Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Gustafson, Sandra M.

Title Eloquence is power : oratory & performance in early America / Sandra M. Gustafson.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2000]
©2000
Connect to
Connect to http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/99086591.html

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  808.51 G982E c.2  Check Shelf
Description xxv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D--University of California, Berkeley).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: Language and Power in Seventeenth-Century British America. i. Textual Possession and Oral Resistance. ii. Renaissance Theories of Language and the Place of the Pulpit. iii. Bodies of Language and the Gendered Social Body. iv. Native Speech and the Discipline of Text -- Ch. 1. Gender in Performance. i. Evangelical Performance of Speech and Text. ii. Women's Speech and Women's Silence in Jonathan Edwards's First Northampton Revival. iii. The "Feminine" in Performance -- Ch. 2. The "Savage" Speaker Transformed. i. Cultural Hybridism in Evangelical Oratory. ii. Competing Words. iii. Samson Occom's Pentecostal Indian Speech. iv. John Marrant, "Savage" Speaker -- Ch. 3. Negotiating Power. i. Republicanism and the Eloquent Indian.
Subject Oratory -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
Oratory -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
ISBN 0807825751 alkaline paper
0807848883 paperback alkaline paper
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español