Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture

by Jenna Lay

Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248384
• ISBN13: 9780812248388
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"