Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Eldred, Janet Carey; Mortensen, Peter

ISBN 10: 0822962284 / ISBN 13: 9780822962281

Editore: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

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• Titolo: Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
• Editore: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0822962284
• ISBN 13: 9780822962281
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 16 once
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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 education to further the civic aims of an idealistic new nation.

In the late eighteenth century, proponents of female education in the United States appropriated the language of the Revolution to advance the cause of women’s literacy. Schooling for women—along with abolition, suffrage, and temperance—became one of the four primary arenas of nineteenth-century women’s activism. Following the Revolution, textbooks and fictions about schooling materialized that revealed ideal curricula for women covering subjects from botany and chemistry to rhetoric and composition. A few short decades later, such curricula and hopes for female civic rhetoric changed under the pressure of threatened disunion.

Using a variety of texts, including novels, textbooks, letters, diaries, and memoirs, Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen chart the shifting ideas about how women should learn and use writing, from the early days of the republic through the antebellum years. They also reveal how these models shaped women’s awareness of female civic rhetoric—both its possibilities and limitations.

Informazioni sull?autore

Janet Carey Eldred is associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Peter Mortensen, associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is co-editor of Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy.