... the production of elocutionary manuals intended for women throughout the 18 th and 19 th centuries. Thus Wollstonecraft and her Female Reader were significant in establishing a tradition of women's participation in rhetorical theory and pedagogy. elocution Mary Wollstonecraft eighteenth-century England...

...Thomas O. Sloane The similarity between elocution and New Criticism in method of analysis, or hermeneutics, seems patent: because elocutionists taught reading aloud, they necessarily considered a text word by word; New Critics revolutionized literary study through a similar if more sophisticated...

... Higgons, Rhodri Lewis, James McLaverty, and Marcus Walsh, who have given invaluable advice during the preparation of this article. © 2012 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. 2012 Elocution hypocrisy pride pulpit Shaftesbury Paddy Bullard...

... the faculties of the imagination and taste. These contexts, I argue, are essential to understanding the social and ethical claims the elocutionists made to support the revival of elocution and to understanding how they perceived their own practices. I would like to thank Heather Brodie Graves and the two...