Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / John Channing Briggs

• Autore: Briggs John Channing <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (370 pages))
• Soggetto topico: Speeches, addresses, etc., American; Speeches, addresses, etc., American - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Note generali: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2005
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-361) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation-- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. The letter to Mrs. Bixby : secular scripture.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered
• ISBN: 1-4214-3745-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524700603321
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