Kate Narveson

Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England

Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Analysing print and manuscript sources from 1580 to 1660, this volume studies how lay immersion in the Bible gave rise to a non-professional writing culture. Narveson examines the development of that culture, looking at the close connection between reading and writing practices, the influence of gender and the emergence of writing as a key practice of lay devotion. She also explores the attendant clerical anxiety, as layfolk assumed control of their spiritual self-definition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138246638
• ISBN-10: 1138246638
• Artikelnr.: 57053531

Autorenporträt

Kate Narveson is Associate Professor of English, Luther College, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 IntroductionRecovering Lay Writing in Divinity
Part 1 From Reading Skills to Writing Practices
Chapter 1a Reading the Bible: Clerical Prescriptions and Lay Reading Practices
Chapter 2 The Emergence of Lay Composition
Chapter 3 Application to the Self: Reading and the Restructuring of Identity
Chapter 4 Recording Identity: Scripturalist Devotion among Ordinary Layfolk
Part 2 The Registration of Gender
Chapter 5 Discursive Horizons and the Question of Gender
Chapter 6 The Devotional Page and the Schoolroom of Print
Chapter 7 Grace Mildmay's Meditations: Love Letters from God and Their Scriptural Authorization
Chapter 8 ConclusionLay Scriptural Devotion Stakes Its Claim