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Rhetoric, independence, and nationhood, 1760-1800 / edited by Stephen E. Lucas.

Lucas, Stephen, 1946- editor.
2022
P301.5.P67
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Title
Rhetoric, independence, and nationhood, 1760-1800 / edited by Stephen E. Lucas.
ISBN
9781609176853 (electronic bk.)
1609176855 PDF
9781611864199 cloth
1611864194 cloth
Published
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (l, 452 pages).
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P301.5.P67
Summary
"Few periods of American history have been studied more extensively or debated more intensely than the last four decades of the eighteenth century, during which the thirteen colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, won their independence on the battlefield, created the United States Constitution, and implemented a new national government. Scholars have approached these developments from a variety of perspectives--economic, social, political, religious, legal, and diplomatic, to name a few. This volume adopts a rhetorical perspective, which foregrounds the art of effective expression as a means of influencing political perceptions, values, and behaviors. It presents eleven essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars who bring to bear a variety of methods, backgrounds, perspectives, and specializations. The essays illuminate key rhetors, works, controversies, and moments that helped shape American discourse and politics during the years 1760-1800."-- Provided by publisher.
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STEPHEN E. LUCAS is professor emeritus of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Lucas, Stephen, 1946- editor.
Series
Rhetorical history of the United States ; v. 2.
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Introduction: Rhetoric, independence, and nationhood, 1760-1800 / Stephen E. Lucas
The child independence is born : James Otis and writs of assistance / James M. Farrell
Spectacular words : the Boston Massacre orations, standing armies, and the transformation of civic Identity / Stephen Howard Browne
Religion, rhetoric, and revolution : the preaching of New England's Whig clergy / Christopher Grasso
The commonalities of Common sense / Robert A. Ferguson
Justifying America : the rhetorical artistry of the Declaration of Independence / Stephen E. Lucas
Loyalist discourse and the moderation of the American Revolution / Timothy M. Barnes and Robert M. Calhoon
The confounded rhetorics of race in revolutionary America / Stephen John Hartnett and Michael W. Pfau
Revolutionary sensibility : the civic rhetoric of American women, 1760-1800 / Sandra M. Gustafson
The rhetoric of The federalist : on the symbolic economy of power in the United States / Jeremy Engels
Alexander Hamilton's national blessing : a rhetorical study of the Report on public credit / John M. Murphy
Naming Americans : Benjamin Rush and the invention of citizenship in the early republic / Greg Goodale.

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