Figures of Virtue: Margaret Fell and Aemilia Lanyer's Use of Decorum as Ethical Good Judgment in the Construction of Female Discursive Authority

Figures of Virtue: Margaret Fell and Aemilia Lanyer's Use of Decorum as Ethical Good Judgment in the Construction of Female Discursive Authority

Understanding how the Renaissance rhetorical curriculum taught style as behavior makes it possible to unite the study of women writers' identities with formal criticism. Nancy L. Christiansen shows that early modern humanists built on the Isocratean tradition of teaching rhetoric as an ethical...

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Main Author: Osmani, Kirsten Marie
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2021
Subjects:
rhetoric
style
rhetorical figures
good judgment
decorum
ethics
virtue
form
formal criticism
stylistic analysis
identity
women's writing
women writers
intellectual authority
spiritual authority
Renaissance
Early Modern
Christian humanism
Margaret Fell
Aemilia Lanyer
Erasmus
Cicero
Isocrates
Arts and Humanities
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9355
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