Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
Discursive democracy and the culture of reform -- Religious pluralism and the origins of the culture of reform -- Sincerity and publicity in the Grimké-Beecher debate -- Garrison, Douglass, and the problem of politics -- Emerson's self-reliance as a theory of community -- Epilogue : sincerity and pluralism in critical conversation.
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"In this study, T. Gregory Garvey illustrates how activists and reformers claimed the instruments of mass media to create a freestanding culture of reform that enabled voices disfranchised by church or state to speak as equals in public debates over the nation's values. Competition among antebellum reformers in religion, women's rights, and antislavery institutionalized a structure of ideological debate that continues to define popular reform movements."--Jacket.
JSTOR
22573/ctt3q3kf2
Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America.
Deliberative democracy-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Social reformers-- United States-- History-- 19th century.