Reading Women : Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18 [1 ed.] 9780812205985, 9780812220803

In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the o

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Reading Women : Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18 [1 ed.]
9780812205985, 9780812220803

Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of

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This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geograph

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Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown’s Annals of Europe and America, which contends tha

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Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of

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In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion

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Through a thoughtful consideration of the complexity of the religious landscape of the Atlantic basin, the collection pr

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In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of

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Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women, from Senegambia in West Africa to the

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In Middle Eastern cities as early as the mid-8th century, the Sons of Sasan begged, trained animals, sold medicinal plan

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How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic wo

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