Rereading the Elocutionists: The Rhetoric of Thomas Sheridan's A Course of Lectures on Elocution and John Walker's Elements of Elocution

Author:

Spoel Philippa M.

Abstract

Subject to neglect and at times harsh criticism, the eighteenth-century British elocutionary movement merits reconsideration as a complex rhetorical episode within the history of rhetoric. Confirming the value of the rhetorical analysis of rhetorical texts, this essay examines the forms and functions of persuasion which two key treatises from the elocutionary movement enacted within their own socio-historical context. A rhetorical reading of Thomas Sheridan's A Course of Lectures on Elocution (1762) and John Walker's Elements of Elocution (1781) - informedby theories of ethos, logos, and pathos - illustrates the nuances of the different cases made for the scholarly and educational credibility of elocution as a new field of study within the context of late eighteenth-century British culture: Walker's text, while profiting from Sheridan's earlier promotional campaign for the value of elocutionary study, attempts to redress the excesses of his forerunner's “florid harangue[s]” and to fill in the gaps of his incomplete instructional method.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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5. 3 In addition to many recent articles on different aspects of eighteenth-century rhetoric too numerous to cite here, recent book-length publications of note in the field include Lyne??e Lewis Gaillet ed., Scottish Rhetoric and Its Influences (Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum/Hermagoras, 1998); Thomas p. Miller, The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997); Michael G. Moran, Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources (Westport: Greenwood, 1994); H. Lewis Ulman, Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorical Theory (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994); Barbara Warnick, The Sixth Canon: Belletristic Rhetorical Theory and Its French Antecedents (Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993).

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