Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America Book

List of Tables     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Now that We're Civic     xi
Introduction
Rhetorical Education: An Articulated Site of Hegemony
Key Sites of Articulation: Rhetorical Publicity and Rhetorical Pedagogy
Conclusion
One Republic, Many Republicanisms: Early American Political Discourse and Publicity     1
Introduction
Republican Publicity and Political Discourse: The Rhetorical Perimeters of Republicanism
Republicanism and Laissez-Faire Capitalism: Political Discourse, Publicity, and Economics
Hegemony and Republican Rhetorical Strategy
Conclusion
One Republic, Many Paideiai: Political Discourse, Publicity, and Education in Early America     36
Introduction
Politics and Paideia before Republicanism
The King's College Controversy: Republican Education Contested
A Federal English: Rhetorical Paideia for Federalist Interests
Politics, Pedagogy, and Economics
Benjamin Franklin's Bourgeois Republican Paideia
John Quincy Adams's Bourgeois Republican Paideia and the Era of Good Feelings
The Edges of Republican Rhetorical Paideiai
Conclusion
Yale 1701-1817     79
Introduction
Connecticut Political Economy, 1700-40
The Old Order: Rhetoric at Yale before 1740
Democratic Populism and Authoritarian Backlash: Thomas Clap's Legacy, 1740-66
Connecticut Political Economy after 1760
Rhetorical Education at Yale, 1766-77
Yale during and after the Revolution: Rhetoric under Ezra Stiles
Timothy Dwight Returns to Yale: Belletrism, Puritanism, andFederalism
Conclusion
King's College/Columbia and the College of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania, 1754-1800     135
Introduction
King's College, 1754-77
The College of Philadelphia, 1755-79
Columbia University, 1787-1800
The University of Pennsylvania, 1795-1813
Conclusion
The College of New Jersey, 1746-1822     177
Introduction
Presbyterianism and the New Jersey Bourgeoisie
John Witherspoon's Republican Rhetorical Education
Witherspoon's Bourgeois Liberal Republican Paideia
Witherspoon's Ascriptive, Liberal, Republican Paideia
Witherspoon's Republican Rhetorical Legacy
Conclusion
Conclusion: We Are All Republicans     206
IntroductiontLiberalism and the Present Hegemony
The Republican Challenge to Liberal Hegemony
Notes     219
Works Cited     239
Index     263