The Resource Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France, Margaret W. Ferguson
Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France, Margaret W. Ferguson
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- Summary
- Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of lit
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 506 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781281125590
- Label
- Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France
- Title
- Dido's daughters
- Title remainder
- literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France
- Statement of responsibility
- Margaret W. Ferguson
- Subject
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- Alfabetisme
- Alphabétisation -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Alphabétisation -- France -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- England
- English literature -- Women authors
- English literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- European literature -- Women authors
- European literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- France
- French literature -- Women authors
- French literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Impérialisme dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors
- Latijn
- Literature, Modern
- Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
- Moedertaal
- Vrouwen
- Women -- Education
- Women -- Education -- England
- Women -- Education -- France
- Women and literature
- Women and literature -- England
- Women and literature -- France
- Écrits de femmes anglais -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Écrits de femmes français -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of lit
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ferguson, Margaret W.
- Dewey number
- 809/.89287/0904
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN471
- LC item number
- .F45 2003eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NAL call number
- PN471
- NAL item number
- (INTERNET)
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- European literature
- Literature, Modern
- French literature
- English literature
- Women and literature
- Women and literature
- Women
- Women
- Écrits de femmes anglais
- Écrits de femmes français
- Alphabétisation
- Alphabétisation
- Impérialisme dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- English literature
- European literature
- French literature
- Literature, Modern
- Women and literature
- Women
- England
- France
- Alfabetisme
- Latijn
- Moedertaal
- Vrouwen
- Label
- Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France, Margaret W. Ferguson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-483) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 189533515
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 506 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781281125590
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)189533515
- Label
- Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France, Margaret W. Ferguson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-483) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 189533515
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 506 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781281125590
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)189533515
Subject
- Alfabetisme
- Alphabétisation -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Alphabétisation -- France -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- England
- English literature -- Women authors
- English literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- European literature -- Women authors
- European literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- France
- French literature -- Women authors
- French literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Impérialisme dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors
- Latijn
- Literature, Modern
- Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
- Moedertaal
- Vrouwen
- Women -- Education
- Women -- Education -- England
- Women -- Education -- France
- Women and literature
- Women and literature -- England
- Women and literature -- France
- Écrits de femmes anglais -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Écrits de femmes français -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique
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