Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900
Awards:   Winner of British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs competition winner. Winner of Winner, 2022 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
Author:   Helena Sanson (, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Clare College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780197264836


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   08 September 2011
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs competition winner.
  • Winner of Winner, 2022 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

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Author:   Helena Sanson (, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Clare College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.926kg
ISBN:  

9780197264836


ISBN 10:   0197264832
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   08 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Prologue: On Grammar and Women 1: Grammatica: the key to knowledge 2: The Spoken Language, the Written Language 3: The Scope of this Book PART I (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries) 1: Women, the Vernacular, and Classical Languages 2: Women and Vernacular Grammar PART TWO (Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries) 3: Women and Language in the Secolo delle donne 4: Knowledge and Language 'for the ladies' PART THREE (The Nineteenth Century) 5: Women and the Mother Tongue in the Ottocento 6: Women Writing on Language Epilogue

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[an] excellent and stimulating study ... richly detailed and illustrated Jane Everson, Times Literary Supplement


[an] excellent and stimulating study ... richly detailed and illustrated Jane Everson, Times Literary Supplement Sansons excellent study proposes a different way of looking at the development of the Italian standard language according to womens perspective.


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Dr Helena Sanson is Senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Department of Italian, and Fellow of Clare College. She has a PhD from the University of Reading and taught at University College London before taking up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cambridge between 2003 and 2005. Dr Sanson is the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2009).

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