期刊名称：Rhetorical Review : The Electronic Review of Books on the History of rhetoric
印刷版ISSN：1901-2640
出版年度：2008
卷号：6
期号：01
页码：8-12
出版社：Pernille Harsting
摘要：First published in 1995 by Cornell University Press and later updated in 2005, Andrew W.
Robertson’s The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain,
1790-1900 offers a thorough comparative history of electioneering rhetoric in the United States
and Britain in the nineteenth century. With alternating chapters devoted to each country, the
book juxtaposes developments in the press and political language on both sides of the Atlantic;
Robertson details the evolution of “government by gentlemen at the end of the eighteenth
century to government for, if not by, the people at the end of the nineteenth century” (p. 1). In
tracing this evolution, he examines how political rhetoric – working with old themes and new
technologies and responding to a dramatic change in audience – was transformed over the
course of a century. He includes images and text from letters, speeches, newspapers, and
cartoons in order to document these transformations.
