Nineteenth-century Rhetoric in North America

Nineteenth-century Rhetoric in North America

Author: Nan Johnson

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780809316557

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Johnson argues that nineteenth-century rhetoric was primarily synthetic, derived from the combination of classical elements and eighteenth-century belletristic and epistemological approaches to theory and practice. She reveals that nineteenth-century rhetoric supported several rhetorical arts, each conceived systematically from a similar theoretical foundation.