From the early 1940s through the 1960s, some of the most important articles in rhetoric and composition were written by University of Chicago faculty, and it was these articles that became the touchstones of rhetorical education in the institutional return to rhetoric in the latter half of the twentieth century. Despite the immense rhetorical output of these University of Chicago professors, there has not been, to date, a book-length treatment of why these writers focused their attention on the importance of rhetoric in the writing class. Not only that, but there has not been a revisionist account of how these articles were constructed or how the teaching of rhetoric and composition has often been misguided as a result of an uncritical acceptance of these articles in the rhetorical tradition. By organizing these articles based on their University of Chicago context, Rhetoric at the University of Chicago sheds new light on the beginnings of rhetoric and composition and demonstrates the significance of historical context in avoiding the misuse of these articles as foundationalist rhetorical history.
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"James P. Beasley provides a very close look at the University of Chicago's famed stable of rhetoric scholars in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: Richard McKeon, Richard Weaver, Wayne Booth, and, from time to time, Kenneth Burke, all of them engaged in reviving or reinventing rhetoric for the modern age. Beasley's careful archival research has resulted in valuable new perspectives on a major center of rhetorical thinking and practice. This book is an important contribution to our knowledge of a key moment in American higher education." -John C. Brereton, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Author of The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1925: A Documentary History