Rhetorical Theory in Yale's Graduate Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Example of William C. Robinson's Forensic Oratory From: Rhetoric Society Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Whitburn, Merrill D | Copyright Rhetoric Society of America Fall 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Abstract.Although conventional views about nineteenth-century rhetoric highlight a shift from oratory to composition and from classical rhetoric with origins in Cicero and Quintilian to a "new" rhetoric with origins in Campbell, Blair, and Whately (with an attendant loss of scholarship and quality), William C. Robinson's Forensic Oratory (1893) can be grouped with a growing number of works that complicate such views. Robinson continues to emphasize oratory and to derive his theory from Cicero...

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