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Author Baxter, Terry, 1970-

Title Frederick Douglass's curious audiences : ethos in the age of the consumable subject / Terry Baxter
Published New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 186 pages)
Series Studies in major literary authors ; v. 35
Studies in major literary authors ; v. 35.
Contents BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM; DEFINITION OF TERMS; DEFINITION OF ETHOS; LIMITS OF THE STUDY; METHOD AND CHAPTER OUTLINE; SUMMARY; CHAPTER TWO Reformation and Resentment in Antebellum America; CHAPTER PREVIEW: ANTEBELLUM RHETORICAL CULTURE; THE USE VALUE OF RHETORIC IN DOUGLASS'S AMERICA; THE "SUPERIOR DIFFUSION OF INTELLIGENCE"; THE RESENTFUL REACTION TO STRONG REFORM RHETORIC; SUMMARY; CHAPTER THREE Antebellum Rhetorical Culture in Theory, Criticism, and Practice; RHETORICAL THEORY MADE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
Summary Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index
Notes English
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Subject Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Oratory
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Ethics
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Public opinion
SUBJECT Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 fast
Subject Audiences -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Oratory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Ethics -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Audiences
Ethics
Oratory
Oratory -- Social aspects
Public opinion
Rhetoric -- Social aspects
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003027568
ISBN 0203484800
9780203484807
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9781135876982
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9781280156670
1135876975
9781135876975