Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Briggs, John Channing, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lincoln, Abraham.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Writing skill.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Discours americains > Histoire et critique.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The mind of the persuader
  • Rhetorical contexts
  • The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions"
  • The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation
  • The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue "
  • The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle
  • The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government
  • The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve
  • Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy
  • The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government
  • The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager
  • Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God"
  • The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope"
  • The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion
  • Postscript. The letter to Mrs. Bixby : secular scripture.

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