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Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized womenOCOs rhetorical practices. In "Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a WomenOCOs Tradition, 1600OCo1900," 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 genresOCohumanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of womenOCOs preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks. She examines the relationship between communication and gender and between theory and pedagogy and argues that women constructed a theory of rhetoric based on conversation, not public speaking, as a model for all discourse.a Donawerth traces the development of womenOCOs rhetorical theory through the voices of English and American women (and one much-translated French woman) over three centuries. She demonstrates how they cultivated theories of rhetoric centered on conversation that faded once women began writing composition textbooks for mixed-gender audiences in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She recovers and elucidates the importance of the theories in dialogues and de

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Author

Jane Donawerth; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280697227

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Science