| Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Sex differences; American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women -- Education -- United States; Imagining Rhetoric examines how women's writing developed in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, and how women imagined using their education to further the civic aims of an idealistic new nation. Janet Carey Eldred is associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky. Peter Mortensen, associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is co-editor of Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy. |