Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Writing about Writing. 2. The Eunuch and Vicious Writing -- Pt. 2. Rhetoric for Gentlemen: Advice to Writers in the Age of the Enlightenment. 3. Plain Writing for Science: Advice in the Early Enlightenment. 4. The Rhetorical and Gendered Politics of George Campbell. 5. The Gendered Aesthetics of Enlightenment Rhetoric -- Pt. 3. Composition Texts for Schools. 6. "Doing" Grammar and Learning Latin. 7. Teaching Character in the American Schooltext in the Nineteenth Century. 8. The Modern Composition Text: Organic and Original, Armed and Loaded. 9. Conclusion: Through the Looking Glass
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index