Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Transformations in the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric

by Gregory Clark

Gregory Clark and S. Michael Halloran bring together nine essays that explore change in both the theory and the practice of rhetoric in the nineteenth-century United States.

In their introductory essay, Clark and Halloran argue that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, rhetoric encompassed a neoclassical oratorical culture in which speakers articulated common values to establish consensual moral authority that directed community thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809317397
• ISBN13: 9780809317394
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"