... some well known, others more ob-scure, but all grappled to make liberatory civic rhetoric the... more ... some well known, others more ob-scure, but all grappled to make liberatory civic rhetoric their own: Han-nah Webster Foster, Judith Sargent Murray, Mrs. AJ Graves, Louisa Car-oline Tuthill, Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, and Charlotte Forten. Eldred and Mortensen recover an ...
This article examines two texts important in American rhetorical history, Caleb Bingham&a... more This article examines two texts important in American rhetorical history, Caleb Bingham's 1794 American Preceptor and Eliphalet Pearson's 1802 abridgment of Blair's Lectures. These schoolbooks challenge accepted historiographies of late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century rhetoric in two ways: they demonstrate that neoclassicism encompassed a much greater variety of ancient figures and texts than is usually presumed, and they suggest that
... Its role in early American literature specifically has gar-nered much attention as well (Warn... more ... Its role in early American literature specifically has gar-nered much attention as well (Warner; Gould; Gustafson). ... While Longaker makes a highly informed, and I think very accurate, argument about the politics of eighteenth-century republicanism and its (lack of) relation-ship to ...
Researchers conducted half-hour interviews with fifty-seven UCI juniors and seniors while they we... more Researchers conducted half-hour interviews with fifty-seven UCI juniors and seniors while they were completing upper-division writing to discover what they remembered of early writing instruction and how they used it. The interviews broadly confirmed results in similar research that ...
Historical and heritage tourism is a booming industry across the United States, and southern stat... more Historical and heritage tourism is a booming industry across the United States, and southern states in particular offer tourists the chance to walk the streets where some of the United States’ most
dramatic racial conflicts unfolded. In these contexts, publics are invited to remember slavery in
strategic ways. This essay enriches rhetorical studies’ understanding of the relationship between
place and public memory by offering a robust consideration of tourism as a constitutive component
of memory environments. We do so through a closer look at the memories of urban slavery and rebellion that circulate in Charleston, South Carolina’s historical tourism industry.
... some well known, others more ob-scure, but all grappled to make liberatory civic rhetoric the... more ... some well known, others more ob-scure, but all grappled to make liberatory civic rhetoric their own: Han-nah Webster Foster, Judith Sargent Murray, Mrs. AJ Graves, Louisa Car-oline Tuthill, Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, and Charlotte Forten. Eldred and Mortensen recover an ...
This article examines two texts important in American rhetorical history, Caleb Bingham&a... more This article examines two texts important in American rhetorical history, Caleb Bingham's 1794 American Preceptor and Eliphalet Pearson's 1802 abridgment of Blair's Lectures. These schoolbooks challenge accepted historiographies of late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century rhetoric in two ways: they demonstrate that neoclassicism encompassed a much greater variety of ancient figures and texts than is usually presumed, and they suggest that
... Its role in early American literature specifically has gar-nered much attention as well (Warn... more ... Its role in early American literature specifically has gar-nered much attention as well (Warner; Gould; Gustafson). ... While Longaker makes a highly informed, and I think very accurate, argument about the politics of eighteenth-century republicanism and its (lack of) relation-ship to ...
Researchers conducted half-hour interviews with fifty-seven UCI juniors and seniors while they we... more Researchers conducted half-hour interviews with fifty-seven UCI juniors and seniors while they were completing upper-division writing to discover what they remembered of early writing instruction and how they used it. The interviews broadly confirmed results in similar research that ...
Historical and heritage tourism is a booming industry across the United States, and southern stat... more Historical and heritage tourism is a booming industry across the United States, and southern states in particular offer tourists the chance to walk the streets where some of the United States’ most
dramatic racial conflicts unfolded. In these contexts, publics are invited to remember slavery in
strategic ways. This essay enriches rhetorical studies’ understanding of the relationship between
place and public memory by offering a robust consideration of tourism as a constitutive component
of memory environments. We do so through a closer look at the memories of urban slavery and rebellion that circulate in Charleston, South Carolina’s historical tourism industry.
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dramatic racial conflicts unfolded. In these contexts, publics are invited to remember slavery in
strategic ways. This essay enriches rhetorical studies’ understanding of the relationship between
place and public memory by offering a robust consideration of tourism as a constitutive component
of memory environments. We do so through a closer look at the memories of urban slavery and rebellion that circulate in Charleston, South Carolina’s historical tourism industry.
dramatic racial conflicts unfolded. In these contexts, publics are invited to remember slavery in
strategic ways. This essay enriches rhetorical studies’ understanding of the relationship between
place and public memory by offering a robust consideration of tourism as a constitutive component
of memory environments. We do so through a closer look at the memories of urban slavery and rebellion that circulate in Charleston, South Carolina’s historical tourism industry.