This text was a primary vehicle for introducing many 18th and 19th century scholars to classic rhetoric and French belletristic rhetoric. This edition contains 47 lectures. The editors contextualize Blair's motivations and thinking to provide an account of his life and era.
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Abraham Lincoln looms large in American memory. He is admired for his many accomplishments, including his skills as an orator and writer, his Emancipation Proclamation,... Læs mere
A biography of Mary Todd Lincoln that challenges the disparaging views of Mary Lincoln which were generally accepted at the time, and offers a look at a woman whose physical and mental health problems have often been misconstrued or overlooked by the biographers.
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Providing an extensive analysis of ""Rear Window"", John Fawell dismantles many myths and cliches about Hitchcock, particularly in regard to his attitude toward women.