Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America: Nan Johnson - Hardcover

Johnson, Nan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809316544 ISBN 13: 9780809316540

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Johnson argues that nineteenth-century rhetoric was primarily synthetic, derived from the combination of classical elements and eighteenth-century belletristic and epistemological approaches to theory and practice. She reveals that nineteenth-century rhetoric supported several rhetorical arts, each conceived systematically from a similar theoretical foundation.

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"Nan Johnson's book is the most comprehensive of the book-length studies of nineteenth-century rhetoric in America..."--Edward P. J. Corbett, Ohio State University "Nan Johnson's book is the most comprehensive of the book-length studies of nineteenth-century rhetoric in America..."--Edward P. J. Corbett, Ohio State University "Nan Johnson' s book is the most comprehensive of the book-length studies of nineteenth-century rhetoric in America... "-- Edward P. J. Corbett, Ohio State University

Synopsis

A analysis of the philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical priorities of the 19th-century rhetorical tradition in North America. Johnson examines the course of study at American and Canadian universities, providing a disciplinary profile of 19th-century rhetoric. She argues that educators as well as society at large recognized a definite theoret

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0809316544
• ISBN 13: 9780809316540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 313