| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 186 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in major literary authors ; v. 35
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Studies in major literary authors ; v. 35.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index. |
| Contents |
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM; DEFINITION OF TERMS; DEFINITION OF ETHOS; LIMITS OF THE STUDY; METHOD AND CHAPTER OUTLINE; SUMMARY; CHAPTER TWO Reformation and Resentment in Antebellum America; CHAPTER PREVIEW: ANTEBELLUM RHETORICAL CULTURE; THE USE VALUE OF RHETORIC IN DOUGLASS'S AMERICA; THE "SUPERIOR DIFFUSION OF INTELLIGENCE"; THE RESENTFUL REACTION TO STRONG REFORM RHETORIC; SUMMARY; CHAPTER THREE Antebellum Rhetorical Culture in Theory, Criticism, and Practice; RHETORICAL THEORY MADE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. |
| Summary |
Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Oratory.
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. |
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Oratory. |
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Public opinion.
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Public opinion. |
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Audiences -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Audiences. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Rhetoric -- Social aspects. |
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Rhetoric. |
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Oratory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Oratory -- Social aspects. |
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Ethics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baxter, Terry, 1970- Frederick Douglass's curious audiences. New York : Routledge, 2004 (DLC) 2003027568 |
| ISBN |
0203484800 (electronic book) |
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9780203484807 (electronic book) |
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041597075X (Cloth) |
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