“Habit of Heat”: Emerson, Belletristic Rhetoric, and the Role of the Imagination

College English Jan 2007

“Habit of Heat”: Emerson, Belletristic Rhetoric, and the Role of the Imagination

Roger Thompson

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Within nineteenth-century American rhetorical culture, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s contribution was distinct. Envisioning a rhetoric that linked imagination with social action, he challenged the more mechanistic, reason-centered tendencies of rhetorical doctrines influenced by Hugh Blair.

Journal: College English
Published: 2007-01-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce20075849
Topics: multilingual writers

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