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America's Great Age of Rhetoric, 1770-1860: Advocacy, Conceptualization, Institutionalization

America's Great Age of Rhetoric, 1770-1860: Advocacy, Conceptualization, Institutionalization

Hardcover

Series: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric, Book 18

General ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004695591
ISBN13: 9789004695597
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 30 2024
Pages: 714
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.70 Width: 0.60 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
This book analyzes the advocacy, conceptualization, and institutionalization of rhetoric from 1770 to 1860. Among the forces promoting advocacy was the need for oratory calling for independence, the belief that using rhetoric was the way to succeed in biblical interpretation and preaching, and the desire for rhetoric as entertainment. Conceptually, leaders followed classical and German rhetoricians in viewing rhetoric as an art of ethical choice. Institutionally, a rhetorician such as Ebenezer Porter called for the development of organizations at all levels, a sociology of rhetoric. Orville Dewey highlighted the passion for rhetoric, calling his times the age of eloquence.

With this book Merrill D. Whitburn is the winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award of the Eastern Communication Association 2025

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