Selected Bibliography
for the Study of Rhetoric

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Research Resources

Classical

General studies

Bibliographies

Medieval

Greek

Handbooks

Renaissance

Roman

Journals

Eighteenth century

Medieval

Conferences

Nineteenth century

Renaissance and 17th century

Historiography

Twentieth century

Eighteenth century

Nineteenth century

Twentieth century

Primary

Classical

Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. Edited by Kathleen Freeman. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1971.

(Anaximenes.). Rhetorica ad Alexandrum. Translated by H. Rackham (Preceded by Problems, Books XXII-XXXVIII. Translated by W. S. Hett.) The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937.

Apthonius, Progymnasmata. Trans. Ray Nadeau. Speech Monographs 19 (1952): 264-85.

Aristotle. On Rhetoric: a Theory of Civil Discourse. trans. George A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.

---. Nichomachean Ethics.

(Cicero.) Ad C. Herennium de Ratione Dicendi (Rhetorica ad Herennium). Translated by Harry Caplan. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954.

---. Brutus. Translated by G. L. Hendrickson. Orator. Translated by H. M. Hubbell. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.

Cicero on Oratory and Orators. Translated by J. S. Watson. Edited by Ralph A. Micken. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970.

---. De Inventione-De Optimo Genere Oratorum-Topica. Translated by H. M. Hubbell. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949.

---. De Oratore. Books I-II. Translated by E. W. Sutton and H. Rackman. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942. Revised, 1948.

---. De Oratore. Book III. De Fato-Paradoxoa Stoicorum-De Partitione Oratoria. Translated by H. Rackham. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942.

---. The Fragmentary Orations: An Edition with Commentary. Ed. Jane W. Crawford. Menston, Engl.: Scholar Press, 1994.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus: The Critical Essays. Translated by Stephen Usher. Vol. 1. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus: On Literary Composition. Edited with an introduction, translation, notes, glossary, and appendixes by W. Rhys Roberts. London: Macmillan and Co., 1910.

(Aristotle), The Poetics and Longinus, On the Sublime. Translated by W. Hamilton Fyfe. Demetrius, On Style. Translated by W. Rhys Roberts. The Loeb Classical Library. Rev. ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1932.

The Ars minor of Donatus. Trans. W. J. Chase. Madison: University of Wisconsin Studies in the Social Sciences and History (No. 36), 1926.

Hermogenes. "Hermogenes On Stasis: A Translation with an Introduction and Notes." Speech Monographs 31 (1964): 361-424.

Horace. Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica. Trans. H. Rushton Fairclough. Cambridge: Loeb Classical Library, 1926.

Isocrates in Three Volumes. Trans. George Norlin and LaRue Van Hook. Cambridge: Loeb Classical Library, 1929.

Lysias: Selected Speeches. Ed. Christopher Carey. New York: Cambridge UP, 1990.

Minucian. "Minucian, On Epichiremes: An Introduction and Translation." Trans. and commentary by Prentice A. Meador, Jr. Speech Monographs 31 (1964): 54-63.

Plato: Euthyphro-Apology-Crito-Phaedo-Phaedrus. Translated by H. N. Fowler. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914.

Plato: Gorgias-A Revised text with Introduction and Commentary. Edited by E. R. Dodds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.

Plato's Phaedrus: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary. Translated by R. Hackforth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Plutarch: Moralia [Lives of the Ten Orators]. Translated by H. N. Fowler. Vol. 10.The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.

Plutarch: Parallel Lives; Demosthenes and Cicero-Alexander and Caeser. Translated by B. Perrin. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1919.

"The Rhetoric of Philodemus." Trans. Harry M. Hubbell. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of the Arts and Sciences 23 (September, 1920): 243-382.

Philostratus: Lives of the Sophists. Eunapius: Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists. Translated by Wilmer C.Wright. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1921.

The Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Companion to Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Edited by Kathleen Freeman. 2nd ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966.

The Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian. Translated by H. E. Butler. 4 vols. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920-1922.

Seneca: Controversiae, I-VI. Translated by Michael Winterbottom. Vol. 1. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Seneca: Controversiae, VII-X. Suasoriae. Translated by Michael Winterbottom. Vol. 2. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.

The Older Sophists. Edited by Rosamond Kent Sprague. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972.

Suetonius: The Lives of the Caesers (continued), The Lives of Illustrious Men. Translated by J. C. Rolfe. Vol. 2. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914.

---. "When Rhetoric was Outlawed in Rome: A Translation and Commentary of Suetonius' Treatise on Early Roman Rhetoricians." Trans. and commentary by Richard Leo Enos. Speech Monographs 39 (1972): 37-45.

Tacitus: Agricola, Germania, Dialogus. Trans. W. H. Fyfe. Oxford: 1908.

Medieval

Alain of Lille. Anticlaudianus, or the Good and Perfect Man. Translated by James J. Sheridan. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1973.

Alcuin. The Rhetoric of Alcuin & Charlemagne; a Translation, with an Introduction, the Latin Text, and Notes. Edited and translated by Wilbur S. Howell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941. Reprinted: New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.

d´Andeli, Henri. The Battle of the Seven Arts: A French Poem by Henri d´Andeli, Trouvère of the Thirteenth Century. Edited and translated by Louis J. Paetow. Memoirs of the University of California, no. 4, 1. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1914. Reprinted as pt. 1 of Paetow's Two Medieval Satires on the University of Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927.

Augustine. On Christian Doctrine. Translated by D. W. Robertson. Library of Liberal Arts, 80. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.

Averroes´ Three Short Commentaries on Aristotle's "Topics," "Rhetoric," and "Poetics." Edited and translated by Charles E. Butterworth. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977.

de Basevorn, Robert. Forma Praedicandi. Trans. Leopold Krul. In James J. Murphy, Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1971.

Bede. Liber de schematibus et tropis. Trans. Gussie H. Tanenhaus. Quarterly Journal of Speech 48 (1962): 237-53.

Boethius. Boethius's De topicis differentiis: Translated, with Notes and Essays on the Text. Edited by Eleonore A. Stump. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978.

Capella, Martianus. Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts. Vol.2: The Marriage of Philology and Mercury. Translated by William H. Stahl, Richard Johnson, and E. L. Burge. Columbia University Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, no. 84. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

Caplan, Harry. Of Eloquence: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Rhetoric. Edited by Anne King and Helen North. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.

Cassiodorus Senator. An Introduction to Divine and Human Readings by Cassiodorus Senator; Translated with an Introduction and Notes. Translated by Leslie W, Jones. Columbia University Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, no. 40. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. Reprinted: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1969.

Miller, Joseph M., Michael H. Prosser, and Thomas W. Benson, eds. Readings in Medieval Rhetoric. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.

Preminger, Alex, O. B. Hardison, Jr., and Kevin Kerrane, eds. Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism: Translations and Interpretations. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1974.

Renaissance

Bacon, Francis. The Collected Works of Francis Bacon. Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath. 14 vols. London: Longmans, 1857-1874.

Blount, Thomas. The Academie of Eloquence (1654). English Linguistics 296. Menston, England: Scolar Press, 1971.

Bulwer, John. Chirologia: or the Natural Language of the Hand (and) Chironomia: or the Art of Manual Rhetoric (1644). Edited by James W. Cleary. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974.

Cox, Leonard, The Arte or Craft of Rhetoryke (1530?). Edited by Frederic Ives Carpenter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1899.

Day, Angel. The English Secretorie (1586). Edited by Robert O. Evans. SFR, 1967.

Dugard, William. Rhetorices Elementa (1648). English Linguistics 365. Menston, England: Scolar Press, 1972.

Erasmus, Desiderius. Collected Works of Erasmus. Literary and Educational Writings 2: De Copia, De Ratione Studii. Edited by Craig R. Thompson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.

Farnaby, Thomas. Index Rhetoricus (1625). English Linguistics 240. Menston, England: Scolar Press, 1970.

Fenner, Dudley. The Artes of Logike and Rhetorike (1584). In Four Tudor Books on Education, edited by Robert D. Pepper, pp. 151-80. SFR, 1966.

Fraunce, Abraham. The Arcadian Rhetorike (1588). Edited by Ethel Seaton. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1950.

Hawes, Stephen. The Pastyme of Pleasure (1517). Edited by William Edward Mead. London: Oxford University Press, 1928.

Hobbes, Thomas. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. Edited by Sir William Molesworth. 11 vols. London: J. Bohn, 1839-1845.

Hoskins, John. Directions for Speech and Style (1599?). Edited by Hoyt Hudson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1935.

Peacham, Henry. The Garden of Eloquence (2nd ed., 1593). Edited by William G. Crane. SFR, 1954.

Poole, Joshua. Practical Rhetorik (1663). English Linguistics 341. Menston, England: Scolar Press, 1972.

Puttenham, George. The Art of English Poesie (1589). Edited by Gladys Doidge Willcock and Alice Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936.

Rainolde, Richard. The Foundacion of Rhetorike (1563). Edited by Francis R. Johnson. SFR,(New York), 1945.

Ramus, Peter. Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian (1549). Translated by Carole Newlands and James J. Murphy. DeKalb: University of Northern Illinois Press, 1983.

Sherry, Richard. A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes (1550). Edited by Herbert W. Hildebrandt. SFR, 1961.

Smith, John. The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd (1567). English Linguistics 205 Menston, England: Scolar Press, 1969.

Wilson, Thomas. The Arte of Rhetorique (1553). Edited by G. H. Mair. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909.

Vives, Juan. Vives: On Education: A Translation of the De Tradendis Disciplinis (1531). Translated by Foster Watson, 1913. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971.

Eighteenth Century

Anon. The Art of Speaking in Public or an Essay on the Action of an Orator. London, 1727.

---. An Essay on the Action Proper for the Pulpit. London,1753.

---. An Essay upon Pronunciation and Gesture, Founded upon the Best Rules and Authorities of the Ancients. London, 1750.

---. An Essay upon the Action of an Orator; As to his Pronunciation and Gesture, Useful both for Divines and Lawyers, and necessary for all Young Gentlemen, that study how to Speak well in Publick. London, 1702.

Blackwell, Anthony. An Introduction to the Classics. London, 1718. Reprinted with revisions and additions in Robert Dodsley, The Preceptor. London, 1748.

Blair, Hugh. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. 2 vols. London and Edinburgh, 1783.

Burgh, James. The Art of Speaking. London, 1761.

Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 1757. Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1958.

Campbell, George. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. London, 1776. Reprinted: New Edition, London, 1850.

Crousaz, Jean Pierre de. A New Treatise of the Art of Thinking; Or, a Compleat System of Reflections, Concerning the Conduct and Improvement of the Mind. 2 vols. London, 1724.

Duncan, William. "The Elements of Logick." In Robert Dodsley, The Preceptor. London, 1748.

Fénelon, François de la Mothe. Fénelon's Dialogues on Eloquence. Trans. Wilbur Samuel Howell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951.

Gibbons, Thomas. Rhetoric. London, 1767.

Hartley, David E. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations. London, 1767.

Holmes, John. The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy: In Two Books. London, 1739.

Home, Henry, Lord Kames. Elements of Criticism. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1762.

Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. 3 vols. London, 1739-1740.

---. An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding. London, 1748.

Lawson, John. Lectures Concerning Oratory Delivered in Trinity College, Dublin. London, 1758.

Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding. London, 1690.

Mason, John. An Essay on Elocution or Pronunciation. London, 1748.

Priestley, Joseph. A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism. London, 1777.

Reid, Thomas. An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense. London and Edinburgh, 1764.

Sheridan, Thomas. A Course of Lectures on Elocution Together With Two Dissertations on Language. London, 1762.

Smith, Adam. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Delivered in the University of Glasgow by Adam Smith Reported by a Student in 1762-63. Edited by John M. Lothian. Southern Illinois University Press Series, Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address, edited by David Potter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971.

Steele, Joshua. An Essay Towards Establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech to be Expressed and Perpetuated by Peculiar Symbols. Piccadilly, 1775.

The New Science of Giambattista Vico. Trans. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch. Ithaca: Cornell, 1968.

Walker, John. Elements of Elocution. Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on the Art of Reading: Delivered at several Colleges in the University of Oxford. London, 1781.

Ward, John. A System of Oratory, Delivered in a Course of Lectures Publicly Read at Gresham College. 2 vols. London, 1759.

Watts, Isaac. Logick; Or the Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth. London, 1725.

Webster, Noah. An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking. Philadelphia, 1785. Reprinted: 3d ed., Greatly Enlarged. Philadelphia, 1787.

Nineteenth Century

Adams, John Quincy. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University. 2 vols. Cambridge, Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810.

Austin, Gilbert. Chironomia, or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806.

Bain, Alexander. Education as a Science. New York: Appleton, 1897.

---. English Composition and Rhetoric. New York: Appelton, 1866.

---. On Teaching English, With Detailed Examples and an Enquiry into the Definition of Poetry. New York: Appelton, 1887.

Buck, Gertrude. The Metaphor-A Study in the Psychology of Rhetoric. Contributions to Rhetorical Theory No. 5. Edited by Fred Newton Scott. Ann Arbor: Inland Press, 1899.

Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. Man Cannot Speak for Her: Key Texts of the Early Feminists. New York: Praeger, 1989.

Channing, Edward T. Lectures Read to the Seniors at Harvard College. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.

Day, Henry N. The Art of Discourse. New York: Charles Scribner and Co., 1867.

De Quincy, Thomas. De Quincey's Literary Criticism. Edited by Helen Darbishire. London: Henry Frowde. 1909.

---. De Quincey's Essays on Style, Rhetoric, and Language. Edited by Fred Newton Scott. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1893.

---. Essays on Rhetoric. Edited by Frederick Burwick. Southern Illinois University Press Series, Landmarks in Public Address, edited by David Potter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967.

Genung, John Franklin. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric. 2nd ed. Boston: Ginn and Co., 1886.

Goodrich, Chauncey Allen. Select British Eloquence. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1852.

Hill, Adams Sherman. The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application. 2nd ed. New York: American Book Co., 1895.

Hill, David J. The Science of Rhetoric. New York: Sheldon and Co., 1877.

Hope, M. B. The Princeton Text-Book in Rhetoric. Princeton, N. J.: John T. Robinson, 1859.

Jamieson, Alexander. A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature. First American from last London edition. New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1820.

Lewis, Edwin H. The History of the English Paragraph. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1894.

Newman, Samuel P. A Practical System of Rhetoric. Portland: Shirley and Hyde, 1827.

Pearson, Henry C. The Principles of Composition, with an Introduction by Arlo Bates. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1897.

Peirce, Charles Sanders. "Ideas, Stray or Stolen, About Scientific Writing, No. 1." Edited by John Michael Krois. PR 11 (Summer 1978): 147-55.

Rush, James. The Philosophy of the Human Voice. Philadelphia: J. Maxwell, 1827.

Scott, Fred Newton, and Joseph Villiers Denney. Composition-Rhetoric, Designed for Use in Secondary Schools. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1897.

---. Paragraph-Writing. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1897.

[Spencer, Herbert]. "The Philosophy of Style." Westminster Review 114 (October 1852): 234-47.

Wendell, Barrett. English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute. New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1891.

Whately, Richard. Elements of Rhetoric. London, Oxford: John Murry and J. F. Parker, 1828.

Twentieth Century

Bahktin. The Dialogic Imagination. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Ed. Michael Holquist. U of Texas P, 1981.

Baird, A. Craig. Rhetoric: A Philosophical Enquiry. New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1965.

Beale, Walter H. A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Bitzer, Lloyd F. "The Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 (1968): 1-14.

Booth, Wayne C. Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

---. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Burke, Kenneth. Counter-Statement. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

---. A Grammar of Motives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

---. Language as Symbolic Action. University of California Press, 1966.

---. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

D'Angelo, Frank. A Conceptual Theory of Rhetoric. 1975.

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. 1976.

Kinneavy, James L. A Theory of Discourse. New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1980.

Langer, Susanne K. Philosophy in a New Key. Cambridge: Harvard, 1942.

McKeon, Richard. Rhetoric: Essays in Invention & Discovery. Ed. and Intro. Mark Backman. Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow, 1987.

Perelman, Chaim. The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation. Translated by John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969.

---. The Realm of Rhetoric. Translated by William Kluback. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982.

Richards, I. A. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936.

Richards, I. A., and C. K. Ogden. The Meaning of Meaning. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1923.

Scott, Robert L. "On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic: Ten Years Later." Central States Speech Journal 27 (1976): 258-66.

Toulmin, Stephen E. The Uses of Argument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958.

Weaver, Richard M. The Ethics of Rhetoric. 1953.

---. Language is Sermonic: Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric. Edited by Richard L. Johannesen, Bernard Strickland, and Ralph T. Eubanks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970.

Secondary

General Studies

Barilli, Renato. Rhetoric. Trans. Giuliana Menozzi. Theory and History of Literature 63. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.

Bryant, Donald C. "Rhetoric: Its Function and Its Scope." Quarterly Journal of Speech 39 (1953): 401-24.

Burke, Kenneth. "Traditional Principles of Rhetoric." A Rhetoric of Motives. 1950; Berkeley: U of California P, 1969. 49-180.

Connors, Robert J., Lisa S. Ede, and Andrea A. Lunsford, eds. Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IN: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.

Corbett, Edward P.J. "A Survey of Rhetoric." Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 2nd Ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1971. 594-630.

Covino, William A. The Art of Wondering: A Revisionist Return to the History of Rhetoric. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1988.

Ehninger, Douglas. "Colloquy II. A Synoptic view of Systems of Western Rhetoric." Quarterly Journal of Speech 61 (1975): 448- 53.

---. "On Systems of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 (1968): 131-44.

Enos, Theresa, and Richard McNabb, eds. Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.

Farrell, Thomas B. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Freedman, Aviva, and Ian Pringle, eds. Reinventing the Rhetorical Tradition. Conway, AR: L&S Books, 1980.

Golden, James L., Goodwin Berquist, and William E. Coleman. The Rhetoric of Western Thought. 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt: 1983.

Gross, Alan G., and William M. Keith, eds. Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science. Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 1996.

IJsseling, Samuel. Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict: An Historical Survey. Trans. Paul Dunphy. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976.

Katz, Steven B. The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric: Toward the Temporal Dimension of Affect in Reader Response and Writing. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1995.

Kennedy, George A. Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina P, 1980.

---. Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction. New York: Oxford, 1998.

---. A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1994.

Meyer, Michel. Rhetoric, Language, and Reason. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 1994.

Murphy, James J., ed. The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing. New York: Modern Language Association, 1982.

Natanson, Maurice, and Henry W. Johnstone, eds. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Argumentation. 1965.

Roberts, R. H., and J. M. M. Good, eds. The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1993.

Scott, Robert L. "Colloquy I. A Synoptic View of Systems of Western Rhetoric." Quarterly Journal of Speech 61 (1975): 439- 47.

Schwartz, Joseph, and John Rycenga, eds. The Province of Rhetoric. 1965.

Sutton, Jane. "The Death of Rhetoric and Its Rebirth in Philosophy." Rhetorica 4 (1986): 203-226.

Swearingen, Jan. Western Lies.

Tanner, William E., and J. Dean Bishop, eds. Rhetoric and Change. Mesquite, TX: Ide House, 1982.

Vickers, Brian. In Defence of Rhetoric. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.

Vickers, Brian, ed. Rhetoric Revalued. 1983.

Vitanza, Victor. Negation, Subjectivity and The History of Rhetoric. Albany, NY: State University of New York P, 1997.

Vitanza, Victor J., ed. PRE/TEXT: The First Decade. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.
paper and cloth.

Greek Rhetorical Theory

Baldwin, Charles Sears. Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1959.

Carter, Michael. "Stasis and Kairos: Principles of Social Construction in Classical Rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 7 (1988):

Clark, Donald. Rhetoric in Greco-Roman Education. New York: Columbia UP, 1957.

de Romilly, Jacqueline. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1975.

de Romilly, Jacqueline. Les grands sophistes dans l'Athènes de Périclès. Paris: Fallois, 1988.

Dobson, John F. The Greek Orators. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1971.

Dodds, E. R. The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1964.

Farrar, Cynthia. The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.

Havelock, Eric A. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1982.

Havelock, Eric A. The Muse Learns to Write.

Havelock, Eric A., and Jackson P. Hershbell, eds. Communication Arts in the Ancient World. Humanistic Studies in the Communication Arts. New York: Hastings House, 1978.

Jaeger, Werner. Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture. Trans. Gilbert Highet. 3 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 1945.

Jarratt, Susan. Rereading the Sophists.

Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

Kennedy, George. The Art of Persuasion in Greece. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.

---. A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1994.

Kinneavy, James L. Greek Rhetorical Origins of Christian Faith: An Inquiry. New York: Oxford, 1987.

Lentz, Tony M. Orality and Literacy in Hellenic Greece. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1988.

Marrou, H. I. A History of Education in Antiquity. Trans. George Lamb. New York: New American Library, 1964.

Murphy, James J., ed. Demosthenes' on the Crown: A Critical Case Study of a Masterpiece of Ancient Oratory. Davis, CA: Hermagoras P, 1983.

Murphy, James, ed. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1983.

Ober, Josiah. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1989.

Reynolds, John Frederick, ed. Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: Classical Concepts for Contemporary Composition and Communication. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993.

Snell, Bruno. The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1953.

Snyder, Jane McIntosh. The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1988.

Untersteiner, Mario. The Sophists. Trans. Kathleen Freeman. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.

Welch, Kathleen E. The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990.

Yates, Frances Amelia. The Art of Memory. London & Chicago: Routledge and U of Chicago P, 1966.

Roman Rhetorical Theory

Caplan, Harry. "The Decay of Eloquence at Rome in the First Century." Studies in Speech and Drama in Honor of Alexander M. Drummond. Ed. Herbert A. Wichlens. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1944. 295-325.

Clarke, Martin L. Rhetoric at Rome. London: Cohen & West, 1953.

Gwynn, Aubrey. Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1926.

Kaster, Robert A. Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 11. Berkeley, CA: California UP, 1988.

Kennedy, George.. The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World: 300 B.C.-A.D. 300. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1972.

Medieval Rhetorical Theory

Abelson, Paul. The Seven Liberal Arts: A Study in Mediaeval Culture. 1906. New York: AMS, 1972.

Baldwin, Charles Sears. Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic. 1928. St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1976.

McKeon, Richard. "Poetry and Philosophy in the Twelfth Century: The Renaissance of Rhetoric." Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery. Ed. and intro. Mark Backman. Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow, 1987. 167-93.

McKeon, Richard. "Rhetoric in the Middle Ages." Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery. Ed. and intro. Mark Backman. Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow, 1987. 121-66.

Murphy, James. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1974.

Murphy, James. Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1978.

Spence, Sarah. Rhetorics of Reason and Desire: Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadors. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Up, 1988.

Wagner, David L., ed. The Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages. Indiana UP, XXXX.

Renaissance & 17th C Rhetorical Theory

Baldwin, Charles Sears. Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice: Classicism in the Rhetoric and Poetic of Italy, France, and England, 1400-1600. Ed. and intro. Donald Lemen Clark. New York: Columbia UP, 1939.

Clark, Donald. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism. New York: Columbia UP, 1922.

Grafton, Anthony, and Lisa Jardine. From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge, MA: Havard UP, 1986.

Howell, Wilbur Samuel.. Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1956.

Lanham, Richard A. The Motives of Eloquence: Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1976.

Murphy, James J., ed. Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric. Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.

Murphy, James J., and Martin Davies. "Rhetorical Incunabula: A Short-Title Catalogue of Texts Printed to the Year 1500." Rhetorica 15.4 (Autumn 1997): 355-470.

Rubin, David Lee, and Mary B. McKinley, eds. Convergence: Rhetoric and Poetic in Seventeenth-Century France. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, TBA.

Shuger, Debora K. Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1988.

Seigel, Jerrold. Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1968.

Struever, Nancy S. The Language of History in the Renaissance: Rhetoric and Historical Consciousness in Florentine Humanism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970.

Eighteenth-Century Rhetorical Theory

Bate, Walter Jackson. From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1946.

Bator, Paul G. "The Formation of the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh." Quarterly Journal of Speech 75 (1989): 40-64.

Bevilacqua, Vincent. "Philosophical Influences in the Development of English Rhetorical Theory: 1748 to 1783." Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section 12 (April 1968): 191-215.

Howell, Wilbur Samuel. Eighteenth-Century British Logic and Rhetoric. 1971. The standard survey.

Moran, Michael G., ed. Eighteenth-Century British and American Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources. London: Greenwood, 1994.

Ulman, H. Lewis. Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century Rhetorical Theory. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1994.

Nineteenth-Century Rhetorical Theory

Berlin, James. Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.

Connors, Robert J. "The Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse." College Composition and Communication 32 (1981): 444-55.

Ettlich, Ernest Earl. "Theories of Invention in Late Nineteenth Century American Rhetorics." Western Speech 30 (1966): 233-41.

Guthrie, Warren. "The Development of Rhetorical Theory in America, 1635-1850." Speech Monographs 13(1946): 14-22; 14(1947): 38-54; 15(1948): 61-71; 16(1949): 98-113; 18(1951): 17-30.

Johnson, Nan. Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Kitzhaber, Albert R. "Rhetoric in American Colleges: 1850-1900." Ph.D. diss., U of Washington, 1953.

Reid, Ronald F. "The Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1806-1904: A Case Study of Changing Concepts of Rhetoric and Pedagogy." Quarterly Journal of Speech 45 (1959): 239-57.

Twentieth-Century Rhetorical Theory

Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Black, Edwin, ed. The Prospect of Rhetoric. 1971.

Ehninger, Douglas, ed. Contemporary Rhetoric. 1972.

Foss, Sonja, Karen Foss, and Robert Trapp. Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.

Lanham, Richard. Literacy and the Survival of Humanism. New Haven: Yale UP, 1983.

Steimann, Martin, ed. New Rhetorics. 1967.

Winterowd, W. Ross. Contemporary Rhetoric: A Conceptual Background with Readings. New York: Harcourt, 1975.

Historiography

Certeau, Michel de. The Writing of History. Trans. Tom Conley. New York: Columbia UP, 1988.

Cook, Albert. History/Writing. New York: Cambridge UP, 1988.

D'Amico, Robert. Historicism and Knowledge. New York: Routledge, 1988.

De Bolla, Peter. Harold Bloom: Towards Historical Rhetorics. Critics of the Twentieth Century . New York: Routledge, 1988.

Enos, Theresa, ed. Learning from the Histories of Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of Winifred Bryan Horner. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

Jackson, J. R. De J. Historical Criticism and Meaning of Texts. New York: Routledge, 1989.

LaCapra, Dominick. History and Criticism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1985.

"Octalog: The Politics of Historiography." Rhetoric Review 7 (1988): 5-49.

Runyan, William McKinley, ed. Psychology and Historical Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988.

Schilb, John. "The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History." Pre/Text 7 (1986): 11-34.

Startt, James D., and William David Sloan. Historical Methods in Mass Communication. General Communication Theory and Methodology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989.

Veeser, Harold, ed. The New Historicism. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Vitanza, Victor J. Writing Histories of Rhetoric. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1994.

Bibliographies

Arts and Humanities Citation Index [On-line].

British and Continental Rhetoric and Elocution. Sixteen microfilm reels. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1953.

CIOS/Comserve Index to Journals in Communication [On-line: OSU or Homenet only].

Cleary, James W. and Frederick W. Haberman, comps. Rhetoric and Public Address: A Bibliography, 1947-1961. Madison WI: U of Wisconsion P, 1964.

Horner, Winifred, ed. The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric. 1983.

---. Historical Rhetoric: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in English. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.

Matlon, Ronald J., ed. Index to Journals in Communication Studies Through 1985. Annandale, VA: Speech Communication Association, 1987.

Modern Language Association International Bibliography [On-line].

Murphy, James J. Medieval Rhetoric: A Select Bibliography. Toronto Medieval Bibliographies 3. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1971.

OSU Gateway to Information's Rhetoric Page [On-line].

Encyclopedia

Enos, Theresa, ed. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1389. New York: Garland, 1996.

Handbooks

Lanham, Richard A. A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms: A Guide for Students of English Literature. Berkeley: U of California P, 1969.

Woodson, Linda. A Handbook of Modern Rhetorical Terms. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1979.

Journals

Central States Speech Journal

College Composition and Communication

Journal of the History of Ideas

Journal of Advance Composition

Philosophy and Rhetoric

Pre-Text

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Rhetorica

Rhetoric Review

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Rhetorick

Southern Speech Communication Journal

Style

Western Journal of Speech Communication

Written Communication

Conferences

Conference on College Composition and Communication (Annual/March)

International Society for the History of Rhetoric (Biennial/July 1999)

Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition (Annual/July)

Rhetoric Society of America (Biennial/May 1998)

Speech Communication Association (Annual/November)

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