Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in

Informationen zum Autor Kim Coles is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland. Klappentext An important study reclaiming the importance of women in Protestant literary culture. Zusammenfassung Long considered marginal in early modern culture! women writers were actually central to the development of a Protestant literary tradition in England! Kimberly Anne Coles argues. This book is full of prevalent material and fresh analysis for scholars of early modern literature! culture and religious history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: making sects: women as reformers, writers and subjects in Reformation England; 1. The death of the author (and the appropriation of her text): the case of Anne Askew's Examinations; 2. Representing the faith of a nation: transitional spirituality in the works of Katherine Parr; 3. '[A] pen to paynt': Mary Sidney Herbert and the problems of a Protestant poetics; 4. A New Jerusalem: Anne Lok's 'Meditation' and the lyric voice; 5. 'A Womans writing of diuinest things': Aemilia Lanyer's passion for a professional poetic vocation; Afterword.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly Anne Coles, Coles Kimberly Anne, Coles Kimberly Anne
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521130127
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13012-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, RELIGION / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, History of Religion, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800