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Garvey's work provides a refreshing look at religion and reform in antebellum America.... [P]rovides historians with much-needed doses of literary and rhetorical theory while remaining grounded in important historical debates. -- Brian Russell Franklin Southern Historian, Spring 2008

The fundamental argument is significant and quite original. Garvey explores the nature of reform culture and public discourse in nineteenth-century America, basing his work on a very persuasive demonstration of the close connections between antebellum religious culture and the emerging culture of reform. Garvey's work provides a refreshing look at religion and reform in antebellum America.... [P]rovides historians with much-needed doses of literary and rhetorical theory while remaining grounded in important historical debates. -- Brian Russell Franklin Southern Historian, Spring 2008 The fundamental argument of Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America is significant and quite original. Garvey explores the nature of reform culture and public discourse in nineteenth-century America, basing his work on a very persuasive demonstration of the close connections between antebellum religious culture and the emerging culture of reform. --David M. Robinson, author of Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism Makes a significant contribution to the field of antebellum cultural studies in the perceptive way it links antislavery and women's rights to religious reform. It will be a good starting point for those interested in the broad and important subject of antebellum reform. Because the book is so clearly written, it will appeal to specialists and generalists alike. --Robert S. Levine, author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity Garvey's work provides a refreshing look at religion and reform in antebellum America. . . . Garvey's contribution to the study of antebellum religion and reform is salient. This book provides historians with much-needed doses of literary and rhetorical theory while remaining grounded in important historical debates. Most importantly, it provides a more complete and nuanced context for understanding the origins and growth of antebellum reform culture as a whole. -- Southern Historian Garvey's book reminds us that sometimes rhetoric is the reality, that inherited traditions of speech, debate, and persuasion can shape decisively the political culture of a given era. The author accordingly offers to readers across several disciplines a rich and compelling examination of four key debates in antebellum America. . . . This is a challenging, nuanced, and provocative book. -- American Historical Review

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T. Gregory Garvey is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York at Brockport. He is editor of The Emerson Dilemma (Georgia).

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