Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America

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UNC Press Books, 2000 - 287 Seiten
Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that
 

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1 Gender
40
2
75
Life Edwards resolved the socially destabilizing themes and the
79
3
111
4
140
symbolic significance of speech to the patriot movement Echoing
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5
171
Smith ed Letters of Delegates to
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Forms of State
200
Washingtons gesturing arm in the Lansdowne portrait unifies and transcends
220
Political Speech in
233
CONCLUSION
267
TRADITIONS OF THE ANCIENTS
271
art into the material representation of an emotion of
278
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Sandra M. Gustafson is associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

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