Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England

by Donald Weber

The question of how religious and political languages interacted in the pulpit of the American Revolution has engaged scholars in literature, religion, intellectual history, symbolic anthropology, and American studies for over a generation. Drawing on recent work in ritual studies and the history of the sermon in colonial America, Weber enters the debate over the contexts of the mobilizing agency of revolutionary discourse through analysis of manuscript...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051041
• ISBN13: 9780195051049
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"