Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Erica Longfellow is Senior Lecturer in English at Kingston University. Klappentext This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. Zusammenfassung By placing women's religious writing in a broad theological and socio-political context! Erica Longfellow challenges traditional critical assumptions about the role of gender in shaping religion and politics and the role of women in defining gender and thus influencing religion and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on transcription and citation; Introduction; 1. 'Blockish Adams' on mystical marriage; 2. Ecce homo: the spectacle of Christ's passion in Salve deus rex judæorum; 3. Serpents and doves: Lady Anne Southwell and the new Adam; 4. Public worship and private thanks in Eliza's babes; 5. Anna Trapnel 'sings of her Lover'; 6. The transfiguration of Colonel Hutchinson in Lucy Hutchinson's elegies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Erica Longfellow, Erica (Kingston University Longfellow
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521100403
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10040-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies