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Rhetorical traditions and British romantic literature

New explorations of an important but neglected aspect of Romantic poetic practice.
Print Book, English, 1995
Indiana University Press, Bloomington (Ind.), 1995
VII, 312 p. 25 cm
9780253311801, 0253311802
1014621291
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Sophistic Rhetoric 1. The Method of The Friend /Jerome Christensen 2. oComparing O : Coleridge and Simile /Suan J. Wolfson 3. De Quincey's Rhetoric of Display and Confessions of anEnglish Opium Eater /Lawrence Needam Part II: Classical Rhetoric 4. Romantic Prose and Classical Rhetoric /John R. Nabholtz 5. Wordsworth's Cintra Tract: Politics, the Classics, and the Duty of the Poet ./ Richard W. Clancey 6. The Oratorical Pedlar /Bruce E. Graver 7. Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) and the Epideictic Tradition /David Ginsberg 8. The Case for William Wordsworth: Romantic Invention vs. Romantic Genius /Theresa M. Kelley 9. The Invention/Disposition of The Prelude, Book I /Don H. Bialostosky 10 Romantic Aversions: Apostrophe Reconsidered /J. Douglas Kneale 11. Shelley and the Ciceronian Orator /Stephen C. Behrendt Part III: Biblical Rhetoric 12. Prophetic Form: oThe Still Better OrderO of Blake's Rhetoric /Leslie Tannenbaum 13. Robert Lowth's Sacred Hebrew Poetry and the Oral Dimension of Romantic Rhetoric /Scott Harshbarger Part IV: Enlightenment Rhetoric l4. The New Rhetoric and Romantic Poetics /James Engell l5. The Conversable World: Eighteenth-Century Transformations of the Relation of Rhetoric and Truth /Nancy S. Struever l6. Jeanie Deans and the Nature of True Eloquence /Marie Secor Appendix: Wordsworth and the Rhetorical Tradition (l994) /Klaus Dockhorn Translated by Heidi I. Saur-Stull