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Creelman, Valerie.

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Household words: The rhetoricity of fifteenth-century gentlewomen's household letters (Margaret Paston, Elizabeth Stonor, Isabel Plumpton, Agnes Plumpton, England).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Household words: The rhetoricity of fifteenth-century gentlewomen's household letters (Margaret Paston, Elizabeth Stonor, Isabel Plumpton, Agnes Plumpton, England)./
Author:	Creelman, Valerie.
Description:	283 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2199.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	Language, Rhetoric and Composition. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR03010
ISBN:	9780494030103

Household words: The rhetoricity of fifteenth-century gentlewomen's household letters (Margaret Paston, Elizabeth Stonor, Isabel Plumpton, Agnes Plumpton, England).
Creelman, Valerie.

Household words: The rhetoricity of fifteenth-century gentlewomen's household letters (Margaret Paston, Elizabeth Stonor, Isabel Plumpton, Agnes Plumpton, England). - 283 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2199.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waterloo (Canada), 2005.

Within medieval studies, the fifteenth-century household letters of Margaret Paston, Elizabeth Stonor, and Isabel and Agnes Plumpton have largely been treated as historical documents mined for the social, cultural, and economic details they provide about medieval gentlewomen's lives. This dissertation looks beyond the historical and philological interests of these letters to discover what these rhetorical artifacts teach us about the rhetoricity of women's everyday household writings and the literate and social discourse practices of fifteenth-century gentlewomen. In doing so, this study examines the language of women's household letters to trace the rhetorical effects of women's letter-writing in maintaining the socioeconomic stability of family and household and in cultivating women's socio-political agency within their households and localities.

ISBN: 9780494030103Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019205
Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

Household words: The rhetoricity of fifteenth-century gentlewomen's household letters (Margaret Paston, Elizabeth Stonor, Isabel Plumpton, Agnes Plumpton, England).
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520 $a By way of introduction, chapter 1 examines the socioeconomic motives for women's letter-writing to bring into sharper focus the critical linkage between their letter-writing and their effective management of the household's internal and external economies. Chapter 2 examines women's role in epistolary production and how women could achieve a level of competency in epistolary discourse by relying on their own literate resources and through repeated exposure to the epistolary genre, its discourse conventions, and the participants (secretary, messenger, and recipient) involved in this literacy event. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 focus on how relations of power between gentlewomen and their male addressees are reflected, maintained, and subverted in the style and content of their letters. Chapter 3 examines how the language of women's letters both reflects women's subordinate accountancy to their husbands and helps women establish empowering subject positions for themselves. Chapter 4 demonstrates how women creatively expand their household letters by using their household narratives as a space of opportunity for self-promotion, self-fashioning, and, to a limited extent, self-publication. By examining a sample of petitionary letters men address to gentlewomen within these family archives, chapter 5 shows how the forms of address and rhetorical strategies men use to mitigate their requests contribute to a durable, textual image of these women as influential and forceful entities.
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