Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France /

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Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson revea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
Temas:
1500-1599
European literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
French literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England.
Women and literature > France.
Women > Education > England.
Women > Education > France.
Literacy > England > History > 16th century.
Literacy > France > History > 16th century.
Imperialism in literature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes français > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Alphabétisation > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Alphabétisation > France > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre.
Femmes et littérature > France.
Femmes > Éducation > Angleterre.
Femmes > Éducation > France.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
Literacy
Imperialism in literature
English literature > Women authors
European literature > Women authors
French literature > Women authors
Literature, Modern
Women and literature
Women > Education
Alfabetisme.
Latijn.
Moedertaal.
Vrouwen.
England
France
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Competing concepts of literacy in imperial contexts: definitions, debates, interpretive models
  • Sociolinguistic matrices for early modern literacies: paternal Latin, mother tongues, and illustrious vernaculars
  • Discourses of imperial nationalism as matrices for early modern literacies
  • An empire of her own: literacy as appropriation in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames
  • Making the world anew: female literacy as reformation and translation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron
  • Allegories of imperial subjection: literacy as equivocation in Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam
  • New world scenes from a female pen: literacy as colonization in Aphra Behn's Widdow Ranter and Oroonoko.

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