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| General Introduction | |
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| The Origins of Rhetoric | |
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| Classical Rhetoric | |
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| Medieval Rhetoric | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric | |
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| Modern and Postmodern Rhetoric | |
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| Classical Rhetoric | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sophistic Movement | |
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| Isocrates and Education in Rhetoric | |
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| Aspasia and Opportunities for Women | |
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| Plato: True and False Rhetoric | |
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| Aristotle: Systematic Rhetoric | |
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| The Rise of Rome and the Rhetoric of Cicero | |
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| Imperial Rome and the Rhetoric of Quintilian | |
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| Gorgias | |
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| Encomium of Helen | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| Dissoi Logoi | |
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| Aspasia | |
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| Plato, From Menexenus | |
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| Cicero, From De Inventione | |
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| Athenaeus, From Deipnosophistae | |
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| Plutarch, From Lives | |
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| Isocrates | |
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| Against the Sophists | |
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| From Antidosis | |
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| Plato | |
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| Gorgias | |
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| Phaedrus | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| From Rhetoric | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| Rhetorica ad Herennium, Book IV | |
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| Cicero | |
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| From De Oratore | |
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| From Orator | |
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| Longinus | |
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| From On the Sublime | |
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| Quintilian | |
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| From Institutes of Oratory | |
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| Medieval Rhetoric | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Christian Treatments of Rhetoric to Augustine | |
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| Rhetoric Under Siege in Europe to 1000 C.E. | |
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| The "Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" | |
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| The Rise of the University | |
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| The Arts of Letter Writing and Preaching | |
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| Augustine | |
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| On Christian Doctrine, Book IV | |
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| Boethius | |
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| An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric | |
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| Anonymous | |
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| From The Principles of Letter Writing | |
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| Geoffrey of Vinsauf | |
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| From Poetria Nova | |
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| Robert of Basevorn | |
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| From The Form of Preaching | |
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| Christine de Pizan | |
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| From The Book of the City of Ladies | |
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| From The Treasure of the City of Ladies | |
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| Renaissance Rhetoric | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rhetoric and Italian Humanism | |
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| Italian Women Humanists | |
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| Humanism in Northern Europe: Agricola, Erasmus, and Ramus | |
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| Humanism and Rhetoric in England: Ramus Versus Cicero | |
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| Desiderius Erasmus | |
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| From Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style | |
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| From Ecclesiasties | |
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| Baldesar Castiglione | |
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| From The Book of the Courtier | |
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| Peter Ramus | |
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| From Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian | |
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| Thomas Wilson | |
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| From The Art of Rhetorique | |
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| Francis Bacon | |
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| From The Advancement of Learning | |
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| From Novum Organum | |
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| Margaret Fell | |
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| Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures | |
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| Madeleine de Scud�ry | |
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| Of Conversation | |
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| Of Speaking Too Much or Too Little | |
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| And How We Ought to Speak | |
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| Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz | |
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| From The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz | |
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| Enlightenment Rhetoric | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rhetoric in the Enlightenment: An Overview | |
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| Seventeenth-Century Rhetoric | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric | |
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| John Locke | |
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| From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
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| David Hume | |
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| Of the Standard of Taste | |
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| Mary Astell | |
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| From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies | |
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| Giambattista Vico | |
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| From On the Study Methods of Our Time | |
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| Thomas Sheridan | |
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| A Course of Lectures on Elocution, Lecture IV | |
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| Gilbert Austin | |
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| From Chironomia | |
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| George Campbell | |
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| From The Philosophy of Rhetoric | |
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| Hugh Blair | |
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| From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Richard Whately's Rhetoric | |
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| The Development of Women's Rhetorics | |
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| The Rhetorics of Men of Color | |
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| The Rhetoric of Composition | |
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| Romanticism and Rhetoric | |
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| Language, Rhetoric, and Knowledge | |
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| Richard Whateley | |
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| From Elements of Rhetoric | |
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| Maria W. Stewart | |
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| Lecture Delivered At The Franklin Hall | |
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| Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston | |
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| Sarah Grimk� | |
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| Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, Letters III, IV, and XIV | |
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| Frederick Douglass | |
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| From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | |
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| From My Bondage and My Freedom | |
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| From The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass | |
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| Phoebe Palmer | |
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| The Promise of the Father, Chapter I | |
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| Tongue of Fire on the Daughters of the Lord | |
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| Frances Willard | |
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| From Women in the Pulpit | |
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| From Women and Temperance | |
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| Alexander Bain and Adams Sherman Hill | |
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| Alexander Bain, From English Composition and Rhetoric | |
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| Adams Sherman Hill, From The Principles of Rhetoric | |
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| Herbert Spencer | |
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| From The Philosophy of Style | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense | |
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| Modern and Postmodern Rhetoric | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rhetoric and Composition | |
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| Speech Communication | |
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| Academic Rhetoric in Europe | |
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| Philosophy of Language versus Rhetoric | |
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| Semantics and Semiotics | |
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| The Meaning of Meaning in Philosophy and Literature | |
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| Meaning and Dialogism | |
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| Literature, Logic, Rhetoric, and Ethics | |
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| Rhetoric versus Logic | |
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| Discourse, Knowledge, and Ideology | |
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| Rhetorics of Gender, Race, and Culture in the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Reach of Rhetoric | |
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| Mikhail Bakhtin | |
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| From Marxism and the Philosophy of Language | |
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| From The Problem of Speech Genres | |
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| Virginia Woolf | |
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| Professions for Women | |
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| Women and Fiction | |
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| Dorothy Richardson | |
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| From A Room of One's Own | |
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| I. A. Richards | |
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| I.A. Richards and C. K. Ogden, From The Meaning of Meaning | |
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| I. A. Richards, From The Philosophy of Rhetoric | |
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| Kenneth Burke | |
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| From A Grammar of Motives | |
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| From A Rhetoric of Motives | |
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| From Language as Symbolic Action | |
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| Richard Weaver | |
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| Language is Sermonic | |
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| The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric | |
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| Chaim Perelman | |
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| Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, From The New Rhetoric | |
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| Chaim Perelman, From The Realm of Rhetoric | |
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| Chaim Perelman, The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning | |
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| Stephen Toulmin | |
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| From The Uses of Argument | |
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| From Logic and the Criticism of Arguments | |
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| Michel Foucault | |
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| From The Archaeology of Knowledge | |
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| From The Order of Discourse | |
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| Jacques Derrida | |
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| Signature Event Context | |
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| Wayne C. Booth | |
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| From Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent | |
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| H�l�ne Cixous | |
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| The Laugh of the Medusa | |
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| H�l�ne Cixous and Catherine Cl�ment, A Woman Mistress | |
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| Adrienne Rich | |
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| When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision | |
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| The Distance Between Language and Violence | |
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| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | |
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| The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning | |
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| Gloria Anzaldúa | |