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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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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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