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• The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Wilfred E. Major (PDF at Ohio State)

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• Ad C. Herennium De Ratione Dicendi (Rhetorica ad Herennium) (in Latin and English; ancient attribution to Cicero dubious; this edition published 1964), trans. by Harry Caplan, contrib. by Marcus Tullius Cicero (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Antonia Jane Reobone Syson (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Artistry of the Homeric Simile (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library and Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, c2009), by William C. Scott
  • multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Aristotle's Rhetoric: or, the True Grounds and Principles of Oratory, Shewing the Right Art of Pleading and Speaking In Full Assemblies and Courts of Judicature, Made English By the Translators of the Art of Thinking (aka Rhetoric to Alexander, formerly attributed to Aristotle, now generally attributed to Anaximenes; London: Printed by T.B. for R. Taylor, 1686), by Anaximenes of Lampsacus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Incerti Auctoris De Ratione Dicendi ad C. Herennium Libri IV (M. Tulli Ciceronis Ad Herennium Libri VI) (traditionally attributed to Cicero, but sometimes to Cornificius; in Latin; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1894), ed. by Friedrich Marx, contrib. by Marcus Tullius Cicero and rhetor Cornificius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Menexenus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Nicolai Progymnasmata (in Greek, with Latin notes; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1913), by Nicolaus Sophista, ed. by Josephus Felten
  • PDF at Chicago
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Ellen D. Finkelpearl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)
• The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile (Leiden: Brill, 1974), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• The Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Repetitorium der Lateinischen Syntax und Stilistik (in German (with Latin examples); Wolfenbüttel: J. Zwissler, 1900), by Hermann Menge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Repetitorium der Lateinischen Syntax und Stilistik (in German (with Latin examples); Wolfenbüttel: J. Zwissler, 1905), by Hermann Menge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Profession and Performance: Aspects of Oratory in the Greco-Roman World (London: University of London, c2013), ed. by Christos Kremmydas, J. G. F. Powell, and Lene Rubinstein (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance (2 volumes; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961), by Bernard Weinberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Longinus in England, Bis Zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German, with English and Greek quotations; Berlin: Mayer und Müller, 1917), by Alfred Rosenberg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Marvin T. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissance (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Bernard Weinberg (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2002), by John McGowan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Ellen Rooney
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2002), by John McGowan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Sharon O'Dair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Jennifer Ruth (PDF at Ohio State)

• Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by John Paul M. Kanwit (PDF at Ohio State)

• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Philology and its Histories (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), ed. by Sean Alexander Gurd (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), ed. by Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline (PDF at Ohio State)

• Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Betty A. Schellenberg
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The King James Version Defended (originally published 1956; published with preface by Letis in 1983), by Edward F. Hills, contrib. by Theodore P. Letis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Coleridge's Biographia Literaria: Text and Meaning (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Frederick Burwick (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (originally published 1999; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Turner (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studies in the Narrative Method of Defoe (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1924), by Arthur Wellesley Secord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Robles (PDF at Ohio State)
• Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by Jerome Beaty (PDF at Ohio State)
• Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Audrey Jaffe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter West (PDF at Ohio State)
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Peter Melville Logan (HTML at UC Press)
• Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)

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