Women Death And Literature In Post Reformation England

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Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

Author : Patricia Phillippy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521814898
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (148 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England by : Patricia Phillippy

Download or read book Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England written by Patricia Phillippy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy examines the crucial literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period. By examining early modern funerary, liturgical and lamentational practices, as well as diaries, poems and plays, she illustrates the consistent gendering of rival styles of grief in post-Reformation England. Phillippy emphasises the period's textual and cultural constructions of male and female subjects as predicated upon gendered approaches to death. She argues that while feminine grief is condemned as immoderately emotional by male reformers, the same characteristic that opens women's mourning to censure enable its use as a means of empowering women's speech. Phillippy calls on a wide range of published and archival material that date from the Reformation to well into the seventeenth century, providing a study that will appeal to cultural as well as literary historians.

'Painful Passages': Death, Ritual, and Literature in Post-Reformation England

Author : Abram Steen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (762 download)

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Book Synopsis 'Painful Passages': Death, Ritual, and Literature in Post-Reformation England by : Abram Steen

Download or read book 'Painful Passages': Death, Ritual, and Literature in Post-Reformation England written by Abram Steen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines forms of writing that emerge in seventeenth century England as Protestants struggle to reform older Catholic traditions and discover new ways of representing death. Cultural and literary studies in this period have usually seen this transition as an attack on traditional modes of remembering the dead and comforting the dying. I draw on recent historiography in order to counter the assumption of a single, iconoclastic Protestant approach to death and demonstrate the dynamic, often conflicting ways in which literary and nonliterary texts contribute to the ongoing reform of this crucial rite of passage. Death rituals are an important site of controversy and change in this period, and works of literature engage in the debate over their meaning as they represent practices associated with visitation of the dying, grieving, will-making, and burial. Looking at lyric poetry by John Donne, religious allegory by John Bunyan, and ars moriendi literature by a range of Protestant writers, I analyze how elements of "ritual form" are adapted in texts seeking to both stabilize and "reform" cultural representations of death. My argument also engages with recent work on modern, privatized forms of mourning and memory and responds critically to the claim that Protestantism created or enabled these secularized responses to death. I emphasize, instead, the sense of ceremonial obligation that informs post-Reformation literature as writers continue to represent death as a sacred, communal occasion in which religious affiliations are reaffirmed.

Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351919393
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature by : Jennifer C. Vaught

Download or read book Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature written by Jennifer C. Vaught and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full length treatment of how men of different professions, social ranks and ages are empowered by their emotional expressiveness in early modern English literary works, this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to emotionally expressive courtiers or gentlemen on all kinds of men in early modern English literature. Jennifer Vaught bases her analysis on the epic, lyric, and romance as well as on drama, pastoral writings and biography, by Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Jonson and Garrick among other writers. Offering new readings of these works, she traces the gradual emergence of men of feeling during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to the blossoming of this literary version of manhood during the eighteenth century.

Shakespeare Studies

Author : Susan Zimmerman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838640338
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare Studies by : Susan Zimmerman

Download or read book Shakespeare Studies written by Susan Zimmerman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hard cover, containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres. It includes substantial reviews of significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of early modern England, as well as the place of Shakespeare's productions - and those of his contemporaries - within it. Volume XXXII continues the second in a series of essays on Early Modern Drama around the World in which specialists in theatrical traditions from around the globe during the time of Shakespeare discuss the state of scholarly study in their respective areas. O'Hara reviews work relevant to the theater of early modern France. Volume XXXII also includes another in the journal's series of Forums, entitled The Future of Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Organized and introduced by Peter Beal, the Forum includes contributions by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Grace Ioppolo, Harold Love, and Steven W. May. Additionally, this volume contains seven full-length articles and twenty-two book reviews. Leeds Barroll is a Scholar in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library,

Women and the Bible in Early Modern England

Author : Femke Molekamp
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191643297
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and the Bible in Early Modern England by : Femke Molekamp

Download or read book Women and the Bible in Early Modern England written by Femke Molekamp and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Bible in Early Modern England provides an account of the uniquely important role of the Bible in the development of female interpretative and literary agency, as well as in the expression of female subjectivity in early modern England. In the later sixteenth and throughout the seventeenth century women's religious writing diversified in genre and entered increasingly into a public literary sphere. Femke Molekamp shows that the Bible was at the heart of female reading culture, and that women can be seen to have participated in multiple modes of reading it, which, in turn, fostered various kinds of literary writing. The sources used in this book to reconstruct reading practices, and trace their connection to religious writing, are drawn from diverse archives, to include the annotations, biographical writing, commonplace books, letters, treatises, and other literary writings in print and manuscript of both prominent early modern women well known to us, and women who have so far remained obscure. The book argues that the increased circulation of the Bible in English fostered reading practices that enabled a growth in female interpretative and literary agency.

The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury

Author : H.L. Meakin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351541684
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury by : H.L. Meakin

Download or read book The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury written by H.L. Meakin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572-1624) was the granddaughter and niece of two of England's Lord Keepers of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon. Lady Anne was also the friend and patroness of John Donne and Joseph Hall; however, she deserves to be remembered in her own right. Within her massive country house, Lady Anne created a tiny painted room that she seems to have used as a kind of three-dimensional book. The walls consisted of panels of pictures and mottoes, grouped under Latin sentences. These panels can still be viewed in a Suffolk museum: Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich. Some panels point to classical and Biblical sources, and to popular emblem books. The sources of other panels are more recondite, while still others are original compositions by Lady Anne. The panels exhibit a contemptus mundi theme and reflect a struggle with ambition, pride, and even despair. Some panels also appear to register carefully veiled but pointed critiques of political and religious events and figures. Lady Anne's painted closet or 'architext' is thus relevant to a wide range of early modern scholarship in various disciplines but is as yet largely unappreciated. For the first time in four hundred years, this book fully describes the closet and places it in its personal, social, intellectual, and aesthetic contexts. It argues for the painted closet's importance for understanding early modern conceptualizations of private and public spaces, and for illuminating fundamental early modern habits of seeing and reading (especially combinations of text and image). Finally, this book explores the closet as an example of the ingenious ways in which female subjectivity found ways to express itself even within the constraints of early modern patriarchal society in England.

World-Making Renaissance Women

Author : Pamela S. Hammons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108924387
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book World-Making Renaissance Women written by Pamela S. Hammons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book answers three simple questions. First, what mistaken assumptions do we make about the early modern period when we ignore women's literary contributions? Second, how might we come to recognise women's influence on the history of literature and culture, as well as those instances of outright pathbreaking mastery for which they are so often responsible? Finally, is it possible to see some women writers as world-makers in their own right, individuals whose craft cut into cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced well beyond their own moment? The essays in this volume pursue these questions through intense archival investigation, intricate close reading, and painstaking literary-historical tracking, tracing in concrete terms sixteen remarkable women and their world-shaping activities.

A History of Early Modern Women's Writing

Author : Patricia Phillippy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108576281
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book A History of Early Modern Women's Writing written by Patricia Phillippy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Early Modern Women's Writing is essential reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern British literature and history. This collaborative book of twenty-two chapters offers an expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production in the period stretching from the English Reformation to the Restoration. Chapters work together to trace the contours of a diverse body of early modern women's writing, aligning women's texts with the major literary, political, and cultural currents with which they engage. Contributors examine and take account of developments in critical theory, feminism, and gender studies that have influenced the reception, reading, and interpretation of early modern women's writing. This book explicates and interrogates significant methodological and critical developments in the past four decades, guiding and testing scholarship in this period of intense activity in the recovery, dissemination, and interpretation of women's writing.

Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England

Author : Kathleen Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315465752
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England written by Kathleen Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." This new approach, examining speech exchanges between a speaker and audience in which both anticipate, interact with, and respond to each other and each other's expectations, demonstrates that the prescriptive process involves a dynamic exchange in which each side plays a role in establishing and contesting the boundaries of acceptable speech for women. Drawing from a wide range of evidence, including pamphlets, diaries, illustrations, and plays, the book interprets the various and at times contradictory representations and reception of women’s speech that circulated in early modern England. Speech scenes examined within include wives' speech to their husbands in private, private speech between women, public speech before death, and the speech of witches. Looking at scenes of women’s speech from male and female authors, Smith argues that these early modern texts illustrate a means through which societal regulations were negotiated and modified. This book will appeal to those with an interest in early modern drama, including the playwrights Shakespeare, Cary, Webster, Fletcher, and Middleton, as well as readers of non-dramatic early modern literary texts. The volume is of particular use for scholars working in the areas of early modern literature and culture, women’s history, gender studies, and performance studies.

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

Author : Elizabeth Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107079985
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance written by Elizabeth Hodgson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the way in which early modern women writers conceived of grief and the relationship between the dead and the living.

Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods

Author : Naomi J. Miller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030142116
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods by : Naomi J. Miller

Download or read book Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods written by Naomi J. Miller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and locations, from cultural anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science, and from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned writers for children. The opening group of essays, Educating Children, explores what is perhaps the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. Performing Childhood addresses children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning. Literatures of Childhood examines texts written for children that reveal alternative conceptions of parent/child relations. In Legacies of Childhood, expressions of grief at the loss of a child offer a window into the family’s conceptions and values. Finally, Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children considers the real, material child versus the fantasy of the child as a subject.

The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700

Author : Mary Ellen Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135170110X
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700 by : Mary Ellen Lamb

Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700 written by Mary Ellen Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in two volumes, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 assesses the current state of scholarship on members of the Sidney family and their impact, as historical and/or literary figures, in the period 1500-1700. Volume 2: Literature, begins with an exploration of the Sidneys' books and manuscripts and how they circulated, followed by an overview of the contributions of family members -Sir Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Lady Mary Wroth; Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke - in the genres of prose romance, drama, poetry, psalms and prose. These essays outline major controversies and areas for further research, as well as conducting literary analysis.

Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

Author : Kristen Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497650
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England written by Kristen Poole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical, geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence, this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest.

Telltale Women

Author : Allison Machlis Meyer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496208498
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Telltale Women written by Allison Machlis Meyer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Telltale Women Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama, arguing that narrative historiographers frequently value women’s political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest women’s voices with authority, while dramatists reshape this source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemn queenship and female power.

Richard III: A Critical Reader

Author : Annaliese Connolly
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472538943
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Richard III: A Critical Reader written by Annaliese Connolly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the ruthless rise and fall of the villainous king, Richard III remains one of Shakespeare's most enduringly discussed and oft-performed plays. Assembled by leading scholars, this guide provides a comprehensive survey of major issues in the contemporary study of the play. Throughout the book survey chapters explore such issues as the play's critical reception from Dr Johnson to postmodern readings in the 21st century; the performance history of the play, from Shakespeare's day to more recent stagings by Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen; key themes in current scholarship, from disability to gender and nationalism; Richard III on film, including Al Pacino's Looking for Richard. Richard III: A Critical Guide also includes a complete guide to resources available on the play - including critical editions, online resources and an annotated bibliography - and how they might be used to aid both the teaching and study of Shakespeare's play.

Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood

Author : Naomi J. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351934848
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood written by Naomi J. Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections between gender and constructions of childhood in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, England, France and Spain. The essays are grouped around the themes of celebration and loss, education and social training, growing up and growing old. Contributors grapple with ways in which constructions of childhood were inflected by considerations of gender throughout the early modern world. In so doing, they examine representations of children and childhood in a range of sources from the period, from paintings and poetry to legal records and personal correspondence. The volume sheds light on some of the ways in which, in the relations between Renaissance children and their parents and peers, gender mattered. Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood enriches our understanding of individual children and the nature of familial relations in the early modern period, as well as of the relevance of gender to constructions of self and society.

Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Author : Janice Valls-Russell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526117711
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries written by Janice Valls-Russell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.