{"id":341,"date":"2017-03-28T01:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/?page_id=341"},"modified":"2018-03-01T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T01:18:11","slug":"feminisms-and-rhetoric-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/feminisms-and-rhetoric-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Feminisms and Rhetorics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take on You the Defense of This Booke\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Margaret Asham\u2019s Preface to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Scholemaster<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1570, Roger Ascham\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Scholemaster<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> marked a significant moment in early modern pedagogical thought, offering a humanist curriculum that presented Elizabeth Tudor as a preeminent example of an educated individual. While <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Scholemaster<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was republished frequently for centuries, another act of authorship was preserved with it. Ascham\u2019s wife, Margaret, composed a dedicatory preface directed to William Cecil, Elizabeth\u2019s chief advisor. Vicki Collins examines John Wesley\u2019s preface to Hester Ann Rogers\u2019 work as an example of rhetorical accretion and a man\u2019s effort to authenticate the authority of a female author through re-shaping her identity. Conversely, Margaret Ascham\u2019s preface, added after Roger\u2019s death, is a unique paratextual artifact; it constitutes a rare example of an early modern female-authored preface framing a male-authored text. When considering the early modern preface as a historically situated genre, such a unique example allows us to consider gendered strategies for establishing ethos and motivations for addressing a public audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[gview file=&#8221;https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/479\/2017\/03\/FemRhet-15-Ascham-Preface.pdf&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTake on You the Defense of This Booke\u201d: Margaret Asham\u2019s Preface to The Scholemaster In 1570, Roger Ascham\u2019s The Scholemaster marked a significant moment in early modern pedagogical thought, offering a humanist curriculum that presented Elizabeth Tudor as a preeminent example of an educated individual. While The Scholemaster was republished frequently for centuries, another act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/mmize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}