Early Modern Women in Conversation (Early Modern Literature in History)

✍ Scribed by Katherine R. Larson

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 231
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Note on Texts and References......Page 13
Introduction: Beyond the Humanist Dialogue: The Textual Conversations of Early Modern Women......Page 14
Part I: Gendering Conversation and Space in Early Modern England......Page 30
1 'Intercourses of Friendship': Gender, Conversation, and Social Performance......Page 32
2 Markets and Thresholds: Conversation as Spatial Practice......Page 52
Part II: The Sidneys in Conversation......Page 74
3 Speaking to God with 'a cloven tongue': The Sidney-Pembroke Psalter......Page 76
4 Conversational Games and the Articulation of Desire in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory and Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost......Page 102
Part III: The Cavendishes in Conversation......Page 124
5 'The language of friendship and conversation': Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's Conversational Alliances......Page 126
6 The Civil Conversations of Margaret Cavendish and Ben Jonson......Page 151
Conclusion......Page 179
Notes......Page 184
Works Cited......Page 198
Index......Page 218

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