Author: Edwin Forrest
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anniversaries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Oration Delivered at the Democratic Republican Celebration of the Sixty-second Anniversary of the Independence of the United States
Author: Edwin Forrest
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anniversaries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anniversaries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A Checklist of American Imprints for 1838
Author:
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810821231
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810821231
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Provocative Eloquence
Author: Laura L. Mielke
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472124374
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery’s defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of widespread destruction. Provocative Eloquence recounts how the theater, long an arena for heightened eloquence and physical contest, proved terribly relevant in the lead up to the Civil War. As antislavery speech and open conflict intertwined, the nation became a stage. The book brings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict. The book draws on a wide range of work in performance studies, theater history, black performance theory, oratorical studies, and literature and law to provide a new narrative of the interaction of oratorical, theatrical, and literary histories of the nineteenth-century U.S.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472124374
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery’s defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of widespread destruction. Provocative Eloquence recounts how the theater, long an arena for heightened eloquence and physical contest, proved terribly relevant in the lead up to the Civil War. As antislavery speech and open conflict intertwined, the nation became a stage. The book brings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict. The book draws on a wide range of work in performance studies, theater history, black performance theory, oratorical studies, and literature and law to provide a new narrative of the interaction of oratorical, theatrical, and literary histories of the nineteenth-century U.S.
The American Library of the Late William H. Winters
Author: William Huffman Winters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Description of the Province and City of New York
Author: John Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana, 1883
Author: Robert Clarke & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
Author: Elizabeth Duquette
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192899880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source--Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Because Napoleon defined tyranny around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world--its features and emergence, its relationship to democratic institutions, its effects on persons and peoples--he provides a way for nineteenth-century Americans to explore the parameters of tyranny and their complicity in its cruelties. Napoleon helps us see the decidedly plural forms of tyranny in the US, bringing their fictions into focus. At the same time, however, there are distinctly American modes of tyranny. From the tyrannical style of the American imagination to the usurping potential of American individualism, Elizabeth Duquette shows that tyranny is as American as democracy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192899880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source--Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Because Napoleon defined tyranny around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world--its features and emergence, its relationship to democratic institutions, its effects on persons and peoples--he provides a way for nineteenth-century Americans to explore the parameters of tyranny and their complicity in its cruelties. Napoleon helps us see the decidedly plural forms of tyranny in the US, bringing their fictions into focus. At the same time, however, there are distinctly American modes of tyranny. From the tyrannical style of the American imagination to the usurping potential of American individualism, Elizabeth Duquette shows that tyranny is as American as democracy.
American History
Author: Harvard University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description