A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines.

• Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe.
• Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures.
• Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day.
• Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.

Walter Jost teaches in the English Department at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Wendy Olmsted teaches in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.