Ralph Waldo Emerson: Preacher and Lecturer

by Lloyd Rohler

This critical analysis identifies the different rhetorical strategies and techniques that Emerson used first as a traditional New England preacher and then as he became a widely renowned public lecturer. Ten texts illustrating his different kinds of speeches on a wide array of subjects, such as prayer, manners, eloquence, the American scholar, the genuine man, and the fugitive slave law, accompany the analysis. A speech chronology and bibliography...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313263280
• ISBN13: 9780313263286
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"