Abstract
This essay offers "material rhetoric" as a new addition to the usual list of categories used to describe rhetoric in the eighteenth century (neoclassical, belletristic, elocutionary, epistemological/psychological) by examining the material elements of treatises written by Joseph Priestley and Gilbert Austin. Those material elements - namely heat, passion, and impression - are tracked through Priestley and Austin's scientific writings, thereby positioning their particular strains of material rhetoric as legacies of philosophical chemistry.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 261-289 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Aug 2010 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language