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Examining the writings of 18th- and 19th-century British rhetorical theorists such as Anthony Ashley Cooper, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, Henry Home, George Campbell, Hugh Blair, and Richard Whately, Agnew (writing and rhetoric, Syracuse U.) finds that they responded to the rapid cultural and economic change of the era, particularly the worrying turns towards bourgeois individualism, economic rationality, and the sharp division of the public and private spheres, by implicitly adapting the ideas of such Stoic philosophers as Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Cicero, and Quintilian in order to fashion their own theories of common sense, taste, sympathy, and propriety. Annotation 2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
