The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies surveys the latest advances in rhetorical scholarship, synthesizing theories and practices across major areas of study in the field and pointing the way for future studies. Edited by Andrea A. Lunsford and Associate Editors Kirt H. Wilson and Rosa A. Eberly, the Handbook aims to introduce a new generation of students to rhetorical study and provide a deeply informed and ready resource for scholars currently working in the field.

PART I. HISTORICAL STUDIES IN RHETORICIntroduction: Historical and Comparative Rhetorical Studies: Revisionist Methods and Directions - C. Jan Swearingen and Edward Schiappa1. Historiography and the Study of Rhetoric - Arthur E. Walzer and David Beard2. Rhetorical Archaeology: Established Resources, Methodological Tools, and Basic Research Methods - Richard Leo Enos3. Medieval and Renaissance Rhetorical Studies of Women - Christine Mason Sutherland4. Recovering, Revisioning, and Regendering the History of 18th- and 19th-Century Rhetorical Theory and Practice - Lynee Lewis Gaillet and Elizabeth Tasker5. Coping With Modernity: Strategies of 20th-Century Rhetorical Theory - James Arnt Aune6. The Study of Argumentation - Frans H. van Eemeren7. Rhetoric of Religion: A Map of the Territory - Margaret D. Zulick8. Feminist Perspectives on the History of Rhetoric - Kate Ronald9. Recent Advances in Comparative Rhetoric - Sue Hum and Arabella LyonPART II. RHETORIC ACROSS THE DISCIPLINESIntroduction: Rhetoric, Disciplinarity, and Fields of Knowledge - John Lyne and Carolyn R. Miller10. The Rhetoric of the Natural Sciences - Jeanne Fahnestock11. The Rhetoric of Economics - Edward M. Clift12. Rhetoric in Literary Criticism and Theory - Don Bialostosky13. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine - Judy Z. Segal14. Rhetoric and International Relations: More Than ¿Cheap Talk¿ - Gordon R. Mitchell15. The Rhetoric of Interdisciplinarity: Boundary Work in the Construction of New Knowledge - Julie Thompson KleinPART III. RHETORIC AND PEDAGOGYIntroduction: Rhetoric as Pedagogy - Cheryl Glenn and Martin Carcasson16. Rhetoric and (?) Composition - Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu17. Intercollegiate Debate and Speech Communication: Historical Developments and Issues for the Future - Jarrod Atchison and Ed Panetta18. The Consequences of Rhetoric and Literacy: Power, Persuasion, and Pedagogical Implications - Morris Young and Connie Kendall19. Echoes frmo the Past: Learning How to Listen, Again - Joyce Irene Middleton20. Civic Participation and the Undergraduate Curriculum - Wendy B. Sharer21. Visual Rhetoric and/as Critical Pedagogy - Brian L. Ott and Greg Dickinson22. A Century After the Divorce: Challenges To a Rapprochement Between Speech Communication and English - Roxanne MountfordPART IV. RHETORIC AND PUBLIC DISCOURSEIntroduction: The Common Goods of Public Discourse - Kirt Wilson and Rosa A. Eberly23. History of Public Discourse Studies - David Zarefsky24. Race, Sex, and Class in Rhetorical Criticism - Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Zornitsa D. Keremidchieva25. Rhetoric and Critical Theory: Possibillities for Rapprochement in Public Deliberation - Gerard A. Hauser and Maria T. Hegbloom26. Digital Rhetoric and Public Discourse - Laura J. Gurak and Smiljana Antonijevic27. Arts of Address in Revolutionary America - Stephen Howard Browne28. Explosive Words and Glimmers of Hope: U.S. Public Discourse, 1860-1900 - Angela G. Ray29. For the Common Good: Rhetoric and Discourse Practices in the United States, 1900-1950 - Thomas W. Benson30. Religious Voices in American Public Discourse - James Darsey and Josh Ritter31. Between Touchstones and Touch Screens: What Counts as Contemporary Political Rhetoric? - Vanessa B. Beasley32. Social Movement Rhetoric - Robert Cox and Christina R. Foust