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Imagining Rhetoric : Composing Women of the Early United States /

"Using a variety of sources, including novels, textbooks, letters, diaries, and memories, Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen examine the provenance, authority, and evolution of what they term "liberatory" civic rhetoric - from the early days of the republic through the antebellum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Eldred, Janet Carey
Otros Autores: Mortensen, Peter, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2002]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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).