Western Kentucky University
Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Impact of Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe following is an exploration of the use of epideictic rhetoric strategies in nineteenth-century conduct manuals, Sarah Stickney Ellis’s <i>The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits</i>, and Harriet Martineau’s <i>Household Education</i>. In examining the rhetoric of the conduct manuals, this researcher has identified the audience, the rhetorical situation, the exigence of that situation, and the use of <i>phronisis</i>, <i>areti</i>, and <i>euonia</i> by both authors. <br> Because the rhetoric of the conduct manual has not been discussed in current critical perspectives, this research is a starting point for further study. The different types of rhetorical strategies used by each author are the focal points used to uncover how epideictic rhetoric can be understood beyond the restrictions of funeral orations and ceremonial speeches. The primary critical research used in this project has been that focused on epideictic rhetoric and the conduct manuals themselves.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Department of English
- Year
- 2010
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Mattson, Jessica Nicole
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Dr. Jane Fife (Director), Dr. Kelly Reames,Dr. Lloyd Davies
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/204
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-1206