Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen 9780804751179

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Автор: Patricia Michaelson
Название: Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen
ISBN: 9780804751179
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

ISBN-10: 080475117X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 2004-10-19
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Undergraduate
Основная тема: Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Подзаголовок: Women, reading, and speech in the age of austen
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Поставляется из: Англии
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An interdisciplinary study of women and language in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Speaking Volumes focuses on the connections that contemporaries made between speech and reading. It studies the periods discourses on womans language and contrasts them with the linguistic practices of individual women. The book also argues that the oral performance of literature was important in fostering domesticity and serving as a means for women to practice authoritative speech.

Utilizing a range of evidence gleaned from language texts, schoolbooks, diaries, letters, conduct books, and works of literature (notably the novels of Jane Austen), the author shows how eighteenth-century English women strategically used the stereotype of womans language while insisting implicitly that gender was not always the most salient feature of their identities.

After an overview of the discourse on eighteenth-century womens speech, which emphasizes how women were lumped together as a single, deficient class of speakers, the remaining chapters each center on an individual woman to examine the historical forces her speech illuminates. The author describes Quaker language as a sociolect with norms different from those of the polite world, and shows how one speaker, Amelia Opie, utilized a highly mediated form of language that situated her strategically as either a Quaker or a polite woman.

In considering the struggle of the actress Sarah Siddons to bridge the gap between theatrical speech and ordinary language, the author relates the oral performance of literature to other forms of display that were expected of women. Using Frances Burney as exemplar, she then examines how reading together fostered domesticity. Finally, relying on the novels of Jane Austen, especially Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, the book argues that novels took the place of conversation manuals in educating speakers.

Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen, Patricia Michaelson