Early Modern Women in Conversation

1. Introduction Beyond the Humanist Dialogue: The Textual Conversations of Early Modern Women
Katherine R. Larson

Part I. Gendering Conversation and Space in Early Modern England

2. ‘Intercourses of Friendship’: Gender, Conversation, and Social Performance
Katherine R. Larson

3. Markets and Thresholds: Conversation as Spatial Practice
Katherine R. Larson

Part II. The Sidneys in Conversation

4. Speaking to God with ‘a cloven tongue’: The Sidney-Pembroke Psalter
Katherine R. Larson

5. Conversational Games and the Articulation of Desire in Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory and Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
Katherine R. Larson

Part III. The Cavendishes in Conversation

6. ‘The language of friendship and conversation’: Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley’s Conversational Alliances
Katherine R. Larson

7. The Civil Conversations of Margaret Cavendish and Ben Jonson
Katherine R. Larson

8. Conclusion
Katherine R. Larson

Keywords: History, History of Early Modern Europe, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, European Literature, European History, Modern History