Speaking Volumes: Women, Reading, and Speech in the Age of Austen

by Patricia Howell Michaelson

An interdisciplinary study of women and language in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Speaking Volumes focuses on the connections that contemporaries made between speech and reading. It studies the period's discourses on "woman's language" and contrasts them with the linguistic practices of individual women. The book also argues that the oral performance of literature was important in fostering domesticity and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080475117X
• ISBN13: 9780804751179
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"