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Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern England and

Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern England and France Paperback / softback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Margaret W. Ferguson

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Paperback / softback. New. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. However from the 15th to the 17th centuries print culture led to many disputes over modes of literacy, as the transition from Latin to more vernacular forms of speech and writing escalated.
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  • Title Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern England and France
  • Author Margaret W. Ferguson
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 520
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2003-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780226243122
  • ISBN 9780226243122 / 0226243125
  • Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 5.9 x 1.08 in (23.37 x 14.99 x 2.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature, Modern - History and criticism, English literature - Women authors - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003004087
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.892

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From the rear cover

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.

Fegurson'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.

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Citations

  • Choice, 05/01/2004, Page 1658

About the author

Margaret W. Ferguson is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry and coeditor of a number of books, most recently The Norton Anthology of Poetry, fourth edition.

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