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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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