Rhetoric Society Quarterly Jun 2010

A Review of:Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England, by Ryan J. Stark: Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. vii + 234 pp.

Jeanne Fahnestock University of Maryland, College Park

Abstract

In its six chapters, Ryan Stark's monograph argues for a “paradigm shift” in “philosophical” views of rhetoric across the seventeenth century. Stark finds signs of this shift in the many well-known...

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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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2010-06-01
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10.1080/02773941003800055
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    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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    The History of the Royal Society
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