How Long to Read Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime

How Long Does it Take to Read Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 1 minute to read Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime by Craig R. Smith

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Description

Relying on the author’s established expertise in rhetorical theory and political communication, this book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to provide a foundation for a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our own time. In the process, it uses a unique methodology to correct misconceptions about many Romantic writers. The methodology of the early chapters uses a dialectical approach to trace Romanticism and its opposition, the Enlightenment, back through Humanism and its opposition, Scholasticism, to St. Augustine. These chapters include a revisionist analysis of the church’s treatment of Galileo in the course of showing how difficult it was for scientific study to be accepted in the academic world. The study also re-conceptualizes Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke as bridge figures to the Romantic Era instead of as Enlightenment figures. This move throws new light on the major artists of the Romantic Era, who are examined in chapters seven and eight. Chapter nine focuses on Percy Bysshe Shelley and his development of the rhetorical poem, and thereby provides a new genre in the Romantic catalogue. Chapter ten uses the foregoing to analyse and reconceptualize the rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair and Thomas De Quincey. The concluding chapter then synthesizes their theories with relevant contemporary rhetorical theories thereby constructing a Neo-Romantic theory for our own time. In the process, this book links the Romantics’ love of nature to the current environmental crisis.

How long is Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime?

Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime by Craig R. Smith is 349 pages long, and a total of 90,391 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 13 minutes to read Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime aloud.

What Reading Level is Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime?

Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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