Rhetorical Theory by Women Before 1900: An Anthology

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Jane Donawerth
Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 337 pages
This anthology is the first to feature women's rhetorical theory from the fifth through the nineteenth centuries. Assembling selections on rhetoric, composition, and communication by 24 women around the world, this valuable collection demonstrates an often-overlooked history of rhetoric as well as women's interest in conversation as a model for all discourse. Among the theorists included are Aspasia, Pan Chao, Sei Shonagon, Madeleine de Scudéry, Hannah More, Hallie Quinn Brown, and Mary Augusta Jordan. The book also contains an extensive introduction, explanatory headnotes, and detailed annotations.

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Contents

Aspasia fifth century BCE
1
from Menexenus c 386 BCE
3
From De Inventione c 86 BCE
12
Pan Chao c 48117
14
Lessons for Women first century
15
Sei Shonagon b 965?
22
from The Pillow Book c 1000
23
Christine de Pizan c 1364c 1430
38
from The Young Ladys Friend 1836
157
from The Youths LetterWriter 1840
159
Hallie Quinn Brown 18491949
170
from Bits and Odds 1880?
171
from Elocution and Physical Culture before 1910?
173
Genevieve Stebbins 18571914?
193
from Delsarte System of Expression 1885
194
from The Genevieve Stebbins System of Physical Training 1898
203

from The Book of the Body Politic 14041407
40
Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle c 16231673
45
from The Worlds Olio 1655
46
Margaret Fell 16141702
59
Womens Speaking Justified 1666
60
Bathsua Makin 1600c 1675
73
from An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen 1673
75
16081701
80
On Conversation from Les Conversations sur Divers Sujets 1680
82
from Conversations Nouvelles sur Divers Sujets 1684
88
Mary Astell 16661731
98
from A Serious Proposal Part II 1697
100
Hannah More 17451833
107
from The Bas Bleu or Conversation 17831786
108
from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education 1799
113
Maria Edgeworth 17681849
128
from An Essay on the Noble Science of SelfJustification 1795
129
Lydia Sigourney 17911865
139
from Letters to Young Ladies 1833
141
from Letters to My Pupils 1851
151
Eliza Farrar 17911870
155
Jennie Willing 18341916
211
from The Potential Woman 1887
213
Sara Lockwood 1854c 1902
220
from Lessons in English 1888
221
Frances E Willard 18391898
239
from Woman in the Pulpit 1889
242
Anna Morgan 18511936
253
from An Hour with Delsarte 1889
254
Harriet L Keeler 18461921 Emma C Davis c 1891
265
from Studies in English Composition 1891
266
Gertrude Buck 18711922
269
from The Metaphor 1899
272
from A Course in Expository Writing 1899 coauthored with Elisabeth Woodbridge
277
from A Course in Argumentative Writing 1899
284
The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory 1900
284
Mary Augusta Jordan 18551941
287
from Correct Writing and Speaking 1904
288
Bibliography
305
Index
311
About the Editor
325
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Jane Donawerth is professor of English and affiliate faculty in women's studies at the University of Maryland.

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