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Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition

Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition

Donahue, Patricia
Moon, Gretchen Flesher

Paperback

Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture, Book 163

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ISBN10: 0822959542
ISBN13: 9780822959540
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Jun 26 2007
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
In Local Histories, the contributors seek to challenge the widely held belief that the origin of American composition as a distinguishable discipline can be traced to a small number of elite colleges such as Harvard, Yale, and Michigan in the mid- to late nineteenth century. Through extensive archival research at liberal arts colleges, normal schools, historically black colleges, and junior colleges, the contributors ascertain that many of these practices were actually in use prior to this time and were not the sole province of elite universities. Though not discounting the elites' influence, the findings conclude that composition developed in many locales concurrently.

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