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04069aam a2200529 i 4500 001 65F831048B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 160607s2016 pau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016026328 020 $a 0812248384 020 $a 9780812248388 035 $a (OCoLC)945950073 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c PAU $d DLC $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d DGU $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR113 $b .L39 2016 082 00 $a 820.9/9287 $2 23 100 1 $a Lay, Jenna, $e author. 245 10 $a Beyond the cloister : $b Catholic Englishwomen and early modern literary culture / $c Jenna Lay. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2016] 300 $a 243 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index. 520 8 $a Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic Englishwomen, whether living in convents on the European continent or as recusants in their own country, contributed to these debates, but even as their writings addressed the central religious and political issues of their time, their contributions were effaced and now are largely forgotten. Exploring the writings of Catholic women in conversation with those of Shakespeare, Marvell, Marlowe, Donne, and other canonical authors, Beyond the Cloister shows that nuns and recusants were centrally important to the development of English literature. The defining narratives of early modern England cast nuns as the relics of an unenlightened past and equated Catholic femininity with the dangerous charms of the Whore of Babylon. 0With careful attention to literary figurations of Catholic femininity and to the vibrant manuscript culture in the English convents, Jenna Lay reveals a far more complex reality. Through their use of tropes, figures, generic patterns, and literary allusions, Catholic women produced politically incendiary and rhetorically powerful lyrics, prayers, polemics, and hagiographies. Drawing on the insights of religious studies, historical formalism, and feminist criticism, Beyond the Cloister offers a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history. 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $y Early modern, 1500-1700 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Religion and literature $z England $x History $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Religion and literature $z England $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z England $x History $y 16th century. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z England $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Catholic women authors $z England. 650 7 $a Catholic women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01736645 650 7 $a English literature $x Catholic authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912015 650 7 $a English literature $x Early modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710960 650 7 $a English literature $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912218 650 7 $a Religion and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093839 650 7 $a Women and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177093 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 648 7 $a 1500-1700 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214015427.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190702015639.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=65F831048B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search