Words Like Daggers - Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Kirilka Stavreva is a professor of English at Cornell College. Her work has been anthologized in High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations; Women, Gender, Radical Religion; Cultural Encounters: Critical Insights; and elsewhere.   Klappentext Kirilka Stavreva is a professor of English at Cornell College. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bitter Words and the Tuning of Gender1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage4. Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction5. Courtly Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Women’s Prophetic “Cries”Epilogue: Margaret’s Bitter Words and the Voice of (Divine) Justice, or, Compulsory ListeningNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Kirilka Stavreva
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9780803254886
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-5488-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies; Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous