A nation of speechifiers
Subtitle: making an American public after the Revolution
By: Carolyn Eastman.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780226180199
Subjects: Oratory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Oratory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: In the decades after the American Revolution, a new national identity began to take shape. Carolyn Eastman argues that ordinary men and women gave meaning to American nationhood and national belonging by first learning to imagine themselves as members of a shared public.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Messy beginnings; title: Demosthenes in America; title: From sensibility to nationalism in elocutionary education; title: Vindicating female eloquence; title: Girls' oratory and the rise and fall of a female counterpublic; title: Mourning for Logan; title: "Indian eloquence" and the making of an American public; title: "A club is a nation in miniature"; title: Young men on the make and their debating societies; title: Saint Franklin; title: Journeymen printers and the medium of democratic virtue; title: "Who's afraid" of Frances Wright?; title: Media debates about the public and its spokesmen in 1829; title: The ongoing process of making an American public.