Charles Paine is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico.

"I see this book as a highly original contribution, full of new information, based on careful scholarship and bristling with original juxtapositions. Paine has reconceptualized the recent history of rhetoric, producing a book everyone in the field will need to read and absorb." — John C. Brereton, author of The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925: A Documentary History"I appreciate Paine's argument that the situated history of composition has cooperated with a protection, not an activation, of the student-as-individual who is not a participant in receiving and forming public persuasion. This argument about the isolated, self-protected 'individual' student is quite important now, as is Paine's critique of Berlin and others' histories on the basis of their avoiding 'local,' more thorough investigations." — Susan Miller, University of Utah

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One: Introduction1. On the Idea of Discourse Immunity, or the Public Health of Rhetorical InstructionPart Two: History2. The Uses of Composition History3. To "Fortify the Immunities of a Free People": Edward T. Channing's Response to Emerging Forms of Popular Public Discourse4. A. S. Hill (i): Nineteenth-Century Journalism and the Making of a Patrician Intellectual5. A. S. Hill (ii): Reforming the Public and Its Discourse at the Modern University and in the Writing CoursePart Three: Contemporary Pedagogy6. Classroom Argument, Responsibility, and Change7. Conflict, Change, and "Flexibility" in the Composition and Cultural Studies ClassroomNotesWorks CitedIndex

Charles Paine is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico.

"I see this book as a highly original contribution, full of new information, based on careful scholarship and bristling with original juxtapositions. Paine has reconceptualized the recent history of rhetoric, producing a book everyone in the field will need to read and absorb." — John C. Brereton, author of The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925: A Documentary History"I appreciate Paine's argument that the situated history of composition has cooperated with a protection, not an activation, of the student-as-individual who is not a participant in receiving and forming public persuasion. This argument about the isolated, self-protected 'individual' student is quite important now, as is Paine's critique of Berlin and others' histories on the basis of their avoiding 'local,' more thorough investigations." — Susan Miller, University of Utah

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One: Introduction1. On the Idea of Discourse Immunity, or the Public Health of Rhetorical InstructionPart Two: History2. The Uses of Composition History3. To "Fortify the Immunities of a Free People": Edward T. Channing's Response to Emerging Forms of Popular Public Discourse4. A. S. Hill (i): Nineteenth-Century Journalism and the Making of a Patrician Intellectual5. A. S. Hill (ii): Reforming the Public and Its Discourse at the Modern University and in the Writing CoursePart Three: Contemporary Pedagogy6. Classroom Argument, Responsibility, and Change7. Conflict, Change, and "Flexibility" in the Composition and Cultural Studies ClassroomNotesWorks CitedIndex

Charles Paine is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico.

"I see this book as a highly original contribution, full of new information, based on careful scholarship and bristling with original juxtapositions. Paine has reconceptualized the recent history of rhetoric, producing a book everyone in the field will need to read and absorb." — John C. Brereton, author of The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925: A Documentary History"I appreciate Paine's argument that the situated history of composition has cooperated with a protection, not an activation, of the student-as-individual who is not a participant in receiving and forming public persuasion. This argument about the isolated, self-protected 'individual' student is quite important now, as is Paine's critique of Berlin and others' histories on the basis of their avoiding 'local,' more thorough investigations." — Susan Miller, University of Utah

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One: Introduction1. On the Idea of Discourse Immunity, or the Public Health of Rhetorical InstructionPart Two: History2. The Uses of Composition History3. To "Fortify the Immunities of a Free People": Edward T. Channing's Response to Emerging Forms of Popular Public Discourse4. A. S. Hill (i): Nineteenth-Century Journalism and the Making of a Patrician Intellectual5. A. S. Hill (ii): Reforming the Public and Its Discourse at the Modern University and in the Writing CoursePart Three: Contemporary Pedagogy6. Classroom Argument, Responsibility, and Change7. Conflict, Change, and "Flexibility" in the Composition and Cultural Studies ClassroomNotesWorks CitedIndex