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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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Rhetoric and Society
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 2 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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