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Summary:

"This book analyzes the advocacy, conceptualization, and institutionalization of rhetoric from 1770 to 1860. Among the forces promoting advocacy was the need for oratory calling for independence, the belief that using rhetoric was the way to succeed in biblical interpretation and preaching, and the desire for rhetoric as entertainment. Conceptually, leaders followed classical and German rhetoricians in viewing rhetoric as an art of ethical choice. Institutionally, a rhetorician such as Ebenezer Porter called for the development of organizations at all levels, a "sociology of rhetoric." Orville Dewey highlighted the passion for rhetoric, calling his times "the age of eloquence.""-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Pietism and the first great awakening : preludes to the rise of rhetoric
• Rhetoric at Yale
• Rhetoric at Harvard and its beginnings at Andover
• The further rise of rhetoric and importation of German learning at Harvard
• Andover's encounter with rhetoric and philosophy from Germany
• Ebenezer Porter's cosmic rhetoric
• Andover's contributions to the modern university
• The rhetorical context for the Yale Reports of 1828.

Author/Creator:

Whitburn, Merrill , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

America's great age of rhetoric, 1770-1860: advocacy, conceptualization, institutionalization [by Whitburn, M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: America's great age of rhetoric, 1770-1860 [by Whitburn, M.] (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024] — ISBN 9789004695597; LCCN 2024008563)

Related Series:

International studies in the history of rhetoric; v. 18

Subjects:

Rhetoric — Study and teaching (Higher) — United States — History — 18th century

Rhetoric — Study and teaching (Higher) — United States — History — 19th century

United States — Intellectual life — 1783-1865

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 714 pages)

Call Numbers:

PE1405.U6 W468 2024eb

ISBNs:

9789004696600 (electronic book)
9004696601 (electronic book)
9789004695597 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9004695591 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024008564

OCLC Numbers:

1438927014