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Rhetoric at the margins [electronic resource]

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Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947 examines the rhetorical education of African American, female, and working-class college students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The rich case studies in this work encourage a reconceptualization of both the history of rhetoric and composition and the ways we make use of it. Author David Gold uses archival materials to study three types of institutions historicall

Title Rhetoric at the margins [electronic resource] : revising the history of writing instruction in American colleges, 1873-1947 / David Gold.
Publisher Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Creation Date c2008
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index.
English
Content Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Integrating Traditions at a Private Black College
2. Balancing Tensions at a Public Women's University
3. Challenging Orthodoxies at a Rural Normal College
Conclusion
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Author Bio
Back Cover
Extent 1 online resource (218 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715549005171
MARC RECORDS
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