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Author Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012.

Title The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism; ethics and imagery from Swift to Burke.

Publication Info. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1965.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  820.9005 F994R    Check Shelf
Description ix, 314 pages : frontispiece ; 23 cm
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes.
Form Also issued online.
Contents What is 'Humanism'? -- The human attributes -- The uniformity of human nature -- The depravity of man -- The redemptive will -- The paradox of man -- Moral warfare: strategy and tactics -- The city of life and the city of literature -- 'The wardrobe of a moral imagination' -- 'The vermin of nature': hierarchy and moral contempt -- The open-and ironic-road -- Elegiac action.
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Influence.
Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism.
English language -- 18th century -- Rhetoric.
English language -- 18th century -- Style.
English literature -- Roman influences.
Classicism -- Great Britain.
Humanism in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Figures of speech.
Other Form: Online version: Fussell, Paul, 1924- Rhetorical world of Augustan humanism. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965 (OCoLC)573172981
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