Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index.

Rhetoric, the "citizen-orator," and the revitalization of civic discourse in American life / William N. Denman -- Is the history of classics a model for the future of English departments? / Thomas P. Miller -- To get an education and teach my people : rhetoric for social change / Shirley Wilson Logan -- Sew it seams : (a)mending civic rhetorics for our classrooms and for rhetorical history / Jill Swiencicki -- Politics, identity, and the language of appalachia : James Watt Raine on "mountain speech and song" / Susan Kates -- A "forgotten" location : a rhetorical curriculum in English education / Rich Lane -- Parlor rhetoric and the performance of gender in postbellum America / Nan Johnson -- Writing history on the landscape : the tour road at the Saratoga Battlefield as text / S. Michael Halloran -- Transcendence at Yellowstone : educating a public in an uninhabitable place / Gregory Clark -- (Re)turning to Aristotle : metaphor and the rhetorical education of students / Sherry Booth and Susan Frisbie -- Cyberliteracy : toward a new rhetorical consciousness / Laura J. Gurak -- Afterword / Wendy Sharer and Margaret Lyday.