White English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500–1625

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-14289-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Contributing to the growing interest in early modern women and religion, this essay collection advances scholarship by introducing readers to recently recovered or little-studied texts and by offering new paradigms for the analysis of women's religious literary activities. Contributors underscore the fact that women had complex, multi-dimensional relationships to the religio-political order, acting as activists for specific causes but also departing from confessional norms in creative ways and engaging in intra-as well as extra-confessional conflict. The volume thus includes essays that reflect on the complex dynamics of religious culture itself and that illuminate the importance of women's engagement with Catholicism throughout the period. The collection also highlights the vitality of neglected intertextual genres such as prayers, meditations, and translations, and it focuses attention on diverse forms of textual production such as literary writing, patronage, epistolary exchanges, public reading, and epitaphs. Collectively, English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625 offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical, literary, and methodological issues preoccupying scholars of women and religious writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Micheline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction: women, religious communities, intertextual prose genres, and textual production, Micheline White; Part I Women and Religious Communities: Living stones: Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation, Patricia Phillippy; 'Theise dearest offrings of my heart': the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes, Mary Trull; Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage, Susannah Brietz Monta; 'Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare': Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations of the restoration of English Franciscanism, Jaime Goodrich; Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare, Julie Crawford. Part II Reading Intertextual Prose Genres: Prospecting for common ground in devotion: Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook, Janel Mueller; 'Halff a scrypture woman': heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill, Susan M. Felch; Authority, scripture, and typography in Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscript meditations, Kate Narveson; Lady Margaret Beaufort's translations as mirrors of practical piety, Brenda M. Hosington; 'Neither bitterly nor brablingly': Lady Anne Cooke Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Patricia Demers; Works cited; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Micheline White is Associate Professor of English Literature at Carleton University, Canada. She is the editor of Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 3: Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer (2009), and has published articles on Tudor women and religious writing.