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• Title: Why We should Trust Harriet Beecher Stowe.
• Author : Nineteenth-Century Prose
• Release Date : January 22, 2000
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 201 KB

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I propose in this article to show how these women writers took part in a discourse that most have considered male. The sentimental authors desperately wanted to persuade their audience of their view of the world. To learn how to do this, they looked to a vibrant discipline whose business was persuasion--the discipline of rhetoric and oratory. Largely prevented from speaking in public, barred from the colleges where rhetoric and oratory was formally taught, these "scribbling" women still took up the strategies the rhetoricians of the day counseled. Yet these "scribbling" women were not simply drawing on the work of these men; they managed to do them one better: the sentimental authors offered a solution to a crucial problem in the discipline, a problem that had stymied the professionals. **********

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