Case studies in material rhetoric: Joseph Priestley and Gilbert Austin

Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-289

  Hawhee, Debra ^a   Holding, Cory ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Belletristic rhetoric; Chironomia; Eighteenth century rhetoric; Gilbert Austin; Joseph Priestley; Material rhetoric; Rhetoric of science

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649959147     PISSN: 07348584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.261     Document Type: Review

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21. Lecture VII, p. 42:
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31. Lecture XII, pp. 79-88.
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