Rhetoric, women and politics in early modern England

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

Other author/creator	Richards, Jennifer.
Other author/creator	Thorne, Alison, 1959-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Description	x, 254 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	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 note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.
LCCN	2006022253
ISBN	0415385261 (hbk.)
ISBN	9780415385268 (hbk.)
ISBN	041538527X (pbk.)
ISBN	9780415385275 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PR428.W63 R48 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold