“Dear Mr. Blackwell, How He Has Helped!”

Toward an Anatomy of Ally Rhetoric

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ID22248690
AuthorsJ P Hanly (0000-0002-5056-7326, Monmouth University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume23
Issue3
Pages287-315
Publication date2020-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the History of Rhetoric (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2687-8003 • E-ISSN: 2687-8011
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/26878003.2020.1814901
OpenAlexW3132452660
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited66

This article draws on archival research to examine the career of one of the nineteenth-century’s most prominent advocates of woman’s rights, Henry B. Blackwell. Responding to recent calls by feminist historians of rhetoric for studies reexamining collaboration, coalition, and alliance, I engage with and draw on what a wide range of rhetorical scholars and feminist theorists have suggested about how individuals use language to form alliances and foster change to consider why Blackwell’s earliest efforts to speak as an ally were counterproductive and why his later efforts—speaking alongside his wife, Lucy Stone; writing editorials for The Woman’s Journal, and speaking after Stone’s death—might be seen as gesturing toward an anatomy of ally rhetoric

Alliance · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Wife · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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