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A nation of speechifiers : making an American public after the Revolution / Carolyn Eastman.
LIBRA PN4055.U6 E27 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eastman, Carolyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oratory--Social aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Oratory.
- Oratory--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Nationalism--United States--History--18th century.
- Nationalism.
- Nationalism--United States--History--19th century.
- History.
- Oratory--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Messy beginnings
- Demosthenes in America : from sensibility to nationalism in elocutionary education
- Vindicating female eloquence : girls' oratory and the rise and fall of a female counterpublic
- Mourning for Logan : "Indian eloquence" and the making of an American public
- "A club is a nation in miniature" : young men on the make and their debating societies
- Saint Franklin : journeymen printers and the medium of democratic virtue
- "Who's afraid" of Frances Wright? Media debates about the public and its spokesmen
- The ongoing process of making an American public.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226180199
- 0226180190
- OCLC:
- 316327186
- Publisher Number:
- 40017441791
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