Speaking Volumes - by Patricia Michaelson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An interdisciplinary study of women and language in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this book focuses on the connections that contemporaries made between speech and reading, studies the period's discourses on woman's language and their contrasts to the linguistic practices of individual women, and argues for the importance of oral performance of literature for women's development.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>An interdisciplinary study of women and language in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this book focuses on the connections that contemporaries made between speech and reading, studies the period's discourses on "woman's language" and their contrasts to the linguistic practices of individual women, and argues for the importance of oral performance of literature for women's development.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"Speaking Volumes is a wonderfully rewarding and eloquent book. It is well written, original, and full, and it will make a difference in the way this period is theorized and read."--Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University<br>"The case studies . . . .are fascinating, and Michaelson is skillful in ferreting out persuasive evidence of conversations necessarily now lost . . . .She works out [the detail of her theses] with elegance, clarity, and good sense."--Choice<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>...exceptionally well written, notably clear, solidly researched, and truly ground-breaking. After reading it, no scholar will be able to ignore the close connections between written and spoken language. And many of us will promptly pull out a favorite novel and sit down to read-aloud.-- "The East-Central Intelligencer"<br><br><i>Speaking Volumes</i> is a wonderfully rewarding and eloquent book. It is well written, original, and full, and it will make a difference in the way this period is theorized and read.--Claudia L. Johnson "Princeton University"<br><br>Against generalizing views of women's speech and silence, <i>Speaking Volumes</i> unearths the inventive richness of individual speakers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.--Andrew H. Miller "Studies in English Literature"<br><br>The case studies . . . .are fascinating, and Michaelson is skillful in ferreting out persuasive evidence of conversations necessarily now lost . . . .She works out [the detail of her theses] with elegance, clarity, and good sense.--<i>Choice</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Patricia Howell Michaelson is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas
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