Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address

About the Editors Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Political communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 (2001) and co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (2002) and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and US Nationalism (2006). She is the co-editor of Public Address and Moral Judgment: Critical Studies in Ethical Tensions (2009). J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Rhetoric and Co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the Panama Canal In American Politics (1986), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour (2006). He also edited two other volumes, Rhetoric and Community (1998) and Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003). In 2008, Hogan was elected a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.

"On the whole, an indispensable volume for those interested in the history and future of the field. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 May 2011)

• Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivIntroduction: The Study of Rhetoric and Public Address 1Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael HoganPart I The History and Prospects of Rhetoric and Public Address 171 The History of Public Address as an Academic Study 19Martin J. Medhurst2 Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges 67David Zarefsky3 Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method 86Karlyn Kohrs CampbellPart II Basic Research in Rhetoric and Public Address 1094 Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to Our Past, Imagining Our Future 111Davis W. Houck5 The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication 133Robert N. Gaines6 Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records 157Shawn J. Parry-Giles7 From Recovering Women’s Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century 184Susan Zaeske and Sarah JeddPart III Text and Context in Rhetoric and Public Address 2038 The Racial Contexts of Public Address: Interpreting Violence During the Reconstruction Era 205Kirt H. Wilson9 Lilies and Lavatory Paper: The Public and the Private in British Suffrage Archives 229Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp10 Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine’s Progressive-Era Child Labor Rhetoric 250Cara A. Finnegan11 Theory and Public Address: The Allusive Mr. Bush 271John M. MurphyPart IV Questions of Effect in Rhetoric and Public Address 29112 Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Instrumental Effects of Presidential Rhetoric 293Mary E. Stuckey13 Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the “Principles of ’98” 313James Jasinski and Jennifer R. MerciecaPart V The Politics of Rhetoric and Public Address 34314 Feminism and Public Address Research: Television News and the Constitution of Women’s Liberation 345Bonnie J. Dow15 The Problem of Race in Public Address Research: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Conflicted Aesthetics of Race 373Eric King Watts16 Sexuality and Public Address: Rhetorical Pasts, Queer Theory, and Abraham Lincoln 398Charles E. Morris III17 Public Address and the Revival of American Civic Culture 422J. Michael HoganSelect Bibliography 448Index 469