"A moving rhetoricke" : gender and silence in early modern England / Christina Luckyj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luckyj, Christina, 1956-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Silence in literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature--Women authors.

Women and literature--England--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

England.

History.

Women and literature--England--History--17th century.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Rhetoric.

English language.

English language--Early modern--Rhetoric.

Authorship--Sex differences.

Authorship.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

The complex history of silence provides an important framework for rethinking gender in early modern England and for challenging critical approaches to it. It is with this quiet rhetoric that Christina Luckyi's work is concerned. Based on an investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature, using silence as its fulcrum.

Contents:

Introduction: 'A moving Rhetoricke' 1

1 Silence: a history 13

2 Silence and gender 42

3 Silence and drama 78

4 Silence and women's writing 121

Epilogue: Philomel 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-192) and index.

ISBN:

0719061563

OCLC:

49565013