The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address: (Handbooks in Communication and Media)

The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address is a state-of-the-art companion to the field that showcases both the historical traditions and the future possibilities for public address scholarship in the twenty-first century. Focuses on public address as both a subject matter and a critical perspective Mindful of the connections between the study of public address and the history of ideas Provides an historical overview of public address research and pedagogy, as well as a reassessment of contemporary public address scholarship by those most engaged in its practice Includes in-depth discussions of basic issues and controversies public address scholarship Explores the relationship between the study of public address and contemporary issues of civic engagement and democratic citizenship Reflects the diversity of views among public address scholars, advancing on-going discussions and debates over the goals and character of rhetorical scholarship

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: The Study of Rhetoric and Public Address 1 Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan Part I The History and Prospects of Rhetoric and Public Address 17 1 The History of Public Address as an Academic Study 19 Martin J. Medhurst 2 Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges 67 David Zarefsky 3 Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method 86 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Part II Basic Research in Rhetoric and Public Address 109 4 Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to Our Past, Imagining Our Future 111 Davis W. Houck 5 The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication 133 Robert N. Gaines 6 Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records 157 Shawn J. Parry-Giles 7 From Recovering Women’s Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century 184 Susan Zaeske and Sarah Jedd Part III Text and Context in Rhetoric and Public Address 203 8 The Racial Contexts of Public Address: Interpreting Violence During the Reconstruction Era 205 Kirt H. Wilson 9 Lilies and Lavatory Paper: The Public and the Private in British Suffrage Archives 229 Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp 10 Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine’s Progressive-Era Child Labor Rhetoric 250 Cara A. Finnegan 11 Theory and Public Address: The Allusive Mr. Bush 271 John M. Murphy Part IV Questions of Effect in Rhetoric and Public Address 291 12 Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Instrumental Effects of Presidential Rhetoric 293 Mary E. Stuckey 13 Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the “Principles of ’98” 313 James Jasinski and Jennifer R. Mercieca Part V The Politics of Rhetoric and Public Address 343 14 Feminism and Public Address Research: Television News and the Constitution of Women’s Liberation 345 Bonnie J. Dow 15 The Problem of Race in Public Address Research: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Conflicted Aesthetics of Race 373 Eric King Watts 16 Sexuality and Public Address: Rhetorical Pasts, Queer Theory, and Abraham Lincoln 398 Charles E. Morris III 17 Public Address and the Revival of American Civic Culture 422 J. Michael Hogan Select Bibliography 448 Index 469

About the Author :
About the Editors Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Political communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 (2001) and co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (2002) and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and US Nationalism (2006). She is the co-editor of Public Address and Moral Judgment: Critical Studies in Ethical Tensions (2009). J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Rhetoric and Co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the Panama Canal In American Politics (1986), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour (2006). He also edited two other volumes, Rhetoric and Community (1998) and Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003). In 2008, Hogan was elected a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.

Review :
"On the whole, an indispensable volume for those interested in the history and future of the field. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 May 2011)