Vol. 27 No. 2: (Fall 2000): Special Issue on Rhetoric

Articles

• Introduction

  William W. Wright

  1-6

• Radical Reform Rhetoric and the Ethics of White Manhood in Antebellum America

  James H. Britton

  7-21

• ‘Dear Millie’: Letter Writing and Gender in Postbellum America

  Nan Johnson

  22-46

• Why We Should Trust Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Faye Halpern

  47-61

• ‘Well, seriously Flora, what can we women do?’ Sentimentalism, Suffrage and Reform in Lillie Devereux Blake’s Fettered for Life

  Heidi Jacobs

  62-78

• Emerson’s Proleptic Eloquence

  Richard E. Joines

  79-99

• ‘Why Am I Called Upon to Speak Here To-day?’ The Jeremiad in the Speeches and Writings of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X

  Darryl Dickson-Carr

  100-117

• Educating for Change: Lydia Maria Child’s Nineteenth-Century Critical Pedagogy

  Jess Enoch

  118-137

• Gertrude Buck: Revisioning Argumentation and the Role of Women in a Participatory Democracy

  Suzanne Bordelon

  138-158

• Etymological Investments: The Political Economy of Language from Carlyle to Ruskin

  Ryan Johnson

  159-176

• Ruskin, Bright, and the Politics of Eloquence

  Matthew Bevis

  177-190

• John Stuart Mill and Rhetoric: The Perspicuous Account of Truthful Obscurity

  Jason Camlot

  191-208