Genteel rhetoric : writing high culture in nineteenth-century Boston /
Broaddus, Dorothy C.
Columbia, S.C. University of South Carolina Press,
c1999.
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  .
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
American literature
Rhetoric
English language
Language and culture
Unitarians