The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately, Revised Edition (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)

809 Pages·1990·2.17 MB·English

by  James L. Golden

The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and
title: Whately Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public
Address
author: Golden, James L.
publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0809316021
print isbn13: 9780809316021
ebook isbn13: 9780585163895
language: English
subject Rhetoric, English language--Rhetoric.
publication date: 1990
lcc: PN173.R43 1990eb
ddc: 808
subject: Rhetoric, English language--Rhetoric.
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LANDMARKS IN Rhetoric and Public Address
ALSO IN THIS SERIES
Chironomia: or, A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery, by Gilbert Austin.
Edited with an Introduction by Mary Margaret Robb and Lester
Thonssen.
Selections from the Rhetorical Works of Alexander Bain. Edited with
an Introduction by Andrea A. Lunsford.
Chirologia: or the Natural Language of the Hand and Chironomia:
or, The Art of Manual Rhetoric, by John Bulwer.
The Philosophy of Rhetoric, by George Campbell. Edited with a New
Introduction by Lloyd F. Bitzer.
Lectures Read to the Seniors in Harvard College, by Edward T.
Channing. Edited by Dorothy I. Anderson and Waldo W. Braden.
Cicero on Oratory and Orators. Translated or edited by J. S. Watson,
with an Introduction by Ralph A. Micken.
The Colonial Idiom. Edited by David Potter and Gordon L. Thomas.
Selected Essays on Rhetoric, by Thomas De Quincey. Edited with an
Introduction by Frederick Burwick.
Essays from Select British Eloquence, by Chauncey Allen Goodrich.
Edited with an Introduction by A. Craig Baird.
The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy. Edited with an
Introduction and Critical Apparatus by John T. Harwood.
Lectures Concerning Oratory, by John Lawson. Edited with an
Introduction by E. Neal Claussen and Karl R. Wallace.
Puritan Rhetoric, by Eugene E. White.
Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations
from Books One, Two, and Ten of the "Institutio oratoria." Edited by
James J. Murphy.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, by Adam Smith. Edited with
an Introduction by John M. Lothian.
Elements of Rhetoric, by Richard Whately. Edited by Douglas
Ehninger.
The Rhetorical Writings of John Witherspoon, by Thomas P. Miller.
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The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately
With Updated Bibliographies
James L. Golden
and
Edward P. J. Corbett
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright (c) 1990 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
First published 1968 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately.
(Landmarks in rhetoric and public address)
"With updated bibliographies."
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Includes excerpts from Blair's Lectures on rhetoric
and belles lettres, Campbell's The philosophy of
rhetoric, and Whately's Elements of rhetoric.
1. Rhetoric. 2. English language-Rhetoric.
I. Golden, James L. II. Corbett, Edward P. J.
III. Blair, Hugh, 1718-1800. Lectures on rhetoric and
belles lettres. Selections. 1990. IV. Campbell, George,
1719-1796. Philosophy of rhetoric. Selections. 1990.
V. Whately, Richard, 1787-1863. Elements of rhetoric.
Selections. 1990. VI. Series.
PN173.R43 1990 808 89-11485
ISBN 0-8093-1602-1
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements
of American National Standard for Information Sciences
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-
1984.

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Gratefully dedicated to
our wives and children
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PREFACE
This collection of substantial excerpts from Hugh Blair's Lectures on
Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783), George Campbell's The
Philosophy of Rhetoric (1776), and Richard Whately's Elements of
Rhetoric (1828) was first published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in
1968. During the first ten years after the publication of this anthology,
a notable increase in the number of undergraduate and graduate
courses in rhetoric being offered by Speech/Communication
departments and by English departments in American colleges and
universities created a renewed demand for reprints of classic primary
texts of rhetoric. Until about the middle of this century, it was still
possible to pick up copies in secondhand bookstores of the often-
reprinted rhetoric texts of these three influential British rhetoricians,
but when the supply of secondhand copies of these works dried up,
students had to resort to their college libraries for copies of the
primary texts.
In order to make these works more accessible, the Southern Illinois
University Press in 1963 and 1965 published handsome facsimile
editions, in its Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address series, of
the complete texts of Blair, Campbell, and Whately, with excellent
Introductions by Harold F. Harding (Blair), Lloyd F. Bitzer
(Campbell), and Douglas Ehninger (Whately). (In 1988, the SIU Press
reissued the Campbell volume with a considerably expanded
Introduction by Lloyd F. Bitzer.) The SIU Press edition of Blair,
however, is currently out of print.
This anthology was originally designed for those who wanted the
convenience of having substantial excerpts from these three rhetorics
in a single volume. In 1980, the anthology was reissued, with addenda
to the four bibliographies in the book. In this new printing, the
Introduction and the selections from the three rhetorics remain the
same as they were in the earlier versions, but the four bibliographies
have been updated to include the many new books and articles on
these rhetoricians and on the period in which they flourished. In order
to accommodate the many new bibliographical items in relatively the
same amount of space as the earlier bibliographies occupied,
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we have dropped most of the items in the General Bibliography
dealing with classical rhetoric and with some of the other periods of
rhetoric. We have retained, however, before each of the three major
sections of the book, the Complete Table of Contents of the original
texts so that readers can see how the selections included here fit in
with the complete text.
The selections from Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres are
reprinted here from the one-volume Philadelphia edition, which
between 1784 and 1853 went through at least thirty-seven printings;
Campbell's The Philosophy of Rhetoric is reprinted from the single-
volume 1850 London edition; and Whately's Elements of Rhetoric is
reprinted from the seventh edition of 1846, which incorporated all the
expansions and revisions that Whately made after the original edition
of 1828. We have taken the liberty of abbreviating or omitting entirely
some of the long, inconsequential footnotes in all three texts and of
replacing some of the Latin quotations with English translations.
We are happy that this new printing of The Rhetoric of Blair,
Campbell, and Whately is being published by the Southern Illinois
University Press. Kenney Withers, who is now the Director of the SIU
Press, published the 1968 edition of this anthology when he was an
editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, and we are pleased that he has
undertaken the publication of this new printing of the anthology.
Furthermore, we are pleased because in the last twenty-five years, the
SIU Press has been one of the leaders among university presses in
publishing primary and secondary books of rhetoric.
With rhetoric presently commanding a renewed interest in
departments of Speech/Communication and English, we hope that this
text will help contemporary students become acquainted with the
work of these three British rhetoricians who preserved the best of the
"old rhetoric" and pointed the way to the development of a "new