Changes in English studies today, particularly the rise of cultural studies, have forced reexaminations of historical genealogies. Three complex figures whose places are currently being reassessed include the Neapolitan Giambattista Vico (1668 1744), the Frenchman Etienne de Condillac (1714 1780), and the Scotsman James Burnet(t), Lord Monboddo (1714 1799) in our histories of communication, linguistics, English studies, and now rhetoric.
In "Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo, " Catherine L. Hobbs focuses primarily on these three key figures in whose...
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Changes in English studies today, particularly the rise of cultural studies, have forced reexaminations of historical genealogies. Three comp...
From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South. Founded primarily as vocational colleges to educate women of modest economic means for life in the emerging new South, these schools soon transformed themselves into comprehensive liberal arts industrial institutions, proving so popular that they became among the largest women s colleges in the nation. In this illuminating volume, David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs examine rhetorical education at all eight of these colleges, providing a better understanding of not...
From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South. Founded primarily a...
