TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Margaret W.
TI  - Dido's daughters: literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France 
SN  - 9780226243184 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PN471 .F45 2003eb
U1  - 809/.89287/0904 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - European literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - French literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - England
KW  - France
KW  - Women
KW  - Education
KW  - Écrits de femmes anglais
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Écrits de femmes français
KW  - Alphabétisation
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Impérialisme dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Women Authors
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alfabetisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Latijn
KW  - Moedertaal
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - ლიტერატურა--
KW  - ევროპული ლიტერატურა--
KW  - მწერალი ქალები
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-483) and index; Competing concepts of literacy in imperial contexts: definitions, debates, interpretive models -- Sociolinguistic matrices for early modern literacies: paternal Latin, mother tongues, and illustrious vernaculars -- Discourses of imperial nationalism as matrices for early modern literacies -- An empire of her own: literacy as appropriation in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames -- Making the world anew: female literacy as reformation and translation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron -- Allegories of imperial subjection: literacy as equivocation in Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam -- New world scenes from a female pen: literacy as colonization in Aphra Behn's Widdow Ranter and Oroonoko
N2  - Winner 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 lit
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