Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early AmericaUNC Press Books, 2000 - 287 páginas 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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... Colonial Williamsburg Foundation . On November 15 , 1996 , the Institute adopted the present name in honor of a bequest from Malvern H. Omohundro , Jr. © 2000 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Minion and ...
... Colonial Williamsburg Foundation . On November 15 , 1996 , the Institute adopted the present name in honor of a bequest from Malvern H. Omohundro , Jr. © 2000 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Minion and ...
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... Colonial Colonel 217 Figure 15. George Washington , by Nöel Le Mire 218 Figure 16. George Washington , by Gilbert Stuart 220 Figure 17. Fisher Ames 239 Figure 18. Portrait of Deborah Sampson 250 ABBREVIATIONS AHR American Historical ...
... Colonial Colonel 217 Figure 15. George Washington , by Nöel Le Mire 218 Figure 16. George Washington , by Gilbert Stuart 220 Figure 17. Fisher Ames 239 Figure 18. Portrait of Deborah Sampson 250 ABBREVIATIONS AHR American Historical ...
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... colonies derived much of their significance and complexity from the collision of European , native American , and African cultures that defined major aspects of the colonial experience . European colonists in North America drew on the ...
... colonies derived much of their significance and complexity from the collision of European , native American , and African cultures that defined major aspects of the colonial experience . European colonists in North America drew on the ...
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... colonies and early republic because it permitted the staging of a variety of social and cultural relations . Whether ... colonial and early republican periods . The relevant works not cited elsewhere in this introduction include Sacvan ...
... colonies and early republic because it permitted the staging of a variety of social and cultural relations . Whether ... colonial and early republican periods . The relevant works not cited elsewhere in this introduction include Sacvan ...
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... colonial period . For the first century of colonization , British Americans imagined the rela- tionship between speech and text as a relatively static and absolute distinction that could be used to figure other supposedly absolute ...
... colonial period . For the first century of colonization , British Americans imagined the rela- tionship between speech and text as a relatively static and absolute distinction that could be used to figure other supposedly absolute ...
Contenido
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 | 151 |
5 | 171 |
Smith ed Letters of Delegates to | 199 |
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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Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early America Sandra M. Gustafson Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adams's African American American Revolution Ames's Antinomian audience Aupaumut authenticity authority Benjamin Franklin body Boston Massacre Brainerd British Cambridge Canassatego century chap Chapel Hill Christian claims colonial colonists Constitution conversion Cotton cultural David Brainerd debates Deborah Sampson described discusses divine early Edwards's eloquence emotional England English European evangelical figure Fisher Ames forms Gannett gender gesture History Hutchinson Ibid insisted Iroquois James Otis Jefferson John Adams John Marrant Jonathan Edwards language leaders letter linguistic literacy Mahican Marrant Massachusetts ministers missionary narrative native American negotiations oral orator oratory Otis's Patrick Henry patriot performance semiotic political popular preachers preaching pulpit Puritan republican Revolutionary rhetorical role sacred Samson Occom Sarah savage Scripture sermon social society soldiers speak speaker speech and text spiritual style symbolic textual Thomas tion tradition transformed verbal Virginia voice Whitefield William women writ writing Writs of Assistance written York
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New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing David Read Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary Scott E. Casper,Joanne D. Chaison,Jeffrey D. Groves Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |