Frederick Douglass''s Curious Audiences - Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject

Informationen zum Autor Terry Baxter received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1998. Klappentext Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change. Zusammenfassung Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Reformation and Resentment in Antebellum America 3. Antebellum Rhetorical Culture in Theory, Criticism and Practice 4. The Construction of Blackness and the Constraint of Ethos 5. Douglass as an Exhibit of Ethos Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Terry Baxter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2014
• EAN: 9780415762687
• ISBN: 978-0-415-76268-7
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature & literary studies, Humanities, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Biography, Literature and Literary studies