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

White, Micheline

2011,2016,2013

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Ashgate,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: 17th century / Christian literature, English / Christian women / Early Modern / England / English literature / English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism / English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism / Gender Studies / History / Literary History / Literature & Gender Studies / Religion & Art / Religion and literature / Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century / Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century / Religion in literature / Renaissance Literature / Women and literature / Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century / Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century / Women and religion / Women and religion -- England -- History -- 16th century / Women and religion -- England -- History -- 17th century
• ISBN: 9781409406518, 1409406512, 1138260800, 9781138260801