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

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

Michaelson, Patricia Howell

Hardcover

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0804740755
ISBN13: 9780804740753
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Mar 31 2002
Pages: 261
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
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 period's discourses on 'woman's 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 practise 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 'woman's language' while insisting implicitly that gender was not always the most salient feature of their identities.

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