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Eloquence is power : oratory & performance in early America /
Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, ""eloquence was POWER."" In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British A...
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
©2000.
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- 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.