Authority and authorship in Medieval and seventeenth century women's visionary writings / Deborah Frick.
Material type: TextSeries: LettrePublisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (156 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 3839456894
- 9783839456897
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Authority in literature
- Prophecy in literature
- Authority
- Authorship
- British Studies
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Visionary Writings
- Voice
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Authority
- Authorship
- British Studies
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Visionary Writings
- Voice
- 823/.009382 23
- 420
- PR117
Doctoral Thesis Universität Zürich 2019
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Weakness and Illness -- The Female Body -- Chapter 2: Women and Politics -- Chapter 3: The Vessel of God -- Voice vs. Mouthpiece -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorized themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions.
In English.
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