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Transatlantic Rhetoric: Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes - Softcover

 
9781474426268: Transatlantic Rhetoric: Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474426263 ISBN 13: 9781474426268
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2020

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Reclaims public speaking as a central cultural form of the nineteenth century

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Tom Wright is Lecturer in English Literature at the School of English, University of Sussex. He is the author of Lecturing the Atlantic: Speech, Print and an Anglo-American Commons (Oxford, 2017) and editor of The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth Century America (UMass, 2013) and has published widely about nineteenth century cultural history and literature.



Tom Wright is Lecturer in English Literature at the School of English, University of Sussex

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Reclaims public speaking as a central cultural form of the nineteenth centuryThis pioneering collection brings alive the world of public speaking between the American Revolution and the age of the Suffragettes. It presents over seventy speeches by a diverse range of female and male activists, politicians, tribal leaders, fugitive slaves and preachers from both sides of the Atlantic, debating the crucial issues of the day, from socialism and imperialism to slavery and women’s suffrage. Complete with detailed notes, introductions, illustrations and suggestions for further reading, it provides a unique introduction to transatlantic history and culture.Key Features:•Places famous speeches by Emmeline Pankhurst, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde alongside previously unpublished texts.•Offers a more racially, ethnically and politically varied range of speeches than ever collected before.•Includes illustrations and suggestions for further readings.•A ‘how to use this book’ section provides historical contextualisations and valuable guidance for steering classroom discussions.Tom F. Wright teaches English and American Studies at the University of Sussex.

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Verlag
EDINBURGH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474426263
ISBN 13 
9781474426268
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Herausgeber
Wright Tom
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