 | The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Rhetoric -- 1500–1800; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Hume David 1711–1776 -- Contributions in rh; No detailed description available for "The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume". Adam Potkay is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume , also from Cornell, and coeditor of Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas . |
