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The strange genius of Mr. O celebrity and the invention of the United States /

"The Strange Genius of Mr. O is at once the biography of a remarkably odd celebrity--a gaunt, opium-addicted Scottish orator who lectured in a toga--and a tour of the fledgling United States. James Ogilvie arrived in the United States in 1793 as an educated, impoverished, and deeply ambitious t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eastman, Carolyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The Ogilviad ; or, two students at King's College fight a duel in poetry, 1786-1793 -- "Restless and ardent and poetical" : an ambitious Scottish schoolteacher in Virginia, 1793-1803 -- Ogilvie and opium, a love story, 1803-1809 -- A "romantic excursion" to deliver oratory, 1808 -- Navigating the shoals of belief and skepticism, October-November 1808 -- How to hate Mr. O, 1809-1814 -- A cosmopolitan celebrity in a provincial republic -- Forging celebrity and manliness in a toga, 1810-1815 -- Fighting Indians in a masculine Kentucky landscape, 1811-1813 -- A golden age of American eloquence, 1814-1817 -- A fall from grace ; or, Oratory versus print, 1815-1817 -- "A very extraordinary orator" in Britain, 1817-1820 -- The meanings of melancholy, 1780-1820. 
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