Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. On the Idea of Discourse Immunity, or the Public Health of Rhetorical Instruction

PART TWO: HISTORY

2. The Uses of Composition History

3. To "Fortify the Immunities of a Free People": Edward T. Channing's Response to Emerging Forms of Popular Public Discourse

4. A. S. Hill (i): Nineteenth-Century Journalism and the Making of a Patrician Intellectual

5. A. S. Hill (ii): Reforming the Public and Its Discourse at the Modern University and in the Writing Course

PART THREE: CONTEMPORARY PEDAGOGY

6. Classroom Argument, Responsibility, and Change

7. Conflict, Change, and "Flexibility" in the Composition and Cultural Studies Classroom

Notes

Works Cited

Index