Title Oratory and rhetoric in the nineteenth-century South : a rhetoric of defense / W. Stuart Towns.

Publication Info.	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, [1998]
	©1998

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS407 .T69 1998	Available	---

Description	211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents	The Missouri Compromise: the firebell in the night -- Nullification: South Carolina versus the Union -- Envisioning the perfect society: the defense of slavery and the South -- Disrupting the Union: the house divided -- Reconstruction: the bitterness continues -- A new South begins to emerge: reconciliation and reunion -- The South looks back: creating the Old South and the lost cause -- Resolving the South's problem: defining the segregated South -- Precursors of Progressivism: nineteenth-century advocates for a more humane South.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
	Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
	Southern States.
	Oratory -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Oratory.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	English language -- Southern States -- Rhetoric.
	English language.
	Rhetoric.
	English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric.
	English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric.
	English language -- Southern States -- Rhetoric.
	Oratory -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
ISBN	0275962237 alkaline paper