Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America by Kenneth Cmiel

Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America

Kenneth Cmiel

351 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

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Democratic Eloquence tells the dramatic story of how Americans thought and argued about the English language between 1776 and 1900. The rise of a popular democracy in the early nineteenth century rudely challenged gentlemanly assumptions that only...

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