Eloquence is power oratory & performance in early America / Sandra M. Gustafson.

Author/creator Gustafson, Sandra M.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
Descriptionxxv, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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.
General noteBased on the author's thesis (Ph.D--University of California, Berkley).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 99086591
ISBN0807825751 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807848883 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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