 Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States
Pittsburgh University Press, 2002.
Janet Carey Eldred
and Peter Mortensen
This book 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. |
 Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing
SUNY Press, 1998.
SUNY Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice
Randall Roorda
Roorda brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or ethical purposes of solitude in stories of retreat in nature. This book complicates social views of literacy with depictions of a solitude held in dynamic relation to a not-only-human community. It will inform the efforts of literary critics and writing teachers alike who hope to reintegrate English studies upon ecological terms. |
 The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces
Southern Illinois University Press
Roxanne Mountford
In this feminist investigation into the art of preaching- one of the oldest and least-studied rhetorical traditions- Roxanne Mountford explores the relationship between bodies, space, race, and gender in rhetorical performance and American Protestant culture. Refiguring delivery and physicality as significant components of the rhetorical situation, this book examines the strategies of three contemporary women preachers who have transgressed traditions, rearranged rhetorical space, and conquered gender bias to establish greater intimacy with their congregations. |
 Sentimental Attachments: Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and other Experiments in Composition
Boynton/ Cook Publishers
Janet Carey Eldred
Sentimental Attachments opens and closes with important and passionate arguments about why teachers of composition must also be writers of what Eldred calls “lived experience.” At its center, however, the book offers a series of lyrical, evocative, exploratory essays that address a range of essential and complex questions. Like others who defy the conventional view that we must hold the personal separate from the political-or the professional- Janet Carey Eldred believes that teachers of writing must compose themselves as they help others compose. |