Advances in the History of Rhetoric Sep 2017

Rhetorical Accretion and Rhetorical Criticism in William Hazlitt’s <i>Eloquence of the British Senate</i>

Katie Homar

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper examines William Hazlitt’s collection, Eloquence of the British Senate (1807), alongside our interest in reception, accretion, and the rhetorical culture of Parliament. I trace Hazlitt’s interpretation of oratory, including his analysis of remediated, printed speech. Hazlitt investigates the circulation and power of oratory in modern print culture, while beginning a multidisciplinary, career-long interest in rhetoric. By mapping how Hazlitt criticizes the status quo while avoiding partisan exposes of corruption, I argue he thinks like a critical rhetorician in ways that enrich our histories of nineteenth-century rhetoric and help us reflect on our own enterprise as historians of rhetoric.

Journal
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published
2017-09-02
DOI
10.1080/15362426.2017.1384767
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multimodality race and writing multilingual writers

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