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Imagining rhetoric : composing women of the early United States

Eldred, Janet Carey. (Author). Mortensen, Peter, 1961- (Added Author).

Summary: "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.".

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780822978817
  • ISBN: 0822978814
  • ISBN: 0822941821
  • ISBN: 9780822941828
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
  • Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2002]

Content descriptions

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
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Sex differences
Frau
Rhetorik
Forten, Charlotte L
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Geschichte 1790-1850
Prosa
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
Rhetoric -- Sex differences
REFERENCE / Writing Skills
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
Women teachers -- United States
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
USA
Englisch
JSTOR-DDA
Multi-User
Genre: Electronic books.

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