Description:
Reframing Rhetorical History challenges traditional approaches to the study of rhetoric by offering fresh, innovative perspectives on how rhetorical history is constructed, interpreted, and taught. Bringing together critical theory and historiographical inquiry, the authors explore how power, identity, and representation shape the narratives scholars tell about communication and public discourse. By examining overlooked voices and proposing new methodological frameworks, this work redefines the boundaries of rhetorical scholarship. Ideal for advanced students and researchers, this book opens new pathways for understanding rhetoric's role in shaping both past and present cultural conversations.
Review Quotes:
"Reframing Rhetorical History is a thoughtful and dynamic text, one that explores everything from the promise of digital humanities to shifting conceptions of the archive, breathing new life into canonical concepts and laying the groundwork for research yet to be conducted in the coming decades." --Jeffrey A. Bennett, author of Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease and Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance
"Reframing Rhetorical History explicates the history of rhetoric as a discipline, engages with history as rhetoric, and explores rhetorical history as practice. Various chapters detail the intersections of history and rhetoric across the US and internationally, in digital and traditional contexts, in terms of culture and identity, and with specific applications to pedagogy. It is a must-read volume for anyone interested in politics, history, rhetoric, and the connections among and between them. It is useful to scholars and to students, and will be invaluable in graduate and undergraduate classrooms."--Mary E. Stuckey, author of Deplorable: The Worst Presidential Campaigns from Jefferson to Trump