157 Index aestheticism, 129–30 alternative voices, 14–15 Altick, Richard D., 6, 98 Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and His Sons (Oliphant), 138 aphorisms, 93 Aristotle, 8, 119–20, 133–34; dialogic potential in, 50, 52, 140; monologic rhetoric, 50–52; systematic approach , 13–14; tradition of, 1, 47, 78 Arnold, Matthew, 129 Arte of Rhetorique (Wilson), 79 artificiality, 10, 122, 137; detached from feelings, 52–53, 59; intellectual growth and, 59–60; opposing alternatives and, 14–15 Ashton, T. S., 5 audience, 79; active vs. passive, 64, 71– 72; author alienated from, 12, 101, 108–9; Burke’s relationship with, 108; concerns of, 59; De Quincey’s lack of rapport with, 35, 127; Greek, 49, 53; imagined, 96; influence on rhetoric, 53–54, 74, 105–6; monologic rhetoric and, 50–51; periodical press, 12, 35, 45–46; style and, 81 authorship, rhetoric of, 141 autobiography, 16–17 Bacon, Francis, 58–59, 66 Baird Smith, Florence, 19, 35, 39–40 Bakhtin, Mikhail M., 12–13, 46, 50; passive understanding, view of, 64, 84; style, view of, 78, 80, 92, 102 Baldwin, Charles Sears, 133 Barton, Kerri Morris, 3 Bath Grammar School, 22 belletristic convention, 52, 64, 86–87 Bialostosky, Don H., 4, 5, 15, 73, 77, 104–5, 142, 144 Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 56 Black, Adam, 38 Blackwell’s, 13 Blackwood, John, 39 Blackwood, William, 36–37 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 36–37, 107, 138–39; “Rhetoric” published in, 47 Blair, Hugh, 4, 7–8, 64, 76, 79, 87, 133 British rhetoric, nineteenth-century transformation, 2–3, 44 British rhetorical history, 128–45; construction of canon, 130–31; gaps in, 1, 142; nineteenth-century, 134–35; recent scholarship, 132–42 British Society, 1680‒1880: Dynamism, Containment, and Change (Price), 6–7 Browne, Thomas, 91–92, 109 “Brunonianism, Radicalism, and ‘The Pleasures of Opium’” (Milligan), 140 Burke, Edmund, 60, 69, 89–90, 108 Burton, Robert, 90–91 Burwick, Frederick, 61, 63, 65, 89, 135–36 Camlot, Jason, 3, 12, 20, 61–62, 80, 81; on De Quincey’s divided consciousness , 105; on style in De Quincey, 85, 87–88, 101, 102, 129 Campbell, George, 53, 79, 119, 121 Canning, George, 59 158 Index canon, rhetorical, 130–31 Carlyle, Thomas, 3, 7, 125 Carruthers, Robert, 38, 125 Christ Church, Oxford, 25 Christensen, Jerome, 88–89 Cicero, 49, 66, 75 Clark, Gregory, 73, 145 classical rhetorical traditions, 2, 10, 16, 52. See also Aristotle Cody, Sherwin, 104, 113 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 9–10, 39; conversational dominance, 72, 73, 126; on De Quincey as editor, 30–31; De Quincey’s acquaintance with, 28–30; De Quincey’s introduction to works of, 23, 28; eloquence separated from rhetoric, 52; poetry, view of, 50, 56; Works: Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), 56; Dejection, 56; The Friend, 88–89 Collected Works (ed. Masson), 49 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De Quincey), 16, 19, 37, 43, 113–18; 1884 edition, 127; conversation discussed in, 68–69; “The Pains of Opium,” 116–17; “The Pleasures of Opium,” 112, 116–17 consciousness, artistic, 61, 74–75, 129–30, 134 Convention of Cintra (Wordsworth), 30–31 conversation, 48–49; as art, 69–70; conflict not needed, 68–69; constructive social interactions and, 67–68; conversational dominance, 70–72, 125–26; De Quincey’s practice , 124–27; dialogic, 64–65, 73–74; eighteenth-century views, 67–68; heightened understanding and, 66–67; insight and, 64, 66, 73–74, 75; intellectual differences and, 68; between king and subject, 71; persuasion and, 64–65; political, 29–30; principles for, 72–73; private affects public discourse, 40, 65–66; in public sphere, 70–73; rhetoric connected to, 64–65, 69, 73; role in rhetorical transformation, 64–74; social accountability and, 67–68; solitude and, 124–25; style and, 85; sympathy as central feature, 65, 68–70; systematic approach, 65–66, 72–73; truth and, 66–67, 71; writing modeled on, 69–70, 73 “Conversation” (De Quincey), 48–49, 64–74, 125 Covino, William A., 65, 70, 133 craftsmanship, shift away from, 4–5 criticism, 61–62, 120–21, 137–38. See also rhetorical criticism Crowley, Tony, 139 cultural context, 2–3, 16, 49–50, 76; in De Quincey’s rhetorical practice, 106–7; French, 94, 99; Greek, 49, 96 Dallas, E. S., 130 Dejection (Coleridge), 56 Demosthenes, 57, 74 Dendurent, H. O., 81, 131 De officiis (Cicero), 66 De Quincey, Margaret Simpson, 11, 31, 33, 38 De Quincey, Thomas, 16–17, 126; affection for family, 40, 42; circle, 28–33; classical study, 21...