Sanctified subversives : nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature /

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As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and materialism, they have been the anathema of how society has proscribed, expected, and regulated women: sex object, wife, mother, and capitalist consumer....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sierra, Horacio (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Temas:
1500-1700
Nuns in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Religieuses dans la littérature.
Literature & literary studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern
Nuns in literature
Spanish literature > Classical period
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early modern nuns in context
  • Reclaiming Isabella, the queer virgin: celebrating Catholicism's opportunities in Measure for measure
  • Convents as feminist utopias: Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure and the potential of closeted dramas and communities
  • The Sarao as conventual rhetorical space in María De Zaya's Desengaños amorosos
  • Straddling the secular and spiritual divide: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's life and literature
  • Extraconventual escapades: erstwhile nuns in Erauso's and Behn's fictions.

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