The strange genius of Mr. O : the world of the United States' first forgotten celebrity
Record details
- ISBN: 9781469660530
- ISBN: 1469660539
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 348 pages).
remote - Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 7. A Cosmopolitan Celebrity in a Provincial Republic -- 8. Forging Celebrity and Manliness in a Toga, 1810-1815 -- 9. Fighting Indians in a Masculine Kentucky Landscape, 1811-1813 -- 10. A Golden Age of American Eloquence, 1814-1817 -- 11. A Fall from Grace -- or, Oratory versus Print, 1815-1817 -- 12. "A Very Extraordinary Orator" in Britain, 1817-1820 -- 13. The Meanings of Melancholy, 1780-1820 -- Epilogue. Celebrating and Forgetting -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
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