U.S. Woman's Rights and Popular Oratory: The Lyceum Lectures of Elizabeth Oakes Smith

FAIN: FT-54328-06

Angela G. Ray
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208-0001)

An NEH Summer Stipend is requested to support the research and writing of a chapter-length essay analyzing the form, style, and arguments of the lyceum lectures of Elizabeth Oakes Smith in the 1850s. This essay will form a chapter in a planned book- length project in rhetorical history that examines the mutual influences of the nineteenth-century woman's rights movement and popular lecturing.