Beyond the Cloister : : Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture / / Jenna Lay.
Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Cathol...
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Lay, Jenna, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Beyond the Cloister : Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture / Jenna Lay. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Spelling and Punctuation -- Introduction. Gender, Religion, and English Literary History -- 1. Fractured Discourse: Recusant Women and Forms of Virginity -- 2. To the Nunnery: Enclosure and Polemic in the English Convents in Exile -- 3. A Game of Her Own: The Reformation of Obedience -- 4. Cloisters and Country Houses: Women’s Literary Communities -- Epilogue. Failures of Literary History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic Englishwomen, whether living in convents on the European continent or as recusants in their own country, contributed to these debates, but even as their writings addressed the central religious and political issues of their time, their contributions were effaced and now are largely forgotten. Exploring the writings of Catholic women in conversation with those of Shakespeare, Marvell, Marlowe, Donne, and other canonical authors, Beyond the Cloister shows that nuns and recusants were centrally important to the development of English literature.The defining narratives of early modern England cast nuns as the relics of an unenlightened past and equated Catholic femininity with the dangerous charms of the Whore of Babylon. With careful attention to literary figurations of Catholic femininity and to the vibrant manuscript culture in the English convents, Jenna Lay reveals a far more complex reality. Through their use of tropes, figures, generic patterns, and literary allusions, Catholic women produced politically incendiary and rhetorically powerful lyrics, prayers, polemics, and hagiographies. Drawing on the insights of religious studies, historical formalism, and feminist criticism, Beyond the Cloister offers a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Catholic women authors England. English literature Catholic authors History and criticism. English literature Women authors History and criticism. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Religion and literature England History 16th century. Religion and literature England History 17th century. Women and literature England History 16th century. Women and literature England History 17th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Gender Studies. Literature. Women's Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2016 9783110485264 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110665918 print 9780812248388 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293029 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812293029 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812293029/original |
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