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

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 learnin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eastman, Carolyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Temas:
1700-1899
Oratory > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Oratory > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Nationalism > United States > History > 18th century.
Nationalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Art oratoire > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Art oratoire > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Nationalisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Nationalisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Public Speaking.
Nationalism.
Oratory > Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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