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The Resource Words like daggers : violent female speech in early modern England, Kirilka Stavreva
Words like daggers : violent female speech in early modern England, Kirilka Stavreva
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The item Words like daggers : violent female speech in early modern England, Kirilka Stavreva represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Words like daggers : violent female speech in early modern England, Kirilka Stavreva represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.
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- Summary
- "Dramatic and documentary narratives about aggressive and garrulous women often cast such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority. Contending narratives, however, sometimes within the same texts, point to the effective subversion and undoing of the normative restrictions of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested to in legal documents, letters, self-narratives, popular pamphlets, ballads, and dramas of the era. Examining the framing and performance of violent female speech between the 1590s and the 1660s, Kirilka Stavreva dismantles the myth of the silent and obedient women who allegedly populated early modern England. Blending gender theory with detailed historical analysis, Words Like Daggers asserts the power of women's language--the power to subvert binaries and destabilize social hierarchies, particularly those of gender, in the early modern era. In the process Stavreva reconstructs the speech acts of individual contentious women, such as the scold Janet Dalton, the witch Alice Samuel, and the Quaker Elizabeth Stirredge. Because the dramatic potential of women's powerful rhetorical performances was recognized not only by victims and witnesses of individual violent speech acts but also by theater professionals, Stavreva also focuses on how the stage, arguably the most influential cultural institution of the Renaissance era, orchestrated and aestheticized women's fighting words and, in so doing, showcased and augmented their cultural significance. "--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (230 pages).
- Isbn
- 9780803286597
- Label
- Words like daggers : violent female speech in early modern England
- Title
- Words like daggers
- Title remainder
- violent female speech in early modern England
- Statement of responsibility
- Kirilka Stavreva
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Dramatic and documentary narratives about aggressive and garrulous women often cast such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority. Contending narratives, however, sometimes within the same texts, point to the effective subversion and undoing of the normative restrictions of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested to in legal documents, letters, self-narratives, popular pamphlets, ballads, and dramas of the era. Examining the framing and performance of violent female speech between the 1590s and the 1660s, Kirilka Stavreva dismantles the myth of the silent and obedient women who allegedly populated early modern England. Blending gender theory with detailed historical analysis, Words Like Daggers asserts the power of women's language--the power to subvert binaries and destabilize social hierarchies, particularly those of gender, in the early modern era. In the process Stavreva reconstructs the speech acts of individual contentious women, such as the scold Janet Dalton, the witch Alice Samuel, and the Quaker Elizabeth Stirredge. Because the dramatic potential of women's powerful rhetorical performances was recognized not only by victims and witnesses of individual violent speech acts but also by theater professionals, Stavreva also focuses on how the stage, arguably the most influential cultural institution of the Renaissance era, orchestrated and aestheticized women's fighting words and, in so doing, showcased and augmented their cultural significance. "--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stavreva, Kirilka
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR428.W63
- LC item number
- S73 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Early modern cultural studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- Women
- Language and languages in literature
- Women and literature
- Violence in literature
- Women in literature
- Label
- Words like daggers : violent female speech in early modern England, Kirilka Stavreva
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (230 pages).
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780803286597
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (MiAaPQ)EBC1854202
- (Au-PeEL)EBL1854202
- (CaPaEBR)ebr10989823
- (OCoLC)923709800
- Label
- Words like daggers : violent female speech in early modern England, Kirilka Stavreva
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (230 pages).
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780803286597
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (MiAaPQ)EBC1854202
- (Au-PeEL)EBL1854202
- (CaPaEBR)ebr10989823
- (OCoLC)923709800
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