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Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England

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Description for Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England Paperback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSRC; HBJD1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.

Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective manipulation and even subversion of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested in legal documents, letters, self-narratives, popular pamphlets, ballads, and dramas of the era. By examining the framing and performance of such violent female speech between the 1590s and the 1660s, Kirilka Stavreva dismantles the myth of the silent and obedient women who ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803295865
SKU
V9780803295865
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About Kirilka Stavreva
Kirilka Stavreva is a professor of English at Cornell College. Her work has been anthologized in High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations; Women, Gender, Radical Religion; Cultural Encounters: Critical Insights; and elsewhere.  

Reviews for Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England
“Stavreva powerfully contributes to our understanding of the nature of women's violent speech by attending not only to what women say, but how they say it. Most original here is her focus on the acoustics of women's speech and its embodied physicality.”—Deborah Willis, Renaissance Quarterly       “Stavreva’s book furthers the work of many feminist scholars, ... Read more

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