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Abdur-Rahman, Aliyya I.
abolitionism
activism
Adam, Alexander
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeschylus
African Americans, Hartford (CT) community
African American women: citizenship rights denied to; in cross-class relationships; freeborn; historical erasure of; marriage as economic stability for; rhetoric of; scholarship on; sexual stereotypes about. See also Brown, Addie; Brown/Primus correspondence; Primus, Rebecca
Aguilar, Grace
Ahern, Laura
Albert Dodd Papers
Alexander, Jonathan
Ali, Kazim
Althusser, Louis
Altman, Janet
American Lady’s and Gentleman’s Modern Letter Writer, The
American Manhood (Rotundo)
Anabasis (Xenophon)
Anacreon
Anderson, Dana
Anthony, Susan B.
Antigone (Sophocles)
antislavery newpapers
Aristotle
ars dictaminis
Art of Correspondence, The (Locke)
Art of Seduction, The (Greene)
Atchison, R. Jarrod
Atlantic (monthly)
Atwill, Janet

Bakhtin, Mikhail M.
Ballif, Michelle
Bannet, Eve Tavor
Barthes, Roland
baseness
Bates, Catherine
Bazerman, Charles
Beecher, Henry Ward
Beeching, Barbara
Beers, Julia
Belcombe, Mariana
Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends (Griffin)
Bereiter, Carl
Berlant, Lauren
Berlin, James
Bernard, Ben
Bessette, Jean
Bible
Binkley, Roberta
Biographical Notes of Graduates of Yale College (Dexter)
Biographical Record of the Class of 1838 in Yale College
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Blair, Hugh
Bloomington (IL)
Boellstorff, Tom
“bosom sex”
Boureau, Alain
bourgeois logic
Branstetter, Heather Lee
Bray, Joe
Brent, Doug
Brereton, John C.
Brookey, Robert Alan
Brown, Addie; citizenship rights of; death of; family/education of; financial situation of; “language of the heart” adapted by; marriage of; political commentary of; queer rhetorical practices of; romantic relationships of. See also Brown/Primus correspondence
Brown/Primus correspondence; archival holdings of; author’s research on; complete letter writers and; cross-category romantic epistolary address in; duration of; genre conventions used in; interpretive difficulty of; invention strategies with queer effects; pacing/intensity of; postal age and; queer failure and; queer rhetorical practices in; scholarship on; spelling/punctuation in
Bruce, Emily C.
Buchanan, Lindal
Bunkers, Suzanne L.
Burke, Edmund
Burke, Kenneth
Butler, Judith
BuzzFeed
Byron, Lord

capitalism, late
Captivi (Plautus)
Carmichael, James V., Jr.
Carr, Allison D.
Carr, Edwin Hamlin
Carr, Jean Ferguson
Carr, Stephen
Carstarphen, Meta G.
Carter, Julian
Castiglia, Christopher
Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College, 1836–37
Cavallaro, Alexandra J.
Certeau, Michel de
Charland, Maurice
Chartier, Roger
Chávez, Karma R.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
Chesterfield’s Art of Letter Writing Simplified; invention strategies taught in; “miscellaneous” letters in; popularity of
Chinese women
Cicero
cisgender normativity
citizenship
civic engagement: queer failure and; rhetorical education for; rhetoric and; romantic engagement vs.
civic/romantic distinction, queering of
civil rights
Civil War
Clark, Gregory
class
Cloud, Dana
Collectanea Graeca Minora (Dalzel)
Collins, Patricia Hill
colonialism
commonplace books. See also Dodd, Albert, and commonplace book/diary of
comparison
Complete American Letter-Writer, The
Complete Art of Polite Correspondence, The
Complete Letter Writer, The
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Composition-Rhetoric (Connors)
composition textbooks
Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford, CT)
Connors, Robert
Conquergood, Dwight
Conrad, Ryan
Constable, Nicole
Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
Cook, Marion Belden
copying
copyright laws
“coquette” (literary figure)
Cott, Nancy
courtship: evolving definition of; in marriage telos; pacing/intensity of; rhetoric of
courtship letter
Cox, Matthew B.
Cram, E.
critical imagination
“crush notes”
cryptograms
cultural context

Dalzel, A.
dating sites/apps
Dauphin, Cecile
Davidson, Cathy N.
Day, Jeremiah
debates
deception
Decker, William Merrill
declamations
definition
delivery
Demosthenes
Denman, William
De Oratore (Cicero)
Depew, David
Derrida, Jacques
Devitt, Amy
Dexter, Franklin
diaries: defined; generic shifts using; interpretive difficulty of; rhetorical education and; rhetoricity of; scholarship on; sharing
Dickinson, Anna
Dickinson, Emily
Dickinson, Susan Gilbert
Diggs, Marylynn
digital age
digression
Dinshaw, Carolyn
Dodd, Albert; archival holdings of; author’s research on; birth of; civic orientation of; death of; epistolary rhetoric of, as “everyday,”; extracurricular activities of; familial correspondence of; genre awareness of; heterosexual romantic relationships of; multigenre epistolary rhetoric of; poetry album of; queer failure and; Page 154 →queer rhetorical practices of; rhetorical education of; romantic relationships of; same-sex romantic relationships of; scholarship on; suspension period of
Dodd, Albert, and commonplace book/diary of: digitalization of; in Dodd archival holdings; early writings in; as genre-crossing text; genre-queer practices for romantic engagement in; male/female romantic interests recorded in; rhetorical education detailed in; rhetorical precedents for; scholarship on; self-censorship in
Dodd, Albert, and genre-queer practices for romantic engagement: commonplace book/diary as enactor of romantic epistolary rhetoric; commonplace book/diary shift; epistolary/poetic address/exchange mixed; rhetorical education repurposed for; self-rhetorics of literary representations of same-sex erotic relationships
Dodd, Edward
Dodd, Julius
Donawerth, Jane
“Don Juan” (poem; Byron)
Douglas, Alfred
Douglass, Frederick
Doyle, Peter
Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man (Fay)
Driskill, Qwo-Li
Duggan, Lisa
Dunn, Thomas R.
Düttmann, Alexander García

Edelman, Lee
education; democratization of. See also rhetorical education
Electra (Sophocles)
Elizabethan language/literature
Ellsworth (legal scholar)
elocutionary manuals
elopements
Elshtain, Jean Bethke
Eng, David
engagement: broken; in marriage telos
Enlightenment
Enoch, Jessica
Enos, Richard
epistle verse
“Epistolary” (poem; Dodd)
epistolary address, gendered. See also romantic epistolary address
epistolary culture
Epistolary Guide, The
epistolary logic
epistolary novels
epistolary rhetoric: of “everyday” people; gender and; instruction in principles of, in manuals; of literary/political figures; multigenre; romantic letters as; same-sex; Western histories of
epistolary writing
Erasmus
erotic interactions
Ethical Slut, The
etiquette guides
Euripides
Everyday Ideas (Zboray and Zboray)
exhibitions
extramarital affairs

Facebook
Faderman, Lillian
failure. See also queer failure
Faris, Michael J.
Farrar, Eliza Ware Rotch
Fashionable American Letter Writer, The: contents/organization of; invention strategies taught in; “language of the heart” in; Page 155 →marriage telos in; popularity of; social conventions modeled in
Fashioning Lives (Pritchard)
Father’s Legacy to His Daughters, A (Gregory)
Favret, Mary
Fay, Theodore Sedgwick
Fell, Jesse W.
feminist rhetorical scholarship
feminist theory
Ferguson, Roderick A.
Filipinas
flattery
flirtation
Folsom, Charles
Fone, Byrne
Foucault, Michel
France, Peter
Fraser, Nancy
Freccero, Carla
Freeman, Elizabeth
Frost’s Original Letter-Writer (Shields)
futurism, reproductive

Gage, John
Gannett, Cinthia
Ganymede myth
Garlinger, Patrick Paul
Garnett, Henry Highland
Gaul, Theresa Strouth
Gay, Peter
gay relationships
gender; deception/flattery and; letter-writing and; queer practices involving crossing of; racialization of; romantic epistolary address and; romantic relationships and
Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866–1910 (Johnson)
gender performativity
genre instruction: heteronormative; in pacing/intensity; queer practices and; in rhetorical purpose; in romantic epistolary address; romantic letters learned through
genre-queer texts
Gere, Anne Ruggles
Gibson, Michelle
Gillett (Yale student)
Gilroy, Amanda
Glenn, Cheryl
globalization
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Godey’s Lady’s Book (Leslie); authorship of, (Pref.); digital-age imagining of; marriage telos in; queer failure and; readership of; romantic epistolary rhetoric instruction in
Gold, David
Goltz, Dustin Bradley
Gonçalves, Zan Meyer
Goodrich, Chauncey A.
Goodrich Family Papers
Google
Gorgias (Plato)
gossip
Grasso, Linda
Greco-Roman literature
Greek Anthology
Greek Grammar (Goodrich)
Greene, Robert
Gregory, John
Griffin, Cindy L.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine
Gring-Pemble, Lisa M.
Gross, Daniel M.
Gunderson, Erik

Halberstam, Jack
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Hallmark
Halloran, S. Michael
Halsey, Anthony
Hansen, Karen
Hardie, James
Harris, Sharon
Harrison, Kimberly
Harrison, Renee
Hartford (CT). See also Washington College (Hartford, CT)
Hartford Freedmen’s Aid Society
hastiness, precautions against
Hauser, Gerard
Heath, John
Hebe and Ganymede (medieval poem)
Henkin, David
Hesford, Wendy
heteronormativity; failure of; genre instruction based in; heterosexuality vs; marriage telos and; queer challenges to; “racialized,”; use of term
heterosexuality: heteronormativity vs; “national,”; normalization of
Hewitt, Elizabeth
Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms
historical erasure (Ch. 2)
historiography
History of Sexuality, The (Foucault)
Hoang Nguyen, Tan
Homer
homoeroticism
homonormativity
Horace
Hoshor, John P.
How to Write Letters (Westlake)
Hunt, Violet

Iliad (Homer)
Illinois State Legislature
immigrants
In a Queer Time and Place (Halberstam)
Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Online Dating, The
interdisciplinary studies
Internet
invention strategies with queer effects: category-crossing address forms; copying/adaptation and; “language of the heart” adaptations from novels; “language of the heart” adaptations from poetry; pacing/intensity; repurposing and
Invitations to Love (Ahern)
Irish immigrants
Isocrates
Italian immigrants

Jagose, Annamarie
Jasinski, James
Johnson, Andrew
Johnson, Nan
Jones, Constance
journals

Kames, Henry Home, Lord
Kates, Susan
Katz, Jonathan
Kauffman, Linda
Kelley, William
Kirsch, Gesa E.
Kitzhaber, Albert
Kopelson, Karen

“language of the heart,”; copying/adaptation of; deception/flattery and; invention strategies with novels; invention strategies with poetry; romantic letters as composed using
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Latin Grammar (Andrews and Stodard)
Lawton, Charles
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Blair)
Lee, Mr. (Brown suitor)
lesbian relationships
Leslie, Miss (Pref.)
letter(s): defined; familial; gender and; genre-queer practices involving; as historical sources; interpretations of; model, in manuals; as “open closets,”; rhetorics of; scholarship on; Western histories of; writing instruction, during postal age. See also epistolary rhetoric; romantic letters
letter-writing manuals. See complete letter writers
Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present (Poster and Mitchell)
Letter-Writing Simplified
LGBTQ people
liberal assimilationism
Lifehack
Lincoln, Abraham
Lipari, Lisbeth
Lipson, Carol
Lister, Anne
literacy
literature: Greco-Roman; self-rhetorics of representations of same-sex erotic relationships in. See also novel; poetry
Livy (Folsom)
Locke, John
Logan, Shirley Wilson
Loomis, Henry
Lorde, Audre
Love @ First Click
Love of Friends, The (ed. Jones)
Lystra, Karen

Mahoney, Deirdre M.
“mail order” companies
Malinowitz, Harriet
Man Talk: The Gay Couple’s Communication Guide
Marinara, Martha
marriage, civil rights via
marriage telos; elopements and; heteronormativity and; queer failure and; queer repurposing and; as rhetorical purpose of romantic letters; same-sex romantic relationships and; “straight time” and
Masten, Jeffrey
McCarthy, Molly
Meem, Deborah
meta-commentary
Miller, Carolyn
Miller, Susan
Mitchell, Charles B.
Mitchell, Linda C.
Monson, Connie
Montague, Mary Wortley
Morgan, Elizabeth
Morris, Charles E.
Morris, George Pope
Muñoz, José Esteban
Murphy, James

Narayan, Madhu
National Theatre (New York, NY)
nation and sexuality
Natural Letter-Writer, The (Shepard)
Nealon, Christopher S.
New Haven (CT)
Newman, Samuel
New Parlor Letter Writer, The
New York (NY)
New Yorker
New York Mirror
Nietz, John
Nietz Collection (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
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“‘No Kisses Is Like Yours’” (Hansen)
nonmonogamous relations
novel: epistolary; “language of the heart” adaptations from

Olbrechts-Tyteca, Lucie
Olson, Christa J.
Olson, Lester C.
online dating
Online Dating for Dummies
oral dialogues
oratory
Ovid

Parlour Letter-Writer, The (Turner)
pedagogy: cultural significance of; “failure” of; queer failure and; shaping of subjects through; writing
pederasty
Peiss, Kathy Lee
Pennington, James
Perelman, Chaïm
periodical articles
Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That Last
Phaedrus (Plato)
Plato
Plato, Ann
Plautus
Pocket Letter Writer, The
“poetique”
poetry: in complete letter writers; genre-queer practices involving; homoerotic; “language of the heart” adaptations from
political/personal distinction, queering of
politics
Postal Act (1845)
Postal Act (1851)
postal age: defined; letters as historical sources for; letter-writing and women’s rhetoric during; letter-writing instruction during,; same-sex romantic friendships during; scholarship on
Poster, Carol
Post Office Act (1792)
Pough, Gwendolyn
Poulakis, Takis
Powell, Malea
Practical Letter Writing (Loomis)
Practical System of Rhetoric, A (Newman)
Primus, Rebecca; citizenship rights of; envelope notations of; family/education of; letters to family from; marriage of; Maryland teaching job of; political commentary of; queer rhetorical practices of; romantic relationships of. See also Brown/Primus correspondence
Primus Family Papers
Prince Hall Masonic Lodge (Hartford, CT)
print culture
Pritchard, Eric Darnell (Ch. 1), (Ch. 2)
Prometheus (Aeschylus)
proposals
psychoanalytic theory
public/private distinction: Brown/Primus correspondence and; oversimplification of; queering of; queer/feminist scholarship on
public speaking
Putnam’s Phrase Book (E. Carr)

“queer” as term: “same-sex” vs; use of
Queer Art of Failure, The (Halberstam)
“queer effect”. See also invention strategies with queer effects
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queer gossip
queer historiography
queer liberalism
queer politics
queer rhetorical practices; cross-category romantic epistolary address; defined; epistolary exchanges with urgency/intensity; generic categories and; repurposing to erotic/political ends
queer rhetorical scholarship
queer studies
queer temporality
queer theory
“queer time”
Quinn, D. Michael
Quintilian

race: complete letter writers and; cross-race erotic interactions; historical erasure and, invention strategies with queer effects and; “restorative literacies” and; rhetorical education and
“racialized heteronormativity”
racial politics
“rake” (literary figure)
Rand, Erin J.
Rawson, K. J.
Reconstruction Era
Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships
Reed, Christopher
Renaissance
reproductive futurism
“restorative literacies”
restraint, studied
“Reveries by Night” (poem; Fay)
rhetoric: civic engagement and; college-level training in; constitutive; of courtship; defined; of diaries; feminist histories of; Greco-Roman tradition of; historians of; homoeroticism and; instruction in principles of, in manuals; present-day; queer scholarship on; as seduction; Western histories of; women’s, and letter-writing; written vs. oral
rhetorical education: British/Scottish works in; for civic engagement; “classicist stance” on; commonplace books and; defined; delivery; diaries and; expanded view of; feminist histories of; future studies on; Greco-Roman tradition of; histories of; in oratory; during postal age; queer failure and; queer reconception of; repurposing of; for romantic engagement; scholarship on; in writing
rhetorical purpose: queer repurposing to erotic ends; queer repurposing to political ends
rhetorical thinking
Rhetoric of Rebel Women, The (K. Harrison)
rhetoric textbooks
Rhodes, Jacqueline
Richardson, Elaine
Robb, Graham
Robinson, Paul
Roman Antiquities (Adam)
Romance on a Global Stage (Constable)
romantic engagement: civic engagement vs; rhetorical education for; rhetorical practices of; use of term
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romantic epistolary rhetoric: address and; author’s research on; civic dimensions of; commonplace understandings of; complete letter writers and instruction in; defined; digital-age instruction in; Godey’s Lady’s Book as cautionary tale about; “language of the heart” and; learning/practice of; pacing of; queer practices in; repurposed to nonnormative ends; same-sex; scholarship on
romantic friendships; debates about; erotic interactions and; of “everyday” people; histories of; of literary/political figures; same-sex, during postal age. See also Brown/Primus correspondence
Romanticism
romantic letters: author’s research on; commonplace understandings of; complete letter writers and instruction in; courtship; dating; digital-age instruction in; as epistolary rhetoric; heteronormative conception of; interpretive difficulty of; “language of the heart” and; learning of, through genre instruction; marriage telos as rhetorical purpose for; model, in manuals; pacing of; repurposed to nonnormative ends; as rhetorical practices; “skeletons” of; timelessness of
romantic relationships: cross-class; gendering of; normative temporality for; same-class
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Rotundo, E. Anthony
Royal Oak (MD)
Royster, Jacqueline Jones
Ruberg, Willemijn
Rufo, Kenneth
Rules for Online Dating, The

Sallust
salutation lines
same-sex epistolary rhetoric
same-sex romantic friendships; code-writing about; local contexts of; during postal age
same-sex romantic relationships: gay/lesbian; literary representations of. See also under Dodd, Albert
Sappho
schools, common
Schultz, Lucille M.
seduction
self-censorship
self-education
self-rhetorics: defined; of literary representations of same-sex erotic relationships
sentimental literature
sexual identity
sexuality; black women’s; historiography of; national; overfocus on, in letters; queer rhetorical scholarship on; same-sex romantic friendships
Shepard, Sylvanus
Shields, Sarah Annie Frost. See also Frost’s Original Letter-Writer (Shields)
Singer, Margot
Sinor, Jennifer
Sjöblad, Christina
Skull and Bones (Yale secret society)
slave narratives
Sloop, John M.
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Smith-Rosenberg, Caroll
Snapchat
social media
sophistry
Sophocles
Southey, Robert
speeches
Speed, Joshua
Spring, Suzanne B.
Stillman K. Wightman Papers
St. Louis (MO)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
“straight time”: defined; heteronormative genre instruction and; heteronormative relationship development according to; invention strategies subverting; queer failure and
Stryker, Susan
Symposium (Plato)

Tacitus
Talcott Street Congregational Church (Hartford, CT)
Teaching Queer (Waite)
temporality: normative; queer. See also “straight time”
Tender Passion, The (Gay)
Thomas, Charles
Thomas, Kate
Tinder
Tines, Joseph
“To Elizabeth” (poem; Dodd)
transportation
Trasciatti, Mary Anne
Trimble (Tennessee colonel)
Trinity College (Hartford, CT). See also Washington College (Hartford, CT)
Turner, R.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
United States: liberal assimilationism in; “national heterosexuality” in
University of Pittsburgh
Useful Letter-Writer, The

Van Buren, Martin
VanHaitsma, Pamela
Verhoeven, W. M.
Very Social Time, A (Hansen)
Vicinus, Martha
Virgil
vulgarity

Waite, Stacey
Walker, Jeffrey
Walker, Nicole
Wallace, David
Walzer, Arthur
Wan, Amy
Warner, Michael
Washington College (Hartford, CT): commonplacing at; Dodd multigenre epistolary rhetoric developed at; Dodd rhetorical education at; Dodd suspended while at
Watts, Eric King
Webster, Daniel
Westlake, James Willis
Whitbread, Helena
White, David
whiteness
Whitman, Walt
Wightman, Stillman
wikiHow
Wilchins, Riki
Wilde, Oscar
Willis, Nathaniel Parker
women. See also African American women
Women’s Friendship (Aguilar)
women’s rhetoric
women’s schools
Woolverton, John
writing instruction

Xenophon

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Yale Literary Magazine
Yale University; Library
Young Lady’s Friend, The (Farrar)
Youth’s Letter-Writer, The (Farrar)

Zboray, Mary Saracino
Zboray, Ronald
Zeus/Ganymede myth
Zion Methodist Church (Hartford, CT)
Zwagerman, Sean

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