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Haunting Women's Public Memory: Ethos, Space, and Gender in the Winchester Mystery House
Ist Teil von
Rhetoric review, 2021-04, Vol.40 (2), p.107-122
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
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This article examines the rhetorical framing of San Jose's "Winchester Mystery House" house tour to consider the role of spatiality in shaping the ethos and subsequent public remembrance of women. Built in the late nineteenth-century by the heiress to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune, the sprawling Victorian mansion is now a popular tourist attraction that has become a metonym for the architect herself, whose memory remains shrouded in stories of séances, seclusion, and mystery. The article traces the image of Winchester as a bizarre and spooky widow to the public tour and the spatial rhetorics of her house itself. The house challenges our limited notions of space-particularly domestic space-with implications for other sites of women's public memory and the ethos of the woman rhetor.