Imagining rhetoric : composing women of the early United States / Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen.
"Imagining Rhetoric examines how women's writing developed in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, and how women imagined using their educations to further the civic aims of an idealistic new nation.".
"Using a variety of sources, including novels, textbooks, letters, diaries, and memories, Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen examine the provenance, authority, and evolution of what they term "liberatory" civic rhetoric - from the early days of the republic through the antebellum years - especially as it shaped women's rhetoric and education. Imagining Rhetoric recovers what women in the early U.S. imagined instruction and practice in composition should be, and shows how this imagination shaped the possibilities and limitations of female civic rhetoric."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN: 9780822978817
- ISBN: 0822978814
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
- Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2002]
- Copyright: ©2002
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General Note: | CatMonthString:june.15 Multi-user. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The Tradition of Female Civic Rhetoric -- Schooling Fictions -- A Commonplace Rhetoric: Judith Sargent Murray's Margaretta Narrative -- Sketching Rhetorical Change: Mrs. A.J. Graves on Girlhood and Womanhood -- The Commonsense Romanticism of Louisa Caroline Tuthill -- Independent Studies: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps and the Composition of Democratic Teachers -- Conclusion: Rhetorical Limits in the Schooling and Teaching Journals of Charlotte Forten -- From Hannah Webster Foster's The Boarding School (1798) -- From Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner (1798) -- From Louisa Caroline Tuthill's The Young Lady's Home (1839) -- From Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps's Lectures to Young Ladies (1833). |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
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