Women and the Bible in Early Modern England - Religious Reading and Writing

Zusatztext Collectively Molekamp's study adds to our knowledge about the cultural place of the Bible in early modern England, contributing to the scholarly conversations around this broad topic. Informationen zum Autor Femke Molekamp is currently a Global Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies/Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Prior to this she has held both AHRC and Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships at Warwick. She specializes in early modern religious literature, women's writing, and the history of emotion. Klappentext A study of English women's religious reading and writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Zusammenfassung A study of English women's religious reading and writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Vernacular Bible and Early Modern Englishwomen: Shifting Possibilities 1: The Geneva Bible in the Household 2: Early Modern Englishwomen and Modes of Bible-Reading 3: Female Religious Community: Reading and Writing 4: Women and Affective Religious Reading and Writing 5: The Sidney-Herbert Psalms and the Countess of Pembroke as a Reader of the Geneva Bible 6: Regarding the Passion: Aemelia Lanyer, Constance Aston Fowler, and Elizabeth Delaval Epilogue: The Female Bible-Reader: 'no longer a consumer but a producer of texts'

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• Authors: Femke Molekamp, Femke (Global Research Fellow Molekamp, Molekamp Femke
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2013
• EAN: 9780199665402
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966540-2
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Christianity, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600