Rhetoric, women and politics in early modern England
By: edited by Jennifer Richards and Alison Thorne.
Contributors: Richards, Jennifer.; Thorne, Alison, 1959-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780415385268; 9780415385275
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Spelling backwards / Patricia Parker; title: Caught in medias res : female intercession, 'regulation', and 'exchange' / Rachel Heard; title: Speaking women : rhetoric and the construction of female talk / Danielle Clarke; title: Letter-writing Lucrece : Shakespeare in the 1590s / Huw Griffiths; title: Presbyterian Sibyl : truth-telling and gender in Andrew Marvell's The third advice to a painter / Martin Dzelzainis; title: Exemplarity, women and political rhetoric / Susan Wiseman; title: The rhetoric of (in)fertility : shifting responses to Elizabeth I's childlessness / Helen Hackett; title: Women's letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of friendship in sixteenth-century England / James Daybell; title: Embodied rhetoric : Quaker public discourse in the 1650s / Hilary Hinds.