The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume /

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This engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both denoted a living oratorical art and served as a major factor in political thought. Seeing Hume's philosophy as a key to the literature of the mid-eighteenth century, Adam Potkay compares the staus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Potkay, Adam (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Rebhorn, Wayne A. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Rhetoric and Society
Temas:
Courtesy in literature.
Eloquence.
English language > 18th century > Rhetoric.
English literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Manners and customs in literature.
Virtue in literature.
History.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ancient Eloquence and the Revival of Virtue
  • 2. Eloquence versus Polite Style
  • 3. Regretting Eloquence in Polite Letters: Pope, Gray, and Sterne
  • 4. Religious Eloquence: Hume on the Passions That Unite Us
  • 5. Eloquence and Manners in Macpherson's Poems of Ossian
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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