Early Modern Women in Conversation

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Early Modern Literature in History

ISBN: 0230298621
ISBN 13: 9780230298620
Autor: Larson, K
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 218 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Makes a crucial and timely intervention in debates concerning the political function of conversation, women’s rhetorical practices, and the gendering of space in early modern EnglandIncludes examples of the conversational strategies and spaces created by Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth BrackleyProvides a new conceptual framework for understanding the gendering of space and language and demonstrates the significance of ‚textual conversation‘ Probes the intersections among oral and written and verbal and physical interchange, the threshold between ‚private‘ and ‚public‘ communication, and the sanctity of the boundaries of conversational spaces

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Beschreibung

In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women.

Autorenporträt

Katherine R. Larson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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