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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" : Theodore Parker's proverbial fight for the ideal American society / Anna-Lisa Kraller.
- Title
- "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" : Theodore Parker's proverbial fight for the ideal American society / Anna-Lisa Kraller.
- Author
- Kraller, Anna-Lisa
- Publication
- Burlington, Vermont : The University of Vermont, 2016.
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- Description
- 221 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was one of the most influential preachers and abolitionists in 19th-century Boston. For his fight against the decay of the American society at the time of slavery as well as clerical and political corruption, his most important weapon was his effective use of language. This book contains a survey of Parker's rhetoric and the role of proverbs and proverbial expressions in political oratory in general that is followed by a detailed analysis of Parker's proverbial rhetoric in many of his speeches, sermons, and letters"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Supplement Series of Proverbium Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship ; volume 37
- Uniform Title
- Supplement series of Proverbium ; v. 37.
- Alternative Title
- Theodore Parker's proverbial fight for the ideal American society
- Subject
- Parker, Theodore 1810-1860
- Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860 > Literary style
- Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860 > Concordances
- Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- 1800-1899
- Sprichwort
- Politische Rede
- Sprichwort Motiv
- Gesellschaft
- Rhetoric > History > United States > 19th century
- Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
- Political oratory > United States > History > 19th century
- Proverbs, American
- Antislavery movements
- Political oratory
- Proverbs, American
- Rhetoric > Political aspects
- Literary style
- USA
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Concordances
- History.
- Concordances.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-93) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- Parker's rhetoric and the role of proverbs in political oratory -- Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God - Theodore Parker's proverbial fight for the ideal American society -- Separating real Christianity from popular theology by casting out old doctrines -- Casting out old doctrines -- Arguing against slavery with real Christianity -- Arguing against slavery with democracy -- Money is power - The corruption of America -- Slavery's moral and political threat -- The wrong union - Slavery becoming a Christian institution -- Don't wake the lion - Civil disobedience against the Fugitive Slave Law -- Downfall of the nation following moral decline -- Progress of humanity -- Different concepts of labor contributing to slavery -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of analyzed speeches, addresses, and occasional sermons -- Key word index of proverbs.
- ISBN
- 9780984645626
- 0984645624
- LCCN
- ^^2016462809
- OCLC
- 945983844
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library