary.

About the author

Tania Sona Smith, Ph.D. (2002), The Ohio State University, is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Calgary in Canada. Her scholarship in eighteenth-century British rhetoric includes analyses of The Lady's Rhetorick (1707), Elizabeth Montagu, and Hester Thrale Piozzi.

Product details

• Authors: Tania Sona Smith
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2020
• EAN: 9789004442283
• ISBN: 978-90-04-44228-3
• No. of pages: 712
• Weight: 1302 g
• Series: International Studies in the H
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies