The Rhetoric and Ritual of Agriculture in Antebellum South Carolina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10242402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Drew Gilpin Faust (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 541 |
| Publication date | 1979-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2207713 |
| OpenAlex | W2103014933 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
are not a medium in which to copy life.Their true work is to restore life itself to order."Language, Kenneth Burke has concurred, may be less a way of describing reality than of creating it.Speech, the two scholars suggest, is not so much a vehicle for conveying information as a mode of social action which in conceptualizing the world imposes a particular structure and meaning upon it.If language does indeed have such social functions, historians might reasonably expect to find in periods of cultural upheaval linguistic forms that seek to ease the crisis.Designed to cope with social chaos, these verbal rituals would codify a society's most fully articulated conceptions of order and disorder-and thus its most highly developed definition of itself.'The changes that characterized early-nineteenth-century America could not but appear threatening to a nation that had traditionally regarded the farmer as the favorite of God and agriculture as the basis of an ideal social order.The farmer's declining status amidst the rising importance of the professions, the eroding
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2019 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |