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Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, through the Middle Ages to the present. Gary Waller investigates Walsingham's rich tradition of literary and dramatic writing, ballads,
List of contents
Contents: Preface; Historical imagination: the invented tradition of Our Lady of Walsingham; Gynotheological imagination: the Virgin's body and the alternate Mariologies of late medieval Walsingham; Walsingham's Chaucer: Erasmus's Peregrinatio Religionis Ergo; 'As you came from Walsingham': Walsingham in poetry and music after the Dissolution; The Protestantization of Walsingham; Walsingham's Victorian Chaucer; Agnes Strickland's The Pilgrims of Walsingham; Re-Catholicization: Walsingham in literature from Hopkins and Waterton to A.N. Wilson; Alternate, post-modern, feminist Mary(ies)? Imagining Walsingham today; Works cited; Index.
About the author
Gary Waller, Professor of Literature, Cultural Studies and Theatre, Purchase College, SUNY, has written many studies of early modern literature. He is currently exploring interconnections among history, psychoanalysis, and theology.
Summary
Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, through the Middle Ages to the present. Gary Waller investigates Walsingham's rich tradition of literary and dramatic writing, ballads,
