Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-242) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: making sects: women as reformers, writers, and subjects in reformation England -- The death of the author (and the appropriation of her text): the case of Anne Askew's Examinations -- Representing the faith of a nation: transitional spirituality in the works of Katherine Parr -- [A] pen to paynt': Mary Sidney Herbert and the problems of a Protestant poetics -- A new Jerusalem: Anne Lok's Meditation and the lyric voice -- A womans writing of diuinest things: Aemilia Lanyer's passion for a professional poetic vocation.
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