Contents

• Rhetorical education in America (a broad stroke introduction) / Cheryl Glenn
• Pt. I. The implications of rhetorical education
• 1. Rhetoric, the "citizen-orator," and the revitalization of civic discourse in American life / William N. Denman
• 2. Lest we go the way of the classics : toward a rhetorical future for English departments / Thomas P. Miller
• 3. "To get an education and teach my people" : rhetoric for social change / Shirley Wilson Logan
• Pt. II. Rhetorical education in diverse classrooms
• 4. Sew it seams : (a)mending civic rhetorics for our classrooms and for rhetorical history / Jill Swiencicki
• 5. Politics, identity, and the language of Appalachia : James Watt Raine on "mountain speech and song" / Susan Kates
• 6. A "forgotten" location : a rhetorical curriculum in English education / Rich Lane
• Pt. III. Rhetorical education beyond the classroom
• 7. Parlor rhetoric and the performance of gender in postbellum America / Nan Johnson
• 8. Writing history on the landscape : the tour road at the saratoga battlefield as text / S. Michael Halloran
• 9. Transcendence at yellowstone : educating a public in an uninhabitable place / Gregory Clark
• Pt. IV. Rhetorical education : back to the future
• 10. (Re)turning to Aristotle : metaphor and the rhetorical education of students / Sherry Booth and Susan Frisbie
• 11. Cyberliteracy : toward a new rhetorical consciousness / Laura J. Gurak
• Afterword / Wendy B. Sharer and Margaret M. Lyday