A nation of speechifiers : making an American public after the Revolution / Carolyn Eastman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.Description: xi, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226180199 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226180190 (cloth : alk. paper)
Local Notes: Gift of the author. LCP Fellow.Subject(s):
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Gift of the author. LCP Fellow.

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