Smith, Kimberly K., 1966-

The dominion of voice riot, reason, and romance in antebellum politics / [electronic resource] : Kimberly K. Smith. - Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [1999] Ã1999 - viii, 318 pages ; 24 cm - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.

Mob action -- Eighteenth-century riots -- Rioting in the Antebellum era -- Public debate -- Neoclassical rhetoric and political oratory -- Enlightenment rationalism and political debate -- Narrative testimony -- Storytelling -- Sympathy.

In this work of historically informed political theory, Kimberly Smith sets out to understand how nineteenth-century Americans answered the question of how the people should participate in politics. Did rational public debate, the ideal that most democratic theorists now venerate, transcend all other forms of political expression? How and why did passion disappear from the ideology (if not the practice) of American democracy? To answer these questions, she focuses on the political culture of the urban North during the turbulent Jacksonian Age, roughly 1830-50, when the shape and character of the democratic public were still fluid.



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United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
Northeastern States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Political culture Political culture Riots Rhetoric Politics and literature