| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
LarsonKatherine Rebecca., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (p. cm.) |
| Series: |
Early modern literature in history |
| Subject: |
English literature - Women authors - |
| Subject: |
English literature - History and criticism. - Early modern, 1500-1700 - |
| Subject: |
Conversation in literature. - |
| Subject: |
Social interaction in literature. - |
| Subject: |
Women - Social networks - England - |
| Subject: |
Women - History - England - Renaissance, 1450-1600. - |
| Subject: |
Women - History - England - 17th century. - |
| Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230319530 |
| Summary: |
To converse is, in its most fundamental sense, to engage with society. The potency of conversation as an early modern social networking tool is complicated, however, both by its gendered status in the period and by its conflation of verbal and physical interaction. Conversation was an embodied act that signified social intimacy, cohabitation, and even sexual intercourse. As such, conversation posed a particular challenge for women, whose virtuous reputation was contingent on sexual and verbal self-control. Early Modern Women in Conversation considers how five women writers from the prominent Sidney and Cavendish families negotiated the gendered interrelationship between conversation and the spatial boundaries delimiting conversational encounters to create opportunities for authoritative and socially transformative utterance within their texts. Conversation emerges in this book as a powerful rhetorical and creative practice that remaps women b2 ss relationship to space and language in early modern England. |
| ISBN: |
9780230319530electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
023031953Xelectronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on Texts and References Introduction Beyond the Humanist Dialogue: The Textual Conversations of Early Modern Women PART I: GENDERING CONVERSATION AND SPACE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND 'Intercourses of Friendship': Gender, Conversation, and Social Performance Markets and Thresholds: Conversation as Spatial Practice PART II: THE SIDNEYS IN CONVERSATION Speaking to God with 'a cloven tongue': The Sidney-Pembroke Psalter Conversational Games and the Articulation of Desire in Mary Wroth's Love's Victory and Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost PART III: THE CAVENDISHES IN CONVERSATION 'The language of friendship and conversation': Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's Conversational Alliances The Civil Conversations of Margaret Cavendish and Ben Jonson Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index. |