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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rhetorical theory by women before 1900. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2002 (OCoLC)606795325 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Donawerth |
| ISBN: | 0742517160 9780742517165 0742517179 9780742517172 |
| OCLC Number: | 47989958 |
| Description: | xlii, 337 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents: | From Menexenus by Plato / Aspaia -- from De Inventione by Cicero / Apasia -- Lessons for Women / Pan Chao -- from The Pillow Book / Sei Shonagon -- from The Book of the Body Politic / Christine de Pizan -- from The Worlds Olio / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- Women's Speaking Justified / Margaret Fell -- from An Essay to Revive to the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen / Bathsua Makin -- "On Conversation" from Les Conversations sure Divers Sujets / Madeleine de Scudery -- "Conversation on the Manner of Writing Letters" from Conversations Nouvelles sur Divers Sujets / Madeleine de Scudery -- from A Serious Proposal, Part II / Mary Astell -- from "The Bas Bleu or, Conservation" / Hannah More -- from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education / Hannah More -- from "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification" / Maria Edgeworth -- from Letters to Young Ladies / Lydia Sigourney -- from Letters to My Pupils / Lydia Sigourney -- from The Young Lady's Friend / Eliza Farrar -- from Youth's Letter-Writer / Eliza Farrar -- from Bits and Odds / Hallie Quinn Brown -- from Elocution and Physical Culture / Hallie Quinn Brown -- from Delsarte System of Expression / Genevieve Stebbins -- from The Genevieve Stebbins System of Physical Training / Genevieve Stebbins -- from The Potential Woman / Jennie Willing -- from Lessons in English / Sara Lockwood -- from Woman in the Pulpit / Frances E. Willard -- from An Hour with Delsarte / Anna Morgan -- from Studies in English Composition / Harriet L. Keeler and Emma C. Davis -- from The Metaphor / Gertude Buck -- from A Course in Expository Writing / Gertude Buck and Elisabeth Woodbridge -- from A Course in Argumentative Writing / Gertude Buck -- "The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory" / Gertude Buck -- from Correct Writing and Speaking / Mary Augusta Jordan. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jane Donawerth. |
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This collection provides extensive primary text for the study of women's rhetorical theory, as well as extensive introductory considerations of the historiographical issues involved in writing a history of women's rhetorical theory. This makes the book attractive for classes in the history of rhetoric and rhetorical theory, especially those classes that regard the study of gender to be an essential part of the study of rhetoric, and vice versa. -- Mari Lee Mifsud, University of Richmond This rich and valuable reference volume gathers the work of women theorists from around the world. Recommended as an important source for the disciplines of English and political science, as well as for communication, speech, and collections supporting women's studies. * CHOICE * Many readers will appreciate Donawerth's extensive biographical information, annotation, and citations of secondary sources. . . . Readers will find her meticulous footnotes very helpful. * Rhetoric Society Quarterly * Well conceived, selected, and presented, these cross-cultural specimens of early women's rhetorical theory demand attention. Collectively, these texts-including early works on Chinese women's language, classical rhetorical theory, humanist thinking, and philosophies of women's writing and speaking education-compel us to rethink our approaches to women and rhetoric. This anthology will help students and teachers alike in their efforts to understand and integrate women's thought and practices into the history of rhetoric. -- Catherine Hobbs, University of Oklahoma, editor of Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write Read more...
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