Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education

David Gold is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, US. Catherine L. Hobbs is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, US.

Introduction: American Women Learn to Speak: New Forms of Inquiry into Women's Rhetorics 1. "By Women, You Were Brought Forth into this World": Cherokee Women's Oratorical Education in the Late Eighteenth Century 2. "A Vapour Which Appears but for a Moment": Oratory and Elocution for Girls during the Early American Republic 3. Speaking and Writing in Conversation: Constructing the Voice of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis 4. Negotiating Conflicting Views of Women and Elocution: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, Florence Hartley, and Marietta Holley 5. "To Supply this Deficiency": Margaret Fuller's Boston Conversations as Hybrid Rhetorical Practice 6. "God Sees Me": Surveillance and Oratorical Training at Nineteenth-Century St. Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana 7. The Arguments They Wore: The Role of the Neoclassical Toga in American Delsartism 8. Womanly Eloquence and Rhetorical Bodies: Regendering the Public Speaker through Physical Culture 9. Rethinking Etiquette: Emily Post's Rhetoric of Social Self-Reliance for American Women 10. "Remember the World Is Not a Playground but a Schoolroom": Barbara Jordan's Early Rhetorical Education 11. Learning Not to Preach: Evangelical Speaker Beth Moore and the Rhetoric of Constraint Emily Murphy Cope