A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921–1936

Jason Barrett-Fox

doi:10.1080/07350190903415164

Rhetoric Review Dec 2009

A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921–1936

Jason Barrett-Fox University of Kansas

Abstract

Abstract Co-owning and writing for one of the world's largest private publishing houses in the 1920s and 1930s, Marcet Haldeman-Julius's (1887–1941) position should have guaranteed her a place in American women's literary history. Haldeman-Julius's socialist and feminist exigency, though, was elided by a complex and emotionally abusive marriage to her editor and publisher, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, whose final approval represented her chance to effectively enter the public sphere. This study recovers Haldeman-Julius's work and traces her significant attempts to negotiate the paradox of writing as a feminist in ways rhetorically coded to escape certain audiences and to activate others. Notes 1I want to thank Catherine Hobbs for her meticulous reading of my manuscript and her insightful and charitable guidance in bringing this piece through the review stages. I would also like to thank Breon Mitchell at Indiana University's Lilly Library, as a portion of my research was made possible by a Helm Visiting Fellowship. Thanks also to Randy Roberts and Janette Mauk at the Leonard Axe Library at Pittsburg State University for their generous assistance during the research process as well as Teresa Coble at the Kansas State Historical Society. I would also like to publicly express my gratitude to Frank Farmer, Maryemma Graham, Brian Donovan, Amy Devitt, Susan Gubar, Bill Tuttle, Ann Schofield, and James Gunn for their guidance, time, and encouragement, at various stages of this process. In the end, though, I owe the most to Rebecca, Gus, Mae Hazel, Reba, and Steve for their patience, energy, and optimism.

Journal: Rhetoric Review
Published: 2009-12-22
DOI: 10.1080/07350190903415164
CompPile: Search in CompPile ↗
Open Access: Closed
Topics: rhetorical criticism archival research gender and writing public rhetoric
Export: BibTeX RIS

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (0)

No articles in this index cite this work.

References (23)

Bissell Brown Victoria (2004)

The Education of Jane Addams
Burke Kenneth (1969)

A Rhetoric of Motives

↗
Cothran Andrew Neilson (1966)

Diss
Davis Allen F. (1973)

American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams
DeGruson Eugene (1992)

Short Works

Show all 23 →

DeGruson Eugene (1992)

Dust
Haldeman-Julius Emanuel (1928)

The First Hundred Million
Haldeman-Julius Emanuel (1949)

My Second 25 Years, Instead of a Footnote: An Autobiography
Haldeman-Julius Marcet (1921)

Dust
Haldeman-Julius Marcet (1936)

Jane Addams as I Knew Her
Haldeman-Julius Marcet (1931)

Talks with Joseph McCabe and Other Confidential Sketches
Haldeman-Julius Marcet (1936)

Three Generations of Changing Morals
Haldeman-Julius Marcet (1924)

What the Editor's Wife Is Thinking About
10.1191/0967550706ab044oa

↗
Jacoby Susan (2004)

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Johnson Nan (2002)

Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866–1910
Lefebvre Henri (1991)

The Production of Space
Linn James Weber (1935)

Jane Addams: A Biography
(1912)

Pittsburg Daily Headlight.
10.1111/j.1527-2001.2002.tb01073.x

↗
Shore Elliot (1988)

Talkin’ Socialism: J. A. Wayland and the Radical Press
Sklar Kathrine (1997)

Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830–1900
10.1191/0967550705ab029oa

↗

CrossRef global citation count: 1 View in citation network → Build reading path →

A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921–1936

Abstract

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (0)

References (23)

Related Articles