The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume / / Adam Potkay.
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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Potkay, Adam, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume / Adam Potkay. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1994 1 online resource (264 p.) : 2 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Rhetoric and Society 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 of eloquence in Hume's Essays and Natural History of Religion to its status in novels by Sterne, poems by Pope and Gray, and Macpherson's Poems of Ossian.Potkay explains the sense of urgency that the concept of eloquence evoked among eighteenth-century British readers, for whom it recalled Demosthenes exhorting Athenian citizens to oppose tyranny. Revived by Hume and many other writers, the concept of eloquence resonated deeply for an audience who perceived its own political community as being in danger of disintegration. Potkay also shows how, beginning in the realm of literature, the fashion of polite style began to eclipse that of political eloquence. An ethos suitable both to the family circle and to a public sphere that included women, "politeness" entailed a sublimation of passions, a "feminine modesty as opposed to "masculine" display, and a style that sought rather to placate or stabilize than to influence the course of events. For Potkay, the tension between the ideals of ancient eloquence and of modern politeness defined literary and political discourses alike between 1726 and 1770: although politeness eventually gained ascendancy, eloquence was never silenced. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) 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. bisacsh Potkay, Adam, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Rebhorn, Wayne A., contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732102 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501732102 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501732102/original |
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