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OverviewThe nature of Gertrude Buck, professor of English at Vassar College from 1897 until her death in 1922, is well-known to anyone interested in the history of composition. Her writing is less well-known, much of it now out of print. JoAnn Campbell gathers together for the first time the major work of this innovative thinker and educator, including her most important articles on rhetorical theory; The Social Criticism of Literature, a forerunner of reader-response literary theory; selections from her textbooks on argumentative and expository writing; poetry; fiction; her play Mother-Love, and unpublished reports and correspondence from the English department at Vassar. In her introduction, Campbell describes the masculine rhetorical tradition within which Buck wrote and taught. Her theories of language and composition quietly challenged the dominant rhetorics issuing from Harvard and Amherst. An unusually productive scholar, Buck wrote textbooks for her female students that affirmed women\u2019s intellectual abilities and trained them to participate in political debate. In the Vassar English Department she found a community of women among whom she could practice and develop her theories regarding rhetoric, pedagogy, and the role of the individual in society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gertrude Buck , JoAnn CampbellPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9780822955733ISBN 10: 0822955733 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 31 January 1996 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews"Campbell clearly establishes the bases for Buck's claim to fame. . . . Buck was an innovator well ahead of her time.-- ""Mary Anne Ferguson"" The editor has struck the right balance between what readers will want to know about Buck and what they need to know about the contexts in which she worked.-- ""Sharon Crowley""" Author InformationJoAnn Campbell is assistant professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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