The nature of Gertrude Buck, professor of English at Vassar College
from 1897 until her death in 1922, is well-known to anyone
interested in the history of composition. Her writing is less
well-known, much of it now out of print. JoAnn Campbell gathers
together for the first time the major work of this innovative
thinker and educator, including her most important articles on
rhetorical theory; "The Social Criticism of Literature," a
forerunner of reader-response literary theory; selections from her
textbooks on argumentative and expository writing; poetry; fiction;
her play "Mother-Love," and unpublished reports and correspondence
from the English department at Vassar.
In her introduction, Campbell describes the masculine rhetorical
tradition within which Buck wrote and taught. Her theories of
language and composition quietly challenged the dominant rhetorics
issuing from Harvard and Amherst. An unusually productive scholar,
Buck wrote textbooks for her female students that affirmed women's
intellectual abilities and trained them to participate in political
debate. In the Vassar English Department she found a community of
women among whom she could practice and develop her theories
regarding rhetoric, pedagogy, and the role of the individual in
society.
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