Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America: Nan Johnson - Hardcover

"Nan Johnson's book is the most comprehensive of the book-length studies of nineteenth-century rhetoric in America..."--Edward P. J. Corbett, Ohio State University "Nan Johnson's book is the most comprehensive of the book-length studies of nineteenth-century rhetoric in America..."--Edward P. J. Corbett, Ohio State University "Nan Johnson' s book is the most comprehensive of the book-length studies of nineteenth-century rhetoric in America... "-- Edward P. J. Corbett, Ohio State University

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.