Scottish Rhetoric and Its Influences

Lynee Lewis Gaillet

Preface; Introduction, Winifred Bryan Horner; Part 1 Reexamining Influential Figures; Chapter 1 Hume’s Concept of Taste in the Context of Epideictic Rhetoric and 18th-Century Ethics, Dana Harrington; Chapter 2 Thomas Reid’s Philosophy as a Basis for Rhetoric, William A. Wallace; Chapter 3 Ekphrastic Rhetoric and National Identity in Adam Smith’s Rhetoric Lectures, Susan C. Jarratt; Chapter 4 Fitting Words: Propriety in Adam Smith’s Rhetoric and Ethics, Stephen J. McKenna; Chapter 5 Blair “Abroad”: The European Reception of the Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Don Abbott; Chapter 6 Student Notes of Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric, Gary Layne Hatch; Chapter 7 Professor William Greenfield, Sad Successor to Professor Hugh Blair: A Study of the Second Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at University of Edinburgh, 1784–1798, Sarah Sloane; Chapter 8 Staff and Student: The Teaching of Rhetoric in the Scottish Universities, Murray Pittock; Chapter 9 Rhetoric and Freedom in the Scottish Treatment of the History of Rhetoric, Herman Cohen; Chapter 10 The Rhetoric of George Campbell’s Sermons, Mark Gellis; Chapter 11 Rhetorical Theory and Practice in Scottish Sermons Against American Independence, 1776–1779, Sandra J. Sarkela; Chapter 12 Scottish Influences on Richard Whately’s Theory of Pathos, Jean Nienkamp; Chapter 13 “Scotch Knowledge” and the Formation of Rhetorical Studies in 19th-Century England, Linda Ferreira-Buckley; Part 2 The Rhetoric of North American Composition; Chapter 14 Samuel P. Newman’s A Practical System of Rhetoric: An American Cousin of Scottish Rhetoric, Beth L. Hewett; Chapter 15 George Jardines Outlines of Philosophical Education: Prefiguring 20th-Century Composition Theory and Practice, Lynee Lewis Gaillet; Chapter 16 The Impact of Science on Rhetoric Through the Contributions of the University of Aberdeen’s Alexander Bain, Shelley Aley; Chapter 17 Alexander Bain and the Teaching of Composition in North America, Andrea A. Lunsford;