Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Starting Points
7. Welfare, Power, and Agency 3
8. Points of Navigation 32
9. Contexts and Yardsticks
10. Mundane Articles 61
11. Official Receptions 90
12. Finding Words 116
13. History and Fiction 145
14. Rhetorical Structures
15. A Rhetorical Spectrum 177
16. Anchoring Rhetoric 195
17. The Rhetoric of Character 229
18. The Rhetoric of Dignity 256
19. Rhetorics of Life-Cycle and Gender 282
20. Self and Meaning
21. Identity and the Pauper Self 311
22. Process and Agency Reconsidered 340
23. Notes 355
24. Bibliography 403
25. Index 453