Margaret Ferguson

Biographic Data

ID3853046
NAMEMargaret Ferguson
GIVEN NAMESMargaret
FAMILY NAMEFerguson
SIGNATUREFERGUSON M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Davis
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Re-Membering Milton

    Margaret Ferguson, Margaret W Ferguson et al.BOOKRe-Membering Milton2019

  • Women's Literacies and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern England

    Open AccessMargaret Ferguson, Mihoko SuzukiARTICLELiterature Compass2015Cited by: 1References: 17

    This article argues for a historically contextualized investigation of literacy that attends to early modern literacies in different and mixed media and to literacy as a complex set of practices and theories. Early modern literacy, for example, does not necessarily include both reading and writing: the criterion of measuring literacy by the signature is biased against women of various ranks as well as against poor men. Therefore, literacy rates o…

  • Prologue

    Margaret FergusonCHAPTERDido's Daughters2013

    This chapter discusses the contents and objective of this book which is to explore the history of female literary in the context of the story of Dido, a character in a Latin epic poem. It explains that Dido's stories dramatize the existence of competing histories in what counts as the cultural literacy of the West. This chapter suggests that the idea of a uniform national language has a long and socially fraught history that, when studied, invite…

  • New World Scenes from a Female Pen

    Margaret FergusonCHAPTERDido's Daughters2013

    This chapter sums up the key findings of this volume about women writers and female literacy. It suggests that the women writers studied in this book illustrated women's literacy in action without ever being representative of their sex in general or even of other literate women. This chapter highlights the gendered literacy shown by these women and argues that ideologies of gender and empire helped them to shape the rubric in consequential ways. …

  • An Empire of Her Own

    Margaret FergusonCHAPTERDido's Daughters2013

    This chapter explores how Marguerite de Navarre depicted literacy as reformation and translation in her book Heptaméron. It suggests that de Navarre appropriated both oral and written materials to construct an imperialist ideological project of her own and she was able to open and mystify lines of communication among women across generational and class lines. This chapter argues that de Navarre's decision to recreate Marguerite Porete's literary …

  • The Other Virgil

    Margaret W Ferguson, Margaret FergusonARTICLEComparative Literature Studies2010

    Book Review| January 01 2010 The Other Virgil: “Pessimistic” Readings of the “Aeneid” in Early Modern Culture The Other Virgil: “Pessimistic” Readings of the “Aeneid” in Early Modern CultureKallendorf, Craig Margaret W. Ferguson Margaret W. Ferguson University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2010) 47 (1): 124–128. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.47.1.0124 Cite …

  • Rewriting the Renaissance. The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe

    Margaret W Ferguson, Margaret Ferguson et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2009

    Renaissance et Réforme / 85 italienne, ces convegni internazionali ne tardèrent pas à avoir une ample résonance dans les milieux dédiés à l'étude de la Renaissance et de l'humanisme en général.Depuis mars 1988, Giovannangiola Tarugi n'est plus.En un geste de piété, il fut décidé que le centre d'études mettrait fin à ses activités, du moins sous son appellation d'origine

  • Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World

    Open AccessMargaret FergusonARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2009

    Kate Chedgzoy. Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550–1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. viii + 268 pp. index. bibl. $95. ISBN: 978–0–521–88098–5. - Volume 62 Issue 1

  • Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England

    Margaret Ferguson, Andrew Buck et al.BOOKWomen, Property, and the Letters…2004

    Property, and the Letters of Law in Early Modern England examines the competing narratives of property told by and about women in the early modern period. Through letters, legal treatises, case law, wills, and works of literature, the contributors explore women's complex roles as subjects and agents in commercial and domestic economies, and as objects shaped by a network of social and legal By constructing conversations across the disciplinary bo…

  • Dido's Daughters

    Margaret W Ferguson, Margaret Ferguson et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2004

  • Difficult Style and “Illustrious” Vernaculars

    Margaret FergusonCHAPTERJust Being Difficult?2003

  • Dido's Daughters

    Margaret W Ferguson, Margaret FergusonBOOKDido's Daughters2003Cited by: 24

  • Gender and gubernatorial personality

    Jay Barth, Margaret FergusonARTICLEWomen & Politics2002

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

    Open AccessJohn Spurr, Michael Seidel et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to…1998

    This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate politic…

  • The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry . With, The Lady Falkland

    Elizabeth Cary, Elizabeth Lady Cary et al.BOOKThe tragedy of Mariam, the fair…1994

    The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the desire of today's readers and scholars to know not merely how women were represented in the early modern period but also how they themselves perceived th…

  • Moderation and Its Discontents

    Margaret W Ferguson, Margaret Ferguson et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies1994Cited by: 2

    Margaret W. Ferguson, Moderation and Its Discontents: Recent Work on Renaissance Women, Feminist Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, Women's Agency: Empowerment and the Limits of Resistance (Summer, 1994), pp. 349-366

  • Re-Membering Milton

    Marilyn R Farwell, Mary Nyquist et al.ARTICLEComparative Literature1992

  • Re-Viewing the Renaissance

    Margaret Ferguson, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1992

  • Introduction

    Jennifer Wicke, Margaret FergusonARTICLEboundary 21992

    It may seem odd to echo Trollope in the introduction to a collection whose domain appears to be at the farthest remove from the vanished certainties of the world of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Yet, the boldness of Trollope's title can also serve to mark a strong boundary line for our own volume-in a quite simple sense, the awkward pairing formed by linking feminism and postmodernism is a description of our lives. The feminism practiced,…

  • Juggling the categories of race, class and gender

    Margaret W Ferguson, Margaret FergusonARTICLEWomen s Studies1991References: 7

    (1991). Juggling the categories of race, class and gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko. Women's Studies: Vol. 19, Women in the Renaissance: An Interdisciplinary Forum (MLA 1989), pp. 159-181

  • Women in the First Capitalist Society

    Margaret W Ferguson, Margaret Ferguson et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1990

  • Trials of Desire

    Jane Tylus, Margaret FergusonARTICLEModern Language Notes1984

  • Unredeemed Rhetoric

    Open AccessMargaret W Ferguson, Margaret FergusonARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1984

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  • Trials of Desire

    Geoffrey Hope, Margaret W Ferguson et al.ARTICLESubStance1984

  • Trials of Desire

    Open AccessMargaret W Ferguson, Margaret FergusonBOOKTrials of Desire1983