How Long to Read Politic and Civil Words

How Long Does it Take to Read Politic and Civil Words?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 10 minutes to read Politic and Civil Words by Katherine Rebecca Larson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This study considers how five women from the Sidney and Cavendish families use written conversational interaction, what I call textual conversation, to mediate relationships within and through their texts. Attention to the interactive dimensions of the writings of Mary Sidney Herbert, Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Jane Cavendish, and Elizabeth Brackley sheds important insight into the question of how these writers were negotiating the complex interrelationship among language, architectural and physiological space, and political and sexual agency. Conversation, both written and oral, was a vital political tool for male courtiers in the early modern period. I argue not only that Pembroke, Wroth, Cavendish, and her stepdaughters were attuned to the strategic potential of conversational interchange but that they redeployed the tenets of decorous oral and epistolary conversation in their writings to construct authoritative speaking positions for themselves and their female protagonists. The conditions for such agency are paradoxically fostered through the construction of fictional conversational spaces. Chapter One considers the conflated spaces of the closet, cave, and heart within which Pembroke's psalmist converses with God. Chapter Two explores the ludic spaces that pervade Mary Wroth's closet drama Love's Victory (c. 1620) and sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621). Chapter Three focuses on the space of the salon in relation to Jane Cavendish's occasional poems and collaborative household drama The Concealed Fancies (c. 1645), co-authored with her sister Elizabeth Brackley, while Chapter Four delves into the fantasy social space of Margaret Cavendish's epistolary paratext. In each case, the delimitation of conversational boundaries, coupled with the development of alternative conversational codes, sanctions considerably more authority within an interchange than would be possible in oral contexts. Like the exclusive closets and courts characteristic of humanist dialogues, these spaces create the possibility for simultaneously pointed and civil critique and train female speakers in the powerful potential of language use. My readings of textual conversation demonstrate its significance as a form of rhetorical practice and situate it as an alternative site of social interaction that facilitates political alliance and self-authorization even as it problematizes the boundaries between public and private, speaker and addressee.

How long is Politic and Civil Words?

Politic and Civil Words by Katherine Rebecca Larson is 610 pages long, and a total of 152,500 words.

This makes it 206% the length of the average book. It also has 186% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Politic and Civil Words Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 53 minutes to read Politic and Civil Words aloud.

What Reading Level is Politic and Civil Words?

Politic and Civil Words is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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