Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 1 of 3 Bum, among 1131101111 111. A civilized ftate, no as: his been cultivated with more care, than that of language, ibyie, and competition The attention paid. To it 'may, indeed, be afl'umed as one mark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Barilli (rhetoric and stylistics, U. of Bologna) presents a concise history of rhetoric, from its origins in ancient Greece to the media technologies of the late 20th century. Covers the pre-Socratic Sophists; the Renaissance humanists; Kant, Hegel, and Croce; Freud, Saussure, and Marshall McLuhan. Cloth edition ($29.95) not seen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 3 of 3 Speaking, and which, as far as the fubjeet allowed, I have endeavoured to form into fome fort of fyftem. It remains, that I enter on the confideration of the moft diliinguifhed kinds of Compofitioh both in Proie and Verfe, and' point out the principles of Criticifm relating to them. This part of the work might eafily be drawn out to a great length but I am fen fible, that critical difcu ions, when they are purfued too far, become both tri ing and te dious. I {hall Rudy, therefore, to avoid nu necefiary prolixity; and hope, at the fame time, to omit nothing that is very material under the feveral heads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 1 of 2 The author was the flrfl who read lectures on this fnhjeci: in the univerfity of Edinburgh. He began with reading them in aprivate character in the year 1759. In the following year he was choren prof'efi'or of rhetoric by the magiftrates and town council of Edinburgh and, in 1762, his majcfty was {leafed to erect and endow a profeflion of rhetoric and belles ettres in that univerfity and the author was appointed the flrf'c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.