Out of the Aerie Realm of the Intellectual Firmament

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1. W. E. Mead, “The Graduate Study of Rhetoric,” PMLA: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America 15 (1900): xx.

2. Mead, “Graduate Study,” xxv.

3. Mead, “Graduate Study,” xxvi.

4. Mead, “Graduate Study,” xxx.

5. “Proposed Requirements for a Master's Degree, 22 July 1915.” James O'Neill, biographical file. University of Wisconsin Archives, Madison.

6. Ehninger, Selected Theories of Inventio in English Rhetoric, 1759–1828, Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1949; Howell, Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500–1700 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956); Karl Wallace, ed. History of Speech Education in America (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1954); George Kennedy, The Art of Persuasion in Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963); Raymond Howes, Historical Studies of Rhetoric and Rhetoricians (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1961).

7. James Berlin, “Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric,” in Writing Histories of Rhetoric, ed. Victor J. Vitanza (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994), 112.

8. John Schilb, “The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History,” in PRE/TEXT: The First Decade, ed. Victor Vitanza (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993), 252. Within the communication tradition, see William Keith, “Identity, Rhetoric, and Myth: A Response to Mailloux,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30, no. 4 (Fall 2000): 95–106.

9. Thomas W. Benson, “The Cornell School of Rhetoric: Idiom and Institution,” Communication Quarterly 51 (2003): 1–56.

10. For more on tracing the history of rhetoric within its manifesting disciplines, see Steven Mailloux, “Rhetorical Paths in English and Communication Studies,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 129–38, and the responses to him.

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David Beard

David Beard is Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Minnesota Duluth