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The Strange Genius of Mr. O : The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity /

"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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Autor principal: Eastman, Carolyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction. A Celebrity in the Early Republic
  • 1. The Ogilviad
  • or, Two Students at King's College Fight a Duel in Poetry, 1786-1793
  • 2. "Restless and Ardent and Poetical": An Ambitious Scottish Schoolteacher in Virginia, 1793-1803
  • 3. Ogilvie and Opium, a Love Story, 1803-1809
  • 4. A "Romantic Excursion" to Deliver Oratory, 1808
  • 5. Navigating the Shoals of Belief and Skepticism, October-November 1808
  • 6. How to Hate Mr. O, 1809-1814
  • 7. A Cosmopolitan Celebrity in a Provincial Republic
  • 8. Forging Celebrity and Manliness in a Toga, 1810-1815
  • 9. Fighting Indians in a Masculine Kentucky Landscape, 1811-1813
  • 10. A Golden Age of American Eloquence, 1814-1817
  • 11. A Fall from Grace
  • or, Oratory versus Print, 1815-1817
  • 12. "A Very Extraordinary Orator" in Britain, 1817-1820
  • 13. The Meanings of Melancholy, 1780-1820
  • Epilogue. Celebrating and Forgetting
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
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  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
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