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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Series Editor’s Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Prologue
  9. Introduction: Beyond Civic Engagement
    1. Genres for Romantic Epistolary Rhetoric
      1. Heteronormative Genre Instruction and Queer Practices
      2. Epistolary Address, Exchange, and Genre-Queer Practices
      3. Romantic Letters as Epistolary Rhetoric
    2. Education, Gender, and Sexuality in the Postal Age
      1. Letter-Writing Instruction during Rhetoric’s Period of Decline
      2. Gender, Letters, and Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rhetoric
      3. Same-Sex Romantic Friendships before Sexual Identity Categories
    3. Expanding Histories of Rhetorical Education for Civic and Romantic Engagement
  10. Chapter 1: “The language of the heart”: Genre Instruction in Heteronormative Relations
    1. Complete Letter Writers
    2. Genre Conventions in Heteronormative Models
      1. Romantic Letters and Writing from the Heart
      2. Epistolary Address and the Gendered Coupling of Romantic Relations
      3. Letter Pacing and the Exercise of Restraint
      4. Rhetorical Purpose and the Marriage Telos
    3. Invention Strategies with Queer Effects
      1. Copying from Others’ Hearts
      2. Category-Crossing Forms of Address
      3. Letter Writing with Urgency and Intensity
      4. Repurposing the Romantic Subgenre
    4. Imagining Letter-Writing Manuals as Pedagogical Failures
  11. Chapter 2: “To address you My Husband”: Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus’s Queer Epistolary Exchange
    1. Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus’s Correspondence
    2. Queering Genre Conventions within Same-Sex Epistolary Rhetoric
      1. Romantic Address across Categories of Gender and Relationship
      2. Epistolary Exchange with Urgency and Intensity
      3. Repurposing to Erotic and Political Ends
    3. Rhetorical Strategies of Invention for Adapting the Language of the Heart
      1. Composing with Language of the Heart from Poetry
      2. Composing about Language of the Heart from the Novel
    4. Reading Romantic Letters as Learned and Crafted Epistolary Rhetoric
  12. Chapter 3: “Somehow or other, queer in the extreme”: Albert Dodd’s Civic Training and Genre-Queer Practices
    1. Albert Dodd’s Multigenre Epistolary Rhetoric
    2. Classically Modeled Rhetorical Education for Civic Engagement
      1. Orientation to Civic Participation
      2. Broad Study of “Rhetorical” and “Literary” Genres
      3. Practice with Oratory and Writing
    3. Genre-Queer Practices for Romantic Engagement
      1. Composing Self-Rhetorics on Literary Representations of Same-Sex Erotic Relations
      2. Shifting Genres from Commonplace Book to Diary
      3. Inventing Romantic Epistolary Address and Exchange through Diary Writing
      4. Mixing Epistolary and Poetic Address and Exchange
    4. Rhetorically Situating Letters within Networks of Related Genres
  13. Conclusion: Toward Queer Failure
  14. Notes
  15. Works Cited
  16. Index

Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age

A Rhetorical Education

Pamela VanHaitsma

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