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Overview
“Speaking Volumes is a wonderfully rewarding and eloquent book. It is well written, original, and full, and it will make a difference in the way this period is theorized and read.”—Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University“The case studies . . . .are fascinating, and Michaelson is skillful in ferreting out persuasive evidence of conversations necessarily now lost . . . .She works out [the detail of her theses] with elegance, clarity, and good sense.”—Choice
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"Speaking Volumes is a wonderfully rewarding and eloquent book. It is well written, original, and full, and it will make a difference in the way this period is theorized and read."—Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University"The case studies . . . .are fascinating, and Michaelson is skillful in ferreting out persuasive evidence of conversations necessarily now lost . . . .She works out [the detail of her theses] with elegance, clarity, and good sense."—Choice
"Against generalizing views of women's speech and silence, Speaking Volumes unearths the inventive richness of individual speakers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."—Andrew H. Miller, Studies in English Literature
"...exceptionally well written, notably clear, solidly researched, and truly ground-breaking. After reading it, no scholar will be able to ignore the close connections between written and spoken language. And many of us will promptly pull out a favorite novel and sit down to read-aloud."—The East-Central Intelligencer