Late-Humanism and Revolutionary Eloquence
James Lovell and His 1771 Boston Massacre Oration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16304515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stuart M Mcmanu (0000-0002-3874-0253, corresponding author), Stuart M McManus |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 497-530 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00914 |
| OpenAlex | W4200426277 |
| Language | EN |
This article reconstructs the context of the first Boston Massacre Oration delivered by James Lovell. It argues that Lovell's rhetorical education and oratorical practice were primarily an offshoot of a classicizing renaissance tradition transmitted by the colonial colleges that faded, blurred and was repurposed in the eighteenth century
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Humanism · Literature · Rhetorical question · The Renaissance · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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