The nature of Gertrude Buck, professor of English at Vassar College from 1897 until her death in 1922, is well-known to anyone interested in the history of composition. Her writing is less well-known, much of it now out of print. JoAnn Campbell gathers together for the first time the major work of this innovative thinker and educator, including her most important articles on rhetorical theory; "The Social Criticism of Literature," a forerunner of reader-response literary theory; selections from her textbooks on argumentative and expository writing; poetry; fiction; her play "Mother-Love,"...
The nature of Gertrude Buck, professor of English at Vassar College from 1897 until her death in 1922, is well-known to anyone interested in the hi...
