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Micheline White - English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625, Inbunden

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English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625

Av Micheline White

Del i serien Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

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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.
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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.

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'This excellent collection breaks new ground, admirably theorizing early modern women's agency in religious communities and intertextual prose genres.' Margaret P. Hannay, Siena College, USA and author of Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth '... the essays are thought provoking and valuable, offering a new understanding of how early-modern women used writing to engage with religion... Recommended.' Choice 'Taken together, these essays confirm Patricia Phillipy's eloquent statement, "Spirituality is a social undertaking, intimately bound to conversation, conference, and debate". This collection also offers important techniques of analysis of women's prayers, a genre often neglected because its reliance on scripture would seem to detract from authorial creativity... these essays provide useful techniques for reading women's religious writing that will influence future work.' Renaissance Quarterly 'The scholarship collected here rests on detailed archival work, careful historicizing of textual production, and close attention to textual sources. The volume will be required reading for all those who work on early modern women’s religious literature, and will be valued not least for its focus on style and language. As well as telling us much about the works discussed and their social and religious contexts, these essays show that the history of the book has its part to play in developing methodologies for the study of early modern women’s religious writing.' SHARP News 'A wonderful collection, English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625, will appeal to both historians and literary critics of early modern women and religiosity. I highly recommend it.' Renaissance Studies ’...[This book] admirably fulfils its historical and theoretical briefs, restoring attention to little discussed texts, recovering the contexts that explain them, and reinstating the literary and critical frameworks that shape them. White and her contributors should therefore be congratul

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