Description: Speaking Volumes : Women, Reading, And Speech In The Age Of Austen, Paperback by Michaelson, Patricia Howell, ISBN 080475117X, ISBN-13 9780804751179, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. Th also argues that the oral performance of literature was important in fostering domesticity and serving as a means for women to practice authoritative 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 an overview of the discourse on eighteenth-century women's speech, which emphasizes how women were lumped together as a single, deficient class of speakers, the remaining chapters each center on an individual woman to examine the historical forces her speech illuminates. The author describes Quaker language as a sociolect with norms different from those of the "polite" world, and shows how one speaker, Amelia Opie, utilized a highly mediated form of language that situated her strategically as either a Quaker or a "polite" considering the struggle of the actress Sarah Siddons to bridge the gap between theatrical speech and ordinary language, the author relates the oral performance of literature to other forms of display that were expected of women. Using Frances Burney as exemplar, she then examines how reading together fostered domesticity. Finally, relying on the novels of Jane Austen, especially Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, th argues that novels took the place of conversation manuals in educating speakers.
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Book Title: Speaking Volumes : Women, Reading, And Speech In The Age Of Auste
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Speaking Volumes : Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2004
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Public Speaking, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.6 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Patricia Michaelson
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
