Outward, visible propriety
Subtitle: stoic philosophy and eighteenth-century British rhetorics
By: Lois Peters Agnew.
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781570037672
Subjects: Stoics -- Influence; Common sense; Rhetoric -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Stoic ethics and rhetoric; title: Eighteenth-century common sense and sensus communis; title: Taste and sensus communis; title: Propriety, sympathy, and style fusing individual and social; title: Victorian language theories and the decline of sensus communis.