Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Richards, Alison Thorne Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jennifer (University of Newcastle Upon T Richards, Jennifer Thorne Richards
• Mitarbeit: Jennifer Richards (Herausgeber), Alison Thorne (Herausgeber), Thorne Alison (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780415385268
• ISBN: 978-0-415-38526-8
• Seiten: 264
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Feminism and feminist theory