Inextricably linked with logic and spoken and written communication, rhetoric came by the eighteenth century to provide standards for the composition and criticism of persuasive, expository, didactic, historical, philosophical and poetical forms of expression. Leading spokesmen for the new rhetoric in the eighteenth century included George Campbell and Hugh Blair. There still existed at this time theorists of the ancient rhetorical system of Aristotle and Cicero such as John Milner, as well as stylistic rhetoricians such as John Stirling, Daniel Turner and Thomas Gibbons, and lastly elocutionists such as John Lawson. This collection of exceedingly hard-to-find texts will be a boon to libraries with students and researchers of the eighteenth century, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, both ancient and modern, and literary criticism.
--unique collection of rare works on rhetoric in the eighteenth century
--includes Campbell's influential and scarce The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776)
--valuable resource for students of rhetoric, logic and literary criticism
--representative selection of old and new rhetoric
