The rhetoric of nineteenth-century reform
By: edited by Martha S. Watson and Thomas R. Burkholder.
Contributors: Watson, Martha S.; Burkholder, Thomas R.
Series: A rhetorical history of the United States : significant moments in American public discourse -- v. 5
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780870138362
Subjects: Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Social problems -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Rhetoric -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fighting for freedom again: African American reform rhetoric in the late nineteenth century / Richard W. Leeman; title: "The clear, plain facts": the antilynching agitation of Ida B. Wells / Shirley Wilson Logan and Martha S. Watson; title: Finding the angel's lily: redefining American character in the rhetoric of Russell H. Conwell / A. Cheree Carlson; title: Confronting evil: Kansas as a case study of nineteenth-century populist rhetoric / Thomas R. Burkholder; title: William Jennings Bryan: a modern disciple with a political mission / Sally Perkins; title: "Making the world more homelike": the reform rhetoric of Frances E. Willard / Amy R. Slagell; title: Lifting as we climb: race, gender, and class in the rhetoric of Mary Church Terrell / Martha S. Watson; title: Radical labor in a feminine voice: the rhetoric of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn / Mari Boor Tonn; title: Terence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor: a leader under siege / Charles J. Stewart; title: Fair rhetoric / James Gilbert; title: Anarchist women and the feminine ideal: sex, class, and style in the rhetoric of Voltarine de Cleyre, Emma Goldman, and Lucy Parsons / Linda Diane Horwitz, Donna Marie Kowal, and Catherine Helen Palczewski; title: Passing the torch of women's rights: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Howard Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt / Susan Schultz Huxman.