1st Edition
Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England
By Kathleen Smith
Copyright 2017
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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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." This new approach, examining speech exchanges between a speaker and audience in which both anticipate, interact with, and respond to each... Read more
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
Biography
Kathleen Kalpin Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina, Aiken, USA.
