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Women during the English Reformations : renegotiating gender and religious identity / edited by Julie A. Chappell and Kaley A. Kramer.

Van Pelt Library PR111 .W646 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kramer, Kaley A., 1977- author, editor.
Contributor:
Chappell, Julie, 1950- editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
English literature.
English literature--Women authors.
Women--Identity.
Women.
Identification (Religion).
Women and religion--England--History.
Women and religion.
Women in Christianity--England--History.
Women in Christianity.
Women and literature--England--History.
Women and literature.
Women in motion pictures--History.
Women in motion pictures.
Reformation--England.
Reformation.
History.
England.
England--Religion.
Religion.
Physical Description:
198 pages ; 23 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
Renegotiating gender and religious identity
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Summary:
"This collection of scholarly essays examines the effects of reforms in religion on the gender and religious identity of women during the English reformations from Henry VIII's earliest iterations in the 1530s to filmic representations of reforming women in the last two centuries. As a whole, the authors offer a cross-section of contributions, influences, and activities by women in matters of faith in early modern England, focusing on women's creative undoings and reimaginings during a long period of reform in religion and the ramifications of these activities well beyond their own time. The essays explore the inspirations for and expressions of women's actions whether those actions were ultimately intended to serve the conservative or evangelical cause and provide a sample of the consequences and contradictions inherent in women's reimagining of religious and gender boundaries as these manifested internally in the individual woman to effect a renegotiation of her own gender and religious identity"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction / Julie A. Chappell
"To the illustrious queen": Katherine of Aragon and early modern book dedications / Valerie Schutte
"Rather a strong and constant man" : Margaret Pole and the problem of women's independence / Janice Liedl
Religious intent and the art of courteous pleasantry: a few letters from Englishwomen to Heinrich Bullinger (1543-1562) / Rebecca A. Giselbrecht
Elizabeth Cary and intersections of Catholicism and gender in early modern England / Lisa McClain
Eleanor Davies and the new Jerusalem / Amanda L. Capern
The failure of godly womanhood: religious and gender identity in the life of Lady Elizabeth Delaval / Sharon L. Arnoult
Haunting history: women, Catholicism, and the writing of national history in Sophia Lee's The recess / Kaley A. Kramer
Stripped of their altars: film, faith, and Tudor royal women from the silent era to the twenty-first century, 1895-2014 / William B. Robison.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781137474735
1137474734
OCLC:
886489572

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