The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address (eBook)

About the Editors Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Political communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 (2001) and co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (2002) and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and US Nationalism (2006). She is the co-editor of Public Address and Moral Judgment: Critical Studies in Ethical Tensions (2009). J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Rhetoric and Co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the Panama Canal In American Politics (1986), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour (2006). He also edited two other volumes, Rhetoric and Community (1998) and Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003). In 2008, Hogan was elected a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction: The Study of Rhetoric and Public Address 1
Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan

Part I The History and Prospects of Rhetoric and Public Address 17

1 The History of Public Address as an Academic Study 19
Martin J. Medhurst

2 Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges 67
David Zarefsky

3 Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method 86
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

Part II Basic Research in Rhetoric and Public Address 109

4 Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to Our Past, Imagining Our Future 111
Davis W. Houck

5 The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication 133
Robert N. Gaines

6 Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records 157
Shawn J. Parry-Giles

7 From Recovering Women's Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century 184
Susan Zaeske and Sarah Jedd

Part III Text and Context in Rhetoric and Public Address 203

8 The Racial Contexts of Public Address: Interpreting Violence During the Reconstruction Era 205
Kirt H. Wilson

9 Lilies and Lavatory Paper: The Public and the Private in British Suffrage Archives 229
Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp

10 Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine's Progressive-Era Child Labor Rhetoric 250
Cara A. Finnegan

11 Theory and Public Address: The Allusive Mr. Bush 271
John M. Murphy

Part IV Questions of Effect in Rhetoric and Public Address 291

12 Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Instrumental Effects of Presidential Rhetoric 293
Mary E. Stuckey

13 Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98" 313
James Jasinski and Jennifer R. Mercieca

Part V The Politics of Rhetoric and Public Address 343

14 Feminism and Public Address Research: Television News and the Constitution of Women's Liberation 345
Bonnie J. Dow

15 The Problem of Race in Public Address Research: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Conflicted Aesthetics of Race 373
Eric King Watts

16 Sexuality and Public Address: Rhetorical Pasts, Queer Theory, and Abraham Lincoln 398
Charles E. Morris III

17 Public Address and the Revival of American Civic Culture 422
J. Michael Hogan

Select Bibliography 448

Index 469

"On the whole, an indispensable volume for those interested in the history and future of the field. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 May 2011)

"This excellent volume explores theoretical and critical
perspectives that inform the study of public address, engaging
significant issues of contemporary scholarship. Its contribution to
the study of rhetoric as a force in history and as a tool of
democratic deliberation is enormous." James R. Andrews,
Professor Emeritus Communication & Culture, American Studies,
Indiana University

"'Oratory still matters in US politics,' the editors
proclaim on page 1, and then they present a timely and
comprehensive set of essays by distinguished
authors showing us why and how it always
has. This volume is required reading for scholars and
students of US public address." Vanessa Beasley, Vanderbilt
University

"This is a timely and important book. The work of
exceptional scholars at once embodies the finest traditions in the
theory and criticism of public discourse, and points readers in
innovative directions for productive research in the twenty-first
century. The volume combines case studies, explorations in theory
and method, and exemplary archival research in a fashion certain to
be of value to scholars at every level." David
Henry, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

"Parry-Giles and Hogan have given us a gift.
Their edited volume contains insightful, timely analysis from some
of the best minds in the discipline on where public address
scholarship has been, where it is, and where it might be
going. The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address pushes
scholars to reflect on important theoretical, political, and
methodological issues while it simultaneously underscores the
continuing relevance of rhetoric and its study to civic
education. All in all, this volume is a splendid
contribution." Denise M. Bostdorff, The College of
Wooster