SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

Andrea A. Lunsford is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and a member of the faculty of The Bread Loaf Graduate School of English. She has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in writing history and theory, rhetoric, literacy studies, and intellectual property and is the author or co-author of many books and articles, including The Everyday Writer; Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, Everything’s an Argument, Exploring Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies and Writing Matters: Rhetoric in Public and Private Lives. Kirt Wilson’s research moves from African American to presidential rhetoric and from the history of rhetoric to the rhetoric of history. A graduate of Northwestern University, he is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies for the University of Minnesota’s Communication Studies Department.He has won numerous awards from the National Communication Association including the New Investigator Award (2001) and the Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award (2002). His book The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate (2002) published by Michigan State Press won NCA’s Winans-Wichelns Memorial Award (2003) and the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award (2003). In 2004, the University of Minnesota honored professor Wilson with the prestigious McKnight Presidential Fellowship, an honor extended to only three to four tenured associate faculty each year.Kirt Wilson teaches graduate courses on U.S. public discourse, textual criticism and methods, African American civil rights rhetoric, and theories of race, culture, and public memory. Currently, he is working on two book projects. The first investigates the intellectual and conceptual history of “mimesis” or imitation in the nineteenth century and the second is a study of the sentimental aesthetic in contemporary commemorations of the civil rights movement. Rosa A. Eberly, Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the departments of Communication Arts and Sciences and English and Fellow of the Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy at Penn State, is author of CITIZEN CRITICS: LITERARY PUBLIC SPHERES, co-author of THE ELEMENTS OF REASONING (2d ed), and co-editor of A LABORATORY FOR PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, as well as articles on classrooms as protopublic spaces, rhetoric and democracy, and the place of rhetoric in higher education. Before returning to her almissima mater in 2002, Eberly was Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Center at The University of Texas at Austin and affiliated faculty of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation and the program in Technology, Literacy, and Culture. A first-generation college graduate, she is grateful for the many transformative teachers and students who have blessed her life.

"Imagine four separate critical anthologies, all excellent and useful, each devoted to a specialized subject area within a broad disciplinary topic, and each containing a useful survey of the subject′s historical context and intellectual pedigree and a brief introduction to the ensuing articles that demonstrate the current thinking within the field from a variety of useful perspectives. Combine these hypothetical titles into a single volume, add a statement of scope and purpose that combines personal history with an excellent survey of the intellectual and academic milieu out of which the specialized subjects arose, and one has the present title. Lunsford (Stanford), Wilson (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities), and Eberly (Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park) offer 32 chapters in four divisions: "Historical Studies in Rhetoric," "Rhetoric across the Disciplines," "Rhetoric and Pedagogy," and "Rhetoric and Public Discourse." The many contributors remind the reader that rhetoric today is an ever-expanding, inclusive subject best characterized as an interdisciplinary creature ranging freely across (and even beyond) the fields of English, composition and writing, and communications. In its theory and applied practice, rhetoric has become something greater than the Greeks imagined, something better identified as meta-rhetoric, unlimited by its current conception and reevaluation of what "rhetorical" means. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."

• PART I. HISTORICAL STUDIES IN RHETORICIntroduction: Historical and Comparative Rhetorical Studies: Revisionist Methods and Directions - C. Jan Swearingen and Edward Schiappa1. Historiography and the Study of Rhetoric - Arthur E. Walzer and David Beard2. Rhetorical Archaeology: Established Resources, Methodological Tools, and Basic Research Methods - Richard Leo Enos3. Medieval and Renaissance Rhetorical Studies of Women - Christine Mason Sutherland4. Recovering, Revisioning, and Regendering the History of 18th- and 19th-Century Rhetorical Theory and Practice - Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Elizabeth Tasker5. Coping With Modernity: Strategies of 20th-Century Rhetorical Theory - James Arnt Aune6. The Study of Argumentation - Frans H. van Eemeren7. Rhetoric of Religion: A Map of the Territory - Margaret D. Zulick8. Feminist Perspectives on the History of Rhetoric - Kate Ronald9. Recent Advances in Comparative Rhetoric - Sue Hum and Arabella LyonPART II. RHETORIC ACROSS THE DISCIPLINESIntroduction: Rhetoric, Disciplinarity, and Fields of Knowledge - John Lyne and Carolyn R. Miller10. The Rhetoric of the Natural Sciences - Jeanne Fahnestock11. The Rhetoric of Economics - Edward M. Clift12. Rhetoric in Literary Criticism and Theory - Don Bialostosky13. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine - Judy Z. Segal14. Rhetoric and International Relations: More Than ′Cheap Talk′ - Gordon R. Mitchell15. The Rhetoric of Interdisciplinarity: Boundary Work in the Construction of New Knowledge - Julie Thompson KleinPART III. RHETORIC AND PEDAGOGYIntroduction: Rhetoric as Pedagogy - Cheryl Glenn and Martin Carcasson16. Rhetoric and (?) Composition - Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu17. Intercollegiate Debate and Speech Communication: Historical Developments and Issues for the Future - Jarrod Atchison and Ed Panetta18. The Consequences of Rhetoric and Literacy: Power, Persuasion, and Pedagogical Implications - Morris Young and Connie Kendall19. Echoes frmo the Past: Learning How to Listen, Again - Joyce Irene Middleton20. Civic Participation and the Undergraduate Curriculum - Wendy B. Sharer21. Visual Rhetoric and/as Critical Pedagogy - Brian L. Ott and Greg Dickinson22. A Century After the Divorce: Challenges To a Rapprochement Between Speech Communication and English - Roxanne MountfordPART IV. RHETORIC AND PUBLIC DISCOURSEIntroduction: The Common Goods of Public Discourse - Kirt Wilson and Rosa A. Eberly23. History of Public Discourse Studies - David Zarefsky24. Race, Sex, and Class in Rhetorical Criticism - Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Zornitsa D. Keremidchieva25. Rhetoric and Critical Theory: Possibillities for Rapprochement in Public Deliberation - Gerard A. Hauser and Maria T. Hegbloom26. Digital Rhetoric and Public Discourse - Laura J. Gurak and Smiljana Antonijevic27. Arts of Address in Revolutionary America - Stephen Howard Browne28. Explosive Words and Glimmers of Hope: U.S. Public Discourse, 1860-1900 - Angela G. Ray29. For the Common Good: Rhetoric and Discourse Practices in the United States, 1900-1950 - Thomas W. Benson30. Religious Voices in American Public Discourse - James Darsey and Josh Ritter31. Between Touchstones and Touch Screens: What Counts as Contemporary Political Rhetoric? - Vanessa B. Beasley32. Social Movement Rhetoric - Robert Cox and Christina R. Foust