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020 _a9781107017054 (cloth)
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084 _aLIT004120
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100 1 _aGertz, Genelle.
245 1 0 _aHeresy trials and English women writers, 1400-1670 /
_cGenelle Gertz.
264 1 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2012.
300 _ax, 258 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-251) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : articulating women -- Belief papers and the literary genres of heresy trial -- Confessing Margery Kempe, 1413-1438 -- Recanting and rewriting Anne Askew, 1540-1546 -- Sanctifying ploughmens' daughters and butchers' wives : the interrogations of Alice Driver, Elizabeth Young, Agnes Prest and Margaret Clitherow, 1555-1586 -- Exporting inquisition : Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers at Malta, 1659-1663 -- Conclusion : visionaries, non-conformists and the history of women's trial writing.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aTrials (Heresy)
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
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