Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres

摘要: This new edition of Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley S. Michael Halloran, answers the need for a complete, reliable text. Although extent its influence cannot be measured fully, Lettres was undoubtedly primary vehicle introducing many eighteenth- nineteenth-century scholars to classical rhetoric French belletristic - success due in part ease with which lectures combine neoclassical Enlightenment thought, accommodating emerging social concerns. Halloran's extensive treatment revives tradition rhetoric, improving understanding place study discourse, while finding him relevant twenty-first. also includes an introduction editors along table variants 1783 1785 editions lectures, prepared Gary Layne Hatch Lara Calder. contains forty-seven remains faithful text London edition. The contextualize motivations thinking providing extended account life era. bibliography works about Blair is invaluable aid, surpassing previous research Blair.