The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address
Malden, MA et al.: Wiley-Blackwell (2010), xv, 478 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 448-468, index
Series: Handbooks in Communication and Media
ISBN 978-1-4051-7813-6 (hbk)
"The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address is a state-of-the-art companion to the field that showcases both the historical traditions and the future possibilities for public address scholarship in the twenty-first century. It focuses on public address as both a subject matter and a critical perspective; mindful of the connections between the study of public address and the history of ideas; provides an historical overview of public address research and pedagogy, as well as a reassessment of contemporary public address scholarship by those most engaged in its practice; includes in-depth discussions of basic issues and controversies public address scholarship; explores the relationship between the study of public address and contemporary issues of civic engagement and democratic citizenship; reflects the diversity of views among public address scholars, advancing on-going discussions and debates over the goals and character of rhetorical scholarship." (Publisher description)
Introduction: The Study of Rhetoric and Public Address / Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan, 1
PART I: THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
1 The History of Public Address as an Academic Study / Martin J. Medhurst, 19
2 Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges / David Zarefsky, 67
3 Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, 86
PART II: BASIC RESEARCH IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
4 Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to Our Past, Imagining Our Future / Davis W. Houck, 111
5 The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication / Robert N. Gaines, 133
6 Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records / Shawn J. Parry-Giles, 157
7 From Recovering Women's Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century / Susan Zaeske and Sarah Jedd, 184
PART III: TEXT AND CONTEXT IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
8 The Racial Contexts of Public Address: Interpreting Violence During the Reconstruction Era / Kirt H. Wilson, 205
9 Lilies and Lavatory Paper: The Public and the Private in British Suffrage Archives / Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, 229
10 Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine's Progressive-Era Child Labor Rhetoric / Cara A. Finnegan, 250
11 Theory and Public Address: The Allusive Mr. Bush / John M. Murphy, 271
PART IV: QUESTIONS OF EFFECT IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
12 Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Instrumental Effects of Presidential Rhetoric / Mary E. Stuckey, 293
13 Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98" / James Jasinski and Jennifer R. Mercieca, 313
PART V: THE POLITICS OF RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
14 Feminism and Public Address Research: Television News and the Constitution of Women's Liberation / Bonnie J. Dow, 345
15 The Problem of Race in Public Address Research: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Conflicted Aesthetics of Race / Eric King Watts, 373
16 Sexuality and Public Address: Rhetorical Pasts, Queer Theory, and Abraham Lincoln / Charles E. Morris III, 398
17 Public Address and the Revival of American Civic Culture / J. Michael Hogan, 422
PART I: THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
1 The History of Public Address as an Academic Study / Martin J. Medhurst, 19
2 Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges / David Zarefsky, 67
3 Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, 86
PART II: BASIC RESEARCH IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
4 Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to Our Past, Imagining Our Future / Davis W. Houck, 111
5 The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication / Robert N. Gaines, 133
6 Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records / Shawn J. Parry-Giles, 157
7 From Recovering Women's Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century / Susan Zaeske and Sarah Jedd, 184
PART III: TEXT AND CONTEXT IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
8 The Racial Contexts of Public Address: Interpreting Violence During the Reconstruction Era / Kirt H. Wilson, 205
9 Lilies and Lavatory Paper: The Public and the Private in British Suffrage Archives / Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, 229
10 Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine's Progressive-Era Child Labor Rhetoric / Cara A. Finnegan, 250
11 Theory and Public Address: The Allusive Mr. Bush / John M. Murphy, 271
PART IV: QUESTIONS OF EFFECT IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
12 Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Instrumental Effects of Presidential Rhetoric / Mary E. Stuckey, 293
13 Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98" / James Jasinski and Jennifer R. Mercieca, 313
PART V: THE POLITICS OF RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
14 Feminism and Public Address Research: Television News and the Constitution of Women's Liberation / Bonnie J. Dow, 345
15 The Problem of Race in Public Address Research: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Conflicted Aesthetics of Race / Eric King Watts, 373
16 Sexuality and Public Address: Rhetorical Pasts, Queer Theory, and Abraham Lincoln / Charles E. Morris III, 398
17 Public Address and the Revival of American Civic Culture / J. Michael Hogan, 422
