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Material Readings in Early Modern Culture Ser.: Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England : Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture by Kate Narveson (2016, Hardcover)
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Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England : Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture, Hardcover by Narveson, Kate, ISBN 1409441679, ISBN-13 9781409441670, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-101409441679
ISBN-139781409441670
eBay Product ID (ePID)128750198
Product Key Features
Number of Pages246 Pages
Publication NameBible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England : Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
SubjectRenaissance, Christian Church / History, Gender Studies, General, Biblical Studies / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
TypeTextbook
AuthorKate Narveson
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Religion, Social Science
SeriesMaterial Readings in Early Modern Culture Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2012-003112
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal274.2/06
SynopsisBible 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 NumberBS617.8.N37 2012
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