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This wide-ranging volume gives proper attention to the views on rhetoric and style set forth by British literary figure Thomas De Quincey (1785OCo1859), whose contributions to the history of rhetoric are often overlooked. Lois Peters Agnew presents an overview of this theoristOCOs life and provides cultural context for his time and place, with particular emphasis on the significance of his rhetoric as both an alternative strain of rhetorical history and a previously unrealized example of rhetoricOCOs transformation in nineteenth-century Britain.a Agnew presents an extensive discussion of De QuinceyOCOs ideas on rhetoric, his theory and practice of conversation, his theory of style and its role in achieving rhetoricOCOs dialogic potential, and his strategic use of humor and irony in such works as "Confessions of an English Opium Eater." Synthesizing previous treatments of De QuinceyOCOs rhetoric and connecting his unusual perspectives on language to the biographical details of his life, Agnew helps readers understand his intellectual development while bringing to light the cultural contexts that prompted radical changes in the ways nineteenth-century British intellectuals conceived

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Author

Lois Peters Agnew

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809331499

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, History, Literary Criticism