Jennifer Richards / Alison Thorne (eds.)

Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Richards, Jennifer; Thorne, Alison

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts including poetry, drama, letters and prose, this incisive book sheds new and important light on the early modern world, forms of rhetoric, and the role of women in the culture and politics of the time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780415385275
• ISBN-10: 041538527X
• Artikelnr.: 21526910

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Richards, Alison Thorne

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction 2. Spelling
Backwards 3. Caught in Medias Res: Female Intercession, 'Regulation' and
'Exchange' 4. Speaking Women: Rhetoric and the Construction of Female Talk
5. Letter Writing Lucrece: Shakespeare in the 1590s 6. 'Prebyterian Sibyl':
Truth-telling and Gender in The Third Advice to a Painter 7. Exemplarity,
Women and Political Rhetoric 8. The Rhetoric of (In)fertility: Shifting
Responses to Elizabeth I's Childlessness 9. Women's Letters of
Recommendation and the Rhetoric of Friendship in Sixteenth-Century England
10. Embodied Rhetoric: Quaker Public Discourse in the 1650s. Afterword.
Bibliography