LEADER 05457nam 2200829 a 450 001 9910784835303321 005 20210610212910.0 010 $a1-281-12559-8 010 $a9786611125592 010 $a0-226-24318-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226243184 035 $a(CKB)1000000000406563 035 $a(EBL)408235 035 $a(OCoLC)476228107 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000138753 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11160175 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138753 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10124033 035 $a(PQKB)10985223 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408235 035 $a(DE-B1597)523469 035 $a(OCoLC)1055285131 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226243184 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408235 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10209957 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL112559 035 $a(dli)HEB05708 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000009797305 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000406563 100 $a20030224d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDido's daughters$b[electronic resource] $eliteracy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France /$fMargaret W. Ferguson 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (521 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-24312-5 311 0 $a0-226-24311-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [435]-483) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue --$t1. Competing Concepts of Literacy in Imperial Contexts Definitions, Debates, Interpretive Models --$t3. Sociolinguistic Matrices for Early Modern Literacies Paternal Latin, Mother Tongues, and Illustrious Vernaculars --$t3. Discourses of Imperial Nationalism as Matrices for Early Modern Literacies --$tInterlude --$t4. An Empire of Her Own Literacy as Appropriation in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames --$t5. Making the World Anew Female Literacy as Reformation and Translation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron --$t6. Allegories of Imperial Subjection Literacy as Equivocation in Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam --$t7. New World Scenes from a Female Pen Literacy as Colonization in Aphra Behn's Widdow Ranter and Oroonoko --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tSelect Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWinner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of literacy toward more vernacular forms of speech and writing. Feguson's aim in this long-awaited work is twofold: to show that what counted as more valuable among these competing literacies had much to do with notions of gender, and to demonstrate how debates about female literacy were critical to the emergence of imperial nations. Looking at writers whom she dubs the figurative daughters of the mythological figure Dido-builder of an empire that threatened to rival Rome-Ferguson traces debates about literacy and empire in the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cary, and Aphra Behn, as well as male writers such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Wyatt. The result is a study that sheds new light on the crucial roles that gender and women played in the modernization of England and France. 410 0$aACLS Fellows? publications. 606 $aEuropean literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland 606 $aWomen and literature$zFrance 606 $aWomen$xEducation$zEngland 606 $aWomen$xEducation$zFrance 610 $areading, academics, academia, learning, education, educational, academic, scholarly, research, women, womens issues, time period, era, english, britain, uk, united kingdom, french, europe, european, western world, 16th, century, language, reader, writing, writer, analysis, conflict, print, culture, cultural, 15th, 17th, latin, clerical, speech, literacies, christine de pizan, aphra behn. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aWomen$xEducation 615 0$aWomen$xEducation 676 $a809/.89287/0904 700 $aFerguson$b Margaret W.$f1948-$0154405 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784835303321 996 $aDido's daughters$92288433 997 $aUNINA