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The Rhetoric of Concealment
Rosemary Kegl
其他書名
Figuring Gender and Class in Renaissance Literature
出版Cornell University Press, 1994
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)History / Europe / RenaissanceLanguage Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / European / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender IdentitySocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN9780801430169080143016X
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BaMJpWM1hKkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Kegl's readings center on a recurrent rhetorical gesture in the work of each author - riddling disclosure in Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie, the logic of unsound bodies and buildings in Sidney's Arcadia, the network of insults in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, and the collection of proverbial wisdom in Deloney's Jack of Newbury. Asking what sorts of social relations such gestures promote, she analyzes how they help to mediate the relationships between, on the one hand, patterns of economic exploitation and, on the other, absolutism, popular rebellion, social mobility, the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical and secular courts, the structure of guilds, and the relative authority of town government. Kegl also traces interrelationships between such rhetorical gestures and the language used to describe Elizabeth's rule, the gendered division of labor, the situation of propertied widows, and the prosecution and punishment, in ecclesiastical courts and in shaming rituals, of women's verbal and sexual excesses. By way of conclusion, she takes up recent work by Karen Newman and Richard Halpern in order to discuss the role that Renaissance historical criticism may play in contemporary cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.