Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America /
Garvey, T. Gregory,1962-
Athens : University of Georgia Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index.
Discursive democracy and the culture of reform -- Religious pluralism and the origins of the culture of reform -- Sincerity and publicity in the Grimké-Beecher debate -- Garrison, Douglass, and the problem of politics -- Emerson's self-reliance as a theory of community -- Epilogue : sincerity and pluralism in critical conversation.
Social reformers