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Dilip Gaonkar Davis, Kristin Elizabeth 2015-09-28T16:05:11Z 2015-09-28T16:05:11Z 10000-01-01 2000 2000 This study is an attempt to redress a lacuna in rhetorical scholarship and the unjustified reign of a simplistic analysis in historical scholarship by examining the character of progressive era political culture through a close analysis of muckraking texts. While rhetoricians have not examined the political culture of the Progressive Era, nor of any aspect of the Progressive Era for that matter, historians have overlooked the centrality of the muckraking press and taken for granted the character of Progressive Era political culture. Contrary to the theses of many historians, the central thesis of this study is that exposes helped shape progressive era political culture by weaving together liberalism and more traditional moral resources, namely civic and religious traditions, in an attempt to restore a balance among democracy, capitalism, and morality. The exposes drew from and tried to contain competing moral and political traditions within a traditionally religious genre. The heteroglossia of the exposes suggest an unstable and open political culture, one ripe for change. Indeed, an examination of the exposes reveal how two performative tradition take advantage of the instability and attempt to craft a political morality to supplement liberalism. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T16:05:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9971063.pdf: 12333838 bytes, checksum: 32fd645f6b0e6aa86218529df1b298da (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88854 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 239 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87573 (MiAaPQ)AAI9971063 eng Language, Rhetoric and Composition Muckraking Exposes and the Shaping of Progressive Era Political Culture text Speech Communication Speech Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.