Title: Nineteenth-century rhetoric in North America
Description: Johnson argues that nineteenth-century rhetoric was primarily synthetic, derived from the combination of classical elements and eighteenth-century belletristic and epistemological approaches to theory and practice. She reveals that nineteenth-century rhetoric supported several rhetorical arts, each conceived systematically from a similar theoretical foundation.
Subjects: English language, History, Rhetoric, Study and teaching, English language, rhetoric
Places: Canada, United States
Time periods: 19th century