| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 287 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Chapter One: Gender in Performance 40 -- i. Evangelical Performance of Speech and Text 40 -- ii. Women's Speech and Women's Silence in Jonathan Edwards's First -- Northampton Revival 51 -- iii. The "Feminine" in Performance 61 -- Chapter Two: The "Savage" Speaker Transformed 75 -- i. Cultural Hybridism in Evangelical Oratory 75 -- ii. Competing Words 78 -- iii. Samson Occom's Pentecostal Indian Speech go -- iv. John Marrant, "Savage" Speaker lol -- Chapter Three: Negotiating Power iii -- i, Republicanism and the Eloquent Indian ill -- ii, Iroquois and American Publics 119 -- Chapter Four: The Oratorical Public Culture of Revolutionary America 140 -- i, Medium and Message in Revolutionary Public Culture 140 -- ii, Speech, Presence, and Representation 144 -- iii, The Transformative Speech of Patrick Henry 158 -- Chapter Five: The Body of the Nation 171 -- i. "Words of Reproach" and "Written Reason" 171 -- ii. Authoritative Bodies 184 -- Chapter Six: Forms of State 200 -- i. Documents and Debates 200 -- ii. Performing the Presidency 213 -- Chapter Seven: Political Speech in the New Republic 233 -- i. Representative Speech 233 -- ii. Figures of Difference 246 -- Conclusion 267 -- Appendix: Traditions of the Ancients 271 -- Index 279. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oratory -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
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Oratory. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Oratory -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 99086591 (OCoLC)43287247 |
| ISBN |
9781469601144 (electronic book) |
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1469601141 (electronic book) |
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0807825751 (alkaline paper) |
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9780807825754 (alkaline paper) |
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0807848883 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807848883 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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