02510cam a2200337 i 4500 17216842 BD-DhUL 20170104133102.0 120319s2012 enk b 001 0 eng 2012011808 9781107017054 (cloth) DLC eng DLC rda DLC BD-DhUL 820.9382 GEH Gertz, Genelle. Heresy trials and English women writers, 1400-1670 / Genelle Gertz. Cambridge : New York ; Cambridge University Press, 2012. x, 258 p. ; 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references p. 227-251 and index. "This book charts the emergence of women's writing from the procedures of heresy trials and recovers a tradition of women's trial narratives from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Analyzing the interrogations of Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Marian Protestant women, Margaret Clitherow and Quakers Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, the book examines the complex dynamics of women's writing, preaching and authorship under religious persecution and censorship. Archival sources illuminate not only the literary choices women made, showing how they wrote to justify their teaching even when their authority was questioned, but also their complex relationship with male interrogators. Women's speech was paradoxically encouraged and constrained, and male editors preserved their writing while shaping it to their own interests. This book challenges conventional distinctions between historical and literary forms while identifying a new tradition of women's writing across Catholic, Protestant and Sectarian communities and the medieval/early modern divide"-- Provided by publisher. Trials (Heresy) Great Britain History. English literature Women authors History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/17054/cover/9781107017054.jpg Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012011808-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012011808-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012011808-t.html ddc BK 146282 146282 0 0 ddc 0 820_938200000000000_GEH 0 NFIC 274028 DUL DUL GEN 2017-01-04 Purchased 820.9382 GEH 484171 2017-01-04 1 2017-01-04 BK