Title Genteel rhetoric : writing high culture in nineteenth-century Boston / Dorothy C. Broaddus

Published Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1999] ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 136 pages) Series Studies in rhetoric/communication Studies in rhetoric/communication. Contents Preface -- Introduction: rhetoric and culture -- Teaching and preaching culture and character -- Authorizing high culture, authorizing self -- Elevation and degradation -- Rhetoric and war -- Works cited -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index Notes Print version record Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Technique. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 -- Technique. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Technique. Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 -- Technique. American literature -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History and criticism. English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts -- Boston. Language and culture -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century. Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 19th century. Unitarians -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Intellectual life. Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585350418 (electronic bk.) 9780585350417 (electronic bk.)

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