A Nation of Speechifiers
Making an American Public after the Revolution
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Messy Beginnings
Part 1 Making an American Public: Overviews
1 Demosthenes in America
From Sensibility to Nationalism in Elocutionary Education
2 Vindicating Female Eloquence
Girls’ Oratory and the Rise and Fall of a Female Counterpublic
3 Mourning for Logan
“Indian Eloquence” and the Making of an American Public
Part 2 Contesting Public Participation: Debating “the Public”
4 “A Club Is a Nation in Miniature”
Young Men on the Make and Their Debating Societies
5 Saint Franklin
Journeymen Printers and the Medium of Democratic Virtue
6 “Who’s Afraid” of Frances Wright?
Media Debates about the Public and Its Spokesmen in 1829
Conclusion: The Ongoing Process of Making an American Public
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians: Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize
Finalist
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic: SHEAR Book Award
Won
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