"Available means" of rhetorical instruction: "Broadening perspectives" on rhetorical education prior to 1900

Elizabethada A. Wright, Suzanne Bordelon, S. Michael Halloran

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationA Short History of Writing Instruction
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Ancient Greece to The Modern United States
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages244-271
Number of pages28
ISBN (Electronic)9780367349790
ISBN (Print)9781000053517
StatePublished - Apr 7 2020

Keywords

  • Academies
  • African American Societies
  • American Delsartism
  • American Female Moral Reform Society
  • American lyceum
  • Available means
  • Belles Lettres
  • Belletristic tradition
  • Boarding schools
  • Bush harbors
  • Carlisle Indian School
  • Catholic schools
  • Cherokee National Female Seminary
  • Commonplace books
  • Communication at a distance
  • Conduct books
  • Constitution'sFirstAmendments' guarantee of freedom of religion
  • Conversational Rhetoric
  • Current-traditional rhetoric
  • Dame Schools
  • Drill and correctness
  • Educated to Extinction
  • Elocution
  • Elocution handbooks
  • Engineering Education
  • English Classical School
  • English Education
  • English High School
  • Essays at Commencement
  • Ethical and pathetic approaches
  • Extracurriculum
  • Floating literacy
  • Forced Education
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Free mandatory education
  • George Whitefield (or Whitfield)
  • Grammar
  • Great Awakening
  • Habits of mind
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Institutes
  • Inventional practices
  • Jesuits
  • King Phillip'sWar
  • Latin Grammar Schools
  • Massachusetts Statues of 1642, 1647, and 1648
  • Massachusetts' State Secretary of Education Horace Mann
  • Native-language literacies
  • Normal Schools
  • Oratorical Culture
  • Pauper Schools
  • Presbyterian Schools
  • Reading
  • Refute potential opposition positions
  • Rhetorical education
  • Scottish theorists such as Blair, Campbell, and Smith
  • Scribal Literacy
  • Sisters of the Society of Sacred Heart
  • Sponsors of literacy
  • Standardized educational grades, curriculum, and ages for students
  • Student literary and debate societies
  • Textbooks
  • Ursuline Sisters
  • Venture Schools
  • White indentured servants
  • Whitemalesuffrage
  • Women's letters as a means of providing unschooled women with a rhetorical education
  • Writing Schools

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