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Laura Lisabeth uploaded the file: The Fetish of Style to
RCWS Literacy Studies on MLA Commons 5 years ago
This was a talk given at the Literacy Studies Forum session at MLA 2016. I argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation, including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized, gendered and classed discourses of these middlebrow cultural objects.
This is great, Laura! Might you consider uploading this to CORE so others can find and read it too? mla.hcommons.org/core
Yes, I was meaning to do that! Got caught up in other work this morning!