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- Title
"THE CIRCLE OF OUR FELICITIES": THOMAS JEFFERSON'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS AND THE RHETORIC OF NATIONHOOD.
- Authors
BROWNE, STEPHEN HOWARD
- Abstract
Jefferson's first inaugural address is best understood as a conspicuous display of its author's style and thought. It is a statement about what oratory ought to look and sound like to a nation of republicans. A speech about politics, it offers as well a politics of speech, a rhetorical expression ofthe republican creed, and the republican expression of a rhetorical creed. The address thus constitutes its own theory of rhetoric; it is an exemplification of republican virtue, the conception, design, and delivery of which was meant to instantiate Jefferson's vision of a new moral and political order.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CULTURE; RHETORIC; POLITICAL ethics; PROSE literature; FREEDOM &; art; POLITICAL oratory; REPUBLICANISM in art; SPEECHES, addresses, etc.
- Publication
Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2002, Vol 5, Issue 3, p409
- ISSN
1094-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/rap.2002.0050