Genteel Rhetoric

Genteel Rhetoric Writing High Culture in Nineteenth-Century Boston - Studies in Rhetoric/communication

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Publisher's Synopsis

An examination of how the New England intelligentsia set out to establish cultural independence from England through a uniquely American literature. It looks at Emerson, Lowell, Wendell Holmes and other, to show how the coherence of their voices broke when discussing slavery, abolition and war.

Book information

ISBN: 9781570032448
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of South Carolina Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.9974461
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 136
Weight: 395g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 17mm