Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric in the Early American Republic

This study analyzes the reporting and editorializing in several major American newspapers during the height of the Citizen Genêt Affair in July and August, 1793. A hybrid form of sociological moral panic theory, focused predominantly on the "iteration" of moral panics and the language use...

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Main Author: Whitley, Daniel Edward
Other Authors: English
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83575