Beschreibung:
An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.
Introduction: Authorial Alibis: Early Modern and Late Modern Self-Effacement and Sprezzatura: Modesty and Manipulation Sola Scriptura: Reading, Speech, and Silence in The Examinations of Anne Askew 'A worme most abjecte': Sermo Humilisas Reformation Strategy in Katherine Parr's Prayers or Medytacions Mea Mediocritas: Mary Sidney, Modesty, and the History of the Book 'This triall of my slender skill': Inexpressibility and Interpretive Community in Aemilia Lanyer's Encomia 'To be a foole in print': Anne Bradstreet and the Romance of 'Pirated' Publication Bibliography Index