Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences: Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject

ISBN-13: 9780415762687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 194 str.

Terry Baxter;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Anti-slavery speeches by Frederick Douglass are now considered worthy of study, but in his own time were seen as merely public entertainment. Yet Douglass still had an enormous impact on his audiences. Baxter looks at this paradox & at the role of African American celebrities as agents of social change.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Reformation and Resentment in Antebellum America 3. Antebellum Rhetorical Culture in Theory, Criticism and Practice 4. The Construction of Blackness and the Constraint of Ethos 5. Douglass as an Exhibit of Ethos Bibliography

O autorze

Terry Baxter received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1998.