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Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak book cover

1st Edition

Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education American Women Learn to Speak

Edited By David Gold, Catherine L. Hobbs Copyright 2013
280 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and... Read more

Introduction: American Women Learn to Speak: New Forms of Inquiry into Women's Rhetorics David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs 1. "By Women, You Were Brought Forth into this World": Cherokee Women's Oratorical Education in the Late Eighteenth Century M. Amanda Moulder 2. "A Vapour Which Appears but for a Moment": Oratory and Elocution for Girls during the Early American Republic Carolyn Eastman 3. Speaking and Writing in Conversation: Constructing the Voice of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis Annmarie Valdes 4. Negotiating Conflicting Views of Women and Elocution: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, Florence Hartley, and Marietta Holley Jane Donawerth 5. "To Supply this Deficiency": Margaret Fuller's Boston Conversations as Hybrid Rhetorical Practice Kristen Garrison 6. "God Sees Me": Surveillance and Oratorical Training at Nineteenth-Century St. Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana Elizabethada A. Wright 7. The Arguments They Wore: The Role of the Neoclassical Toga in American Delsartism Lisa Suter 8. Womanly Eloquence and Rhetorical Bodies: Regendering the Public Speaker through Physical Culture Paige V. Banaji 9. Rethinking Etiquette: Emily Post's Rhetoric of Social Self-Reliance for American Women Nancy Myers 10. "Remember the World Is Not a Playground but a Schoolroom": Barbara Jordan's Early Rhetorical Education Linda Ferreira-Buckley 11. Learning Not to Preach: Evangelical Speaker Beth Moore and the Rhetoric of Constraint Emily Murphy Cope

Biography

David Gold is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, US.

Catherine L. Hobbs is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, US.

"Rhetoric, History, and Women’s Oratorical Education addresses a regionally, racially, and socioeconomically diverse group of women…Ultimately this collection complicates the idea that the public and private spheres were separate and stable, directing attention to the hybrid spaces women orators have occupied." – Kristine Johnson, Xavier University, USA in Peitho

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