Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation -- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. …”
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation -- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. …”
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The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods /

Table of Contents: “…Stephen Jaeger -- Von der Rede zur Schrift: Konstituierung von Autorität in Predigt und Predigtüberlieferung / Rüdiger Schnell -- The city as text: the entry of Charles V into Nuremberg (1541) / Arthur Groos -- The reformation of the Bible and an artist: sacred philology and Albrecht Dürer / David Price -- Invoking the powers that be: types of authority and the production of the Theatrum de veneficis (1586) / Gerhild Scholz Williams -- Citational science: textuality and the authority of the "Scientific Fact" in early modern central Europe (Lohenstein's Cleopatra, 1680) / Jane O. …”
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The Construction of Textual Authority in German Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods /

Table of Contents: “…Stephen Jaeger -- Von der Rede zur Schrift: Konstituierung von Autorität in Predigt und Predigtüberlieferung / Rüdiger Schnell -- The city as text: the entry of Charles V into Nuremberg (1541) / Arthur Groos -- The reformation of the Bible and an artist: sacred philology and Albrecht Dürer / David Price -- Invoking the powers that be: types of authority and the production of the Theatrum de veneficis (1586) / Gerhild Scholz Williams -- Citational science: textuality and the authority of the "Scientific Fact" in early modern central Europe (Lohenstein's Cleopatra, 1680) / Jane O. …”
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Imperial Emotions : Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain / by Krauel, Javier, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Half-title ; Title page ; Coyright page ; Contents ; Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Redressing the Silencing of Empire; Imperialism and Nationalism; The Spanish Empire's Embattled Legacies; Imperial Legacies and National Reform; Imperial Emotions and the Essay on National Character; Chapter 1 ; Columbus in 1892; Nationalist Uses of the Imperial Past; Freethinkers and Empire; The Failure of the Federalist Critique; Chapter 2 ; Addressing the Post-Imperial Condition; Empire and casticismo; Mourning Imperial Values; Chapter 3 ; Theorizing Imperial Ambivalence.…”
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Imperial Emotions : Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain / by Krauel, Javier, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Half-title ; Title page ; Coyright page ; Contents ; Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Redressing the Silencing of Empire; Imperialism and Nationalism; The Spanish Empire's Embattled Legacies; Imperial Legacies and National Reform; Imperial Emotions and the Essay on National Character; Chapter 1 ; Columbus in 1892; Nationalist Uses of the Imperial Past; Freethinkers and Empire; The Failure of the Federalist Critique; Chapter 2 ; Addressing the Post-Imperial Condition; Empire and casticismo; Mourning Imperial Values; Chapter 3 ; Theorizing Imperial Ambivalence.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

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The Ghosts of the Past : Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate / by Dufallo, Basil

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The Ghosts of the Past : Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate / by Dufallo, Basil

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Fictions of Evidence : Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middle Ages / by Taylor, Jamie K., 1975-

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Fictions of Evidence : Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middle Ages / by Taylor, Jamie K., 1975-

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Privately Empowered : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

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Hawthorne and the Real : Bicentennial Essays /

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The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / by Chaitin, Gilbert D.

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The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / by Chaitin, Gilbert D.

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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

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Traveling Economies : American Women's Travel Writing / by Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, 1971-

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