Terry Baxter

Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences (eBook, PDF)

Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book attempts to answer a fundamental question: How did Douglass manage to persuade anyone about the evils of slavery, and even impress viewers with his personal qualities, when his speeches were commonly considered mere entertainment, in the same category as Barnum's circus acts? In answering this question, Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135876982
• Artikelnr.: 43073935

Autorenporträt

Terry Baxter received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1998.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Reformation and Resentment in Antebellum America 3.
Antebellum Rhetorical Culture in Theory, Criticism and Practice 4. The
Construction of Blackness and the Constraint of Ethos 5. Douglass as an
Exhibit of Ethos Bibliography