Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670

Informationen zum Autor Genelle Gertz is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, Virginia and teaches courses on medieval and early modern literature. Klappentext This book charts the emergence of women's writing from the procedures of heresy trials and recovers a tradition of women's trial narratives. Zusammenfassung By analyzing the interrogations of Margery Kempe! Anne Askew! Marian Protestant women! Margaret Clitherow and Quaker women! Genelle Gertz examines the complex dynamics of women's writing! preaching and authorship under religious persecution and censorship and uncovers unexpected connections between the writings of women on trial for their religious beliefs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: articulating women; 1. 'Belief papers and the literary genres of heresy trial'; 2. 'Confessing Margery Kempe, 1413-38'; 3. 'Recanting and rewriting Anne Askew, 1540-6'; 4. 'Sanctifying ploughmans' daughters and butchers' wives: the interrogations of Alice Driver, Elizabeth Young, Agnes Prest and Margaret Clitherow, 1555-86'; 5. 'Exporting inquisition: Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers at Malta, 1659-63'; Conclusion: visionaries, non-conformists and the history of women's trial writing.

Product details

• Authors: Genelle Gertz, Genelle (Professor Gertz, Gertz Genelle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2012
• EAN: 9781107017054
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01705-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Church history, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval