The rhetoric of nineteenth-century reform /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Watson, Martha S., Burkholder, Thomas R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2008]
Series:Rhetorical history of the United States ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Fighting for freedom again: African American reform rhetoric in the late nineteenth century / Richard W. Leeman
  • "The clear, plain facts": the antilynching agitation of Ida B. Wells / Shirley Wilson Logan and Martha S. Watson
  • Finding the angel's lily: redefining American character in the rhetoric of Russell H. Conwell / A. Cheree Carlson
  • Confronting evil: Kansas as a case study of nineteenth-century populist rhetoric / Thomas R. Burkholder
  • William Jennings Bryan: a modern disciple with a political mission / Sally Perkins
  • "Making the world more homelike": the reform rhetoric of Frances E. Willard / Amy R. Slagell
  • Lifting as we climb: race, gender, and class in the rhetoric of Mary Church Terrell / Martha S. Watson
  • Radical labor in a feminine voice: the rhetoric of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn / Mari Boor Tonn
  • Terence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor: a leader under siege / Charles J. Stewart
  • Fair rhetoric / James Gilbert
  • Anarchist women and the feminine ideal: sex, class, and style in the rhetoric of Voltarine de Cleyre, Emma Goldman, and Lucy Parsons / Linda Diane Horwitz, Donna Marie Kowal, and Catherine Helen Palczewski
  • Passing the torch of women's rights: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Howard Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt / Susan Schultz Huxman.