Beyond the cloister : Catholic Englishwomen and early modern literary culture / Jenna Lay.
Beyond the Cloister reveals the literary significance of manuscripts and printed books written by and about post-Reformation Catholic Englishwomen, offering a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history.
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University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Note on Spelling and Punctuation; Introduction. Gender, Religion, and English Literary History; Chapter 1. Fractured Discourse: Recusant Women and Forms of Virginity; Chapter 2. To the Nunnery: Enclosure and Polemic in the English Convents in Exile; Chapter 3. A Game of Her Own: The Reformation of Obedience; Chapter 4. Cloisters and Country Houses: Women's Literary Communities; Epilogue. Failures of Literary History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.