Biblical Women in Early Modern Literary Culture 1550–1700

Abstract

Introduction: Discovering biblical women in Early Modern literary culture - Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher PART I: Women and feminine archetypes of the Old Testament 2. Overview: reading Old Testament women in Early Modern England, 1550-1700 - Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher 3. A 'Paraditian Creature': Eve and her unsuspecting garden in seventeenth century literature - Elizabeth Hodgson 4. Christian liberty and female rule: exegesis and political controversy in the 1550s - Adrian Streete 5. Wives, fears and foreskins: Early Modern reproach of Zipporah and Michal - Michele Osherow 6. The politics of female supplication in the Book of Esther - Alison Thorne 7. Gender and the inculcation of virtue: the Book of Proverbs in action - Danielle Clarke PART II: Women and feminine archetypes of the New Testament 8. Overview: reading New Testament women in Early Modern England, 1550-1700 - Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher 9. Christ's tears and maternal cannibalism in Early Modern London - Beatrice Groves 10. Mary of recusants and reform: literary memory and defloration - Thomas Rist 11. Stabat mater dolorosa: imagining Mary's grief at the cross - Laura Gallagher 12. St Helena of Britain in the land of the Magdalene: all's well that ends well - Lisa Hopkins 13. Imagining the enemy: protestant readings of the whore of babylon in Early Modern England, c.1580-1625 - Victoria Brownlee 14. Afterword - Dympna Callaghan Index