{"product_id":"queering-romantic-engagement-in-the-postal-age-a-rhetorical-education-paperback","title":"Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePamela Vanhaitsma\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRomantic letters are central to understanding queer history. Debates about letters of \"romantic friendship,\" however, too often reduce them to unstudied expressions of heartfelt feeling. In\u003ci\u003e Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Pamela VanHaitsma shows how the genre should be understood as a learned form of rhetoric. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanHaitsma argues that epistolary instruction in the nineteenth-century United States shaped civic engagement in predictably heteronormative ways even as it opened up possibilities for queer rhetorical practices. Her archival study draws on writings whose authors, diverse by gender, race, class, and education, all developed ways of queering cultural norms and generic conventions in their same-sex relationships. VanHaitsma theorizes a new concept of rhetorical education for romantic engagement to account for the significant yet understudied role of such training in inventing both civic and romantic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePamela VanHaitsma\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor at Penn State University. She is the 2021 Randy Majors Memorial Award recipient from the National Communication Association's Caucus on GLBTQ Concerns, and her second book is \u003ci\u003eThe Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45829203624133,"sku":"9781643366081","price":47.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/PK86nZsyv49781643366081.webp?v=1771183569","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/queering-romantic-engagement-in-the-postal-age-a-rhetorical-education-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}