Words like daggers : violent female speech in early modern England /

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"Dramatic and documentary narratives about aggressive and garrulous women often cast such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority. Contending narratives, however, sometimes within the same texts, point to the effective subversion and undoing of the normative...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stavreva, Kirilka
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Series:Early modern cultural studies.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Women > England > Social conditions.
Language and languages in literature.
Women and literature > England > History.
Violence in literature.
Women in literature.
Femmes > Angleterre > Conditions sociales.
Langage et langues dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire.
Violence dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
English literature > Early modern.
Women and literature.
Women > Social conditions.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Series Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination""; ""2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts""; ""3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage""; ""4. Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction""; ""5. Courtly Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage""; ""6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Womenâ€?s Prophetic “Criesâ€?""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About Kirilka Stavreva""

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