Composing Legacies Testimonial Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century Composition

"So much comp history strives to defamiliarize the past to cast the present into greater relief, yet Composing Legacies refamiliarizes that past-making it less alien, which makes it harder to comfortably reject as not-I. The book's brand of critical historicism gives us useful ways to think about the future while inviting other scholars to do the same. It thereby offers not just an introduction but an open invitation to the Schultz Archive, which is newly available in digital and print-based formats."-Charles Paine, Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of New Mexico and author of The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present