Text

Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings

---

In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Carey, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorised themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

Lettre

Call Number

800 FRI a

Publisher

: transcript Verlag., 2021

Collation

156 halaman

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783839456897

Classification

800

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Literary Criticism / European

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Deborah Frick

Other Information

Cataloger

Kholif Basri

Source

-

Validator

maya

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

-

Journal Volume

-

Journal Issue

-

Subtitle

-

Parallel Title

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment