Learning and iteracy in female hands, 1520-1698:
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazzola, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013
Series:Women and gender in the early modern world
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Tutors and Tailors; 2 "Blabbs" and Cryptographers; 3 Goneril and Oswald; 4 Robert Dorsett's Classroom; 5 Learning to Curse and Learning to Nurse; Bibliography; Index
Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the shape which vernacular literary acquired in their hands. Mazzola argues that early modern women's writings were designed to conceal rather than reveal women's learning and schooling. Such difficult or 'resistant' literacy, Mazzola proposes, transformed the broader history of literacy in the West
Physical Description:141 pages
ISBN:9781409453765
1409453766

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