Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Transformations in the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric

by Gregory Clark

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Gregory Clark and S. Michael Halloran bring together nine essays that explore change in both the theory and the practice of rhetoric in the nineteenth-century United States.

In their introductory essay, Clark and Halloran argue that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, rhetoric encompassed a neoclassical oratorical culture in which speakers articulated common values to establish consensual moral authority that directed community thought...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0809317397

ISBN13:9780809317394

Release Date:November 1993

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:288 Pages

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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