Rhetoric, women and politics in early modern England / edited by Jennifer Richards and Alison Thorne.

Other author Richards, Jennifer.
Other author Thorne, Alison, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Descriptionx, 254 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--England. --History. --16th century.
Women and literature--England. --History. --17th century.
English language--Early modern, 1500-1700. --Rhetoric.
Women--England. --History. --Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Women--England. --History. --17th century.
Rhetoric--Political aspects.
Literature and society--England. --History. --16th century.
Literature and society--England. --History. --17th century.
Women in literature.

Contents Spelling backwards / Patricia Parker -- Caught in medias res : female intercession, 'regulation', and 'exchange' / Rachel Heard -- Speaking women : rhetoric and the construction of female talk / Danielle Clarke -- Letter-writing Lucrece : Shakespeare in the 1590s / Huw Griffiths -- Presbyterian Sibyl : truth-telling and gender in Andrew Marvell's The third advice to a painter / Martin Dzelzainis -- Exemplarity, women and political rhetoric / Susan Wiseman -- The rhetoric of (in)fertility : shifting responses to Elizabeth I's childlessness / Helen Hackett -- Women's letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of friendship in sixteenth-century England / James Daybell -- Embodied rhetoric : Quaker public discourse in the 1650s / Hilary Hinds.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.
LCCN 2006022253
ISBN0415385261 (hbk.)
ISBN9780415385268 (hbk.)
ISBN041538527X (pbk.)
ISBN9780415385275 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PR428.W63 R48 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold