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L A N D M A R K S I N R H E T O R I C A N D P U B L I C A D D R E S S THO M A S DE QU I N C E Y SELECTED ESSAYS ON RHETORIC SELECTED ESSAYS ON RHETORIC S OU T H ER N I L L I NOI S U N I V ER S I T Y P R E S S THO M A S DE QU I N C E Y Edited with a Critical Introduction by Frederick Burwick Foreword by David Potter RHETORIC 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 DeQuincey 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. Frederick Burwick, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Thomas De Quincey: Knowledge and Power, Mimesis and its Romantic Reflections, and many other books. Southern Illinois University Press 1915 University Press Drive Mail Code 6806 Carbondale, IL 62901 www.siu.edu/~siupress Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-8093-2975-1 ISBN 978-0-8093-2975-5 DE QUINCEY SELECTED ESSAYS ON R HETOR IC De Quincey_NIP_CDDC.indd 1 1/5/10 1:29 PM ...