Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900

by Jane Donawerth

Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized women's rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women's Tradition, 1600-1900, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres--humanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of women's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080933027X
• ISBN13: 9780809330270
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"