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Sacred space and gender in early modern English literature / Helga L. Duncan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncan, Helga L., author.
- Series:
- Early modern literary geographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- illustration
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- 'Sacred Space and Gender in Early Modern English Literature' examines the poetics of locality and spirituality in narrative poetry and drama (specifically comedy) by focusing on Books 1 and 2 of Edmund Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', William Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', and the anonymous city comedy 'The Family of Love'. These disparate works are connected by their storytelling, an essential ingredient in the fashioning of spatial perceptions, according to Michel de Certeau. They respond, albeit in different registers, to English clergymen's theories of sacred space that emphasize men's kinetic energy (expended in the search of redemption) and women's emplacement in the godly home (where they provide comfort for peregrinating men).
- Contents:
- Introduction: gender and the place of the sacred
- Penitential geography in Books 1 and 2 of The Faerie Queene: mobility and emplacement
- The perversion of godly domesticity: Guyon and the destruction of the Bower of Bliss
- Temple and tower: the dissolution of sacred space in Hero and Leander
- “Here in the skirts of the forest”: comedy and the places of the sacred in As You Like It
- “The hole in the wall”: sacred space and third space in The Family of Love
- Conclusion: sacred space on page and stage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on September 25, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version : Duncan, Helga L. Sacred space and gender in early modern English literature.
- ISBN:
- 9780198979425
- 0198979428
- OCLC:
- 1612211422
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000435771
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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