The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture / Gary Waller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waller, Gary F. (Gary Fredric), 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--In literature.

Mary.

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval & Early Modern English Literature & Popular Culture

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book was first published in 2011. The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity. During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her traces and surprising transformations continued to haunt early modern England. Combining historical analysis and contemporary theory, including issues raised by psychoanalysis and feminist theology, Gary Waller examines the literature, theology and popular culture associated with Mary in the transition between late medieval and early modern England. He contrasts a variety of pre-Reformation texts and events, including popular mariology, poetry, tales, drama, pilgrimage and the emerging 'New Learning', with later sixteenth-century ruins, songs, ballads, Petrarchan poetry, the works of Shakespeare and other texts where the Virgin's presence or influence, sometimes surprisingly, can be found.

Contents:

1538 and after : the Virgin Mary in the century of iconoclasm

The Virgin Mary in late medieval culture to 1538. The sexualization of the Virgin in the late Middle Ages ; The Virgin's body in late medieval poetry, romance, and drama ; Walsingham or Falsingham, Woolpit or Foulpit : Marian shrines and pilgrimage before 1538

Fades, traces : transformations of the Virgin in early modern England. Fades : Elizabethan ruins, tunes, ballads, poems ; Traces : English Petrarchism and the veneration of the Virgin ; Traces : Shakespeare and the Virgin : All's well that ends well, Pericles, and The winter's tale ; Multiple Madonnas : traces and transformations in the seventeenth century.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-86218-0

1-107-21693-1

1-283-00609-X

9786613006097

0-511-86013-7

0-511-85926-0

0-511-86100-1

0-511-85839-6

0-511-85752-7

0-511-97433-7

OCLC:

703137573