Advances in the History of Rhetoric Jan 2007

Invention in James M. Hoppin's <i>HOMILETICS</i> : Scope and Classicism in Late Nineteenth-Century American Rhetoric

Merrill D. Whitburn

Abstract

Abstract Although conventional views about late nineteenth-century rhetoric highlight a shift from oratory to composition and from classical rhetoric to a “new” rhetoric with origins in Scottish rhetoricians (with a loss of scholarship and quality), James M. Hoppin's Homiletics can be grouped with an increasing number of works that complicate such views. Hoppin focuses on oratory; reveals an especially broad and scholarly knowledge of classical, religious, and foreign rhetorics; uses a complex of ideas called “uniformitarianism” to justify his primary focus on classical rhetoric; and achieves high quality. His concept of invention has both classical and Christian roots in a complex relationship reflecting both scope and narrowness.

Journal
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published
2007-01-01
DOI
10.1080/15362426.2007.10557277
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Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Poster (2015)
    A Good Dissenter Speaking Well: William Enfield’s Educational and Elocutionary …
    Advances in the History of Rhetoric

Cites in this index (3)

  1. Fehler (2005)
    Classicism and the Church: Nineteenth-Century Calvinism and the Rhetoric of Ora…
    Rhetoric Review
  2. Whitburn (2004)
    Rhetorical theory in Yale's graduate schools in the late nineteenth century: Th…
    Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  3. Hirst (1995)
    The sixth canon of sacred rhetoric: Inspiration in nineteenth‐century homiletic…
    Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Also cites 2 works outside this index ↓
  1. Crowley (1985)
    “Invention in Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric.”
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  2. Lovejoy (1948)
    Essays in the History of Ideas.
     ↗
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