Conversational rhetoric : the rise and fall of a women's tradition, 1600-1900 / Jane Donawerth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donawerth, Jane, 1947-

Series:

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

Oral communication--England.

Oral communication.

Oral communication--United States.

Rhetoric--England--History.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--United States--History.

Women--Education--England.

Women.

Women--Education--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized women's rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres-humanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of women's preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks. She examines the relationship between communication and gender and between theory and

Contents:

Introduction

Humanist Dialogues and Defenses of Women's Education: Conversation as a Model for All Discourse

Conduct Book Rhetoric: Constructing a Theory of Feminine Discourse

Defenses of Women's Preaching: Dissenting Rhetoric and the Language of Women's Rights

Elocution: Sentimental Culture and Performing Femininity

Conclusion: Composition Textbooks by Women and the Decline of a Women's Tradition.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-69722-9

9786613674180

0-8093-8630-5

OCLC:

856870168