Resumen de From British Ciceronianism to American Baconianism: Alexander Campbell as a case study of a shift in rhetorical theory
Numerous and often contradictory accounts are given of the development of 19th‐century American rhetoric. Unlike previous accounts, I focus on the rhetorical practice of Alexander Campbell, a prominent preacher and reformer of 19th‐century America and show the development of American Baconian Common Sense rhetorical practices beyond the eastern seaboard in the antebellum American west. Campbell, trained in rhetoric under George fardine at Glasgow University, turned away from popular Scottish homiletic practices influenced by Ciceronian rhetoric when he immigrated to America. Campbell, under the influence of Jacksonian ideals, shifted to Common Sense or Baconian rhetoric in his preaching. I also show that classical rhetoric interpreted through a Ciceronian lens declined and was confined mostly to the eastern United States.
