Confessiones Amantis
Title | Confessiones Amantis PDF eBook |
Author | Gertrude More |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Spiritual exercises |
ISBN |
Jo. Gower de confessione Amantis. B.L.
Title | Jo. Gower de confessione Amantis. B.L. PDF eBook |
Author | John Gower |
Publisher | |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1532 |
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Beyond the Cloister
Title | Beyond the Cloister PDF eBook |
Author | Jenna Lay |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2016-07-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0812293029 |
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.
A Catalogue of Books in various languages, containing a selection of early printed books, illuminated manuscripts, Fathers of the Church ... and general literature ... for sale ... by C. Dolman
Title | A Catalogue of Books in various languages, containing a selection of early printed books, illuminated manuscripts, Fathers of the Church ... and general literature ... for sale ... by C. Dolman PDF eBook |
Author | Charles DOLMAN |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 1843 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance
Title | Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | M. Wynne-Davies |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2007-08-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230592945 |
This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, whilst closeting them within a form of writing that encompassed style or theme.
Gertrude More
Title | Gertrude More PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur F. Marotti |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351933795 |
Gertrude More belongs to a tradition of mystical writers who believed in the value of the via negativa, a path to union with God by way of total self-abnegation and the emptying of the mind of set ideas and images. Her only book-length work, THE SPIRITVAL EXERCISES (Paris, 1658), is a collection of her writing assembled by Dom Augustine Baker, OSB, and published some thirty-three years after her death. Some of More’s other verse and prose appears in the biography that Baker composed, but her SPIRITVAL EXERCISES remains the main text she has bequeathed to her order and to posterity. It is reprinted here in full with Arthur F. Marotti's introductory note outlining Gertrude More's life and work.
A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books
Title | A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books PDF eBook |
Author | Pickering & Chatto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1895 |
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