Rhetorical image‐making: a case study of the Thomas Paine‐William Smith propaganda debates

• Thomas Clark ^[1]
  1. [1] Indiana University
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 40, nº 3, 1974, págs. 248-261
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Critics have long puzzled over the unexampled popular success of Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the corresponding failure of its most important reply, William Smith's Cato letters. In an attempt to account for this disparity, the author 1) explores how the interplay among goals, personal circumstances, means of argument, and style influenced the persuasive strategies of William Smith and Thomas Paine, and 2) describes the character‐revealing images the rhetoric of Common Sense and the Cato letters probably projected of their authors.