Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty [electronic resource] /
Pender, P.author.
An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Authorial Alibis: Early Modern and Late Modern; 1 From Self- Effacement to Sprezzatura: Modesty and Manipulation; 2 Sola Scriptura: Reading, Speech, and Silence in The Examinations of Anne Askew; I. Askew reading; II. Reading Bale reading; III. Reading Bale reading Askew; IV. Between 'sygne' and 'substance': the figurality of modesty; 3 'A worme most abjecte': Sermo Humilis as Reformation Strategy in Katherine Parr's Prayers or Medytacions; I. Prayers or Medytacions: textual composition and critical reception
II. Parr's modesty rhetoric: generic and gendered, public and privateIII. Submission and survival: rhetoric as praxis; 4 Mea Mediocritas: Mary Sidney, Modesty, and the History of the Book; I. Mea Mediocritas: 'my Muse offends'; II. 'But soft my muse': the exigencies of inexpressibility; III. Exercises in subjection: modesty rhetoric as counter discourse; IV. The ghost and the machine: Philip and Mary Sidney; V. 'I weav'd this webb to end': women writers in the history of the book; 5 'This triall of my slender skill': Inexpressibility and Interpretative Community in Aemilia Lanyer's Encomia
I. The challenge of the chiastic contractII. 'The first fruits of a womans wit': novelty and license; III. Trouble in paradise: Aemilia Lanyer's interpretative communities; 6 'To be a foole in print': Anne Bradstreet and the Romance of 'Pirated' Publication; I. 'To super-adde in praises': John Woodbridge's paratexts; II. 'Simple I, according to my skill': the rhetoric of renunciation; III. 'Men can do best and women know it well': disavowal and its discontents; IV. 'No rhetoricke we expect': rewriting women's literary history; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Social history.
Poetry.
Applied linguistics.
Fiction.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Social History.
Poetry and Poetics.
Applied Linguistics.
Fiction.