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Book Reviews ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 45 (Spring 2009): 228-230 PIJ BOOK REVIEWS Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics. By Lois Peters Agnew. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008; pp. vii + 203. $44.95 cloth. Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics, Lois Agnew aims to document Stoic influences in eighteenth-century British rhetorics and to trace their decline in select nineteenth-century thinkers. Although her work would interest mainly those who study the history of thinking about rhetoric, it invites readers who study rhetorical practices-argumentation and advocacy-to reflect on assumptions about the place of rhetoric in society and how it works. The book is comprised of an introduction, five chapters, and a conclusion. Agnew introduces relevant tenets of Stoicism and traces their presence and how they are adapted to new circumstances in eighteenth-century British rhetorics. She organizes the discussion around the concepts of sensus communis and common sense, taste, propriety, and sympathy. Throughout the discussion she returns to issues involved in the relationships of language and community and of individuals to society. In doing so, Agnew details a model of Stoic philosophy appropriated by eighteenth-century rhetorics. Broadly outlined, it looks like this: Individuals attempt to act http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Argumentation and Advocacy Taylor & Francis

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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 45 (Spring 2009): 228-230 PIJ BOOK REVIEWS Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics. By Lois Peters Agnew. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008; pp. vii + 203. $44.95 cloth. Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics, Lois Agnew aims to document Stoic influences in eighteenth-century British rhetorics and to trace their decline in select nineteenth-century...
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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 45 (Spring 2009): 228-230 PIJ BOOK REVIEWS Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics. By Lois Peters Agnew. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008; pp. vii + 203. $44.95 cloth. Outward, Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics, Lois Agnew aims to document Stoic influences in eighteenth-century British rhetorics and to trace their decline in select nineteenth-century thinkers. Although her work would interest mainly those who study the history of thinking about rhetoric, it invites readers who study rhetorical practices-argumentation and advocacy-to reflect on assumptions about the place of rhetoric in society and how it works. The book is comprised of an introduction, five chapters, and a conclusion. Agnew introduces relevant tenets of Stoicism and traces their presence and how they are adapted to new circumstances in eighteenth-century British rhetorics. She organizes the discussion around the concepts of sensus communis and common sense, taste, propriety, and sympathy. Throughout the discussion she returns to issues involved in the relationships of language and community and of individuals to society. In doing so, Agnew details a model of Stoic philosophy appropriated by eighteenth-century rhetorics. Broadly outlined, it looks like this: Individuals attempt to act

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