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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451528303321

Autore

Longaker Mark Garrett <1974->

Titolo

Rhetoric and the republic [[electronic resource] ] : politics, civic discourse, and education in early America / / Mark Garrett Longaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8173-8139-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Disciplina

808.0071/173

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States

Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States

English language - United States - Rhetoric

Rhetoric - Social aspects - United States

Education, Higher - United States - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Now that We're Civic; 1. One Republic, Many Republicanisms: Early American Political Discourse and Publicity; 2. One Republic, Many Paideiai: Political Discourse, Publicity, and Education in Early America; 3. Yale 1701-1817; 4. King's College/Columbia and the College of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania, 1754-1800; 5. The College of New Jersey, 1746-1822; Conclusion: We Are All Republicans; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.Contemporary efforts to revitalize the civic mission of higher education in America have revived an age-old republican tradition of teaching students to be responsible citizens, particularly through the study of rhetoric, composition, and oratory. This book examines the political, cultural, economic, and religious agendas that drove the various-and often conflicting-curricula and contrasting visions of what good citizenship entails. Mark Garrett Longaker argues



that higher