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Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 / edited by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher.

Contributor(s): Brownlee, Victoria [editor.] | Gallagher, Laura [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Description: xi, 252 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780719091551; 0719091551Subject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 16th century | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 17th century | Women in the BibleLOC classification: BS575 | .B52 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: discovering biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 / Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher -- Women and feminine archetypes of the Old Testament -- Overview: reading Old Testament women in early modern England, 1550-1700 / Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher -- A 'Paraditian Creature': Eve and her unsuspecting garden in seventeenth-century literature / Elizabeth Hodgson -- Christian liberty and female rule: exegesis and political controversy in the 1550s / Adrian Streete -- Wives, fears and foreskins: early modern reproach of Zipporah and Michal / Michele Osherow -- The politics of female supplication in the Book of Esther / Alison Thorne -- Gender and the inculcation of virtue: the Book of Proverbs in action / Danielle Clarke -- Women and feminine archetypes of the New Testament -- Overview: reading New Testament women in early modern England, 1550-1700 / Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher -- Christ's tears and maternal cannibalism in early modern London / Beatrice Groves -- Mary of recusants and reform: literary memory and defloration / Thomas Rist -- Stabat Mater Dolorosa: imagining Mary's grief at the cross / Laura Gallagher -- St Helena of Britain in the land of the Magdalene: All's well that ends well / Lisa Hopkins -- Imagining the enemy: Protestant readings of the whore of Babylon in early modern England, c.1580-1625 / Victoria Brownlee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: discovering biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 / Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher -- Part I: Women and feminine archetypes of the Old Testament -- Overview: reading Old Testament women in early modern England, 1550-1700 / Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher -- A 'Paraditian Creature': Eve and her unsuspecting garden in seventeenth-century literature / Elizabeth Hodgson -- Christian liberty and female rule: exegesis and political controversy in the 1550s / Adrian Streete -- Wives, fears and foreskins: early modern reproach of Zipporah and Michal / Michele Osherow -- The politics of female supplication in the Book of Esther / Alison Thorne -- Gender and the inculcation of virtue: the Book of Proverbs in action / Danielle Clarke -- Part II: Women and feminine archetypes of the New Testament -- Overview: reading New Testament women in early modern England, 1550-1700 / Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher -- Christ's tears and maternal cannibalism in early modern London / Beatrice Groves -- Mary of recusants and reform: literary memory and defloration / Thomas Rist -- Stabat Mater Dolorosa: imagining Mary's grief at the cross / Laura Gallagher -- St Helena of Britain in the land of the Magdalene: All's well that ends well / Lisa Hopkins -- Imagining the enemy: Protestant readings of the whore of Babylon in early modern England, c.1580-1625 / Victoria Brownlee.

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