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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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press
[2002]
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| Series: | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vkg2d |
Table of Contents:
- 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).