Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo)

Gustafson, Sandra M.

ISBN 10: 0807848883 / ISBN 13: 9780807848883

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo)
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807848883
• ISBN 13: 9780807848883
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.