Genelle Gertz

Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book charts the emergence of women's writing from the procedures of heresy trials and recovers a tradition of women's trial narratives from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Analyzing the interrogations of Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Marian Protestant women, Margaret Clitherow and Quakers Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, the book examines the complex dynamics of women's writing, preaching and authorship under religious persecution and censorship. Archival sources illuminate not only the literary choices women made, showing how they wrote to justify their teaching even when their authority was questioned, but also their complex relationship with male interrogators. Women's speech was paradoxically encouraged and constrained, and male editors preserved their writing while shaping it to their own interests. This book challenges conventional distinctions between historical and literary forms while identifying a new tradition of women's writing across Catholic, Protestant and Sectarian communities and the medieval/early modern divide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139508131
• Artikelnr.: 52957149

Autorenporträt

Genelle Gertz is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, Virginia and teaches courses on medieval and early modern literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: articulating women
1. 'Belief papers and the literary genres of heresy trial'
2. 'Confessing Margery Kempe, 1413-38'
3. 'Recanting and rewriting Anne Askew, 1540-6'
4. 'Sanctifying ploughmans' daughters and butchers' wives: the interrogations of Alice Driver, Elizabeth Young, Agnes Prest and Margaret Clitherow, 1555-86'
5. 'Exporting inquisition: Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers at Malta, 1659-63'
Conclusion: visionaries, non-conformists and the history of women's trial writing.