Genteel rhetoric : writing high culture in nineteenth-century Boston /
by Broaddus, Dorothy C.
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication. Publisher: Columbia, S.C. University of South Carolina Press, c1999Description: xiii, 136 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1570032440.Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Technique | Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 -- Technique | Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Technique | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 -- Technique | English language -- Rhetoric. -- United States | English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Unitarians -- Intellectual life. -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Language and culture -- History -- 19th century. -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Rhetoric -- History -- Social aspects -- 19th century. -- Massachusetts -- Boston | American literature -- History and criticism. -- Massachusetts -- Boston | Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: rhetoric and culture -- Teaching and preaching culture and character -- Authorizing high culture, authorizing self -- Elevation and degradation -- Rhetoric and war -- Works cited -- Index .
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Epoka University Library
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PS 255 .B6 .B76 1999 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-129) and index.
Preface -- Introduction: rhetoric and culture -- Teaching and preaching culture and character -- Authorizing high culture, authorizing self -- Elevation and degradation -- Rhetoric and war -- Works cited -- Index .
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