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Regendering delivery : the fifth canon and antebellum women rhetors / Lindal Buchanan.
Van Pelt Library PN4055.U53 W663 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchanan, Lindal, 1958-
- Series:
- Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oratory--United States--History--19th century.
- Oratory.
- Women orators--United States--Biography.
- Women orators.
- Elocution.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2005]
- Contents:
- Readers and rhetors : schoolgirls' formal elocutionary instruction
- Practicing delivery : young ladies on the academic platform
- Performing gender and rhetoric : "feminine" and "masculine" delivery styles
- Delivering discourse and children : the maternal difficulty
- Forging and firing thunderbolts : collaboration and women's delivery
- Conclusion : regendering the fifth canon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0809326574
- 0809326582
- OCLC:
- 58600021
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