Political rhetoric, power, and Renaissance women
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Political rhetoric, power, and Renaissance women
（SUNY series in speech communication）
State University of New York Press, c1995
- : pbk.
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The authors examine the political rhetoric of a number of powerful women of the Renaissance, male responses to this rhetoric, drama and fiction by both male and female authors considering women and political context, and how historians—then and now—have evaluated powerful women.
A multi-disciplinary collection, the book includes an essay about Christine de Pizan and her fifteenth-century look at powerful women, an examination of seventeeth-century rhetoricians and how they viewed and reshaped the Renaissance in terms of giving power to women, and examples of English and French women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The afterword contextualizes these examples and raises questions about modern issues. The book provides a greater understanding of gender and power in the Renaissance as well as insights into the contemporary age.
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Acknowledgments
1. Politics, Women's Voices, and the Renaissance: Questions and Context
Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan
2. Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames and Tresor de la Cite: Toward a Feminist Scriptural Practice
Daniel Kempton
3. Conflicting Rhetoric about Tudor Women: The Example of Queen Anne Boleyn
Retha Warnicke
4. Elizabeth I--Always Her Own Free Woman
Ilona Bell
5. The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I
Lena Cowen Orlin
6. Dutifully Defending Elizabeth: Lord Henry Howard and the Question of Queenship
Dennis Moore
7. The Blood-Stained Hands of Catherine de Medicis
Elaine Kruse
8. Expert Witnesses and Secret Subjects: Anne Askew's Examinations and Renaissance Self-Incrimination
Elizabeth Mazzola
9. Mary Baynton and Anne Burnell: Madness and Rhetoric in Two Tudor Family Romances
Carole Levin
10. Queenship in Shakespeare's Henry VIII: The Issue of Issue
Jo Eldridge Carney
11. Reform or Rebellion?: The Limits of Female Authority in Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II
Gwynne Kennedy
12. Wits, Whigs, and Women: Domestic Politics as Anti-Whig Rhetoric in Aphra Behn's Town Comedies
Arlen Feldwick
13. Queen Mary II: Image and Substance During the Glorious Revolution
W. M. Spellman
14. The Politics of Renaissance Rhetorical Theory by Women
Jane Donawerth
15. Women and Political Communication: From the Margins to the Center
Patricia A. Sullivan and Carole Levin
Notes on Contributors
Index
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