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Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. However from the 15th to the 17th centuries print culture led to many disputes over modes of literacy, as the transition from Latin to more vernacular forms of speech and writing escalated.

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"This is a book of unique vision and breadth. There are very few scholars of early modernism who possess the combination of traditional erudition and theoretical expertise that Margaret Ferguson does. The sweeping, learned analysis in Dido's Daughters will provide an entirely new perspective on the complex dynamics among gender, literacy, and modernization." - Mary Beth Rose, author of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature

Didos Daughters Literacy Gender Empire in Early

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/15/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226243115, 978-0226243115
      ISBN10: 0226243117
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      Literacy Literary studies: general Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. However from the 15th to the 17th centuries print culture led to many disputes over modes of literacy, as the transition from Latin to more vernacular forms of speech and writing escalated.

      Trade Review
      "This is a book of unique vision and breadth. There are very few scholars of early modernism who possess the combination of traditional erudition and theoretical expertise that Margaret Ferguson does. The sweeping, learned analysis in Dido's Daughters will provide an entirely new perspective on the complex dynamics among gender, literacy, and modernization." - Mary Beth Rose, author of Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature

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