Manly Writing Gender, Rhetoric and the Rise of Compostion

Name: Manly Writing Gender, Rhetoric and the Rise of Compostion
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ISBN: 9780809316915

ISBN-10: 0809316919

ISBN-13: 9780809316915

Edition: 1993

Authors: Miriam Brody

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In this critical history of the gendered politics of rhetoric and the rise of composition, Miriam Brody argues that nothing about words or their arrangement is innately gendered. Yet since the English Enlightenment, teachers have encouraged their students to admire and imitate "manly" writing, writing that is plain, forceful, cogent, and true. Similarly, students have been enjoined to avoid so-called effeminate or feminine writing—writing characterized as vague, unorganized, ornate, and deceitful. Such advice, part of what Brody terms the hidden curriculum, has served the interests of discourse communities as various as the early Enlightenment Royal Society in seventeenth-century London…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 11/30/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Miriam Brody is an independent scholar.



Preface



Introduction



Writing about Writing



The Eunuch and Vicious Writing



Rhetoric for Gentlemen: Advice to Writers in the Age of the Enlightenment



Plain Writing for Science: Advice in the Early Enlightenment



The Rhetorical and Gendered Politics of George Campbell



The Gendered Aesthetics of Enlightenment Rhetoric



Composition Texts for Schools



"Doing" Grammar and Learning Latin



Teaching Character in the American Schooltext in the Nineteenth Century



The Modern Composition Text: Organic and Original, Armed and Loaded



Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass


Notes


Works Cited


Index