Document Type
Presentation
Subject Area(s)
Scottish Literature
Abstract
This paper contrasts two kinds of literary society, based on examples from eighteenth-century Edinburgh: the "ludic" or playful use of rhetoric in the early 18th century Easy Club, centred on the Scottish poet Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), and the "agonistic" or forensic rhetoric of the later 18th century Speculative Society, especially as seen in the Scottish lawyer and reviewer Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) and in the influential Edinburgh Review for which he wrote. The paper originated as the keynote address to Rhetor '86: the Convention of the National Association of Collegiate Literary Societies, held in Columbia, SC, October 10, 1986.
Publication Info
1986.
Patrick Scott, "'Minds that Move at Large': A Scottish Perspective on Collegiate Literary Societies, Past and Present," unpublished keynote address to to Rhetor '86: the Convention of the National Association of Collegiate Literary Societies, October 10 1986. (c) Patrick Scott, 1986.
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Patrick Scott, "'Minds that Move at Large': A Scottish Perspective on Collegiate Literary Societies, Past and Present," unpublished keynote address to to Rhetor '86: the Convention of the National Association of Collegiate Literary Societies, October 10 1986. (c) Patrick Scott, 1986.
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