Details

Subject(s)

• Rhetoric [Browse]
• De Quincey, Thomas 1785-1859—Selections [Browse]

Related name

• Burwick, Frederick [Browse]

Series

Landmarks in rhetoric and public address. [More in this series]

Summary note

The five essays presented here-Rhetoric, Style, Language, Conversation, and Greek Literature-were published together for the first time in The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey in 1889-1890. 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 "is one of the most original, and for a few critics, the most puzzling of the nineteenth century." Burwick makes the edition complete with a comprehensive index and a selected

Notes

Originally published: 1967.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Introduction, by F. Burwick.--Rhetoric.--Style.--Language.--Conversation.--A brief appraisal of the Greek literature in its foremost pretensions.

ISBN

• 1-280-69721-0
• 9786613674173
• 0-8093-8605-4

OCLC

• 810039593
• 300582169

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