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making an American public after the Revolution

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Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution
2014, University of Chicago Press
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Cover of: Nation of Speechifiers
Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution
2010, University of Chicago Press
in English
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2010, The University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Messy beginnings
Demosthenes in America
From sensibility to nationalism in elocutionary education
Vindicating female eloquence
Girls' oratory and the rise and fall of a female counterpublic
Mourning for Logan
"Indian eloquence" and the making of an American public
"A club is a nation in miniature"
Young men on the make and their debating societies
Saint Franklin
Journeymen printers and the medium of democratic virtue
"Who's afraid" of Frances Wright?
Media debates about the public and its spokesmen in 1829
The ongoing process of making an American public.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Chicago, London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.5/1097309034
Library of Congress
PN4055.U5 E27 2010, PN4055.U5E27 2010, PN4055.U6 E27 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23186558M
Internet Archive
nationspeechifie00east
ISBN 10
0226180190
ISBN 13
9780226180199
LCCN
2009010515
OCLC/WorldCat
316327186, 317922522
Library Thing
9357888

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