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Dido's daughters

by Margaret W. Ferguson

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Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. Margaret Ferguson reveals in this text that this is inadequate, because it fails to help understand heated conflicts over literature during the emergence of print culture.

EducationEnglish literatureEuropean literatureFrench literatureHistory and criticismModern LiteratureWomenWomen and literatureWomen authorsEnglish literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700French literature, history and criticism, 16th centuryFrench literature, history and criticism, 17th century