Rhetorical theory by women before 1900 : an anthology
This anthology features women's rhetorical theory from the 5th through the 19th centuries. Assembling selections on rhetoric, composition and communication this collection demonstrates an often-overlooked history of rhetoric as well as women's interest in conversation as a model for all discourse.
xlii, 337 pages ; 26 cm
9780742517165, 9780742517172, 0742517160, 0742517179
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From Menexenus by Plato / Aspaia
from De Inventione by Cicero / Apasia
Lessons for Women / Pan Chao
from The Pillow Book / Sei Shonagon
from The Book of the Body Politic / Christine de Pizan
from The Worlds Olio / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Women's Speaking Justified / Margaret Fell
from An Essay to Revive to the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen / Bathsua Makin
"On Conversation" from Les Conversations sure Divers Sujets / Madeleine de Scudery
"Conversation on the Manner of Writing Letters" from Conversations Nouvelles sur Divers Sujets / Madeleine de Scudery
from A Serious Proposal, Part II / Mary Astell
from "The Bas Bleu or, Conservation" / Hannah More
from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education / Hannah More
from "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification" / Maria Edgeworth
from Letters to Young Ladies / Lydia Sigourney
from Letters to My Pupils / Lydia Sigourney
from The Young Lady's Friend / Eliza Farrar
from Youth's Letter-Writer / Eliza Farrar
from Bits and Odds / Hallie Quinn Brown
from Elocution and Physical Culture / Hallie Quinn Brown
from Delsarte System of Expression / Genevieve Stebbins
from The Genevieve Stebbins System of Physical Training / Genevieve Stebbins
from The Potential Woman / Jennie Willing
from Lessons in English / Sara Lockwood
from Woman in the Pulpit / Frances E. Willard
from An Hour with Delsarte / Anna Morgan
from Studies in English Composition / Harriet L. Keeler and Emma C. Davis
from The Metaphor / Gertude Buck
from A Course in Expository Writing / Gertude Buck and Elisabeth Woodbridge
from A Course in Argumentative Writing / Gertude Buck
"The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory" / Gertude Buck
from Correct Writing and Speaking / Mary Augusta Jordan