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Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Case Studies in Material Rhetoric: Joseph Priestley and Gilbert Austin
Debra Hawhee, Cory Holding
Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 28 No. 3, Summer 2010; (pp. 261-289) DOI: 10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.261
Debra Hawhee
Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 139 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. hawhee@psu.edu
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Cory Holding
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of English, 208 English Building, 608 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. choldin2@uiuc.edu
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Abstract

This essay offers “material rhetoric” as a new addition to the usual list of categories used to describe rhetoric in the eighteenth century (neoclassical, belletristic, elocutionary, epistemological/psychological) by examining the material elements of treatises written by Joseph Priestley and Gilbert Austin. Those material elements—namely heat, passion, and impression—are tracked through Priestley and Austin's scientific writings, thereby positioning their particular strains of material rhetoric as legacies of philosophical chemistry.

Keywords
  • Joseph Priestley
  • Gilbert Austin
  • Chironomia
  • material rhetoric
  • rhetoric of science
  • belletristic rhetoric
  • eighteenth-century rhetoric
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Vol. 28 No. 3, Summer 2010

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Case Studies in Material Rhetoric: Joseph Priestley and Gilbert Austin
Debra Hawhee, Cory Holding
Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 28 No. 3, Summer 2010; (pp. 261-289) DOI: 10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.261
Debra Hawhee
Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 139 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. hawhee@psu.edu
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Cory Holding
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of English, 208 English Building, 608 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. choldin2@uiuc.edu
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Case Studies in Material Rhetoric: Joseph Priestley and Gilbert Austin
Debra Hawhee, Cory Holding
Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 28 No. 3, Summer 2010; (pp. 261-289) DOI: 10.1525/RH.2010.28.3.261
Debra Hawhee
Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, 139 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. hawhee@psu.edu
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Cory Holding
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of English, 208 English Building, 608 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. choldin2@uiuc.edu
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