Author: David Morrison RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640
Author: David Morrison RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
English Recusant Literature
Author: English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640. Selected and Edited by D.M. Rogers
Author: ENGLISH RECUSANT LITERATURE.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640
Author: David McGregor RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
English Recusant Literature
Author: English Recusant Literature
Author: A Companion to Catholicism and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland
Author: Robert E. Scully SjPublisher: Brill's Companions to the Chri
ISBN: 9789004151611
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
"This book is an edited collection of nineteen essays written by a range of experts and some newer scholars in the areas of early modern British and Irish history and religion. In addition to English Catholicism, developments in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, as well as ongoing connections and interactions with Continental Catholicism, are well incorporated throughout the volume"--
English Recusant Literature
Author: English Recusant Literature 1558-1640
Author: David Morrison RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Catholic
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Beyond the Cloister
Author: Jenna LayPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic Englishwomen, whether living in convents on the European continent or as recusants in their own country, contributed to these debates, but even as their writings addressed the central religious and political issues of their time, their contributions were effaced and now are largely forgotten. Exploring the writings of Catholic women in conversation with those of Shakespeare, Marvell, Marlowe, Donne, and other canonical authors, Beyond the Cloister shows that nuns and recusants were centrally important to the development of English literature. The defining narratives of early modern England cast nuns as the relics of an unenlightened past and equated Catholic femininity with the dangerous charms of the Whore of Babylon. With careful attention to literary figurations of Catholic femininity and to the vibrant manuscript culture in the English convents, Jenna Lay reveals a far more complex reality. Through their use of tropes, figures, generic patterns, and literary allusions, Catholic women produced politically incendiary and rhetorically powerful lyrics, prayers, polemics, and hagiographies. Drawing on the insights of religious studies, historical formalism, and feminist criticism, Beyond the Cloister offers a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history.