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Speaking volumes : women, reading, and speech in the age of Austen
- Title
- Speaking volumes : women, reading, and speech in the age of Austen / Patricia Howell Michaelson.
- Author
- Michaelson, Patricia Howell, 1954-
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, 2002.
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- Description
- xiv, 261 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Women > Books and reading > England > History > 18th century
- Women and literature > England > History > 18th century
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 > Contemporaries
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 > Criticism and interpretation
- Women and literature > England > History > 19th century
- Reader-response criticism
- Speech in literature
- Women > Books and reading > England > History > 19th century
- Language and languages > Sex differences
- Language and culture > England
- Oral interpretation > History
- English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.
- Contents
- Women and language in the eighteenth century -- Polite and plain language; or, Amelia Opie "quakerized" -- Acting, text, and correct display: Sarah Siddons to Fanny Price -- Reading and domesticity among the Burneys and other families -- Reading Austen, practicing speech.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-14299
- ISBN
- 0804740755 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001048428
- OCLC
- 47892569
- Author
- Michaelson, Patricia Howell, 1954-
- Title
- Speaking volumes : women, reading, and speech in the age of Austen / Patricia Howell Michaelson.
- Imprint
- Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, 2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-14299