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Culture of eloquence : oratory and reform in antebellum America

Author: James Perrin Warren
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; William Gilmore Simms; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Margaret Fuller; Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; William Gilmore Simms; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Margaret Fuller
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Perrin Warren
ISBN: 027101900X 9780271019000
OCLC Number: 39733183
Description: x, 202 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Culture of eloquence -- "Ferries and Horses": Emerson's theory of eloquence -- Henry Thoreau's tawny grammar -- Fuller, Peabody, and the mother tongue -- A fruitful nursery of orators: Frederick Douglass and the conditions for eloquence -- William Gilmore Simms and the necessity of speech -- Whitman's agonistic arena.
Responsibility: James Perrin Warren.

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