Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America

Gustafson, Sandra M.

ISBN 10: 0807848883 / ISBN 13: 9780807848883

Published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2000

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287 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. Owner's name and blind stamp on front end paper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807848883
• ISBN 13: 9780807848883
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Scholarly 2

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Synopsis

Sandra Gustafson examines the verbal art of speech in sacred, political and diplomatic forms as it was created and practiced in colonial America and the early republic. She demonstrates that, in the distinctly American interaction of cultures, contact and conflict among Europeans, native Americans, and Africans gave particular significance and complexity to the uses of the spoken word.

About the Author

Sandra M. Gustafson is associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.