Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England

by Kirilka Stavreva

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Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective manipulation and even subversion of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803295863

ISBN13:9780803295865

Release Date:March 2017

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:230 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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