by Thomas De Quincey
edited by Frederick Burwick
foreword by David Potter
Southern Illinois University Press, 1967
Paper: 978-0-8093-2975-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8093-0262-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-8605-5

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ABOUT THIS BOOK


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 bibliography.