Laurent Pernot (editor): 
Actualité de la Rhétorique
(Actes et Colloques) 
Paris: Klincksieck, 2002 
182 pages (bibliography; indices) 
ISBN: 2-252-03325-8 
Price: €18 
RR 2:2 (October 2004), pp. 4-6; MATS ROSENGREN

Stephen J. McKenna:
Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety
(Rhetoric in the Modern Era)
Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2005
ix + 184 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-7914-6582-9
Price: $22.95 (paperback)
RR 4:2 (June 2006), pp. 11-15; BRIAN FEHLER

Carl Joachim Classen:
Antike Rhetorik im Zeitalter des Humanismus
(Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 182)
Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2003
ix + 373 pages (index)
ISBN: 3-598-77734-5
Price: €101
RR 4:3 (October 2006), pp. 13-15; MARC VAN DER POEL

Sara J. Newman: 
Aristotle and Style
Lewinston-Queenston-Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005 
298 pages (tables; bibliography; index) 
ISBN: 0-7734-6194-9 
Price: $119.95; £74.95 
RR 4:1 (February 2006), pp. 20-23; LUCIA CALBOLI MONTEFUSCO

Frances J. Ranney:
Aristotles' Ethics and Legal Rhetoric. An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law
(Law, Justice and Power Series)
Aldershot & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005
202 pages (appendix; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-7546-2541-9
Price: £55; $99.95
RR 5:3 (October 2007), pp. 18-21; SARA NEWMAN

Matthew Bevis:
The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
x + 302 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-19-925399-9
Price: $90; £50
RR 6:3 (October 2008), pp. 1-4; CHRISTOPHER K. COFFMAN

Pedro Martín Baños:
El arte epistolar en el Renacimiento europeo 1400-1600
(Serie Letras, vol. 37)
Bilbao: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Deusto, 2005
736 pages (appendices; bibliographies; indices)
ISBN: 84-7485-965-4 
Price: €44 
RR 5:2 (June 2007), pp. 1-5; JUDITH RICE HENDERSON

Edwin Carawan (editor):
The Attic Orators
(Oxford Readings in Classical Studies)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
xxiv + 450 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-19-927993-7 (paperback) 
Price: £32; $55
RR 7:2 (June 2009), pp. 8-13; BRENDA GRIFFITH-WILLIAMS

Casper C. de Jonge: 
Between Grammar and Rhetoric. Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Language, Linguistics and Literature 
(Mnemosyne Supplement 301)
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008
xiv + 456 pages (bibliography; indexes)
ISBN: 978-90-04-16677-6
€146; $217 
RR 7:2 (June 2009), pp. 19-22; RICHARD HUNTER

Brian Fehler: 
Calvinist Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century America: The Bartlet Professors of Sacred Rhetoric of Andover Seminary 
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007
208 pages (preface by Richard Leo Enos; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-7734-5430-9
Price: $109.95; £69.95 
RR 6:3 (October 2008), pp. 5-8; LOIS AGNEW

Alexander Arweiler:
Cicero Rhetor. Die Partitiones oratoriae und das Konzept des gelehrten Politikers
(Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 68)
Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003
339 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 3-11-018096-0
Price: €98 (Germany); 157 CHF; $137.20
RR 4:3 (October 2006), pp. 5-7; CATHERINE STEEL

E. Armstrong: 
A Ciceronian Sunburn: A Tudor Dialogue on Humanistic Rhetoric and Civic Poetics 
(Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006
xvi + 224 pages (illustrations; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 1-57003-614-4
Price: $44.95 
RR 5:3 (October 2007), pp. 1-3; PETER MACK

Sari Kivistö: 
Creating Anti-Eloquence. Epistolae obscurorum virorum and the Humanist Polemics on Style
(Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, vol. 118) 
Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2002 
256 pages (bibliography; indices) 
ISBN: 951-653-315-9
Price: €23.50 
RR 1:2 (October 2003), pp. 10-14; JUDITH RICE HENDERSON

Gary Schneider: 
The Culture of Epistolarity: Vernacular Letters and Letter Writing in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005 
388 pages (illustrations; index) 
ISBN: 0-87413-875-2 
Price: $65 
RR 4:1 (February 2006), pp. 24-30; JUDITH RICE HENDERSON

Gabriele Brandstetter and Sibylle Peters (editors):
de figura. Rhetorik - Bewegung - Gestalt
München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2002
339 pages (32 illustrations)
ISBN: 3-7705-3692-4
Price: €29.60
RR 2:1 (February 2004), pp. 4-9; MIKKO KESKINEN

William Keith: 
Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum Movement
(Lexington Studies in Political Communication) 
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007 
363 pages (bibliography; index) 
ISBN: 978-0-7391-1508-4 (paperback) 
Price: $39.95 
RR 6:2 (June 2008), pp. 9-13; ROBERT DANISCH

Gary Kuchar: 
Divine Subjection: The Rhetoric of Sacramental Devotion in Early Modern England 
Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2005 
xii + 297 pages (index)
ISBN: 0-8207-0370-2 
Price: $58 
RR 4:1 (February 2006), pp. 16-19; MARIA SALENIUS

Peter Mack: 
Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice
(Ideas in Context, vol. 63) 
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 
xi + 326 pages (bibliography; indices) 
ISBN: 0-521-81292-5 (hardback) 
Price: £45; $65 
RR 3:1 (February 2005), pp. 7-11; CHRISTINA SANDHAUG

Ronald C. White, Jr.:
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through his Words
New York, NY: Random House, 2005
xxiii + 448 pages (illustrations; appendices; index)
ISBN: 0-8129-7046-2 (paperback)
Price: $15.95
RR 4:3 (October 2006), pp. 24-29; STEPHEN J. McKENNA

Laila Akslen:
Femfaldig festbarokk. Norske perikopedikt til kyrkjelege høgtider
[Fivefold Festive Baroque. Norwegian Pericope Poems for Church Festivals]
Sofiemyr: [Laila Akslen], 2002
401 pages (bibliography; summary in German)
ISBN: 82-996322-1-8
Price: 250 NOK
RR 2:1 (February 2004), pp. 1-3; STINA HANSSON

Suzanne Bordelon:
A Feminist Legacy: The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck
(Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series, ed. Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan)
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
241 pages (illustrations; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-8093-2899-4 (paperback)
Price: $21.50
RR 8:1 (February 2010), pp. 6-11; JANE GREER

Alexandre Leupin: 
Fiction and Incarnation. Rhetoric, Theology, and Literature in the Middle Ages
(Translated by David Laatsch. Original title: Fiction et incarnation: Littérature et théologie au moyen age, Paris: Flammarion, 1993) 
Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003 
xxiv + 259 pages (index) 
ISBN: 0-8166-3725-3
Price: $22.95 
RR 1:2 (October 2003), pp. 15-19; PÄIVI MEHTONEN

Michael S. Kochin: 
Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
x + 164 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 0-521-80852-9
Price: £30
RR 3:2 (June 2005), pp. 1-6; NIALL LIVINGSTONE

Gabor Borritt:
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows 
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006
415 pages (illustrations; appendices; index)
ISBN: 0-7432-8820-3 (hardback)
Price: $28
RR 7:1 (February 2009), pp. 1-5; STEPHEN J. McKENNA

Bruce McComiskey: 
Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002
157 pages (appendix; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-8093-2397-4
Price: $35
RR 3:3 (October 2005), pp. 10-13; ØIVIND ANDERSEN

Jostein Børtnes and Tomas Hägg (editors):
Gregory of Nazianzus. Images and Reflections
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006
349 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 87-635-0386-7 (hardback)
Price: 395 DKK; $72; €56; £40
RR 4:3 (October 2006), pp. 8-12; KRISTOFFEL DEMOEN

Øivind Andersen: 
Im Garten der Rhetorik. Die Kunst der Rede in der Antike
(Translated by Brigitte Mannsperger and Ingunn Tveide. Original title: I retorikkens hage, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget AS, 1995)
Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2001 
335 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 3-89678-195-2
Price: €24.90
RR 4:1 (February 2006), pp. 1-6; CHRISTOPH LEIDL

Michael H. Frost: 
Introduction to Classical Legal Rhetoric. A Lost Heritage 
(Applied Legal Philosophy) 
Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005 
x + 161 pages (bibliography; index) 
ISBN: 0-7546-2413-7 
Price: $99.95; £50 
RR 4:1 (February 2006), pp. 7-12; OLGA TELLEGEN-COUPERUS

George A. Kennedy (translator):
Invention and Method: Two Rhetorical Treatises from the Hermogenic Corpus. The Greek Text, Edited by Hugo Rabe, Translated with Introduction and Notes
(Writings from the Greco-Roman World 15)
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature & Leiden: Brill, 2005
xix + 271 pages (indices)
ISBN: 1-589-83121-7 (paperback) / 9-004-13072-1 (hardback)
Price: $32.95 (paperback) / €99; $133 (hardback)
RR 5:3 (October 2007), pp. 10-17; MANFRED KRAUS

Elliot B. Gertel (editor):
Jewish Belief and Practice in Nineteenth Century America. Seminal Essays by Outstanding Pulpit Rabbis of the Era
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006
vi + 210 pages (index)
ISBN: 978-0-7864-2524-2 (paperback)
Price: $49.95
RR 7:1 (February 2009), pp. 6-11; MIRELA SAIM

Marc Saperstein:
Jewish Preaching in Times of War 1800-2001
Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008
640 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 978-1-904113-54-6 (hardback)
Price: £39.95; $69.95
RR 7:1 (February 2009), pp. 6-11; MIRELA SAIM

M. Thomas Hester, Robert Parker Sorlien, and Dennis Flynn (editors): 
John Donne's Marriage Letters in The Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2005 
110 pages (illustrations; facsimiles) 
[Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle and London] 
ISBN: 0-295-98510-0 
Price: $35
RR 4:1 (February 2006), pp. 24-30; JUDITH RICE HENDERSON

Gerald Posselt:
Katachrese. Rhetorik des Performativen
München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2005
250 pages (bibliography)
ISBN: 3-7705-3993-1
Price: €48,90
RR 4:2 (June 2006), pp. 21-23; AXEL FLIETHMANN

James M. Wilce:
Language and Emotion
(Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, 25)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
233 pages (bibliography; glossary; index)
ISBN: 978-0-521-68282-4 (paperback)
Price £20.99; $35.99
RR 8:2 (October 2010), pp. 12-15; SARA NEWMAN

Andrew W. Robertson:
The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790-1900
Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2005
288 pages (illustrations; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-8139-2344-1
Price: $19.50
RR 6:1 (February 2008), pp. 8-12; KATHLEEN VANDENBERG

James J. Murphy: 
Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
(Variorum Collected Studies Series) 
Aldershot, Hampshire & Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2005 
x + 334 pages (index) 
ISBN: 0-86078-972-1
ISBN13: 978-0-86078-972-7 
Price: $124.95; £65 
RR 6:1 (February 2008), pp. 5-7; MARTIN CAMARGO

Alan Stewart and Heather Wolfe: 
Letterwriting in Renaissance England
Washington, D.C.: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004 
216 pages (illustrations; facsimiles; glossary; index) 
[Distributed by University of Washington Press, Seattle and London] 
ISBN: 0-295-98509-7 
Price: $45
RR 4:1 (February 2006), pp. 24-30; JUDITH RICE HENDERSON

Carol Poster and Linda C. Mitchell (editors): 
Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present. Historical and Bibliographic Studies
(Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) 
Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2007 
346 pages (appendices; bibliographies; index) 
ISBN: 978-1-57003-651-4 (hardback)  
Price: $69.95 
RR 6:2 (June 2008), pp. 19-23; CLAUDE LA CHARITÉ

Luc Vaillancourt: 
La lettre familière au XVIe siècle: Rhétorique humaniste de l'épistolaire
(Études et essais sur la Renaissance, dirigés par Claude Blum, vol. 42) 
Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003 
464 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 2-7453-0801-7 
Price: €76 
RR 3:1 (February 2005), pp. 1-6; JUDITH RICE HENDERSON

Howard Holzer:
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President  
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004
338 pages (illustrations; appendix; index) 
ISBN: 0-7432-2466-7 (hardback)
Price: $25
RR 6:2 (June 2008), pp. 1-8; STEPHEN J. McKENNA

Douglas L. Wilson:
Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words  
New York, NY: Vintage, 2007
343 pages (illustrations; appendix; index) 
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3263-1 (paperback)
Price: $14.95
RR 6:2 (June 2008), pp. 1-8; STEPHEN J. McKENNA

Ekaterina V. Haskins:
Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle
(Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Thomas W. Benson, series editor) 
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004
192 pages (bibliography; index) 
ISBN: 1-57003-526-1
Price: $34.95
RR 3:3 (October 2005), pp. 6-9; SARA NEWMAN

Robert Morstein-Marx:
Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
xiv + 313 pages (figures; maps; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-521-82327-7 (hardback)
Price: £50
RR 3:2 (June 2005), pp. 7-10; MARTIN KORENJAK

Scott D. Troyan (editor):
Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook
(Routledge Medieval Casebooks, vol. 36)
New York and London: Routledge, 2004
viii + 262 pages (bibliography; index) 
ISBN: 0-415-97163-2
Price: £60
RR 3:3 (October 2005), pp. 18-22; WILLIAM MARX

Malcolm Heath:
Menander. A Rhetor in Context
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
xvii + 374 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 0-19-925920-8
Price: £75
RR 5:1 (February 2007), pp. 7-10; LAURENT PERNOT

Jameela Lares:
Milton and the Preaching Arts
Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & Co., 2001 
xvi + 368 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-227-67964-4
Price: £40; $80 
RR 1:1 (June 2003), pp. 12-15; MARIA SALENIUS

Thomas Kranidas: 
Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal 
Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2005 
xvi + 255 pages (index) 
ISBN: 0-8207-0361-3 
Price: $58 
RR 4:1 (February 2006), pp. 13-15; THOMAS O. SLOANE

Debra Hawhee:
Moving Bodies. Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language
(Studies in Rhetoric/Communication, ed. Thomas W. Benson)
Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009
xi + 215 pages (illustration; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-1-57003-809-9 (hardback)
Price: $39.95
RR 8:1 (February 2010), pp. 12-17; MERETE ONSBERG

Raija Sarasti-Wilenius:
"Noster eloquendi artifex". Daniel Achrelius' Latin Speeches and Rhetorical Theory in Seventeenth-Century Finland
Helsinki: [Sarasti-Wilenius], 2000
284 pages (illustrations; tables; bibliography; indices; appendices) 
ISBN: 952-91-2954-8 
Price: €20 
RR 2:2 (October 2004), pp. 7-11; MANFRED KRAUS

Päivi Mehtonen:
Obscure Language, Unclear Literature. Theory and Practice from Quintilian to the Enlightenment
Translated by Robert MacGilleon 
(Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia, Humaniora, 320) 
Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2003
228 pages (bibliography; index of names)
ISBN: 951-41-0911-2 
Price: €30 
RR 2:2 (October 2004), pp. 1-3; HERBERT JAUMANN

Laurent Pernot:
L'Ombre du tigre. Recherches sur la réception de Démosthène
Napoli: M. d'Auria editore, 2006
356 pages (bibliography; appendix; indices)
ISBN: 88-7092-260-X
Price: €80
RR 5:2 (June 2007), pp. 6-8; CECIL W. WOOTEN

Lois Peters Agnew:
Outward Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics
(Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
Columbia, South Carolina: The University of South Carolina Press, 2008
211 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-1-57003-767-2
Price: $44.95
RR 8:2 (October 2010), pp. 1-6; JON VIKLUND

Tina Skouen:
Passion and Persuasion: John Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther
Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009
vi + 266 pages (bibliography)
ISBN: 978-3-639-12490-3
Price: €79; £72; $104
RR 7:2 (June 2009), pp. 14-18; CHRISTOPHER K. COFFMAN

Carol Berkenkotter:
Patient Tales. Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiatry
(Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; series editor: Thomas W. Benson)
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008
201 pages (illustrations; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-1-57003-761-0
Price: $39.95
RR 7:2 (June 2009), pp. 1-7; SARA NEWMAN

Marina McCoy:
Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008
viii + 212 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-521-87863-0 (hardback)
Price: $83.99; £50
RR 7:3 (October 2009), pp. 6-9; JENNY BRYAN

Alessandro Daneloni:
Poliziano e il testo dell'Institutio oratoria
(Percorsi dei classici, vol. 6)
Messina: Centro interdipartimentale di studi umanistici, Università degli Studi, 2001
255 pages (illustrations; indices)
ISBN: 88-87541-04-3
Price: €41.31
RR 7:3 (October 2009), pp. 1-5; PERNILLE HARSTING

Trevor McNeely:
Proteus Unmasked. Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric and the Art of Shakespeare
Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2004
369 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-934223-74-2
Price: $62.50
RR 4:3 (October 2006), pp. 16-19; ROY ERIKSEN

Kari Palonen:
Quentin Skinner. History, Politics, Rhetoric
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003
207 pages (bibliography, indices)
ISBN: 0-7456-2857-5
Price: £15.99; $24.95
RR 2:1 (February 2004), pp. 18-22; SINE JUST

Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, & Katrin Ettenhuber (editors):
Renaissance Figures of Speech
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
306 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-521-86640-8 (hardback)
Price: $99; £57
RR 8:1 (February 2010), pp. 1-5; TUA KORHONEN

Jennifer Richards:
Rhetoric
(The New Critical Idiom)
London and New York: Routledge, 2008
x + 198 pages (glossary; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-415-31436-7 (hardback); 978-0-415-31437-4 (paperback)
Price: $100; £50 (hardback); $21.95; £12.99 (paperback)
RR 6:3 (October 2008), pp. 9-12; JUDITH RICE HENDERSON)

Jennifer Richards:
Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
220 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-521-82470-2
Price: £45
RR 3:3 (October 2005), pp. 14-17; MINNA NEVALA

David R. Knechtges and Eugene Vance (editors):
Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture. China, Europe, and Japan
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2004
xiv + 351 pages (illustrations; index)
ISBN: 0-295-98450-3 (hardback)
Price: $35
RR 5:1 (February 2007), pp. 11-14; MASSIMILIANO TOMASI

Philip H. Kern:
Rhetoric and Galatians: Assessing an Approach to Paul's Epistles
(Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, no. 101)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
xiv + 321 pages (indices; bibliography)
ISBN: 978-0-521-04813-2 (paperback) [978-0-521-63117-4 (hardback from 1998)]
Price: £21.99; $39.99 (paperback) [£60; $110 (hardback); $64 (eBook)]
RR 7:1 (February 2009), pp. 12-16; C. JAN SWEARINGEN

Constant J. Mews, Cary J. Nederman, and Rodney M. Thomson (editors):
Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540: Essays in Honour of John O. Ward
(Disputatio 2) 
Turnhout: Brepols, 2003
 x + 270 pages (index)
ISBN: 978-2-503-51340-9 (hardback)
Price: €55
RR 4:3 (October 2006), pp. 20-23; WILLIAM MARX

Mark Garrett Longaker:
Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America
Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2007
266 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-8173-1547-4 (hardback) 
Price: $39.95
RR 6:2 (June 2008), pp. 14-18 BRIAN FEHLER

Hagit Amirav:
Rhetoric and Tradition: John Chrysostom on Noah and the Flood
(Traditio Exegetica Graeca, 12)
Leuven: Peeters, 2003
xii + 270 pages (bibliography; appendices; indices)
ISBN: 90-429-1283-9
Price: €65
RR 4:3 (October 2006), pp. 1-4; KARIN BLOMQVIST

Laurent Pernot:
Rhetoric in Antiquity
(English translation by W. E. Higgins. Original title: La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité, Paris: Librairie générale française, 2000)
Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005
xvi + 269 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 0-8132-1407-6
Price: $27.95
RR 4:2 (June 2006), pp. 16-20; TERRY L. PAPILLON

Massimiliano Tomasi:
Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Narrative and Oratorical Style
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004
x + 214 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-8248-2798-8
Price: $40
RR 3:2 (June 2005), pp. 11-14; PIA MOBERG

Paul Goring:
The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
xi + 222 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-521-84509-2 (hardback)
Price: £45
RR 4:2 (June 2006), pp. 1-5; MERETE ONSBERG

Ryan J. Stark:
Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009
234 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-8132-1578-5
Price: $83.99; £50
RR 7:3 (October 2009), pp. 10-13; JENNIFER RICHARDS

Robert Cockcroft:
Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing. Renaissance Passions Reconsidered
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
x + 209 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-333-80252-7 (hardback)
Price: $90
RR 3:3 (October 2005), pp. 1-5; CHRISTINA SANDHAUG

Robert J. Penella (editor):
Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: A Translation of Choricius of Gaza’s Preliminary Talks and Declamations
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
xii + 323 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-521-84873-2
Price: £65; $99
RR 8:2 (October 2010), pp. 7-11; DAVID WESTBERG

Hans Carl Finsen: 
Die Rhetorik der Nation. Redestrategien im nationalen Diskurs
Tübingen: Attempto Verlag, 2001 
197 pages (illustrations; bibliography) 
ISBN: 3-89308-327-8
Price: €22.40; 43 CHF 
RR 1:2 (October 2003), pp. 1-6; MATS MALM

Laurent Pernot: 
La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité
(Le livre de poche; Références 553; Inédit; Antiquité) 
Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2000 
351 pages (bibliography; appendices; indices) 
ISBN: 2-253-90553-4 
Price: €6.40
RR 3:1 (February 2005), pp. 12-15; KYRRE VATSEND

Claude La Charité:
La rhétorique épistolaire de Rabelais
(Collection «Littérature(s)», dirigée par Guy Champagne, vol. 21) 
Québec: Éditions Nota bene, 2003 
308 pages (tables; bibliography; appendices with illustrations; index) 
ISBN: 2-89518-102-0 
Price: 24.95 CAD
RR 3:1 (February 2005), pp. 1-6; JUDITH RICE HENDERSON

Catherine Steel:
Roman Oratory
(New surveys in the classics, 36)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
90 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-521-687225
Price: £10.99; $19.99
RR 5:2 (June 2007), pp. 9-11; BÉ BREIJ

Elaine Fantham:
The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 (hardback) and 2006 (paperback)
364 pages (bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 0-19-920773-9 (paperback)
Price: £25 (paperback)
RR 5:1 (February 2007), pp. 1-6; ALEXANDER ARWEILER

Adrie van der Laan and Fokke Akkerman (editors and translators):
Rudolph Agricola, Letters
(Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae, vol. 4)
Assen: Van Gorcum, 2002 
&
(Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 216) 
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002
x + 440 pages (illustrations; bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 90-232-3808-7 (Van Gorcum), 0-86698-258-2 (MRTS)
Price: €64.50
RR 2:1 (February 2004), pp. 14-17; SARI KIVISTÖ

Raffaella Cribiore: 
The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006
xi + 360 pages (appendix; bibliography; indices)
ISBN: 978-0-691-12824-5
Price: $45; £26.95
RR 5:3 (October 2007), pp. 4-9; MALCOLM HEATH

Toon Van Houdt, Jan Papy, Gilbert Tournoy, and Constant Matheeussen (editors):
Self-Presentation and Social Identification. The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern Times
(Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 18) 
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002 
478 pages (index) 
ISBN: 90-5867-212-3
Price: €60 
RR 1:1 (June 2003), pp. 16-20; SARI KIVISTÖ

Joy Connolly:
The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007
xii + 304 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 978-0-691-12364-6
Price: $45; £26.95
RR 6:1 (February 2008), pp. 1-4; ANTHONY CORBEILL

Christian Høgel: 
Symeon Metaphrastes: Rewriting and Canonization
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002 
204 pages (appendix; bibliography) 
ISBN 87-7289-675-2
Price: €50; 340 DKK; $44; £32 
RR 1:2 (October 2003), pp. 7-9; INGUNN LUNDE

Anders Johansen:
Talerens troverdighet. Tekniske og kulturelle betingelser for politisk retorikk
Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2002 
283 pages (index) 
ISBN: 82-15-00141-6
Price: 248 NOK
RR 1:1 (June 2003), pp. 6-9 (review in Danish) and pp. 10-11 (English summary); SINE JUST

Pernille Harsting and Stefan Ekman (editors):
Ten Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric
(Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 1) 
Copenhagen: NNRH, 2002 
175 pages (bibliography; index) 
ISBN: 87-988829-0-2
Price: 150 DKK; €20
RR 1:1 (June 2003), pp. 1-5; JOHN O. WARD

Devin Stauffer:
The Unity of Plato's Gorgias. Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
191 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-521-85847-X
Price: £40; $75
RR 5:1 (February 2007), pp. 18-23; ØIVIND ANDERSEN

James Mulvihill:
Upstart Talents: Rhetoric and the Career of Reason in English Romantic Discourse, 1790-1820
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004
292 pages (bibliography; index)
ISBN: 0-87413-848-5 (hardback)
Price: $43.50
RR 5:1 (February 2007), pp. 15-17; MARIE-CHRISTINE SKUNCKE

Naomi W. Cohen:
What the Rabbis Said. The Public Discourse of Nineteenth Century American Rabbis
New York & London: New York University Press, 2008
x + 261 pages (index)
ISBN: 978-0-8147-1688-5 (hardback)
Price: $45
RR 7:1 (February 2009), pp. 6-11; MIRELA SAIM

Richard Nate: 
Wissenschaft und Literatur im England der frühen Neuzeit
(Figuren, vol. 9)
München: Wilhelm Fink, 2001 [Universität Essen, Habilitationsschrift, 1999] 
362 pages (illustrations; appendix; bibliography; indices) 
ISBN: 3-7705-3525-1
Price: €46.40 
RR 1:2 (October 2003), pp. 20-24; TINA SKOUEN

Robert Alexander Kraig:
Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman
(Presidential Rhetoric Series: Number 9)
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004
256 pages (illustrations; bibliography; index)
ISBN: 1-58544-275-5
Price: $45
RR 4:2 (June 2006), pp. 6-10; KATHLEEN VANDENBERG

Lahcen E. Ezzaher:
Writing and Cultural Influence: Studies in Rhetorical History, Orientalist Discourse, and Post-Colonial Criticism
(Comparative Cultures and Literatures, vol. 18)
New York: Peter Lang, 2003
147 pages
ISBN: 0-8204-6209-8 (hardback)
Price: €55.90 (excl. VAT); €59.80 (Germany/Austria); $55.95; £36; 87 CHF
RR 2:1 (February 2004), pp. 10-13; KERMIT E. CAMPBELL