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The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume

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The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume - Potkay, Adam
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This engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both denoted a living oratorical art and served as a major factor in political thought. Seeing Hume's philosophy as a key to the literature of the mid-eighteenth century, Adam Potkay compares the staus of eloquence in Hume's Essays and Natural History...

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The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume 1994, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780801430145

Hardcover