Wit, Virtue, and Emotion: British Women's Enlightenment Rhetoric

(Part of the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series)

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Women's persuasion and performance in the Age of Enlightenment

Over a century before first-wave feminism, British women's Enlightenment rhetoric prefigured nineteenth-century feminist arguments for gender equality, women's civil rights, professional opportunities, and standardized education. Author Elizabeth Tasker Davis rereads accepted histories of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British rhetoric, claiming a greater variety and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0809338270

ISBN13:9780809338276

Release Date:November 2021

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Wit, Virtue, and Emotion: British Women's Enlightenment Rhetoric

(Part of the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series)

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