Journal article
Commonplace, Quakers, and the Founding of Haverford School
Rhetoric review, v 30(4), pp 372-388
Oct 2011
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Abstract
This article examines a series of essays published in 1830 that were instrumental in the founding of Haverford School, the first Quaker liberal arts college, where a literary, language-oriented curriculum would be taught despite the Friends' long antipathy toward higher learning. The essays successfully persuade by deploying commonplaces that bridged the disparate spheres of Quaker discourse of experience and elite, mainstream discourses of taste. The findings are significant to rhetoricians interested in how social change can be mediated even in entrenched discursive traditions, especially faith traditions that are deeply felt and strongly held.
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- Title
- Commonplace, Quakers, and the Founding of Haverford School
- Creators
- Elizabeth Kimball - Drew University
- Publication Details
- Rhetoric review, v 30(4), pp 372-388
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000299780100003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-80052629071
- Other Identifier
- 991021862509104721
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