College English
Nov 2015
Anxious Uptakes: Nineteenth-Century Advice Literature as a Rhetorical Genre
Abstract
In this essay, I build on current work in rhetorical genre theory to read a historical genre for the affective uptake(s) it generates. Medically authored child-rearing advice literature developed as a genre in Britain between 1825 and 1850; this new genre instantiated anxiety as the central affect of middle-class maternal subjectivity. This rhetorical genre analysis both extends our understanding of this period and the history of motherhood; it also contributes to the developing affective turn in rhetorical genre studies by offering a way to begin reading for affective uptakes.
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- College English
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- 2015-11-01
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- 10.58680/ce201527548
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