Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.
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SOURCE: Griffin, Susan. “Shaftesbury's Soliloquy: The Development of Rhetorical Authority.” Rhetoric Review 9, no. 1 (fall 1990): 94-106.

In the following essay, Griffin analyzes Shaftesbury's Soliloquy, examining its ideas about the role of the author and arguing that the work shows how eighteenth-century notions about rhetoric differ from contemporary rhetorical thought.

Vous savez que je suis habitué de longue main à l'art du soliloque. Si je quitte la societé et que je rentre chez moi triste and chagrin, je me retire dans mon cabinet, and là je me questionne and je me demande: Qu'avez vous? de l'humeur? … Oui … Est-ce que vous vous portez mal? … Non … Je me presse, j'arrache de moi la vérité. Alors il me semble que j'ai une ame gaie, tranquille, honnête and sereine, qui en interroge une autre qui est honteuse de quelque sottise qu'elle craint d'avouer. …

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