Late-Humanism and Revolutionary Eloquence: James Lovell and His 1771 Boston Massacre Oration

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-530
Author(s):  
Stuart M. Mcmanus
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Rhetorical Education ◽  
Colonial Colleges ◽  
Boston Massacre

Abstract This article reconstructs the context of the first Boston Massacre Oration delivered by James Lovell. It argues that Lovell's rhetorical education and oratorical practice were primarily an offshoot of a classicizing renaissance tradition transmitted by the colonial colleges that faded, blurred and was repurposed in the eighteenth century.

First Martyr of Liberty

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitch Kachun
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
The Other ◽  
History And Myth ◽  
Actual Life ◽  
Boston Massacre

First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks’s death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans’ struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative. While the other victims of the massacre have been largely ignored, Attucks is widely celebrated as the first to die in the cause of freedom during the era of the American Revolution. He became a symbolic embodiment of black patriotism and citizenship. This book traces Attucks’s career through both history and myth to understand how his public memory has been constructed through commemorations and monuments; institutions and organizations bearing his name; juvenile biographies; works of poetry, drama, and visual arts; popular and academic histories; and school textbooks. There will likely never be a definitive biography of Crispus Attucks since so little evidence exists about the man’s actual life. While what can and cannot be known about Attucks is addressed here, the focus is on how he has been remembered—variously as either a hero or a villain—and why at times he has been forgotten, by different groups and individuals from the eighteenth century into the twenty-first.

scholarly journals Eloquence and Education. School Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Rhetorik ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Rimm
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Rhetorical Education ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Education School ◽  
Virtuous Character ◽  
Latin Schools ◽  
Three Components

AbstractThe following contribution will examine the form and content of school rhetoric in the Latin schools of early modern Sweden. After an introduction to the schools, an outline of their curricular heritage will be given, situating school rhetoric in the classical trivium. Three components of rhetorical education are identified: the theoretical teaching, the reading of exemplary texts, and the exercises, all three components displaying a striking traditionalism and stability during the eighteenth century. Furthermore, it will be shown that rhetorical education also served as a means of instilling virtue in pupils and that rhetoric was an essential component in the reproduction of a representative learned culture and in the formation of virtuous character and erudite identity.

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