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Autore |
Donawerth Jane <1947-> |
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Conversational rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of a women's tradition, 1600-1900 / / Jane Donawerth |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-69722-9 |
9786613674180 |
0-8093-8630-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in rhetorics and feminisms |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Discourse analysis |
Oral communication - England |
Oral communication - United States |
Rhetoric - England - History |
Rhetoric - United States - History |
Women - Education - England |
Women - Education - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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