karen e. whedbee

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Research Interests: Freedom of speech, history of the public forum, material culture and memory studies, communication ethics, history of rhetoric, historical and critical methods.

Profile from Karen E. Whedbee's Northern Illinois University Profile Page

Selected Publications include:
Whedbee, K. (2016). “Preservation, Restoration, and Accessibility of Popular Culture Materials.” In A Companion to Popular Culture. Edited by Gary Burns. Wiley-Blackwell. Pages 63-82.

Whedbee, K. (2008). “Making the Worse Case Appear the Better: British Reception of the Greek Sophists Prior to 1850.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 11(4): 603-630.

Whedbee, K. (2008). “In Other’s Words: Plagiarism as Deceptive Communication.” Ethics in Human Communication. By Richard L. Johannesen, Kathleen S. Valde, and Karen E. Whedbee. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. Pages 283-292.

Whedbee, K. (2007). “An English Plato: J.S. Mill’s Gorgias.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 37: 19-41.

Whedbee, K. (2005). “Authority and Critical Reason: George Grote’s Defense of Democratic Justice.” Victorians Institute Journal 33: 97-115.

Whedbee, K. (2004). “J.S. Mill on Rhetoric and Poetry.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 7: 17-29.

Whedbee, K. (2004). “Reclaiming Rhetorical Democracy: George Grote’s Defense of Cleon and the Athenian Demagogues.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 34.4: 71-95.

Whedbee, K. (2003). “The Tyranny of Athens: Representations of Rhetorical Democracy in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 33.4: 65-85.

Whedbee, K. (2001). “Perspective by Incongruity in Norman Thomas’s ‘Some Wrong Roads to Peace.’” Western Journal of Communication 65.1: 45-64.

Whedbee, K. (1998). “Authority, Freedom, and Liberal Judgment: The Presumptions and Presumptuousness of Whately, Mill, and Tocqueville.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 84.2: 171-89.

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