Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness -- 2. Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style -- 3. Tudor Writings on Rhetoric, Poetic, and Literary Theory -- 4. Memory as Art -- 5. Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite -- 6. Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality -- 7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind -- 8. Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field -- 9. Psyche and the Geometers: Associationist Critical Theory -- 10. J. S. Mill's Pariah Poet -- 11. Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology -- 12. The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today -- 13. Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities -- Index.