04940cam a2200709Mi 4500 ocn960166211 OCoLC 20200709060508.0 m d cr |n|---||||| 161112s2016 enk o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng pn EBLCP OCLCQ YDX N$T OCLCF VLB JSTOR 958413386 9781526110633 1526110636 1351544 (N$T) (OCoLC)960166211 (OCoLC)958413386 22573/ctt1mfmsfc JSTOR BS575.B535 2015 BIB 000000 bisacsh REL 006160 bisacsh REL 006680 bisacsh HIS032000 bisacsh 220.92081999999999 MAIN Brownlee, Victoria. Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 : 1550-1700. Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016. 1 online resource (265 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Print version record. Biblical women in early modern literary culture 1550-1700: Edited by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. 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; 2. Overview: Reading Old Testament women in early modern England, 1550-1700: Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher. 3. A 'Paraditian Creature': Eve and her unsuspecting garden in seventeenth-century literature: Elizabeth Hodgson4. Christian liberty and female rule: exegesis and political controversy in the 1550s: Adrian Streete; 5. Wives, fears and foreskins: early modern reproach of Zipporah and Michal: Michele Osherow; 6. The politics of female supplication in the Book of Esther: Alison Thorne; 7 Gender and the inculcation of virtue: the Book of Proverbs in action: Danielle Clarke; PART II: Women and feminine archetypes of the New Testament. 8. Overview: Reading New Testament women in early modern England, 1550-1700: Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher9. Christ's tears and maternal cannibalism in early modern London: Beatrice Groves; 10. Mary of recusants and reform: literary memory and defloration: Thomas Rist; 11. Stabat Mater Dolorosa: imagining Mary's grief at the cross: Laura Gallagher; 12. St Helena of Britain in the land of the Magdalene: All's Well That Ends Well: Lisa Hopkins; 13. Imagining the enemy: Protestant readings of the Whore of Babylon in early modern England, c.1580-1625: Victoria Brownlee. 14. Afterword: Dympna CallaghanIndex. At once pervasive and marginal, appealing and repellent, exemplary and atypical, the women of the Bible provoke an assortment of readings across early modern literature. Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 draws attention to the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes. Considering a confessionally diverse range of writers, working across a variety of genres, this volume reveals how women from the Old and New Testaments exhibit an ideological power that frequently exceeds, both in scope and s. Includes bibliographical references and index. Master record variable field(s) change: 072, 630, 650 - OCLC control number change Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History 16th century. Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History 17th century. Bible. fast (OCoLC)fst01356024 Women in the Bible. Women in the Bible. BIBLES General. bisacsh RELIGION Biblical Reference General. bisacsh RELIGION Biblical Reference Handbooks. bisacsh Women in the Bible. fast (OCoLC)fst01177997 HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union bisacsh 1500-1699 fast Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Gallagher, Laura. Print version: Brownlee, Victoria. Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 : 1550-1700. Oxford : Manchester University Press, ©2016 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1351544 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL4706770 EBSCOhost EBSC 1351544 YBP Library Services YANK 13162166 92 N$T 57017 57017