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Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Blair and the Transition to Belletrism | 2 | |
Scottish Belletrists and "The Sixth Canon" | 4 | |
French Belletrism | 6 | |
The Sixth Canon as a "Rhetorical Theory" | 10 | |
The French Influence | 14 | |
Ch. 1 | Lamy's L'Art de parler and the Eclipse of Invention | 18 |
Bernard Lamy's L'Art de parler | 21 | |
L'Art de parler as a Precursor of Belletrism | 22 | |
Invention in L'Art de parler | 24 | |
The Psychological Dimensions of Persuasion | 28 | |
Vraisemblance | 32 | |
L'Art de parler as a Transitional Rhetoric | 34 | |
The Sixth Canon: A New Theory of Influence | 34 | |
Oratory as Portraiture | 35 | |
Propriety | 38 | |
Vraisemblance | 40 | |
Clarity | 43 | |
Ch. 2 | Propriety | 47 |
Bienseance and Other Critical Terms | 47 | |
Bienseance in Fenelon's Rhetorical Theory | 50 | |
Sympathy and Propriety in Adam Smith's Lectures | 57 | |
Propriety and Plausibility in George Campbell's Works | 62 | |
Propriety in Hugh Blair's Lectures | 68 | |
Ch. 3 | The Sublime | 74 |
Boileau and the Sublime | 76 | |
Joseph Priestley's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism | 84 | |
George Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric | 87 | |
Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres | 89 | |
Ch. 4 | Taste | 95 |
An Empiricist View of Taste: Hume and Gerard | 97 | |
A Common Sense Philosophy of Taste: Reid's Reply to Hume and Gerard | 107 | |
Hugh Blair's Theory of Taste: Something for Everyone | 111 | |
Taste in George Campbell's Rhetorical Theory | 116 | |
The Roots of Empiricist Aesthetics in the Work of Abbe Dubos | 120 | |
Conclusion | 129 | |
Notes | 137 | |
Selected References | 161 | |
Index | 171 |
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