Political rhetoric, power, and Renaissance women /
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1995. |
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| Description: | xii, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in speech communication |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1755429 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Politics, Women's Voices, and the Renaissance: Questions and Context
- 2. Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames and Tresor de la Cite: Toward a Feminist Scriptural Practice
- 3. Conflicting Rhetoric about Tudor Women: The Example of Queen Anne Boleyn
- 4. Elizabeth I--Always Her Own Free Woman
- 5. The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I
- 6. Dutifully Defending Elizabeth: Lord Henry Howard and the Question of Queenship
- 7. The Blood-Stained Hands of Catherine de Medicis
- 8. Expert Witnesses and Secret Subjects: Anne Askew's Examinations and Renaissance Self-Incrimination
- 9. Mary Baynton and Anne Burnell: Madness and Rhetoric in Two Tudor Family Romances
- 10. Queenship in Shakespeare's Henry VIII: The Issue of Issue
- 11. Reform or Rebellion?: The Limits of Female Authority in Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II
- 12. Wits, Whigs, and Women: Domestic Politics as Anti-Whig Rhetoric in Aphra Behn's Town Comedies
- 13. Queen Mary II: Image and Substance During the Glorious Revolution
- 14. The Politics of Renaissance Rhetorical Theory by Women
- 15. Women and Political Communication: From the Margins to the Center
- Notes on Contributors
- Index