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Title:

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

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

x, 254 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Richards, Jennifer.
Thorne, Alison, 1959-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.

Contents:

Embodied rhetoric : Quaker public discourse in the 1650s / Hilary Hinds. 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 -- 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.

ISBN:

9780415385275 (pbk.)
041538527X (pbk.)
9780415385268 (hbk.)
0415385261 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70673149

LCCN:

2006022253

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)