Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England
Author:   Ina Habermann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138715608


Publication Date:   19 December 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England


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This title was first published in 2003. This book examines slander in early modern England as a gendered and theatrical cultural practice.The author explores oral defamation - the negative fashioning of others - in language and rhetoric, social interaction and the law, literature and authorship as well as religion, subjectivity and the body. Since the 'slander triangle', which requires an accuser, an audience and a victim, is inherently theatrical, the dramatic representation of slander forms a central concern of the study. Focusing on sexual slander in particular, the author shows how femininity was fashioned between praise and slander, and how the 'slandered heroine' emerged as an influential fantasy of femininity - a linguistic, legal and social mechanism that lends itself to masculine self-fashioning through the display of eloquence but that is also subject to resignification by female authors.

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Author:   Ina Habermann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781138715608


ISBN 10:   1138715603
Publication Date:   19 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Contents: Introduction: Tongues of fire; How to do things with words (Romeo and Juliet, treatises on rhetoric); The rhetoric of slander (Othello, The Orator); The law of slander (treatises on the law);The brokers of oral reputation (treatises on the law, The Devil's Law Case, A Cure for a Cuckold, The Merry Wives of Windsor); Femininity between praise and slander (Il Pastor Fido, The Devil Is an Ass, Love's Victory); The Poisoned Tongue (treatises on slander, Lingua); The tongues of Pentecost (treatises on the tongue, Mary Sidney's Psalm translation); The slandered heroine (Othello, The Tragedy of Mariam); Bibliography; Index.

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