America's Great Age of Rhetoric, 1770-1860

Merrill D. Whitburn

America's Great Age of Rhetoric, 1770-1860
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
30 May 2024
Pages
714
ISBN
9789004695597

America’s Great Age of Rhetoric, 1770-1860

Merrill D. Whitburn

This book analyzes the advocacy, conceptualization, and institutionalization of rhetoric from 1770 to 1860. Among the forces promoting advocacy was the need for oratory calling for independence, the belief that using rhetoric was the way to succeed in biblical interpretation and preaching, and the desire for rhetoric as entertainment. Conceptually, leaders followed classical and German rhetoricians in viewing rhetoric as an art of ethical choice. Institutionally, a rhetorician such as Ebenezer Porter called for the development of organizations at all levels, a "sociology of rhetoric." Orville Dewey highlighted the passion for rhetoric, calling his times "the age of eloquence."

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