Gary Waller

Walsingham and the English Imagination (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, through the Middle Ages to the present. Gary Waller investigates Walsingham's rich tradition of literary and dramatic writing, ballads, musical compositions, novels, and legends and sets present-day Walsingham within the context of recent feminist theology and gender issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317000617
• Artikelnr.: 44815757

Autorenporträt

Gary Waller, Professor of Literature, Cultural Studies and Theatre, Purchase College, SUNY, has written many studies of early modern literature. He is currently exploring interconnections among history, psychoanalysis, and theology.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Historical imagination: the invented tradition of Our Lady of Walsingham
Gynotheological imagination: the Virgin's body and the alternate Mariologies of late medieval Walsingham
Walsingham's Chaucer: Erasmus's Peregrinatio Religionis Ergo
'As you came from Walsingham': Walsingham in poetry and music after the Dissolution
The Protestantization of Walsingham
Walsingham's Victorian Chaucer
Agnes Strickland's The Pilgrims of Walsingham
Re-Catholicization: Walsingham in literature from Hopkins and Waterton to A.N. Wilson
Alternate, post-modern, feminist Mary(ies)? Imagining Walsingham today
Works cited
Index.