Rhetorical traditions and British romantic literature
By: edited by Don H. Bialostosky and Lawrence D. Needham.
Contributors: Bialostosky, Don H.; Needham, Lawrence D.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Poetics -- History -- 18th century.; Poetics -- History -- 19th century.; Romanticism -- Great Britain.; English language -- Great Britain -- Rhetoric.
Description: So successful were the appeals to "genius" by the romantic poets that few critics since have paid much attention to the influence of rhetorical traditions on romantic expression. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, though the status of classical rhetoric declined during the nineteenth century, romantic genius did not sweep away rhetoric.

Romantic writers drew upon a number of rhetorical traditions - sophistic, classical, biblical, and enlightenment - in the creation of their art, and interest in various aspects of the art of discourse remained strong. These essays - half of them commissioned for this volume - document the importance of these traditions in shaping the poetry, novels, and criticism of Coleridge, De Quincey, Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, Austen, and Scott.

. The contributors are Stephen C. Behrendt, Don H. Bialostosky, Jerome Christensen, Richard W. Clancey, Klaus Dockhorn, James Engell, David Ginsberg, Bruce E. Graver, Scott Harshbarger, Theresa M. Kelley, J. Douglas Kneale, John R. Nabholtz, Lawrence D. Needham, Marie Secor, Nancy S. Struever, Leslie Tannenbaum, and Susan J. Wolfson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index.