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DavidGold is an assistant professor of English and composition coordinator at California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, writing, and language and literacy. He is particularly interested in the voices of marginalized rhetors and the intersections between literacy and civic action. His work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, College English, English Journal, Rhetoric Review, and the Writing Instructor as well as in edited collections. “This carefully researched and beautifully written book, packed with fascinating detail, adds significantly to our understanding of ways that writing instruction was delivered in American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. It also invites us to rethink what we are doing in our classrooms today.”—Lucille M. Schultz, author of The Young Composers: Composition’s Beginnings in NineteenthCentury Schools “Rhetoric at the Margins is a major contribution to the field. It offers a historical overview of alternative sites of rhetorical instruction and provides a rich context of these sites and the pedagogies that evolved in these locations.”—Susan Kates, author of Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education, 1885–1937 Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873–1947 examines the rhetorical education of African American , female, and working-class college students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The rich case studies in this work encourage a reconceptualization of both the history of rhetoric and composition and the ways we make use of it. Author David Gold uses archival materials to study three types of institutions historically underrepresented in disciplinary histories: a black liberal arts college in rural east Texas (Wiley College); a public women’s college (Texas Woman’s University); and an independent teacher training school (East Texas Normal College). The case studies complement and challenge previous disciplinary histories and suggest that the epistemological schema that have long applied to pedagogical practices may actually limit our understanding of those practices. DAVID GOLD, an assistant professor of English at California State University , Los Angeles, has published essays in English Journal, College English , CCC, and Rhetoric Review. southern illinois university press 1915 university press drive mail code 6806 carbondale, il 62901 www.siu.edu/~siupress RHETORIC / EDUCATION Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-8093-2834-8 ISBN 978-0-8093-2834-5 ...

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