Sanctified subversives : nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature /
Sierra, Horacio,
Sanctified subversives : nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature / by Horacio Sierra. - 1 online resource (234 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun's role in th.
9781443810050 (electronic bk.) 1443810053 (electronic bk.) 9781443819411 1443819417
9781443819411 Cambridge Scholars Publishing
1500-1700
Nuns in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Spanish literature--History and criticism.--Classical period, 1500-1700
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.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR428.W63 / S54 2016
820.935282719
Sanctified subversives : nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature / by Horacio Sierra. - 1 online resource (234 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. They are perceived as otherworldly beings, yet revered for their salt-of-the-earth demeanor. This book illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood. This analysis of the nun's role in th.
9781443810050 (electronic bk.) 1443810053 (electronic bk.) 9781443819411 1443819417
9781443819411 Cambridge Scholars Publishing
1500-1700
Nuns in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Spanish literature--History and criticism.--Classical period, 1500-1700
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.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR428.W63 / S54 2016
820.935282719