Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics

Essays cover nineteenth-century American activists' rhetorics and their echoes in contemporary American activism using a variety of theoretical lenses, such as classical rhetorical tropes, feminism, gender, and race. In addition to texts such as letters, sermons, and speeches, a variety of rhetorical contexts such as monuments, strikes, protests, and theater are considered.

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Summary

In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform.

Product details

• Assisted by: Patricia Bizzell (Editor), Lisa Zimerelli (Editor), Lisa Zimmerelli (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781603295208
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-520-8
• No. of pages: 348
• Weight: 612 g
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics