IA Richards, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Bertrand Russell: Inchoate Interdisciplinarity at the Birth of Rhetoric

"Rhetoric" in 1920 was inchoate.  To call it "interdisciplinary" is to give it too much credit right off the bat, maybe even to misdescribe the university in 1920 generally.

To wit, here is the TOC for the early issues of "The Psychic Research Quarterly," or "Psyche," a British journal published in 1920 and after.  It includes articles about "extra-retinal vision" and the "survival of bodily death" as well as articles by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, philosopher Bertrand Russell and rhetorical theorist Ivor Armstrong (I. A.) Richards.

Interdisciplinary?  No, because the disciplines as we now know them were still coalescing.  Still, a history of rhetoric (or of literary criticism, in which Richards also had formative influence) which can't account for this early ground for research and publication is... incomplete.

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