Rhetoric, Religion, and the Roots of Identity in British Colonial America
A Rhetorical History of the United States, Volume I
Will be published approx. on 11. July 2007
Book
Hardback
372 pages
978-0-87013-782-2 (ISBN)
Description
Volume 1 of the Rhetorical History of the United States series probes formal and ideational aspects of colonial rhetoric to illuminate textual/contextual interactions and their enduring implications for American rhetoric. Topics such as millennialism, religious freedom and toleration, covenant theology, revivalism, and the British heritage of American colonial rhetoric are explored. By examining sermons, forensic speaking, theological treatise, literary traditions, prayers, poems, and other rhetorical artifacts, these essays help to illuminate the sources of American identity as that identity was formed through the theory and practice of rhetoric.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 224 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1338 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-782-2 (9780870137822)
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Person
James R. Andrews is professor emeritus of American Studies, Victorian Studies, and culture at Indiana University.
Content
* Roots of an "American" Rhetoric, James R. Andrews; * Errand into Mercy: Rhetoric, Identity, and Community in John Winthrop's "Modell of Christian Charity," Stephen Howard Browne; * The Rhetoric of Puritan Biblical Commentaries: John Cotton's A Briefe Exposition with Practical Observations upon the Whole Book of Ecclesiastess, Thomas H. Olbricht; * Puritan Rhetoric and America's Civil Religion: A Study of Three Special Occasion Sermons, Ronald F. Reid; * Roger Williams, Religious Liberty, and the Massachusetts Bay: A Rhetorical History Perspective, L. Raymond Camp; * The Trials of Anne Hutchinson, William E. Wiethoff; * Among Friends: Establishing an Oratorical Tradition among Quaker Women in the Early Colonial Era, Linda J. Webster; * Thou Art but a Youth: Thomas Chalkley Enacts and Defends the Early Quaker Impromptu Sermon, Michael P. Graves; * Jonathan Edwards, the Great Awakening, and "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," John C. Adams and Stephen R. Yarbrough; * Rhetoric and Religion in Colonial Virginia: From the Great Awakening to the Declaration of Independence, C. Jan Swearingen.