Conversational rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of a women's tradition, 1600-1900 / / Jane Donawerth
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| Autore: |
Donawerth Jane <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Conversational rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of a women's tradition, 1600-1900 / / Jane Donawerth
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808.042082 |
| 808/.042082 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Conversational Rhetoric |
| ISBN: | 1-280-69722-9 |
| 9786613674180 | |
| 0-8093-8630-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910806137503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.