Author: Gustafson, Sandra M.
Title: Eloquence Is Power : Oratory and Performance in Early America
Description: Chapel Hill [NC], Univ.of North Carolina Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xxv,287 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This work examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic and political speech that flourished in British America and the early republic from colonization and throughout 1800. The performance semiotic of speech and text as a tool for understanding the American oratory tradition is developed" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: American Oratory, Rhetoric, Colonial America, United States, Literary History, Semiotics, Performance, ,