Beyond the cloister : Catholic Englishwomen and early modern literary culture / Jenna Lay.
Beyond the cloister : Catholic Englishwomen and early modern literary culture / Jenna Lay.
Beyond the cloister : Catholic Englishwomen and early modern literary culture / Jenna Lay.
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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G 2018/0482
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Language
English
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Physical content
243 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: gender, religion, and English literary history -- Fractured discourse: recusant women and forms of virginity -- To the nunnery: enclosure and polemic in the English convents in exile -- A game of her own: the reformation of obedience -- Cloisters and country houses: women's literary co...
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
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 Lea...
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Beyond the cloister : Catholic Englishwomen and early modern literary culture / Jenna Lay.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index.
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G 2018/0482
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74VKVG0gVVAM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVG0gVVAM
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ISBN
0812248384 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780812248388 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
DDC
820.99287
MMS ID
991024155817102626
