Southern Illinois University Press Spring and Summer 2017
Table of Contents By Author
Arnett, Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics................................................9 Baggott, Instructions, Abject & Fuming............................................................................................................................................2 Borzo, Chicago’s Fabulous Fountains................................................................................................................................................1 Dekle, Prairie Defender: The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln...................................................................................................7 Dirck, Lincoln in Indiana.........................................................................................................................................................................8 Flannery, Civil War Pharmacy: A History, second edition.............................................................................................................6 Fornieri/Gabbard, Lincoln’s America: 1809–1865.......................................................................................................................11 Glenn/Mountford, Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century: Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics..........9 Goldthwaite, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics.....................................................................................................................................10 Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas...................................................................................................................................11 Harris, Lincoln and Congress...............................................................................................................................................................8 Horrell/Piper/Voigt, Land Between the Rivers: The Southern Illinois Country...................................................................12 Huntington, Terra Nova........................................................................................................................................................................3 Kokai, Swim Pretty: Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature..........................................10 Krohe, Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves: A Plain-Spoken History of Mid-Illinois..............................................................5 Lindberg, The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago’s Democratic
Machine......................................................................................................................................................................................................11
Mohlenbrock, Flowering Plants: Magnolias to Pitcher Plants...................................................................................................11 Rock, Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello: Reflections on Twenty-Two Years in the Illinois Senate........................................12 Shanahan, Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing...............................................................................................................4 Snyder, The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome............................................................12
By Subject
Chicago........................................................1, 11
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CHICAGO/ARCHITECTURE
Chicago’s Fabulous Fountains Greg Borzo, Photographs by Julia Thiel
Foreword by Geoffrey Baer, Preface by Debra Shore Celebrating the panoply of fountains in the Windy City
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“As this book demonstrates, [Chicagoans] certainly have a love affair with fountains. And this is the book fountain lovers have been waiting for.” —Geoffrey Baer, Program Host and Producer, WTTW Channel 11 Chicago, from the foreword
Most people do not realize it, but Chicago
plaza fountains, and park and parkway
is home to many diverse, artistic, fascinat-
fountains. Among the iconic fountains de-
ing, and architecturally and historically im-
scribed are Buckingham (in Grant Park),
portant fountains. In this attractive volume,
Crown (in Millennium Park), Centennial
Greg Borzo reveals more than one hundred
(with its water cannonade shooting over
outdoor public fountains of Chicago with
the Chicago River), and two fountains
noteworthy, amusing, or surprising stories
designed by famed sculptor Lorado Taft
about these gems. Complementing Bor-
(Time and Great Lakes). Plazas all around
zo’s engagingly written text are around one
Chicago—in the neighborhoods as well
hundred beautiful fine-art color photos of
as downtown—have fountains that an-
the fountains, taken by photographer Julia
chor communities or enhance the sky-
Thiel for this book, and a smaller number
scrapers they adorn. Also presented are
of historical photos.
the fountains in Chicago’s parks, some
Greg Borzo begins by providing an
designed by renowned artists and many
overview of Chicago’s fountains and dis-
often overlooked or taken for granted. A
cussing the oldest ones, explaining who
beautiful photography book and a guide to
built them and why, how they survived
the city’s many fountains, Chicago’s Fab-
as long as they have, and what they tell
ulous Fountains also provides fascinating
us about early Chicago. At the heart
histories and behind-the-scenes stories
of the book are four thematic chapters
of these underappreciated artistic and
on drinking fountains, iconic fountains,
architectural treasures of the Windy City.
Greg Borzo is an award-winning journalist, an editor, and the author of The Chicago “L,” Chicago Cable Cars, and other books about Chicago, where he has lived most of his life.
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POETRY
Instructions, Abject & Fuming Poems by Julianna Baggott
A bold and unforgiving look at love, faith, and contemporary America
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry—Editor’s Selection
Instructions Abject & Fuming
In this inventive collection, Julianna
poems reflect questions and consid-
Baggott invites readers to reconsider
erations of faith: the speaker ponders
basic assumptions about language,
St. Thomas in a pet store and imagines
faith, motherhood, and love. With a
Jesus explaining to God how it feels to
sharply honed voice featuring paren-
have a body.
theticals that often comment on and
Baggott’s use of obsolete Old
sometimes undercut what has come
English words subverts common lan-
before, these poems whirl through
guage and creates new ways of inter-
contemporary America, engaging with
rogating the world around us. There is
topics as diverse and timely as Russian
heartache on these pages, but Baggott
mail-order brides, Internet bullying,
also offers humor, such as a complaint
and school shootings.
about a lover’s eating habits or an ex-
Alongside her cultural commen-
tended discourse on a baby’s rattle.
tary, the speaker frankly confronts
Baggott’s latest proves to be a rollick-
love and sex, as well as the beauty and
ing book sui generis.
brutality of having children. Still other
Julianna Baggott is the author of over twenty books, three of which are
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“Julianna Baggott has always been a poet of inventiveness and sly self-appraisal, and these qualities are abundantly evident in her new collection, which is her best thus far. . . . During an era of lukewarm and tepid poetry, Baggott offers poems that sizzle— and sear.” —David Wojahn, author, World Tree
collections of poetry—This Country of Mothers, Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees, and Lizzie Borden in Love. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Poetry, Agni, and the Southern Review, and been read on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. She teaches in the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts and holds the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross.
For Furious Nursing Baby Frothy and pink as a rabid pig you— a mauler— a lunatic stricken with a madness induced by flesh— squeeze my skin until blotched, nicked. Your fingernails are jagged and mouth-slick. Pinprick scabs jewel my breasts. Your tongue, your wisest muscle, is the wet engine of discontent. It self-fastens by a purse-bead of spit
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while your elegant hands flail conducting orchestral milk and sometimes prime the pump. Nipple in mouth, nipple in hand, you have your cake and eat it too. Then when wrenched loose you’ll eat sorrow loss— one flexed hand twists as you open your mouth to eat your fist.
POETRY
Terra Nova
Poems by Cynthia Huntington
Terra Nova
Modern epic poetry of memory, history, and discovery
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry—Editor’s Selection In this bold and ambitious book-
the desert or in stories from Province-
length poem, National Book Award
town, Massachusetts, where the new
finalist Cynthia Huntington explores
world struggles into being at the edge
exile and migration—what it means to
of the sea. Yet the voices here, across
lose, seek, and find home in all its it-
many times and places, refuse to give
erations—through a polyphonic work,
in to desolation and despair.
written in multiple voices and evoking
Huntington’s approach is hybrid,
the method of Hart Crane’s The Bridge
oscillating between verse and lyrical
or the Nighttown episode in James
prose to create a work that falls some-
Joyce’s Ulysses. Yet it is also a tough
where between an epic poem and a col-
and vernacular work, owing as much
lection of lyric essays. Whether chron-
to Patti Smith and the Clash as it does
icling the creation of the world and the
to High Modernism.
first exile from the Judeo-Christian
Again and again the work shows
Garden of Eden or imagining the terror
us outsiders forced into metaphorical
and thrill of the first sea voyages, this is
and literal wildernesses, whether in a
electric poetry: challenging, startling,
retelling of the biblical Israelites lost in
and fulfilling.
poems by
Cynthia Huntington
Cynthia Huntington is the author of a prose memoir and four books of
poetry, including Heavenly Bodies (SIU Press), a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Vermont Arts Council. A former poet laureate of New Hampshire, she is a professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College.
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Excerpt from Terra Nova 7.
harbor
From the beginning this shelter, the harbor cupping a depth that was passage and return, that was food and men’s labor. The tough boats that made a fleet: strength it gave to the town, a being. For hundreds of years the boats going out. The town to serve them then, to fit out, crew, supply, unload, pack fish in the cold storage, gut and slice, scales glittering in piles you wade through in high boots, slick underfoot. They were hard years, hard generations. Run out to the bend when sails were spotted: half-masted meant a man was lost. What was lived here can’t be bought, but what was owned is taken, what was built falls to strangers. It floods me, filling, overfilling, this grief a deepening darkening, overcome.
Still, blueberry, beach plum, cranberry, bay and sassafras, boletes in fall. And behind the close-shouldered houses kitchen gardens with shell borders, salt hay mulching kale and potatoes, tomatoes reddening, a lilac tree waving branches, this richness folded into interstices, the firmness of objects. I walk and the streets, the houses, furl within me, mapped in cells, awakened, contained and opening. The town with its stories and structures, its history and legends, is in me, as we are in our dreams even as they are inside us.
“Provincetown is the locus of this ambitious, wide-ranging, and archetypal collection, which takes up various histories of migration and exile and reimagines them for our time. Terra Nova has the feeling of a biblical prophecy, a lost book that has washed up from the sea.” —Edward Hirsch, author, Gabriel: A Poem, finalist for the National Book Award
It comes back to the harbor which is always to be beyond, to be ventured and to receive. A depth, and a surface of light, contained and limitless, against which portal we are shades.
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POETRY
Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing Poems by Charif Shanahan
A searing exploration of personal identity, intimacy, and human connection Crab Orchard Series in Poetry—First Book Award
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In this stunning poetry debut, Charif
With poems that weave from Mar-
Shanahan explores what it means to be
rakesh to Zürich to London, and through
fully human in our wounded and divided
history to the present day, this book is, on
world. Queer and light-skinned, with a
its surface, an unrelenting exploration of
Black mother from Morocco and a white
identity in personal and collective terms.
father from the United States, Shanahan’s
Yet the collection is, most deeply, about in-
speaker navigates the constructs of race
timacy and love, the inevitability of human
and gender, through the lenses of colo-
separation and the challenge of human
nialism and immigration, exposing, with
connection. Urging us to reexamine our
nuance and complexity, the instability of
own place in the broader human tapestry,
those constructs and emphasizing the di-
Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing
visiveness inherent in the naming of any
announces the arrival of a powerful and
one thing.
necessary new voice.
Charif Shanahan was born in the Bronx in 1983 to an Irish-American father and
a Moroccan mother. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Callaloo, Literary Hub, New Republic, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem, the Frost Place, the Fulbright Program, and Stanford University, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry.
ORIGIN That evening, while the pasta simmered, the man said to the woman
the man and the woman, turning off the stove, poured wine into goblets marked by Xs
“Let them be white. . .” And as though the earth rumbled and shook—or rather grew
and slow danced, the decision made. Now in the cloudy glass I imagine I see
from inside a slate of nothing, three gold-skinned balls spun into the air and broke open: many years later, when my arms and legs turned solid and cold,
“Shanahan is a rare kind of poet. . . . unrelenting and calm, empathetic and fiercely honest.” —Ilya Kaminsky, Whiting Award–winning author of Dancing in Odessa
empty hands filling themselves with other hands, letters I can almost decipher—yes, tell me I belong here, diving into my own center: my own self an unknowable reef—
my throat a canal, my whole body a bridge, the saltwater stilled and darkened:
“A heroic first collection. . . . We need Shanahan’s voice in this time of reckoning with ourselves as a complex nation.”
CLEAN SLATE As a very young woman, my mother drank a glass of bleach. Thinking it water, not tasting the burn, not smelling a single fume. At the hospital, after she had begun to breathe, the color returned to her face. The doctor warned, One chemical will never exit your system. It won’t ever leave you. Though she has survived, she does not know it. Yesterday, on the phone, I said, I’m beginning to understand that I am African. And she said, Now how can that be, child? How can that be?
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—Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of Water Clocks
REGIONAL
Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves A Plain-Spoken History of Mid-Illinois James Krohe Jr.
The history of an often overlooked yet fascinating region of Illinois In Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves,
Utopian experiments, social and moral
James Krohe Jr. presents an engaging
reform movements, and innovations in
history of an often overlooked region,
transportation and food processing. It also
filled with fascinating stories and surpris-
offers fresh accounts of labor union war-
ing facts about Illinois’s midsection.
fare and social violence directed against
Krohe describes in lively prose the
Native Americans, immigrants, and Afri-
history of mid-Illinois from the Woodland
can Americans and profiles three genera-
period of prehistory up until roughly 1960,
tions of political and government leaders,
covering the settlement of the region by
sometimes extraordinary and sometimes
peoples of disparate races and religions;
corrupt (the “one-horse thieves” of the ti-
the exploitation by Euro-Americans of for-
tle). A concluding chapter examines histo-
est, fish, and waterfowl; the transforma-
ry’s roles as product, recreation, and civic
tion of farming into a high-tech industry;
bond in today’s mid-Illinois.
and the founding and deaths of towns. The
A general history of mid-Illinois for the
economic, cultural, and racial factors that
curious nonacademic reader, Corn Kings
led to antagonism and accommodation
and One-Horse Thieves draws on a wide
between various people of different back-
range of sources to explore a surprisingly
grounds are explored, as are the roles of
diverse region whose history is America
education and religion in this part of the
in microcosm.
state. The book examines remarkable
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In more than forty years as a magazine journalist, essayist, and critic, James Krohe Jr. has explored the history, politics, and culture of his native Illinois. His work has been published in more than fifty magazines and newspapers, including Illinois Issues and the Chicago Reader, and he is a longtime contributor to Springfield’s Illinois Times. He has written two popular monographs published by the Sangamon County Historical Society and edited the society’s anthology, A Springfield Reader, which in 1977 received the Illinois State Historical Society’s Award of Merit. He also is a cowinner of the Chicago Headline Club’s 1985 Peter Lisagor Award for reporting, that year’s award for editorial excellence from the American Society of Business Publications Editors, and the Illinois Press Association’s Best Column award in 1994. He lives and works in the Chicago area.
Also of Interest New in Paper!
The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History
New in Paper!
Immigrants in the Valley: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830–1860
Herbert K. Russell
Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in EarlyNineteenthCentury Illinois
Mark Wyman
Douglas K. Meyer
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CIVIL WAR SECOND EDITION
CIVIL WAR
PHARMACY A HISTORY
Michael A. Flannery Foreword by
Margaret Humphreys
Civil War Pharmacy: A History Second Edition
Michael A. Flannery, Foreword by Margaret Humphreys A thorough account of the modern U.S. pharmaceutical industry’s explosive inception
When the Civil War began, the U.S.
He examines the roles of physicians,
pharmaceutical industry was con-
hospital stewards, and nurses—both
centrated almost exclusively in Phila-
male and female—and analyzes how
delphia and was dominated by just a
the blockade of Southern ports meant
few major firms; when the war ended,
fewer pharmaceutical supplies were
Union laboratories were poised to ex-
available for Confederate soldiers, re-
pand nationwide. Civil War Pharmacy
sulting in reduced Confederate troop
is the first book to delineate how the
strength. His exploration of battlefield
growing field of pharmacy gained re-
and naval military pharmacy is unique
spect and traction in, and even distinc-
and valuable. Flannery provides a thor-
tion from, the medical world because
ough overview of the professional, eco-
of the large-scale manufacture and
nomic, and military factors compris-
dispersion of drug supplies and ther-
ing pharmacy from 1861 to 1865 and
apeutics during the Civil War. Flannery
includes the long-term consequences
captures the full societal involvement
of the war for the pharmaceutical pro-
in drug provision, on both the Union
fession. This book is a complete study
and Confederate sides, and places it
of a major aspect of health care during
within the context of what was then
a pivotal moment in American history.
assumed about health and healing.
Michael A. Flannery, a professor emeritus of UAB Libraries, University
of Alabama at Birmingham, has written, cowritten, or coedited six books. He is the recipient of the Kremers Award, which honors excellence in the history of pharmacy by an American, and continues to teach for the Honors College, UAB.
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“Hailed as ‘invaluable’ and ‘a must read’ by reviewers of the first edition, a revised and expanded edition of Civil War Pharmacy has now been published. . . . Flannery’s book is a comprehensive, thoroughly documented, and extremely readable history of medicines in the Civil War.”
Winner (first edition), Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences, Best Book Award
—John Parascandola, former U.S. Public Health Service historian
Also of Interest Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I
Villainous Compounds: Chemical Weapons and the American Civil War
Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs
Guy R. Hasegawa
Guy R. Hasegawa
John S. Haller Jr.
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LINCOLN
Prairie Defender
The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln
PRAIRIE DEFENDER
George R. Dekle, Sr.
Reassessing Lincoln’s reputation as a criminal attorney According to conventional wisdom, Abra-
and jury. Criminal defendants who could
ham Lincoln was particularly bad at de-
retain Lincoln as a defense attorney were
fending homicide cases, and criminal law
well represented, and criminal defense
was a minor part of his caseload. In this
attorneys who sought him as co-counsel
unprecedented study of Lincoln’s criminal
were well served to have had Lincoln as
cases, George Dekle disproves these pop-
a trial partner. Providing insight into both
ular notions. Through careful examination
Lincoln’s career and the culture in which
of Lincoln’s murder cases and evaluation
he practiced law, Prairie Defender resolves
of his legal skills and abilities, Dekle con-
a major misconception concerning one of
cludes that Lincoln was a competent, dili-
our most important historical figures.
The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln
gent criminal trial lawyer who knew the law and could argue it effectively to both judge For thirty years, George R. Dekle, Sr., worked as an assistant state attorney in the Third Judicial Circuit of Florida, where he prosecuted hundreds of homicide cases, and for the past ten years he served as the director of the Prosecution Clinic at the University of Florida Law School. He is the author of The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy and Abraham Lincoln’s Most Famous Case: The Almanac Trial.
GEORGE R. DEKLE, SR.
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“With over 16,000 books published about Abraham Lincoln is there need for another? Emphatically yes! And this contribution to understanding Lincoln proves it. Lincoln’s service as president was based in large part on his experience as a lawyer as well as his first love—politics. The author describes succinctly that Lincoln was a first-rate attorney, especially in his counsel in criminal cases.” —Frank J. Williams, retired Chief Justice of Rhode Island and founding chair of the Lincoln Forum
Also of Interest Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit
Brian R. Dirck
Edited by Charles M. Hubbard
Guy C. Fraker
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Lincoln and the Constitution
Lincoln, the Law, and Presidential Leadership
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LINCOLN Dirck
Lincoln in Indiana Brian R. Dirck
B RIAN R . D I RC K
Lincoln in Indiana
Illuminating Lincoln’s formative years Lincoln in Indiana tells the story of Abraham
sources, Brian R. Dirck’s fascinating account
Lincoln’s life in Indiana, from his family’s arrival
of Lincoln’s boyhood sets what is known about
to their departure. Born in Kentucky in 1809,
the relationships, values, and environment that
Lincoln moved with his parents, Thomas and
fundamentally shaped Lincoln’s character
Nancy Lincoln, and his older sister, Sarah, to
within the context of frontier and farm life in
the Pigeon Creek area of southern Indiana in
early nineteenth-century midwestern America.
1816. There Lincoln spent more than a quarter
In a triumph of research, Dirck cuts through
of his life. It was in Indiana that he developed
the myths about Lincoln’s early life, and along
a complicated and often troubled relation-
the way he explores the social, cultural, and
ship with his father, exhibited his now-famous
economic issues of early nineteenth-century
penchant for self-education, and formed a
Indiana. The result is a realistic portrait of the
restless ambition to rise above his origins.
youthful Lincoln set against the backdrop of
Although some questions about these years
American frontier culture.
Lincoln in Indiana
are unanswerable due to a scarcity of reliable
Brian R. Dirck is a professor of history at Anderson University in Indiana. He is the author
of eight books, including Lincoln and the Constitution, another Concise Lincoln Library book, and Lincoln the Lawyer, which won the Barondess/Lincoln Award. February $24.95sp Cloth 978-0-8093-3565-7 152 pages, 5 x 8, 4 illustrations Concise Lincoln Library
Harris
Lincoln and Congress William C. Harris
WI LLIAM C. HARRI S
Lincoln and Congress
Lincoln and Congress
The first book-length study of Abraham Lincoln’s partnership with Congress In Lincoln and Congress, William C. Harris
Lincoln and Congress sheds new light
reveals that the relationship between the
on the influence of members of Congress
president and Congress, though sometimes
and their relationship with Lincoln on divisive
contentious, was cooperative rather than ad-
issues such as military affairs, finance, slav-
versarial. During his time as president, Abra-
ery, constitutional rights, reconstruction, and
ham Lincoln embodied his personal convic-
Northern political developments. Enjoyable
tion that the nation’s executive should not
both for casual Civil War readers and pro-
interfere with the work of the legislature, and
fessional historians, it provides an engaging
though often critical of him privately, in public
narrative that helps readers redefine and un-
congressional leaders compromised with and
derstand the political partnership that helped
assisted the president to unite the North and
the Union survive.
avoid opposition to the war.
William C. Harris is the author or editor of twelve books, including Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union, which won the 2012 Lincoln Prize; Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency; and a previous Concise Lincoln Library book, Lincoln and the Union Governors. He is a professor emeritus of history at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
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RHETORIC
Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand
The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics
RONALD C. ARNETT Foreword by Algis Mickunas
Ronald C. Arnett, Foreword by Algis Mickunas
Interpreting Levinas’s theories for scholars of communication ethics Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics as
with examinations of social artifacts rang-
first philosophy explicates a human obliga-
ing from the Heidegger-Cassirer debate to
tion and responsibility to and for the Other
Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World story
that is an unending and imperfect commit-
concerning illicit possession of information.
ment. In Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand: The
Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand offers an
Unending Obligation of Communication
account of Levinas’s project and the prag-
Ethics, Ronald C. Arnett underscores the
matic implications of attending to a call of
profundity of Levinas’s insights for com-
responsibility to and for the Other. This book
munication ethics.
yields a rich and nuanced understanding
Arnett outlines communication ethics
of Levinas’s work, revealing the practical
as a primordial call of responsibility central
importance of his insights, and includes a
to Levinas’s writing and mission. And the
discussion of a constellation of related the-
author analyzes it through a Levinasian lens
orists and thinkers.
LEVINAS’S RHETORICAL DEMAND
Ronald C. Arnett is the chair of and a professor in the Department of Commu-
nication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University and the Patricia Doherty Yoder and Ronald Wolfe Endowed Chair in Communication Ethics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books, including Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt’s Rhetoric of Warning and Hope, which received the 2013 Top Book Award from the Communication Ethics Division of the National Communication Association, and Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility, which received the 2006 Everett Lee Hunt Award from the Eastern Communication Association.
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Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics
“This most impressive collection of original work addresses feminist, global, collaborative, civic, and disciplinary concerns [in] rhetoric and composition studies [and] serves as an excellent representative introduction to the field for students and scholars.” —Lynée Lewis Gaillet, coauthor, Primary Research and Writing: People, Places, and Spaces July $40.00s Paper 978-0-8093-3567-1 312 pages, 6 x 9, 7 illustrations
Edited by Cheryl Glenn and Roxanne Mountford Afterword by Adam J. Banks
Exploring the emerging challenges of a dynamic, expanding field Well into the second decade of the twenty-first
rhetoric, and the teaching of writing and rhet-
century, programs in rhetoric and writing as
oric, offering diverse viewpoints. Addressing
well as writing centers continue to evolve and
four major areas of research in rhetoric and
expand around the world, as do the profes-
writing studies, contributors consider author-
sional organizations and journals that help pro-
ship and audience, discuss the context and
vide the infrastructure for the field. Essays in
material conditions in which students com-
Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Cen-
pose, cover the politics of the field and the
tury point to issues and opportunities within
value of a rhetorical education, and reflect on
the field of rhetoric and writing studies—to
contemporary trends in canon diversification.
twenty-first-century questions and concerns
Providing both retrospective and prospective
with theory and praxis that drive us forward.
assessments, Rhetoric and Writing Studies in
This collection of essays investigates the his-
the New Century offers original research by
toriography of rhetoric, global perspectives on
important figures in the field.
Cheryl Glenn is the author of Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity
through the Renaissance; Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence; and Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts.
Roxanne Mountford is the author of The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American
Protestant Spaces, and a coauthor of Women’s Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition.
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RHETORIC
Food, Feminisms, rhetorics EDITED BY MELIS SA A . GOLDTHWAITE
Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics Edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite
Feminist and rhetorical perspectives on food and food-related practices Inspired by the need for interpretations and
and political implications of cookbooks and
critiques of the varied messages surround-
recipes; explores definitions of feminist food
ing what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms,
writing; and ends with a focus on bodies
Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that
and cultures—both self-representations and
demonstrate the importance of food and
representations of others for particular rhe-
food-related practices as sites of scholarly
torical purposes. The genres, objects, and
study, particularly from feminist rhetorical
practices contributors study are varied—
perspectives.
from cookbooks to genre fiction, from blogs
Contributors analyze messages about
to food systems, from product packaging to
food and bodies from a range of sources—
paintings—but the overall message is the
mundane and literary, personal and cultural;
same: food and its associated practices are
from what a person watches and reads to
worthy of scholarly attention.
where that person shops. This collection begins with analyses of the historical, cultural,
Melissa A. Goldthwaite is a professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University. She has published six books, including The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing and Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal, and numerous articles. June $40.00s Paper 978-0-8093-3590-9 296 pages, 6 x 9, 8 illustrations Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
THEATER
Swim Pretty
JENNIFER A. KOKAI
Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature Jennifer A. Kokai
Exploring the impact of aquatic spectacles on our cultural perceptions of water Drawing on cultural associations with bodies
performances helps us better understand
of water, the spectacle of pretty women, and
our ever-changing relationship with the
the appeal of the concept of family-friendly
oceans and their inhabitants. Kokai sorts the
productions, performative aquatic spec-
regard for and harnessing of water in aquatic
tacles portray water as an exotic fantasy
spectacles into three categories—natural,
environment exploitable for the purpose of
tamed, and domesticated—and discusses
entertainment. In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A.
the ways in which these modes of water are
Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic
engaged in the performances. Ultimately,
spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions
this study links the uncritical love of aquatic
of aquatic ecosystems in the United States
spectacles to a disregard for the rights of
over the past century.
marine animals and lack of concern for the
Examining dramatic works in water and
marine environment.
performances at four water parks, Kokai
m i w S etty Pr
Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature
shows that the evolution of these works and
Jennifer A. Kokai
is an assistant professor and a theatre program coordinator at Weber State University. She has published articles in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre History Studies, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and other journals and anthologies.
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arguably its greatest leader.
Joseph R. Fornieri is the author or editor of five books, including Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman.
Sara Vaughn Gabbard is the editor of Lincoln Lore and the
tions that guided him throughout
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Abr aham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas
Contributors
Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas
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Lincoln’s America: 1809–1865
Gabbard coedited Lincoln and avery, Emancipation, and the mendment.
Lincoln’s America
Fornieri and Gabbard
rnieri is an associate professor ience at the Rochester Institute y. A member of the Board of he Lincoln Forum, he is the auham Lincoln’s Political Faith.
his life and his presidency. This compilation of ten essays from Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo
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braham Lincoln w cian, an inspirat man of humor many may not realize is also a man of ideas. Des ger of formal educations dous intellectual curios the circle of Enlightenm democratic political id these, Lincoln develope convictions that guided h life and his presidency. A a Man of Ideas, a compi from Lincoln scholar Al covers the sources of L examines the beliefs that and brought an end to sl War. These essays reveal L of impressive intellectua as well as a man of great was an apostle of freedo lieve in human free will; Constitution who had to order to save it; a man of m and admirers, but few f opposed slavery but also tion of it; a man of prude political risks than any o Guelzo explores the m Lincoln’s thinking, espec Fathers and the great Eu of democracy. And he president’s struggles with emancipation, religion, a the challenges these issu to Americans today. Lincoln played man lic life—lawyer, politici in each he was driven b convictions, and beliefs
Abraham Lincoln
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coeditor of three books, including 1865: America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year.
Flowering Plants
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Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago’s Democratic Machine
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Robert H. Mohlenbrock
Richard C. Lindberg Foreword by John Miya
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Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello Reflections on Twenty-Two Years in the Illinois Senate
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Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome Jane McIntosh Snyder
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The Woman and the Lyre
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Land Between the Rivers The Southern Illinois Country
C. William Horrell, Henry Dan Piper, John W. Voigt
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was instrumental in establishing the Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During Horrell’s lifetime, his photographs appeared in many major metropolitan newspapers and a variety of popular and specialty magazines, including Life, Pic, Youth, and Friends. He died in 1989.
Henry Dan Piper, a former chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project before switching to the study of literature, was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at SIUC and, later, a professor of English. He died in 1999.
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PHARMACY A HISTORY
The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln
Michael A. Flannery Foreword by
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Instructions Abject & Fuming
GEORGE R. DEKLE, SR.
Poems by Julianna Baggott
JENNIFER A. KOKAI
S wim y t t e r P
Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature
PRAIRIE DEFENDER
Food, Feminisms, rhetorics EDITED BY MELIS SA A . GOLDTHWAITE