Jeremy Bentham
If you are interested in the rhetorical devices that Jeremy Bentham used in his writings and why those devices made his writing more or less persuasive, this bibliography is for you.
1. Beyond Diction: Using Burke to Empower Words, and Wordlings, by Richard M. Coe. Rhetoric Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1993), pp. 368-377.
2. Semantics in the Methodology of the History of Ideas, by Nils B. Kvastad. Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 174.
3. From Bentham to Benthamism, by David Lieberman. Historical Journal 28, 1985, p. 199.
4. Rhetoric as Jurisprudence: An Introduction to the Politics of Legal Language, by Peter Goodrich. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 90.
5. The State of Legal Writing: Res Ipsa Loquitur, by George D. Gopen. Michigan Law Review Vol. 86, No. 2, p. 336.
6. The Way We Read and Write Now: The Rhetoric of Experience in Victorian Literature and Contemporary Criticism, by Timothy Peltason. ELH (English Literary History) Volume 66, Number 4, Winter 1999, pp. 985-1014.
7. Undoing Babel: C. K. Ogden's Basic English, by Gordon W. Terrence. ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, 1988, 45, 4, Winter, 337-340.
8. Of Promises, Contracts, and Constitutions: Thomas Reid and Jeremy Bentham on Language as Social Action, by Angela Esterhammer. Romanticism 6.1 (2000): 55-77.
9. Godwin's Suspicion of Speech Acts, by Angela Esterhammer. Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000): 553-78.
10. A Memorial for Jeremy Bentham: Memory, Fiction, and Writing the Law, by Martin Kayman. Law and Critique, January 2004, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 207-229 (23).
11. Bentham and Elocution, by James Mulvihill. Notes and Queries 49(4): 471-473.
12. Reading Bentham, by William Twining. Proceedings of the British Academy 1989; 75: 97-141.
13. The Poetics of Utility: Benthamite Literary Reviewing, 1824-1836, by James Mulvihill. English Studies in Canada (ESC), 1989 June; 15(2): 149-161.
14. Bentham's Book of Fallacies: Rhetorician in Spite of Himself, by Marie J. Secor. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1989; 22(2): 83-94.
15. Legislating Being: Words and Things in Bentham's Panopticon, by Andrew Zimmerman. European Legacy 3: 72-83.
16. An Empirical Test of Bentham's Theory of the Persuasiveness of Evidence, by Paul Caster and Karen V. Pincus. Auditing 15: 1-22.
17. Bentham's Theory of Fictions: A Curious Double Language, by Nomi Maya Stolzenberg. Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 11: 223-61.
18. Bentham, Truth and the Semiotics of Law, by Bernard S. Jackson. Current Legal Problems 51: 493-531.
Jeremy Bentham. Deontology Together with A Table of the Springs of Action and the Article on Utilitarianism, edited by Amnon Goldworth. Oxford University Press 1983.
Wayne Elmer Brockriede. Bentham's Philosophy of Rhetoric, University of Illinois Dissertation, 1969, 1954. Available through the University of Georgia, and Purdue University.
Kenneth Burke. A Grammar of Motives, University of California Press, 1969.
Kenneth Burke. A Rhetoric of Motives. University of California Press, 1969.
Peter Goodrich. Legal Discourse: Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis, 1987, London, Macmillan, and St Martin's Press, New York.
Peter Goodrich. Languages of Law: From Logics of Memory to Nomadic Masks, 1990, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
C. K. Ogden (ed). Bentham's Theory of Fictions, 1932, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner.
C.K. Ogden. Jeremy Bentham, 1832-2032; Being the Bentham Centenary Lecture, delivered in University College, London, on June 6th, 1932. Kegan Paul Trench, Trubner, London 1932.
C.K. Ogden. From Bentham to Basic English, Thoemmes Continuum (Bristol), 1999.
Kiho Song. The Benthamite Theory of Fiction and Problems of Language in Robert Browning's 'The Ring and the Book,' (2002), USA: Michigan State University PhD Dissertation.
David A. Funk. Bentham as Pioneer in Legal Semiotics, in Semiotics (John Deely, Editor). University Press of America, 1985.
Jeremy Bentham: A Bibliography 1989-2004. Available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/info/bibliog.htm
1. Law and Language, by Timothy Endicott. Available at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/law-language/
2. Jeremy Bentham: An Iliad of Argument, by J H Burns. Available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journal/nlburns.htm
3. Jeremy Bentham, Social Criticism & Levels of Meaning, by Colin Tyler. Available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journal/Tylerl.htm
4. The Place of Jeremy Bentham's Theory of Fictions in Eighteenth-Century Linguistic Thought, by Emmanuelle de Champs. Available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journal/nldechmp.htm
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