Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780367884123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Kathleen Smith

Opis

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." Drawing from evidence including pamphlets, diaries, illustrations, and plays, it interpre

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CONTENTS

List of Figures

Introduction

Chapter One: "Unquiet all night": Curtain Lectures and a Wife's Speech to Her Husband

Chapter Two: "Their Whispers, One in Another's Ear": Imagining Private Speech

Between Women

Chapter Three: "I know thy thoughts": Witches Speak to their Audiences

Chapter Four: Regret, Reconsideration, and Reclamation: Audiences Witness Women's

Death Speech

Afterword

Index

O autorze

Kathleen Kalpin Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, USA.