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The Rhetorical Tradition

Listed in chronological order by date of composition.

41
Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 2nd edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.

A new and enlarged edition focused on rhetorical theory. Substantial excerpts and some complete works from classical rhetoric (Gorgias, Aspasia, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Rhetorica ad Herennium, others); medieval rhetoric (Augustine, Boethius, Christine de Pizan, others); Renaissance rhetoric (Erasmus, Ramus, Wilson, Bacon, Margaret Fell, others); Enlightenment rhetoric (Mary Astell, Vico, Sheridan, Campbell, Blair); nineteenth century rhetoric (Whately, Maria W. Stewart, Sarah Grimké, Frederick Douglass, Frances Willard, Bain and Hill, Nietzsche, others); modern and postmodern rhetoric (Bakhtin, Virginia Woolf, Richards, Burke, Weaver, Perelman, Toulmin, Foucault, Cixous, Gates, Gloria Anzaldœa, others). Includes a general introduction, period and author introductions, and annotated bibliographies.

42
Sprague, Rosamond Kent. The Older Sophists. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1972, 1990.

43
Contrasting Arguments: An Edition of the Dissoi Logoi (ca. 400 B.C.E.). Ed. and trans. R. M. Robinson. New York: Arno Press, 1979.

44
Isocrates. Against the Sophists and Antidosis (ca. 390 B.C.E., 353 B.C.E.). Isocrates, II. Ed. and trans. George Norlin. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982.

45
Plato. Apology, Menexenus, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Symposium, Republic (ca. 370 B.C.E.). The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1961.

46
Aristotle. Aristotle on Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse (ca. 333 B.C.E.). Ed. and trans. George A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991.

47
Cicero. De Inventione (ca. 88 B.C.E.). Trans. H. M. Hubbell. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1949.

48
Rhetorica ad Herennium (ca. 86 B.C.E.). Trans. Harry Caplan. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1954.

49
Cicero. De Oratore (55 B.C.E.). Books I–II. Trans. E. W. Sutton and
H. Rackham. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1942. Book III. Trans. H. Rackham. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1942.

50
Longinus. On the Sublime (ca. 40 C.E.). Aristotle, The Poetics, and Longinus, On the Sublime. Trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe. Includes Demetrius, On Style. Trans. W. Rhys Roberts. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1932.

51
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria (ca. 88 C.E.). Trans. H. E. Butler. 4 vols. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1922.

52
Murphy, James J., ed. Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two and Ten of the Institutio Oratoria. Trans. J. S. Watson; rev. by J. J. Murphy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1987.

These selections from the Institutio concern Quintilian's ideas about child development and the relationships among reading, writing, and speaking. Murphy's helpful introduction sets Quintilian's life and work in the context of Roman times and traces the reception of his ideas through the Renaissance and to the present.

53
Augustine. On Christian Doctrine (426 C.E.). Trans. D. W. Robertson. New York: Library of Liberal Arts, 1958.

54
Murphy, James J. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1971.

Contains medieval manuals on letter writing and on preaching, excerpts from textbooks on Aristotelian dialectic, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria Nova.

55
Christine de Pisan. The Treasure of the City of Ladies, or the Book of the Three Virtues. (1405). Ed. and trans. Sarah Lawson. New York: Viking Penguin Classics, 1985.

56
Erasmus, Desiderius. Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style (1512). Trans. Betty I. Knott. Collected Works of Erasmus. Ed. Craig R.
Thompson. 42 vols. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1978.

57
Erasmus, Desiderius. On the Writing of Letters/De conscribendis epistolis. Collected Works of Erasmus, Volumes 25–26. (1522). Ed. and trans. Charles Fantozzi. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1985.

58
Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier (1527). Trans. Charles Singleton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959.

59
Ramus, Peter. Peter Ramus's Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus's Brutinae Quaestiones. (1547). Ed. and intro. James J. Murphy. Trans. Carole Newlands. Davis, Calif.: Hermagoras Press, 1992.

60
Ramus, Peter. Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian (1549). Trans. Carole Newlands and James J. Murphy. De Kalb: Univ. of Northern Illinois Press, 1983.

61
Fell, Margaret. Women's Speaking Justified by the Scriptures (1666). Ed. David J. Latt. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Augustan Reprint Society Publication #194, 1979.

62
de la Cruz, Sor Juana. The Answer/La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems. (1691.) Ed. and trans. Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell. New York: Feminist Press, 1994.

63
Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II. (1694, 1697.) Ed. Patricia Springborg. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1997.

64
Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. (1757.) Ed. James T. Boulton. Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1968.

65
Campbell, George. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. (1776.) Ed. Lloyd Bitzer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1963.

66
Blair, Hugh. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres. (1783.) Ed. Harold Harding. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1966.

67
Witherspoon, John. The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon. (1810.) Ed. Thomas Miller. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1990.

68
Golden, James L., and Edward P. J. Corbett, eds. The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately. 1968. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.

69
Whately, Richard. Elements of Rhetoric. (1828.) Ed. Douglas Ehninger. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1963.

70
Grimké, Sarah. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays. (1838.) Ed. Elizabeth Ann Bartlett. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1988.

71
Bain, Alexander. English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual. (1866; American ed., rev. 1888.) New York: Appleton, 1980.

72
Willard, Frances E. Woman in the Pulpit. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1888 (other 1888 editions published regionally).

41	Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 2nd edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. A new and enlarged edition focused on rhetorical theory. Substantial excerpts and some complete works from classical rhetoric (Gorgias, Aspasia, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, Rhetorica ad Herennium, others); medieval rhetoric (Augustine, Boethius, Christine de Pizan, others); Renaissance rhetoric (Erasmus, Ramus, Wilson, Bacon, Margaret Fell, others); Enlightenment rhetoric (Mary Astell, Vico, Sheridan, Campbell, Blair); nineteenth century rhetoric (Whately, Maria W. Stewart, Sarah Grimké, Frederick Douglass, Frances Willard, Bain and Hill, Nietzsche, others); modern and postmodern rhetoric (Bakhtin, Virginia Woolf, Richards, Burke, Weaver, Perelman, Toulmin, Foucault, Cixous, Gates, Gloria Anzaldœa, others). Includes a general introduction, period and author introductions, and annotated bibliographies.
42	Sprague, Rosamond Kent. The Older Sophists. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1972, 1990.
43	Contrasting Arguments: An Edition of the Dissoi Logoi (ca. 400 B.C.E.). Ed. and trans. R. M. Robinson. New York: Arno Press, 1979.
44	Isocrates. Against the Sophists and Antidosis (ca. 390 B.C.E., 353 B.C.E.). Isocrates, II. Ed. and trans. George Norlin. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982.
45	Plato. Apology, Menexenus, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Symposium, Republic (ca. 370 B.C.E.). The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1961.
46	Aristotle. Aristotle on Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse (ca. 333 B.C.E.). Ed. and trans. George A. Kennedy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991.
47	Cicero. De Inventione (ca. 88 B.C.E.). Trans. H. M. Hubbell. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1949.
48	Rhetorica ad Herennium (ca. 86 B.C.E.). Trans. Harry Caplan. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1954.
49	Cicero. De Oratore (55 B.C.E.). Books I–II. Trans. E. W. Sutton and H. Rackham. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1942. Book III. Trans. H. Rackham. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1942.
50	Longinus. On the Sublime (ca. 40 C.E.). Aristotle, The Poetics, and Longinus, On the Sublime. Trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe. Includes Demetrius, On Style. Trans. W. Rhys Roberts. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1932.
51	Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria (ca. 88 C.E.). Trans. H. E. Butler. 4 vols. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1922.
52	Murphy, James J., ed. Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two and Ten of the Institutio Oratoria. Trans. J. S. Watson; rev. by J. J. Murphy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1987. These selections from the Institutio concern Quintilian's ideas about child development and the relationships among reading, writing, and speaking. Murphy's helpful introduction sets Quintilian's life and work in the context of Roman times and traces the reception of his ideas through the Renaissance and to the present.
53	Augustine. On Christian Doctrine (426 C.E.). Trans. D. W. Robertson. New York: Library of Liberal Arts, 1958.
54	Murphy, James J. Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1971. Contains medieval manuals on letter writing and on preaching, excerpts from textbooks on Aristotelian dialectic, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria Nova.
55	Christine de Pisan. The Treasure of the City of Ladies, or the Book of the Three Virtues. (1405). Ed. and trans. Sarah Lawson. New York: Viking Penguin Classics, 1985.
56	Erasmus, Desiderius. Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style (1512). Trans. Betty I. Knott. Collected Works of Erasmus. Ed. Craig R. Thompson. 42 vols. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1978.
57	Erasmus, Desiderius. On the Writing of Letters/De conscribendis epistolis. Collected Works of Erasmus, Volumes 25–26. (1522). Ed. and trans. Charles Fantozzi. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1985.
58	Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier (1527). Trans. Charles Singleton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959.
59	Ramus, Peter. Peter Ramus's Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus's Brutinae Quaestiones. (1547). Ed. and intro. James J. Murphy. Trans. Carole Newlands. Davis, Calif.: Hermagoras Press, 1992.
60	Ramus, Peter. Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian (1549). Trans. Carole Newlands and James J. Murphy. De Kalb: Univ. of Northern Illinois Press, 1983.
61	Fell, Margaret. Women's Speaking Justified by the Scriptures (1666). Ed. David J. Latt. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Augustan Reprint Society Publication #194, 1979.
62	de la Cruz, Sor Juana. The Answer/La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems. (1691.) Ed. and trans. Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell. New York: Feminist Press, 1994.
63	Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II. (1694, 1697.) Ed. Patricia Springborg. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1997.
64	Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. (1757.) Ed. James T. Boulton. Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1968.
65	Campbell, George. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. (1776.) Ed. Lloyd Bitzer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1963.
66	Blair, Hugh. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres. (1783.) Ed. Harold Harding. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1966.
67	Witherspoon, John. The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon. (1810.) Ed. Thomas Miller. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1990.
68	Golden, James L., and Edward P. J. Corbett, eds. The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately. 1968. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
69	Whately, Richard. Elements of Rhetoric. (1828.) Ed. Douglas Ehninger. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1963.
70	Grimké, Sarah. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays. (1838.) Ed. Elizabeth Ann Bartlett. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1988.
71	Bain, Alexander. English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual. (1866; American ed., rev. 1888.) New York: Appleton, 1980.
72	Willard, Frances E. Woman in the Pulpit. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1888 (other 1888 editions published regionally).