Eloquence is Power: Oratory & Performance in Early AmericaUNC Press Books, 2000 - 287 страници Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that |
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... Treaty of Lancaster 120 Figure 7. Page 3 , 1744 Treaty of Lancaster 122 Figure 8. James Otis , Jr. 143 Figure 9. Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses 168 Figure 10. The Bloody Massacre 172 Figure 11. Samuel Adams 186 ...
... Treaty of Lancaster 120 Figure 7. Page 3 , 1744 Treaty of Lancaster 122 Figure 8. James Otis , Jr. 143 Figure 9. Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses 168 Figure 10. The Bloody Massacre 172 Figure 11. Samuel Adams 186 ...
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... treaty council with authority . An even more complex melding of traditions oc- curred in the spiritual career of African American missionary John Marrant . Con- verted by British evangelist George Whitefield about 1770 , young Marrant ...
... treaty council with authority . An even more complex melding of traditions oc- curred in the spiritual career of African American missionary John Marrant . Con- verted by British evangelist George Whitefield about 1770 , young Marrant ...
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... treaty councils of the early eighteenth century . The printed Lancaster treaty of 1744 circulated widely in the colonies as an important political document and an example of native eloquence . There , Onondaga leader Canassatego ...
... treaty councils of the early eighteenth century . The printed Lancaster treaty of 1744 circulated widely in the colonies as an important political document and an example of native eloquence . There , Onondaga leader Canassatego ...
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... treaty of 1744 , James Otis's and Patrick Henry's famous speeches , the Boston Massacre trials , records of legislative oratory , and Hendrick Aupaumut's narrative of his embassy to the western nations . Some of these records were ...
... treaty of 1744 , James Otis's and Patrick Henry's famous speeches , the Boston Massacre trials , records of legislative oratory , and Hendrick Aupaumut's narrative of his embassy to the western nations . Some of these records were ...
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... treaty , or hold a ceremony to combat illness or bring rain.52 The translated phrases with which Williams surrounds ... treaties with Europeans whose written rec- ords did not always reflect Indian memories of the agreement.53 The ...
... treaty , or hold a ceremony to combat illness or bring rain.52 The translated phrases with which Williams surrounds ... treaties with Europeans whose written rec- ords did not always reflect Indian memories of the agreement.53 The ...
Съдържание
1 Gender | 40 |
2 | 75 |
Life Edwards resolved the socially destabilizing themes and the | 79 |
3 | 111 |
4 | 140 |
symbolic significance of speech to the patriot movement Echoing | 151 |
5 | 171 |
Smith ed Letters of Delegates to | 199 |
Forms of State | 200 |
Washingtons gesturing arm in the Lansdowne portrait unifies and transcends | 220 |
Political Speech in | 233 |
CONCLUSION | 267 |
TRADITIONS OF THE ANCIENTS | 271 |
art into the material representation of an emotion of | 278 |
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