Table of Contents: Dido's daughters :

Main Author:	Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
Subjects:	European literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Literature, Modern > History and criticism. French literature > Women authors > History and criticism. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > England. Women and literature > France. Women > Education > England. Women > Education > France. Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique. > 16e siècle Écrits de femmes français > Histoire et critique. > 16e siècle Alphabétisation > Histoire > 16e siècle. > Angleterre Alphabétisation > Histoire > 16e siècle. > France Impérialisme dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors. English literature > Women authors. European literature > Women authors. French literature > Women authors. Literature, Modern. Women and literature. Women > Education. Alfabetisme. Latijn. Moedertaal. England. France.
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Table of Contents:

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.