Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty
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Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty

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Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty

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An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
ISBN
9781137008015
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction – Authorial Alibis: Early Modern and Late Modern
  5. 1 From Self- Effacement to Sprezzatura: Modesty and Manipulation
  6. 2 Sola Scriptura: Reading, Speech, and Silence in The Examinations of Anne Askew
  7. 3 'A worme most abjecte': Sermo Humilis as Reformation Strategy in Katherine Parr's Prayers or Medytacions
  8. 4 Mea Mediocritas: Mary Sidney, Modesty, and the History of the Book
  9. 5 'This triall of my slender skill': Inexpressibility and Interpretative Community in Aemilia Lanyer's Encomia
  10. 6 'To be a foole in print': Anne Bradstreet and the Romance of 'Pirated' Publication
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index