Kathleen Smith

Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." Drawing from evidence including pamphlets, diaries, illustrations, and plays, it interpre

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780367884123
• ISBN-10: 0367884127
• Artikelnr.: 58482822

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Kalpin Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter One: "Unquiet all night": Curtain Lectures and a Wife's Speech to
Her Husband
Chapter Two: "Their Whispers, One in Another's Ear": Imagining Private
Speech
Between Women
Chapter Three: "I know thy thoughts": Witches Speak to their Audiences
Chapter Four: Regret, Reconsideration, and Reclamation: Audiences Witness
Women's
Death Speech
Afterword
Index