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Angelina Grimke : Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Browne, Stephen H.
- Series:
- Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--19th century--History--United States.
- Rhetoric.
- Radicalism--History--19th century--United States.
- Radicalism.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.
- Women's rights.
- English language--United States--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, Angelina Grimké (1805-79) was among the first women in American history to seize the public stage in pursuit of radical social reform. ""I will lift up my voice like a trumpet,"" she proclaimed, ""and show this people their transgressions."" And when she did lift her voice in public, on behalf of the public, she found that, in creating herself, she might transform the world. In the process, Grimké crossed the wires of race, gender, and power, and produced explosions that lit up the world of antebellum reform. Among the most
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Encountering Angelina Grimké; Chapter 1: Beginnings: Rhetoric and Identity in the Journal of Angelina Grimké; Chapter 2: Violence, Identity, and the Creation of Radical Community; Chapter 3: Real Pasts and Imagined Futures in the Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; Chapter 4: "An Entirely New Contest": Grimké, Beecher, and the Language of Reform; Chapter 5: "To Open Our Mouths for the Dumb": Grimké, Weld, and the Debate over Women's Speech; Chapter 6: Violent Inventions: Witnessing Slavery in the Pennsylvania Hall Address; Epilogue; Notes
- BibliographyIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87013-897-9
- OCLC:
- 876514115
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