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Democratic eloquence : the fight over popular speech in nineteenth-century America / Kenneth Cmiel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cmiel, Kenneth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Spoken English--United States--History--19th century.
- English language.
- Political oratory--United States--History--19th century.
- Political oratory.
- Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- Americanisms.
- History.
- English language--Spoken English.
- United States.
- English language--19th century--Rhetoric.
- Rhetoric.
- English language--19th century--Usage.
- Americanisms--History--19th century.
- English language--Rhetoric.
- English language--Usage.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 351 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]
- Summary:
- This book tells the dramatic story of how Americans thought and argued about the English language between 1776 and 1900. The rise of a popular democracy in the early nineteenth century rudely challenged gentlemanly assumptions that only the well-educated should be able to speak in public.
- Notes:
- Originaly published: New York : W. Morrow, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520074858
- 9780520074859
- OCLC:
- 23655001
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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