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Autore: | Briggs John Channing <1948-> |
Titolo: | Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / John Channing Briggs |
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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