Imagining Rhetoric
Subtitle: Composing Women of the Early United States (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: June 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780822941828
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Women As Authors (American Literature); Women In Education; Literary Criticism; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; American English; USA; Literacy; Rhetoric; Women's Studies - History; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; American - General; Feminist; American prose literature; English language; History; History and criticism; Sex differences; Study and teaching; United States; Women authors
Description: "Imagining Rhetoric examines how women's writing developed in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, and how women imagined using their educations to further the civic aims of an idealistic new nation.".

"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 years - especially as it shaped women's rhetoric and education.

Imagining Rhetoric recovers what women in the early U.S. imagined instruction and practice in composition should be, and shows how this imagination shaped the possibilities and limitations of female civic rhetoric."--BOOK JACKET.