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CULTURE OF ELOQUENCE
ORATORY AND REFORM IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA |
| By: |
James Perrin Warren |
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Hardback |
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£44.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
027101900X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780271019000 |
| Publisher: |
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 1999 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
A cultural history of the reforming power of language, based on a study of non-fiction prose of the 1830s - 1850s, in particular orations and lectures. Practices that crossed boundaries of gender, race and class show how diverse sectors of American society valued the word as a means toward reform. |
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Returnable |
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