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Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England studies how immersion in the Bible among layfolk gave rise to a non-professional writing culture, one of the first instances of ordinary people taking up the pen as part of their daily lives. Kate Narveson examines the development of the culture, looking at the close connection between reading and writing practices, the influence of gender, and the habit of applying Scripture to personal experience. She explores too the tensions that arose between lay and clergy as layfolk embraced not just the chance to read Scripture but the opportunity to create a written record of their ideas and experiences, acquiring a new control over their spiritu...
This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving women’s texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and patrons uphold or disrupt current understandings of authorship? And how does reconceiving such texts as collaborative illuminate some of the unresolved discontinuities and competing agendas in early modern women’s studies? From one perspective, viewing early modern women’s writing as collaborative seems to threaten the hard-won legitimacy of the authors we have already recovered; from...
Performing Libel in the Provinces provides the first book-length study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces of Jacobean England. The early modern phenomenon of private libel saw communal scandals creatively couched in verses, symbols, or mock-ceremonies and read, sung, posted, and published in prominent local places and spaces across the English provinces. By the early modern period, libelling a private individual had been criminalized and was being tried at the court of Star Chamber, alongside cases relating to the slander of monarchy and government. This remarkable conflation and criminalization of private libel brought the ruination ...
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Steps into the debate about how doctoral programs should prepare students for the profession.
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