TY - JOUR
T1 - Frederick Douglass on the Lyceum Circuit: Social Assimilation, Social Transformation?
AU - Ray, Angela G.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - By adapting dominant tenets of the mid-nineteenth-century United States—such as the "common sense" of ordinary people, the value of self-help, and the assumption of American exceptionalism—Frederick Douglass, as a lyceum celebrity, produced a complex rhetoric that promoted reformist ideals to a mass audience. This essay examines the possibilities and limitations of assimilationist discourse proffered for transformational ends.
AB - By adapting dominant tenets of the mid-nineteenth-century United States—such as the "common sense" of ordinary people, the value of self-help, and the assumption of American exceptionalism—Frederick Douglass, as a lyceum celebrity, produced a complex rhetoric that promoted reformist ideals to a mass audience. This essay examines the possibilities and limitations of assimilationist discourse proffered for transformational ends.
U2 - 10.1353/rap.2003.0014
DO - 10.1353/rap.2003.0014
M3 - Article
VL - 5
SP - 625
EP - 648
JO - Rhetoric and Public Affairs
JF - Rhetoric and Public Affairs
ER -