Rhetorical style and bourgeois virtue : capitalism and civil society in the British Enlightenment / Mark Garrett Longaker.

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Longaker, Mark Garrett, 1974- [author.]

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TextSeries: RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoricPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (170 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780271074795
0271074795

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HC254.5 .L745 2015eb

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Contents:

John Locke on clarity -- Adam Smith on probity -- Hugh Blair on moderation -- Herbert Spencer on economy.

Summary: "Focuses on the writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Herbert Spencer to explore how the discipline of rhetoric connected the economics and ethics of capitalism from the British Enlightenment through the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.

John Locke on clarity -- Adam Smith on probity -- Hugh Blair on moderation -- Herbert Spencer on economy.

"Focuses on the writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Herbert Spencer to explore how the discipline of rhetoric connected the economics and ethics of capitalism from the British Enlightenment through the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

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