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Declaring independence: Jefferson, natural language & the culture of performance

Jay Fliegelman
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Jefferson's Pauses (page 4)
  • The Elocutionary Revolution (page 28)
  • Soft Compulsion (page 35)
  • Harmonies: Homer, Fugues, and Chairs (page 63)
  • Natural Theatricality (page 79)
  • The Figure of Patrick Henry (page 94)
  • Social Leveling and Stage Fright (page 107)
  • Private Lives and Public Scrutiny (page 120)
  • Agency and the Invention of Responsibility (page 140)
  • Dialectical Words (page 150)
  • Plagiarism, Authorship, and Improvement (page 164)
  • The Oratorical Ideal, Racial Politics, and the Making of Americans (page 189)
  • Epilogue (page 196)
  • Appendix: The Declaration (page 203)
  • Works Cited (page 239)
  • Index (page 255)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
PT 23.3 (Aug. 1995): 551-554 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0090-5917%28199508%2923%3A3%3C551%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
AL 66.3 (Sep. 1994): 595-597 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9831%28199409%2966%3A3%3C595%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
WMQ 3.51.3 (Jul. 1994): 539-541 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28199407%293%3A51%3A3%3C539%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
AHR 99.3 (Jun. 1994): 969-970 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199406%2999%3A3%3C969%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
APSQ 88.2 (Jun. 1994): 471-472 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28199406%2988%3A2%3C471%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
JAH 81.1 (Jun. 1994): 252-253 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199406%2981%3A1%3C252%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
RAH 22.1 (Mar. 1994): 32-38 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28199403%2922%3A1%3C32%3AVOATBJ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
ECS 26.4 (Summer 1993): 705-711 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-2586%28199322%2926%3A4%3C705%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7
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Published: c1993
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780804720755 (hardcover)
  • 9780804720762 (paper)
Subject
  • American: Colonial to 1789
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