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English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures. The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women’s literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women’s intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Alexandra Verini |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Release |
: 2022-06-06 |
File |
: 230 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783031009174 |
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Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries. Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has focused predominantly on western European writers working within the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Gertrude the Great, for example, and, in England, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe are cases in point. While this present book acknowledges the huge importance of such writers to women's literary history, it also argues that they should no longer be read solely within a local context. Instead, by putting them into conversation with other literary women and their cultures from wider geographical regions and global cultures - women from eastern Europe and their books, dramas and music; the Welsh gwraig llwyn a pherth (woman of bush and brake); the Indian mystic, Mirabai; Japanese women writers from the Heian period; women saints from across Christian Europe and those of eleventh-century Islam or late medieval Ethiopia; for instance - much more is to be gained in terms of our understanding of the drivers behind and expressions of medieval women's literary activities in far broader contexts. This volume considers the dialogue, synergies, contracts and resonances emerging from such new alignments, and to help a wider, multidirectional development of this enquiry into women's literary cultures.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Kathryn Loveridge |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Release |
: 2023-04-04 |
File |
: 361 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781843846567 |
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Genre |
: Books |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 2005 |
File |
: 1042 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105123890324 |
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Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-
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Genre |
: Languages, Modern |
Author |
: Modern Language Association of America |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2003 |
File |
: 3176 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105026449327 |
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Genre |
: Great Britain |
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1908 |
File |
: 1038 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112119969118 |
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Genre |
: Academic libraries |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1988 |
File |
: 1022 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015064547626 |
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Genre |
: Bibliography, National |
Author |
: Arthur James Wells |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2009 |
File |
: 1922 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105211722678 |
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Micrographic reproduction of the 13 volume Oxford English dictionary published in 1933.
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Genre |
: English language |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1971 |
File |
: 2238 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105011382392 |
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Genre |
: American literature |
Author |
: Rose Arny |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1997 |
File |
: 2218 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015038913821 |
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Genre |
: Religion |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 2000 |
File |
: 800 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015079910033 |