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954934
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b709304
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| Main Entry
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Baxter, Terry,1970-
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| Title & Author
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Frederick Douglass's curious audiences : : ethos in the age of the consumable subject /\ Terry Baxter.
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New York :: Routledge,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in major literary authors ;; v. 35
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1 online resource (vii, 186 pages)
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0203484800
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: 1135876983
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: 1280156678
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: 9780203484807
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: 9781135876982
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: 9781280156670
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041597075X
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.
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| Contents
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM; DEFINITION OF TERMS; DEFINITION OF ETHOS; LIMITS OF THE STUDY; METHOD AND CHAPTER OUTLINE; SUMMARY; CHAPTER TWO Reformation and Resentment in Antebellum America; CHAPTER PREVIEW: ANTEBELLUM RHETORICAL CULTURE; THE USE VALUE OF RHETORIC IN DOUGLASS'S AMERICA; THE "SUPERIOR DIFFUSION OF INTELLIGENCE"; THE RESENTFUL REACTION TO STRONG REFORM RHETORIC; SUMMARY; CHAPTER THREE Antebellum Rhetorical Culture in Theory, Criticism, and Practice; RHETORICAL THEORY MADE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE.
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| Abstract
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Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change.
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Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895-- Ethics.
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Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895-- Oratory.
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Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895-- Public opinion.
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Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895
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Audiences-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Ethics-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Oratory-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Public opinion-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Rhetoric-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Audiences.
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Ethics.
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HISTORY-- State Local-- General.
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Oratory-- Social aspects.
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Oratory.
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Public opinion.
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Rhetoric-- Social aspects.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.8/092B
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| LC Classification
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E449.D75B39 2004eb
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