Henry Ward Beecher: Peripatetic PreacherBloomsbury Academic, 1990 M01 24 - 179 pages For approximately four decades, from shortly before the Civil War until his death in 1887, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher dominated the pulpit and the public platform. Halford Ryan argues that although the ministry was Beecher's career, public speaking was his calling. Combining important orations with a critical analysis of Beecher's rhetoric, this book examines all facets of the Reverend's speaking and preaching. Particularly, it demonstrates that Beecher was unusually skilled in the art of refutative rhetoric, that is, he often paid more attention to rebutting the claims of his opponents than he did to building his own arguments. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Beecher Militant at Plymouth | 31 |
Beecher in Britain | 59 |
Copyright | |
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