E-book
Eloquence is power oratory & performance in early America
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807848883
- ISBN: 0807848883
- ISBN: 9780807825754
- ISBN: 0807825751
- ISBN: 1469601141
- ISBN: 9781469601144
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxv, 287 pages) : illustrations
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electronic resource - Publisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2000.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:february.18 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: Chapter One: Gender in Performance 40 -- i. Evangelical Performance of Speech and Text 40 -- ii. Women's Speech and Women's Silence in Jonathan Edwards's First -- Northampton Revival 51 -- iii. The "Feminine" in Performance 61 -- Chapter Two: The "Savage" Speaker Transformed 75 -- i. Cultural Hybridism in Evangelical Oratory 75 -- ii. Competing Words 78 -- iii. Samson Occom's Pentecostal Indian Speech go -- iv. John Marrant, "Savage" Speaker lol -- Chapter Three: Negotiating Power iii -- i, Republicanism and the Eloquent Indian ill -- ii, Iroquois and American Publics 119 -- Chapter Four: The Oratorical Public Culture of Revolutionary America 140 -- i, Medium and Message in Revolutionary Public Culture 140 -- ii, Speech, Presence, and Representation 144 -- iii, The Transformative Speech of Patrick Henry 158 -- Chapter Five: The Body of the Nation 171 -- i. "Words of Reproach" and "Written Reason" 171 -- ii. Authoritative Bodies 184 -- Chapter Six: Forms of State 200 -- i. Documents and Debates 200 -- ii. Performing the Presidency 213 -- Chapter Seven: Political Speech in the New Republic 233 -- i. Representative Speech 233 -- ii. Figures of Difference 246 -- Conclusion 267 -- Appendix: Traditions of the Ancients 271 -- Index 279. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Oratory Oratory -- United States -- History -- 17th century Oratory -- United States -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) United States |
| Genre: | History. Electronic books. |
