Paula McQuade

Catechisms and Women's Writing in Seventeenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates that reading and writing catechisms were crucial sites of women's literary engagements in early modern England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781316648087
• ISBN-10: 1316648087
• Artikelnr.: 60798462

Autorenporträt

Paula McQuade received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998. The recipient of a 1996 Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship, McQuade is the author of multiple articles on early modern women and gender. Her article on the female catechist Dorothy Burch was selected as the best article published in 2010 by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Writers. She is also the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from DePaul University, Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 'Milk for babes': catechisms and female authorship in early
modern England; Part I. Domestic Catechesis and Female Authorship: 1.
'Mother bare me': catechisms and maternity in early modern England; 2. 'A
tender mother': domestic catechesis in the household devotional of
Katherine Fitzwilliam, circa 1603; Part II. Female Witness and
Inter-Confessional Dialogue: 3. 'At Magdalin's house': maternal catechesis
and female witness in the manuscript miscellany of Katherine Thomas (b.
1637); 4. Catholicism, catechesis, and coterie circulation: the manuscript
of Barbara Slingsbury Talbot (b. 1633); Part III. Print and Polemic: 5. 'A
knowing people': catechizing and community in Dorothy Burch's A Catechisme
of the Severall Heads of the Christian Religion (1646); 6. Prophecy,
catechesis, and community in Mary Cary's The Resurrection of the Witnesses
(1648; reprint 1653); Epilogue.