Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States - Couverture rigide

Eldred, Janet; Mortensen, Peter

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ISBN 10 : 0822941821 ISBN 13 : 9780822941828

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

Synopsis

Imagining Rhetoric examines how womenÆs 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 womenÆs literacy. Schooling for women―along with abolition, suffrage, and temperance―became one of the four primary arenas of nineteenth-century womenÆs 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 womenÆs awareness of female civic rhetoric―both its possibilities and limitations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Janet Carey Eldred is professor of English, affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the founding director of the Writing Initiative Studio in Engineering (WISE) at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Sentimental Attachments: Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition and coauthor of Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822941821
• ISBN 13: 9780822941828
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible