Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Impact of Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals

The following is an exploration of the use of epideictic rhetoric strategies in nineteenth-century conduct manuals, Sarah Stickney Ellis’s The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits, and Harriet Martineau’s Household Education. In examining the rhetoric of the conduct manuals, thi...

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Main Author: Mattson, Jessica Nicole
Format: Others
Published: TopSCHOLAR® 2010
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/204
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1206&context=theses