Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 / edited by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Brownlee, Victoria, editor.

Gallagher, Laura, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--16th century.

Bible.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--17th century.

Women in the Bible.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction: Discovering biblical women in Early Modern literary culture / by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher PART I: Women and feminine archetypes of the Old Testament 2. Overview: reading Old Testament women in Early Modern England, 1550-1700 / by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher 3. A 'Paraditian Creature': Eve and her unsuspecting garden in seventeenth century literature / by Elizabeth Hodgson 4. Christian liberty and female rule: exegesis and political controversy in the 1550s / by Adrian Streete 5. Wives, fears and foreskins: Early Modern reproach of Zipporah and Michal / by Michele Osherow 6. The politics of female supplication in the Book of Esther / by Alison Thorne 7. Gender and the inculcation of virtue: the Book of Proverbs in action / by Danielle Clarke PART II: Women and feminine archetypes of the New Testament 8. Overview: reading New Testament women in Early Modern England, 1550-1700 / by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher 9. Christ's tears and maternal cannibalism in Early Modern London / by Beatrice Groves 10. Mary of recusants and reform: literary memory and defloration / by Thomas Rist 11. Stabat mater dolorosa: imagining Mary's grief at the cross / by Laura Gallagher 12. St Helena of Britain in the land of the Magdalene: all's well that ends well / by Lisa Hopkins 13. Imagining the enemy: protestant readings of the whore of babylon in Early Modern England, c.1580-1625 / by Victoria Brownlee 14. Afterword / by Dympna Callaghan Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780719091551

0719091551

OCLC:

904183434

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