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- Book Title
- Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and
- ISBN
- 9781409441670
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1409441679
ISBN-13
9781409441670
eBay Product ID (ePID)
128750198
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
246 Pages
Publication Name
Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England : Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Renaissance, Christian Church / History, Gender Studies, General, Biblical Studies / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science
Series
Material Readings in Early Modern Culture Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2012-003112
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
274.2/06
Synopsis
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 spiritual self-definition and a new mode of gaining status in domestic and communal circles. Based on a study of print and manuscript sources from 1580 to 1660, this book begins by analyzing how lay people were taught to read Scripture both through explicit clerical instruction in techniques such as note-taking and collation, and through indirect means such as exposure to sermons, and then how they adapted those techniques to create their own devotional writing. The first part of the book concludes with case studies of three ordinary lay people, Anne Venn, Nehemiah Wallington, and Richard Willis. The second half of the study turns to the question of how gender registers in this lay scripturalist writing, offering extended attention to the little-studied meditations of Grace, Lady Mildmay. Narveson concludes by arguing that by mid-century, despite clerical anxiety, writing was central to lay engagement with Scripture and had moved the center of religious experience beyond the church walls., Analysing print and manuscript sources from 1580 to 1660, this volume studies how lay immersion in the Bible gave rise to a non-professional writing culture. Narveson examines the development of that culture, looking at the close connection between reading and writing practices, the influence of gender and the emergence of writing as a key practice of lay devotion. She also explores the attendant clerical anxiety, as layfolk assumed control of their spiritual self-definition.
LC Classification Number
BS617.8.N37 2012
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