Nineteenth-century American activist rhetorics /

"Essays cover nineteenth-century American activists' rhetorics and their echoes in contemporary American activism using a variety of theoretical lenses, such as classical rhetorical tropes, feminism, gender, and race. In addition to texts such as letters, sermons, and speeches, a variety o...

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Other Authors: Bizzell, Patricia (Editor), Zimmerelli, Lisa (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reframing activist issues. Kairos matters : reading Colin Kaepernick's protest through the lens of Frederick Douglass's "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Meaghan Brewer
  • "Wake work" : Frances E. W. Harper, Ida B. Wells, and embodied black feminist rhetoric in slavery and its aftermaths / Julie Prebel
  • Analyzing the methodist debate over women's preaching with the classical interpretive stases / Martin Camper
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton's rhetorical missteps : metonymy and synecdoche in the women's suffrage arguments / Nancy Myers
  • The late abolitionist rhetoric of Margaret Fuller : how she changed her mind / Mollie Barnes
  • The rhetoric of work and the work of rhetoric : Booker T. Washington's campaign for Tuskegee and the Black South / Paul Stob
  • "Nasty" women, progressive causes, and the rhetorical refusals of Lillie D. White / Wendy Hayden
  • More than mere display : Susie King Taylor's Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops / Patty Wilde
  • Arguing by numbers : Charlotte Odlum Smith's fight for recognition for women inventors / Sarah Hallenbeck
  • Lucy Thompson's ethos and the Yurok fish dam ritual
  • Elizabeth Lowry indigenous speakers : "race traitors" or rights activists? / Megan Vallowe
  • Put it in the papers : rhetorical ecologies, labor rhetorics, and the Newsboys' Strike of 1899 / Brian Fehler
  • Affection, intimacy, and labor organizing : queering public activism in the long nineteenth century / Brenda Glascott
  • Locating rhetorical activities. Caricatures versus character studies : Helen Potter's mimetic advocacy for women's rights / Angela G. Ray
  • Acting like rhetors : women's rights in amateur theatrical performances / Lisa Suter
  • Embroidering history : the gendered memorial activism of the Daughters of the American Revolution / Jessica Enoch
  • Beginning again, again : monument protest and rhetorics of African American memory work / Shevaun E. Watson
  • Archiving our own historical moments : learning from the disrupted public memory of Temperance / Jessica A. Rose and LynĂ©e Lewis Gaillet
  • Aesthetic daughter and civic mother : collective identity and the visual-verbal rhetorics of the new Negro woman / Kristie S. Fleckenstein
  • Crypto-feminist enthymemes in the periodical texts of Louise Clappe and Fanny Fern / Suzanne Bordelon and Elizabethada A. Wright
  • Listening for contemporary echoes. "Who says what is . . . always tells a story" : white supremacist rhetoric, then and now / Patricia Roberts-Miller
  • the rhetorical legacies of Chinese exclusion : appeals, protests, and becoming Chinese American / Morris Young
  • Cultivating civic interfaith activism : rhetorical education at Andover Settlement House / Michael-John DePalma
  • The long nineteenth century and the bend toward justice / Jacqueline Jones Royster.