"Habit of Heat": Emerson, Belletristic Rhetoric, and the Role of the Imagination
Roger Thompson

Within nineteenth-century American rhetorical culture, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s contribution was distinct.  Envisioning a rhetoric that linked imagination with social action, he challenged the more mechanistic, reason-centered tendencies of rhetorical doctrines influenced by Hugh Blair.   

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