Praising Girls: The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930

(Part of the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series)

by Henrietta Rix Wood

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In Praising Girls, Henrietta Rix Wood explores how ordinary schoolgirls engaged in extraordinary rhetorical activities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Focusing on high school girls' public writing, Wood analyzes newspaper editorials and articles, creative writing projects, yearbook entries, and literary magazines, revealing how young women employed epideictic rhetoric--traditionally used to praise...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0809334429

ISBN13:9780809334421

Release Date:January 2016

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Praising Girls: The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930

(Part of the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series)

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