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The force of fantasy : restoring the American dream

Title
The force of fantasy : restoring the American dream / Ernest G. Bormann.
Author
Bormann, Ernest G.
Publication
Carbondale ; Edwardsville : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1985.

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Description
ix, 279 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Revivals > United States
  • Rhetoric > Social aspects
  • Restorations, Political
  • Communication > Social aspects > United States
  • Communication > Social aspects
  • Revivals
  • Politisches Denken
  • Religiöse Bewegung
  • Rhetorik
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [259]-270.
Contents
The critical analysis of seminal American fantasies -- The Puritan rhetorical syle: Forerunner of romanitic pragmatism -- Jonathan Edwards and a rhetoric in transition -- The evangelical style: Theory and criticism -- The ungenteel style -- Nature and the new birth: The ungenteel vision -- The style of evangelical reform: Practice and theory -- The styles of antislavery rhetoric: Revolutionary agitation versus reform persuasion -- The Rhetorical vision of Abraham Lincoln -- The culmination of romantic pragmatism.
ISBN
  • 0809311852
  • 9780809311859
LCCN
84010539
OCLC
  • ocm11770058
  • 11770058
  • SCSB-638224
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library