Table of contents for Dido's daughters : literacy, gender, and empire in early modern England and France / Margaret W. Ferguson.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part 1 - Theoretical and Historical Considerations
1. Competing Concepts of Literacy in Imperial Contexts: Definitions, Debates, Interpretive Models
2. Sociolinguistic Matrices for Early Modern Literacies: Paternal Latin, Mother Tongues, and Illustrious Vernaculars
3. Discourses of Imperial Nationalism as Matrices for Early Modern Literacies
Part 2 - Literacy in Action and in Fantasy Case Studies
Interlude
4. An Empire of Her Own: Literacy as Appropriation in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité
des Dames
5. Making the World Anew: Female Literacy as Reformation and Translation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron
6. Allegories of Imperial Subjection: Literacy as Equivocation in Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam
7. New World Scenes from a Female Pen: Literacy as Colonization in Aphra Behn's Widdow Ranter and Oroonoko
Afterword
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: European literature Women authors History and criticism, Literature, Modern History and criticism, French literature Women authors History and criticism, English literature Women authors History and criticism, Women and literature England, Women and literature France, Women Education England, Women Education France