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A nation of speechifiers : making an American public after the Revolution / Carolyn Eastman.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the decades after the American Revolution, inhabitants of the United States began to shape a new national identity. Telling the story of this messy yet formative process, Carolyn Eastman argues that ordinary men and women gave meaning to American nationhood and national belonging by first learning to imagine themselves as members of a shared public.She reveals that the creation of this American public-which only gradually developed nationalistic qualities-took place as men and women engaged with oratory and print media not only as readers and listeners but also as write
- 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 in 1829
- The ongoing process of making an American public.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612895449
- 9781282895447
- 1282895443
- 9780226180212
- 0226180212
- OCLC:
- 676697579
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