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Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820330839
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum AmericaDDC classification:
  • 303.48/4/097309034
LOC classification:
  • E415.7.G26 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Discursive Democracy and the Culture of Reform -- CHAPTER ONE: Religious Pluralism and the Origins of the Culture of Reform -- CHAPTER TWO: Sincerity and Publicity in the Grimké-Beecher Debate -- CHAPTER THREE: Garrison, Douglass, and the Problem of Politics -- CHAPTER FOUR: Emerson's Self-Reliance as a Theory of Community -- EPILOGUE: Sincerity and Pluralism in Critical Conversation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: In this study, T. Gregory Garvey illustrates how activists and reformers claimed the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates over the nation's values.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Discursive Democracy and the Culture of Reform -- CHAPTER ONE: Religious Pluralism and the Origins of the Culture of Reform -- CHAPTER TWO: Sincerity and Publicity in the Grimké-Beecher Debate -- CHAPTER THREE: Garrison, Douglass, and the Problem of Politics -- CHAPTER FOUR: Emerson's Self-Reliance as a Theory of Community -- EPILOGUE: Sincerity and Pluralism in Critical Conversation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

In this study, T. Gregory Garvey illustrates how activists and reformers claimed the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates over the nation's values.

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