Frederick Douglass's curious audiences : ethos in the age of the consumable subject

Frederick Douglass's curious audiences : ethos in the age of the consumable subject / Terry Baxter.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baxter, Terry, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Studies in major literary authors ; v. 35.
Subjects:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Oratory.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Ethics.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Public opinion.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895
1800-1899
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
Electronic books.
History
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Table of 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.

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