The Eloquence of Mary AstellUniversity of Calgary Press, 2005 - 202 sivua The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the time of the Enlightenment. Here, author Christine Sutherland explores her importance as a rhetorician, an area that has, until recently, received little attention. Astell was widely known and respected during her own time, but her influence and reputation receded in the years after her death. Her importance as an Enlightenment thinker is becoming more and more recognized, however. As a skilled theorist and practitioner of rhetoric, Astell wrote extensively on education, philosophy, politics, religion, and the status of women. She showed that it was possible for a woman to move from the semi-private form of rhetoric represented by conversation and letters into full public participation in philosophical and political debate. |
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... conversation , and conversation is a kind of discourse that has always been practised by women , in which , indeed , they have often surpassed men . If sermo is taken seriously as an essential part of rhetoric , it is obvious that even ...
... conversation rather than on public speaking " ( Donawerth , " As Becomes " 307 ) . Scudéry's " On Conversation " is an especially important document in the history of women's rhetoric . In fact , as Jane Donawerth points out , Scudéry ...
... Conversation . " Donawerth deals most usefully with Astell's rhetoric in this essay . For a good discussion of the importance of conversation in women's rhetoric see Donawerth , " Conversation . " The history of the letter is a ...
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