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Spacious Fields: Alexander Hamilton and the Rhetoric of Sentence Architecture

Spacious Fields: Alexander Hamilton and the Rhetoric of Sentence Architecture

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Spacious Fields: Alexander Hamilton and the Rhetoric of Sentence Architecture

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Spacious Fields: Alexander Hamilton and the Rhetoric of Sentence Architecture

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DeKalb: Pennsylvania State University Press

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Style (University Park, PA), 2015-06, Vol.49 (2), p.218-239

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English

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DeKalb: Pennsylvania State University Press

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In this paper, I challenge the common contention that The Federalist is sophisticated political philosophy packaged in an abstruse style. Rather, lengthy constructions and strings of modifiers aid the rhetorical ends of Publius, and particularly Alexander Hamilton, by mirroring the political and social challenges his readers were experiencing. Thro...

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Spacious Fields: Alexander Hamilton and the Rhetoric of Sentence Architecture

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1937724290

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1937724290

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0039-4238

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2374-6629

DOI

10.5325/style.49.2.0218

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