COMM 460
Fall 2014

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Introduction

  • Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
  • Mills, C. Wright. Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Writings of C. Wright Mills. Ed. Irving Louis Horowitz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963.
  • Sennett, Richard.  The Fall of Public Man.  New York: Knopf, 1977.

The Puritan Community

  • Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.
  • Dow, George Francis. Everyday Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1935; New York: Dover, 1988.
  • Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York: Vintage, 1958.
  • Bormann, Ernest G. The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream. Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press, 1985.
  • Potter, David, and Gordon L. Thomas. The Colonial Idiom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970.
  • White, Eugene E. Puritan Rhetoric: The Issue of Emotion in Religion. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972.
  • Dean, Kevin. "A Rhetorical Biography of Jonathan Edwards: Beyond the Fires of Hell." Ph.D. Diss., University of Maryland College Park, 1989.
  • Browne, Stephen H. "Samuel Danforth's Errand into the Wilderness and the Discourse of Arrival in Early American Culture." Communication Quarterly 40 (Spring 1992): 91-101.
  • Richard T. Hughes, Myths America Lives By (Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 2003), c. 1.
  • Utopian promise [videorecording]. by Kristian Berg; produced by Ian McClusky. Annenberg/CPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting. 2003.

Republican Virginia

  • Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York: Vintage, 1958.
  • Clement, Maud Carter. The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Baltimore: Regional, 1973.
  • Hawke, David Freeman. Everyday life in early America. New York : Harper & Row, 1988.
  • Hurt, Frances Hallam. An intimate history of the American Revolution in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Danville VA: Womack, 1976.
  • Ramsey, Robert W. Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964.
  • Rice, Kym S. Early American taverns : for the entertainment of friends and strangers. Chicago : Regnery Gateway, 1983.
  • Rutman, Darrett B., and Anita H. Rutman. A Place in Time: Middlesex County VA, 1650-1750. New York: Norton, 1984.
  • Woodmason, Charles. The Carolina Backcountry on the eve of the Revolution; the Journal and other writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican itinerant. Ed. Richard J. Hooker. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953.
  • A midwife's tale [videorecording] / Blueberry Hill Productions ; Filmmakers Collaborative ; directed by Richard P. Rogers ; written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt.  (88 min)

Rhetoric of the Revolution

  • The Library of Congress Website on the Declaration: The Library of Congress has some interesting information for you on the preparation of the declaration.
  • Larson, Barbara A. Prologue to Revolution: The War Sermons of the Reverend Samuel Davies. Annandale VA: Speech Communication Association, 1978.
  • Ritter, Kurt W., and James R. Andrews. The American Ideology: Reflections of the Revolution in American Rhetoric. Annandale VA: Speech Communication Association, 1978.
  • Reid, Ronald F. The American Revolution and the Rhetoric of History. Annandale VA: Speech Communication Association, 1978.
  • Kammen, Michael. Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perspectives on Liberty in American Culture. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.
  • Pangle, Thomas L. The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
  • Fliegelman, Jay. Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
  • Richard T. Hughes, Myths America Lives By (Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 2003), c. 2.
  • Olsen, Stephen T. "Patrick Henry's 'Liberty or Death' Speech: A Study in Disputed Authorship." In American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism. Ed. Thomas W. Benson. Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press, 1989. 19-66.
  • Lucas, Stephen E. "Justifying American: The Declaration of Independence as a Rhetorical Document." In American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism. Ed. Thomas W. Benson. Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press, 1989. 67-130.
  • Browne, Stephen H. "The Political Uses of Pastoral: John Dickenson's First Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania." Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (February 1990): 215-29.
  • Olson, Lester. "An Ideological Rupture: Metaphorical Divergence in Loyalist Rhetoric During the American Revolution." Rhetorica 10 (Autumn 1992): 405-22.
  • Condit, Celeste Michelle. "The Function of Epideictic: The Boston Massacre Orations as Exemplar." Communication Quarterly 33 (Fall 1985): 284-98.
  • Hample, Judy. "The Textual and Cultural Authenticity of Patrick Henry's 'Liberty or Death' Speech." Quarterly Journal of Speech 63 (October 1977): 298-310.
  • McGee, Michael. "The Origins of 'Liberty': A Feminization of Power." Communication Monographs 47 (March 1980): 23-45.
  • Benjamin Franklin [videorecording] / produced & directed by Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer ; writer/co-producer, Ronald Blumer ; a production of Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul/Minneapolis in association with Middlemarch Films, Inc.  (210 min.)
  • Thomas Jefferson [videorecording] / a production of Florentine Films ; a film by Ken Burns ; produced by Ken Burns, Camilla Rockwell ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced in association with WETA-TV.  (180 min.)

Creating the National Community

  • Smith, Barbara Clark. After the Revolution: The Smithsonian History of Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
  • Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience. New York: Vintage, 1965.
  • The Federalist Papers.
  • Zarefsky, David, and Victoria J. Gallagher. "From 'Conflict' to 'Constitutional Question': Transformations in Early American Public Discourse." Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (August 1990): 247-61.
  • Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Jasinski, James. "The Feminization of Liberty, Domesticated Virtue, and the Reconstitution of Power and Authority in Early American Political Discourse." Quarterly Journal of Speech 79 (May 1993): 146-64.
  • Jasinski, James. "Rhetoric and Judgement in the Constitutional Debate of 1878-88: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Theory and Critical Practice." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (May 1992): 197-218.
  • Kersh, Rogan.  Dreams of a More Perfect Union.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.

The Silver Orators and the National Public Sphere

  • Clark, Gregory, and S. Michael Halloran. Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Transformations in the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
  • de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America.
  • Black, Edwin. "The Sentimental Style as Escapism, or The Devil with Dan'l Webster." In Form and Genre: Shaping Rhetorical Action. Ed. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Annandale VA: SCA, [1978]. 75-86.
  • Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience. New York: Vintage, 1965.
  • Robertson, Andrew W. The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790-1900. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
  • Browne, Stephen H. "Reading Public Memory in Daniel Webster's Plymouth Rock Oration," Western Journal of Communication 57 (Fall 1993): 464-77.

The Rhetoric of the American Frontier

  • Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience. New York: Vintage, 1965.
  • Bormann, Ernest G. The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.
  • Bormann, Ernest G. "The Rhetorical Theory of William Henry Milburn." Speech Monographs 36 (March 1969): 28-37.
  • Dale, Edward Everett. "The Speech of the Frontier." Quarterly Journal of Speech 27 (October 1941): 353-63.
  • Clark, Robert D. "The Influence of the Frontier on American Political Oratory." Quarterly Journal of Speech 28 (October 1942): 282-89.
  • Boase, Paul H. "The Education of a Circuit Rider." Quarterly Journal of Speech 45 (April 1954): 130-36.
  • Cartwright,. Peter.  The Autobiography of Peter Cartwright.  edited by W. P. Strickland (New York: Nelson and Phillips, 2001).
  • Crockett, David.  A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of Tennessee, as told by himself.
  • A short bio of Davy Crockett
  • Religion of the Frontier website

The Rhetoric of the Reform Community

  • The Library of Congress Virtual Display on Abolition: A virtual trip. A website that contains various rhetorical documents from abolition.
  • Bormann, Ernest G. The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.
  • Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience. New York: Vintage, 1965.
  • Antczak, Frederick. Thought and Character: The Rhetoric of Democratic Education. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985.
  • Bormann, Ernest G., ed. Forerunners of Black Power: The Rhetoric of Abolition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
  • Smith, Ralph R., and Russel R. Windes. "Symbolic Convergence and Abolitionism: A Terministic Reinterpretation." Southern Communication Journal 59 (Fall 1993): 45-59.
  • Bormann, Ernest G. "Forum: Some Random Thoughts on the Unity or Diversity of the Rhetoric of Abolition." Southern Communication Journal 60 (Spring 1995): 266-74.
  • Smith, Ralph R., and Russel R. Windes. "The Interpretation of Abolitionist Rhetoric: Historiography, Rhetorical Method, and History." Southern Communication Journal 60 (Summer 1995): 303-11.
  • Carlson, A Cheree. "Creative Casuistry and Feminist Consciousness: A Rhetoric of Moral Reform." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (February 1992): 16-32.
  • Condit, Celeste Michelle, and John Louis Lucaites. Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Auer, J. Jeffrey, ed. Antislavery and Disunion: 1858-1861. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
  • Browne, Stephen H. "Like Gory Spectres': Representing Evil in Theodore Weld's American Slavery as it is." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (August 1994): 277-92.
  • Japp, Phyllis M. "Esther or Isaiah?: The Abolitionist-Feminist Rhetoric of Angelina Grimke." Quarterly Journal of Speech 71 (August 1985): 335-48.

Rhetoric in the Slave Community

  • Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery, 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
  • Lane, Ann J., ed. The Debate over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and his Critics. Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 1971.
  • Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World Slaves Made. New York: Vintage, 1976.
  • Armstrong, Orland Kay. Old Massa's People: The Old Slaves Tell Their Story. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931.
  • Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience. New York: Vintage, 1965.
  • Library of Congress Website on Slave Narratives
  • Website on Slave Narratives of the 1930s
  • A website on slave revolts
  • Library of Congress Virtual Exhibit on Slavery and Free Blacks.  The slavery exhibit tells the story of the forced immigration of Africans through the slave trade and their search for freedom.  The Free Black communities of the North were critical elements of the efforts to end slavery.

Rhetoric of the Cavalier Community

  • Enholm, Donald K., David Curtis Skaggs, and W. Jeffrey Walsh. "Origins of the Southern Mind: The Parochial Sermons of Thomas Cradock of Maryland, 1744-1770." Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (May 1987): 200-18.
  • Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The National Experience. New York: Vintage, 1965.
  • Braden, Waldo W., ed. Rhetoric of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970.
  • Hartnett, Stephen John.  Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Lincoln's Rhetoric

  • Black, Edwin. "Gettysburg and Silence." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (February 1994): 21-36.
  • Aune, James Arnt. "Lincoln and the American Sublime." Communication Reports 1.1 (Winter 1988): 14-19.
  • Leff, Michael. "Dimensions of Temporality in Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address." Communication Reports 1.1 (Winter 1988): 26-31.
  • Slagell, Amy T. "Anatomy of a Masterpiece: A Close Textual Analysis of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address." Communication Studies 42 (Summer 1991): 155-71.
  • Solomon, Martha. "'With firmness in the right': The Creation of Moral Hegemony in Lincoln's Second Inaugural." Communication Reports 1.1 (Winter 1988): 32-37.
  • Zarefsky, David. "Approaching Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address." Communication Reports 1.1 (Winter 1988): 9-13.
  • Bormann, Ernest G. The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.
  • Zarefsky, David. Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • Leff, Michael C., and G. P. Mohrmann. "Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Text." Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (October 1974): 346-58.
  • Nichols, Marie Hochmuth. "Lincoln's First Inaugural Address." Rpt. in Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth Century Approach. 3rd ed. Ed. Bernard L. Brock, Robert L. Scott, and James W. Chesebro. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989. 32-63.

The Rhetoric of the Entrepreneurial Community

  • Sigmund Diamond, The Reputation of the American Businessman.  Gloucester MA: Peter Smith, 1970.
  • James Oliver Robertson, American Myth, American Reality.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1980.
  • Richard T. Hughes, Myths America Lives By (Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 2003), c. 5.
  • Life of Russell Conwell
  • Mr. Sears' catalogue [videorecording] / written and produced by Edward Gray and Mark Obenhaus ; directed by Edward Gray and Ken Levis ; an Obenhaus Films, Inc. production.  (58 min)
  • The richest man in the world  [videorecording] / written, produced, and directed by Austin Hoyt ; a production of WGBH/Boston.  (129 min)

The Rhetoric of American Labor

  • Samuel Eliot Morrison, The Oxford History of the American People. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
  • Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience. New York: Vintage, 1973.
  • Milton Meltzer, Bread and Roses: The Struggle of American Labor. New York: Knopf, 1967.
  • R. Lawrence Moore, ed. The Emergence of An American Left: Civil War to World War I. New York: Wiley, 1973.
  • Paul H. Boase. The Rhetoric of Protest and Reform, 1878-1898. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980.
  • Website on Organizer Lucy Parsons

Women's Search for Public Life

  • Library of Congress Virtual Site on Women's Search for Participation
  • Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs. Man Cannot Speak for Her (Vols. 1 and 2). New York: Praeger 1989.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP 1978.
  • Flexnor, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States (revised). Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP 1975.
  • Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy. New York: Oxford UP 1993.
  • Matthews, Glenna. The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Watson, Martha Solomon. "The Dynamics of Intertextuality: Re-Reading the Declaration of Independence." In Rhetoric and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Thomas Benson. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State UP 1997.
  • One woman, one vote [videorecording] / an Educational Film Center production ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; written and produced by Ruth Pollak ; written by Felicia M. Widmann.  (114 min)
  • Not for ourselves alone  [videorecording] : the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony / a Florentine Films production ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Paul Barnes, Ken Burns ; produced in association with WETA-TV, Washington.  (210 min)

The Farmers Movement

  • Paul H. Boase. The Rhetoric of Protest and Reform, 1878-1898. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980.
  • John Hicks. The Populist Revolt: A history of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1931.
  • Richard Hofstadter. The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F. D. R. New York: Knopf, 1955.
  • Norman Pollock. The Populist Response to Industrial America: Midwestern Populist thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.
  • Lawrence Goodwyn. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
  • Joseph M. Miller. "Jerry Simpson: The People's Choice." Central States Speech Journal 14 (May 1963): 111-16.
  • Howard S. Erhlich. "Populist Rhetoric Reassessed: A Paradox." Quarterly Journal of Speech 63 (April 1977): 140-51.
  • Leslie G. Rude. "The Rhetoric of Farmer Labor Agitators." Central States Speech Journal 20 (Winter 1969): 280-85.
  • Thomas R. Burkholder. "Kansas Populism, Woman Suffrage, and the Agrarian Myth: A Case Study of the Limits of Mythic Transcendence." Communication Studies 40 (Winter 1989): 292-307.
  • Michael Kazin. The Populist Persuasion: An American History. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
  • Peter Argersinger. The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1995.