Democratic eloquence : the fight over popular speech in nineteenth-century America
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Democratic eloquence : the fight over popular speech in nineteenth-century America
University of California Press, c1990
Available at 22 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Democratic Eloquence tells the dramatic story of how Americans thought and argued about the English language between 1776 and 1900. The rise of a popular democracy in the early nineteenth century rudely challenged gentlemanly assumptions that only the well-educated should be able to speak in public. The popular challenge stimulated discussions about how grammars, dictionaries, even the English Bible should be written and what the idiom of a democratic society should be.
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