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Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France
- Title
- Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France / Margaret W. Ferguson.
- Author
- Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 506 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-483) and index.
- Contents
- Competing concepts of literacy in imperial contexts: definitions, debates, interpretive models -- Sociolinguistic matrices for early modern literacies: paternal Latin, mother tongues, and illustrious vernaculars -- Discourses of imperial nationalism as matrices for early modern literacies -- An empire of her own: literacy as appropriation in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames -- Making the world anew: female literacy as reformation and translation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron -- Allegories of imperial subjection: literacy as equivocation in Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam -- New world scenes from a female pen: literacy as colonization in Aphra Behn's Widdow Ranter and Oroonoko.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-15655
- ISBN
- 0226243117 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226243125 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003004087
- OCLC
- 50782529
- Author
- Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
- Title
- Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France / Margaret W. Ferguson.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-483) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-15655