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Walsingham and the English imagination / by Gary Waller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waller, Gary F. (Gary Fredric), 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham (Little Walsingham, England).
- Religion and literature--England--History.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
- Christian shrines--England--Little Walsingham.
- Sacred space in literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Christian shrines.
- Religion and literature.
- History.
- Little Walsingham (England)--Religious life and customs.
- England--Little Walsingham.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2011]
- Summary:
- Walsingham, the popular English pilgrimage site of the Virgin Mary, is the subject of this in-depth study into its history, meaning, and use over the centuries. The destruction of the shrine under Henry VIII is described in detail, including how believers, including the rulers, had used and supported the shrine before Protestantism, how this gradually changed, and the details of the shrine's destruction. The story of the shrine's rebuilding and the return of the cult to its present level of popularity is then described, with additional chapters on attitudes towards the Virgin Mary as these are revealed in medieval and later devotional texts. Waller is in the department of literature, cultural studies and theatre at Purchase College, State U. of New York. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- 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(es)? Imagining Walsingham today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409405092
- 1409405095
- 9781409405108
- 1409405109
- OCLC:
- 683595590
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