TY - BOOK ID - 77888174 TI - Selected essays on rhetoric AU - De Quincey, Thomas AU - Burwick, Frederick PY - 2010 SN - 1280697210 9786613674173 0809386054 9780809386055 9780809329755 0809329751 0809302624 PB - Carbondale, Ill. Southern Illinois University Press DB - UniCat KW - Rhetoric. KW - Language and languages KW - Speaking KW - Authorship KW - Expression KW - Literary style KW - Rhetoric KW - De Quincey, Thomas, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888174 AB - The five essays presented here-Rhetoric, Style, Language, Conversation, and Greek Literature-were published together for the first time in The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey in 1889-1890. Frederick Burwick brings the essays together again in this volume, introducing them by tracing the sources and development of a belletristic theory of rhetoric, which he says "is one of the most original, and for a few critics, the most puzzling of the nineteenth century." Burwick makes the edition complete with a comprehensive index and a selected ER -