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OverviewImagining Rhetoric examines how women s writing developed in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, and how women imagined using their education to further the civic aims of an idealistic new nation. In the late eighteenth century, proponents of female education in the United States appropriated the language of the Revolution to advance the cause of women s literacy. Schooling for women along with abolition, suffrage, and temperance became one of the four primary arenas of nineteenth-century women s activism. Following the Revolution, textbooks and fictions about schooling materialized that revealed ideal curricula for women covering subjects from botany and chemistry to rhetoric and composition. A few short decades later, such curricula and hopes for female civic rhetoric changed under the pressure of threatened disunion. Using a variety of texts, including novels, textbooks, letters, diaries, and memoirs, Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen chart the shifting ideas about how women should learn and use writing, from the early days of the republic through the antebellum years. They also reveal how these models shaped women s awareness of female civic rhetoric both its possibilities and limitations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Janet Carey Eldred , Peter Mortensen, ProfessorPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN: 9781306555661ISBN 10: 1306555663 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 01 January 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |