Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Rhetoric, Historical Recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School -- Minding the Gap -- Rhetoric -- Rhetoric and Remnants -- The Asylum-School, Its Pupils, and the Closing of the Institution -- Disability Studies and Feminist Rhetorics -- Review of Chapters -- 2. "Confusion into Order Changed": The Rhetorics That Govern(ed) Institutionalization -- Introduction -- The Noble Asylum -- The School -- The Prison -- The Described and the Counted -- The Nameless Idiot -- The Visited and the Displayed -- Conclusion -- 3. In Pursuit of the Active Life: The Roots, Rhetoric, and Recursiveness of "Special" (All) Education -- The Roots of "Special" Education -- All Sensations Are Touch, All Ideas Are Sensations -- The Object Method, the Hand, and the Garden System -- The Face, the Posture, Walking, Then Thinking -- Sensations, Notions, Then Ideas -- Imitation as Social Relation -- Speech, Language, Listening, and Recitation -- After Speech, Drawing, Writing, Then Reading -- The Excited Will of the Teacher, the Dull Will of the Pupil -- Moving the Will: Order, Social |