This study pays particular attention to trends in the light of the contemporary interest in the study of rhetoric and belles lettres in Scotland during the peri

An outgrowth of the recent meeting of the International Society of the History of Rhetoric, this collection challenges the reader to reexamine the broad influen

This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three dec

Two of the most important English-language texts of the eighteenth century were George Campbell's Philosophy of rhetoric (1776) and Hugh Blair's Lectures on rhe