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Part I Rhetorical Agendas --chapter 1 Rhetorics Fast and Slow /Lester L. Faigley --chapter 2 Moral Vernaculars and Rhetorics of Conscience /Gerard A. Hauser --chapter 3 Rudolph Agricola's Contribution to Rhetorical Theory /Peter Mack --chapter 4 Responsible Citizenship: Ethos, Action and the Voices of African American Women --part II History --chapter 5 The Centrality of Ethos in Eighteenth-Century Methodist Preaching --chapter 6 Between Iconophilia and Iconophobia: Milton's Areopagitica and Seventeenth-Century Visual Culture --chapter 7 Vico's Institutiones Oratoriae: Acumen, Memory, and the Imaginative Universals --chapter 8 The Spiritual and Secular Rhetoric of Happiness in Joseph Smith and John Stuart Mill --chapter 9 Nooses and Neck Verses: The Life and Death Consequences of Literacy Testing --chapter 10 Campbell's View of Argument as Comparison Advances His Religious Agenda --part III Theory --chapter 11 Aristotle, Kenneth Burke, and the Transubstantiation of Place /Jerry Blitefield --chapter 12 Private Commitments and Public Rhetoric: Implications for Ethical Practice --chapter 13 Reading Talmud: Levinas and the Possibility of Rhetoric /Richard R. Glejzer --chapter 14 Rhetoric and Political Economy at the Aesthetic Nexus: A Study of Archbishop Whately --chapter 15 White Space as Rhetorical Space: Usability and Image in Electronic Texts --chapter 16 On a Rhetorical Techne of the Moral-Emotions /Ellen Quandahl --chapter 17 Language's Duality and the Rhetorical Problem of Music /Thomas Rickert --chapter 18 The Scientific Media Hoax: A Rhetoric for Reconciling Linguistics and Literary Criticism --part IV Pedagogy --chapter 19 Serving Academic Capitalism: The Cultural Function of Community-Based Partnerships --chapter 20 Progymnasmata, Then and Now /Christy Desmet --chapter 21 The Traditional Made New: Jasinski's Sourcebook on Rhetoric /David Henry --chapter 22 Electronic Versions of Collaborative Pedagogy: A Brief Survey /Mara Holt --chapter 23 Reclaiming Hybridity: How One Filipino American Counterpublic Hybridizes Academic Discourse --chapter 24 Public Portals, Catholic Walls: Teacher Training and the Liberal Arts at Two Western Massachusetts Colleges for Women in the 1930s, the College of Our Lady of the Elms and the State Teachers College at Westfield --part V Publics --chapter 25 Rhetorical Landscapes and Religious Identity /Gregory D. Clark --chapter 26 The Doxicon: Image, Strategy, and the Undoing of Consent /Dana L. Cloud --chapter 27 Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers --chapter 28 The Political Unconscious of Rhetoric: The Case of the Master-Planned Community --chapter 29 Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction Here? Violence, Blowback and the Rhetorical Agenda of WMDs --chapter 30 Emotion and Community Rhetorics: Victim Impact Statements as Cultural Pedagogy --chapter 31 Rhetorically Contained: The Construction and Incorporation of Difference in Will and Grace --chapter 32 When Agonism Is Agony: Thomas Sloane, Controversia, and Political Discourse --chapter 33 Humanism and Cold War Rhetoric: The Ambiguous Rhetorical Legacy of Niels Bohr --part VI Gender --chapter 34 The Persuasion of Esther: A Nun's Model of Silent, Seductive, Violent Rhetoric --chapter 35 Classical Rhetoric and Nineteenth-Century American Clubwomen: Parallels of Feminist Rhetorics, Civic Reform, and Spiritual Agendas --chapter 36 "Feeling" Sentimental: Politicizing Race and Gender in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl --chapter 37 Using the Needle as a Sword: Needlework as Epideictic Rhetoric in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union --chapter 38 Beyond Opposition: Reconceptualizing Social Movements Through the Spiritual and Imaginative Rhetorics of This Bridge Called My Back and this bridge we call home --chapter 39 The Perfected Mother: Listening, Ethos, and Identification in Cases of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome --chapter 40 Margaret Fell and the Problem of Women's Ethos /Christine Mason Sutherland. This edited collection offers a broad consideration of contemporary rhetorical scholarship, tied to political, ethical, and spiritual themes. Originating from the 2004 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, the contents of this volume reflects the conference themes of rhetorical agendas in current theory and research. The volume starts off with transcripts of the talks presented by the conference's featured speakers. The essays that follow are organized around five key topics: history, theory, pedagogy, publics, and gender. These chapters address subjects ranging from religious identit
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