Publications

Publication details [#35190]

Cmiel, Kenneth. 1990. Democratic eloquence: The fight over popular speech in nineteenth-century America. William Morrow and Company. 351 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
public speech | rhetoric | style
Language as a subject
English, American

Annotation

This book discusses and illustrates the origins and the development of actual American public speech styles throughout 19th-century America, beginning with the Revolutionary War.

Reviewed by

Bryan, Ferald J. 1992. Review of $Democratic eloquence: The fight over popular speech in nineteenth-century America. Speech Communication Association.
Thomas, Susan. 1991. Review of $Democratic eloquence: The fight over popular speech in nineteenth-century America.